The acting is superb by all involved which indicates a great directing effort. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop Director: David Lynch Screenwriter: Christopher De Vore, Eric bergen, David Lynch Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 123 min Rating: PG Year: 1980 Buy: Video. Parker opines: “It’s just a moment. The action opens in a smoky pool hall, where pretty boy Dave Roberts (James Murray) convinces patrons that he can’t be punched before storming out the door to save a damsel in distress from a brawny meathead boxer, Battling Roff (George Kotsonaros). For the original cinema release cuts were made to edit some violent scenes, including the shots of Willy Rukeyser's mutilated body and the scene where the Indians throw the trooper's severed heart to each other, and these were restored to later releases. Mostly it means you’re more proficient at coldly blowing away your competition. There are two versions of this film, Robert Aldrich's print (RA) and Burt Lancaster's (BL) print. But as the larger, overarching elements of the plot take center stage, namely the revelation of the meaning behind “IPCRESS,” the film veers into the similarly ludicrous terrain of your average Bond caper. Though the individual surface textures of the films included in this box set may vary from, to take just one example, the harsh alienating cityscapes of his early films to some of the more bucolically inclined latter-day works, there are a few thematic constants that run like a scarlet thread throughout Tsukamoto’s filmography. A battle of wills and wits ensues: Parker attempts to play the hit men off one another, suggesting to Braddock that Myron’s inexperience makes him unreliable and then planting the notion with Myron that Braddock is losing his nerve. McIntosh isn’t quite a traditional stud sage, but a man of pronounced sadness who’s come to know the savagery of humankind, a species whose capacity for monstrousness cannot be laundered by pretenses of religion, or by the faux-decency of message movies. Close-ups are well-rendered, however, especially in terms of facial details. In an entertaining 20-minute archival interview, Michael Caine talks about his outrageous first day on the set when Furie burnt a copy of the script in front of him, deciding to have the film rewritten as they shot. Burt Lancaster's Indian wife appears merely in the window watching him when he departs. Criterion ports over the slim-pickings bonus materials from their earlier DVD release. Immediately fed up, he returns home and runs off with the family babysitter, Marianne (Karina). After years of limbo, “Ulzana’s Raid” is now available on DVD in the U.S. and through Netflix instant. Alienated from Nicholas’s affections, Janine seeks solace from her next-door BFF, Betts (Barbara Steele), in an encounter that soon turns very intimate indeed. And both adopt an affectless, almost clinical style. But I lapped it up as a little kid. Trivia Nice to see the fieldcraft aspects not given the usual gloss over. The woman of the burned-out farm, instead of being murdered following her gang rape, was left alive but injured so that the cavalry will be forced to send her to the fort with an escort. The depths of sexual perversity to which Starliner residents will sink can just as easily be seen as signs of revolutionary sexual liberation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Kino’s transfer of a 2K restoration boasts a sharp, richly detailed image with color balancing that stays true to the film’s mostly drab color scheme, while still presenting a fairly high dynamic range of colors and strong black levels that help to emphasize cinematographer Otto Heller’s moody lighting. There are many subtle differences between the two although the overall running times are similar and most of the changes involve alterations of shots or lines of dialog within scenes.

The audio track is Master Audio 2.0 mono, which across the dialogue cleanly and clearly, aside from a few moments of reduced volume, doubtless attributable to the original sound conditions. The twists in this narrative also activate some of Bong’s more inspired and sociopolitically loaded visual ideas. For this Blu-ray, Kino has transferred both the uncensored “premiere” version of the film and the slightly shorter, censored “distribution” cut, sourcing a print of the premiere version that was preserved by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in 2016. The films are all provided with Master Audio tracks that range from mono to 5.1 surround, all of which do fine by the films’ percussive sound design and evocative scores from Chu Ishikawa, which run the musical gamut in style from hardcore industrial to synth-heavy prog rock. Most pivotally, Lynch is committed to rendering the sensorial experience of living as a physically damaged, greatly abused man who encounters nothing but revulsion until Treves offered him the miracle of empathy. In Ulzana’s Raid and many other films, including several others for Aldrich, Lancaster offered the best of both worlds: machismo laced with sensitivity. Trivia The UK DVD (and previous VHS) were cut by the BBFC to remove various horse falls. Or has it? That movie–titled “Geronimo” captured the spirit of Geronimo the best, so far, I think, corny as it was at times)–the most recent with Wes Studi and Jason Patrick(also titled “Geronimo”) was a good movie and all, but inexcusably historically inaccurate in many ways(no excuse these days! Lynch shows similar restraint in staging the narrative’s emotional crescendos, of which there are many. Remarkably, Bong even finds room for a commentary on Korean peninsula relations. He can write twenty-five pages a day. Ulzana’s Raid. No, he replies, hating doesn't help you to deal with them. In a fine turn of irony, St. Luc’s medical training becomes less germane as the chaos created by the parasitic invasion spreads. The desperate, craven urge to live overwhelms, and it’s a shock to the characters, just as much as it to the audience. There was a time when I think he was in every other movie I watched. Most changes involve alterations of shots or lines of dialogue within scenes. [7] Critics such as Gene Siskel wrote that the film was one of the ten best of 1972. Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Mark Margolis, Louise Lasser, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Sean Gullette, Keith David, Dylan Baker Director: Darren Aronofsky Screenwriter: Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky Distributor: Lionsgate Home Entertainment Running Time: 102 min Rating: R Year: 2000 Release Date: October 13, 2020 Buy: Video. Major Dundee (1965) had a similar story line and is one of my all time favorite Westerns. Stamp comes across as a funny, introspective sort, and it’s a delightful 37 minutes. Bong Joon-ho’s historic international breakthrough receives a superlative Blu-ray package, though it inadvertently calls attention to Criterion’s slowness in pivoting to UHD. Ke-Ni-Tay confronts him and shows him the Army bugle taken from the body of his son. I think this has been done to gain the 15 rating (another instance of being too PC). The film’s relentless sound editing and Clint Mansell’s remarkable score is perfectly presented, never sacrificing the clarity of the dialogue. I have been looking for an uncut version of Ulzana's Raid for a long time, and took a chance on this one hoping it would be OK. Grain levels are well-managed and flesh tones lifelike. Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2012. realistic, gritty can't go wrong with the price, Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2014. Talk about your Foucauldian “power-knowledge.”.