The elephant man
2020
Blu-ray
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781681437668
Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (123 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- wide screen
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray video
- region A
Target Audience Note:
- Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.
- MPAA rating: PG.
Other Title: Elephant man (Motion picture) [Blu-ray].
Notes:
- Based on the books "The elephant man and other reminiscences" by Sir Frederick Treves, and "The elephant man : a study in human dignity" by Ashley Montagu.
- Booklet includes excerpts from an interview with Lynch from the 2005 edition of filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley's book Lynch on Lynch, and an 1886 letter to the editor of the London Times concerning Merrick, by Francis Culling Carr Gomm, chairman of the London Hospital.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.
- Special features: New 4K digital restoration; director David Lynch and critic Kristine McKenna reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book they co-authored; archival interviews with Lynch, actor John Hurt, producers Mel Brooks and Jonathan Sanger, director of photography Freddie Francis, stills photographer Frank Connor, and makeup artist Christopher Tucker; audio recording from 1981 of an interview and Q&A with Lynch at the American Film Institute; The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed, a 2001 documentary about the film; Joseph Merrick: The Real Elephant Man, a 2005 program featuring archivist Jonathan Evans; Mike Figgis and David Lynch 2006; Clapper board; John Hurt; Skintricks: Christopher Tucker and John Hurt; trailer and radio spots.
- Title from container.
- Director of photography, Freddie Francis ; editor, Anne V. Coates ; composer, John Morris ; production design, Stuart Craig ; costume designer, Patricia Norris.
- Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
- Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) ; stereophonic.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in English, captions in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC3188BD
Control Number: 3186488
UPC:
- 715515251518
- 715515251518
Series:
- Criterion Collection
- Criterion Collection ; 1051
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection ; 1051 Blu-ray.
Subjects:
- Abnormalities, Human -- Patients -- England -- Fiction.
- Merrick, Joseph Carey, 1862-1890 -- Fiction.
- Neurofibromatosis -- Patients -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Historical films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Bancroft, Anne, 1931-2005, actor.
- Bergren, Eric, screenwriter.
- Brooksfilms (Firm), production company.
- Coates, Anne V., editor of moving image work.
- Craig, Stuart, 1942- production designer.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- De Vore, Christopher, screenwriter.
- Francis, Freddie, 1917-2007, director of photography.
- Gielgud, John, 1904-2000, actor.
- Hiller, Wendy, 1912-2003, actor.
- Hopkins, Anthony, 1937- actor.
- Hurt, John, 1940-2017, actor.
- Lynch, David, 1946- film director, screenwriter.
- Morris, John, 1926-2018, composer (expression)
- Norris, Patricia, costume designer.
- Paramount Pictures Corporation, production company.
- Sanger, Jonathan, film producer.
- motion picture adaptation of (work): Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999. Elephant man.
- motion picture adaptation of (work): Treves, Frederick, 1853-1923. Elephant man.