Lord of the flies

DVD 1963

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as...

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ISBN:

9781604657548
9780780022089

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (90 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital monophonic
full screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Lord of the flies (Motion picture : 1963) [DVD]

Notes:

Title from container
Based on the novel by William Golding
Number of discs may vary
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963
For specifici added features see container or interactive menus when viewing discs
Director of photography, Tom Hollyman ; editors, Peter Brook, Gerald Feil, Jean-Claude Lubtchansky ; music by Raymond Leppard
James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
DVD, full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital monophonic
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English

Contents:

Disc 1. Lord of the flies (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

1889716

UPC:

037429136720
715515032223
715515108317

Other Authors:

Allen, Lewis, 1905-2000, film producer
Aubrey, James, 1947-2010, actor
Brook, Peter, 1925-2022, film director
Chapin, Tom, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Edwards, Hugh, 1951- actor
Elwin, Roger, actor
Feil, Gerald, editor of moving image work
Gaman, Tom, actor
Hine, Al, film producer
Hodgdon, Dana H., film producer
Hollyman, Tom, director of photography
Janus Films, production company
Leppard, Raymond, composer (expression)
Lubtchansky, Jean-Claude, editor of moving image work
Macnab, Geoffrey, 1965- writer of added text
motion picture adaptation of (work): Golding, William, 1911-1993. Lord of the flies [DVD]

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