“Eraserhead” (Directed by David Lynch, 1977)
(The Criterion Collection)
Everything Ugly Is Beautiful
By Raymond Benson
One of the many excellent supplements that appear on this disc is a rare video interview from 1979 with David Lynch (and cinematographer Frederick Elmes). For those of us who have aged along with the director, it is a striking glimpse at a young artist at the beginning of his strange and wonderful career. In it, he explains that he is attracted to sometimes harsh, oppressive settings, such as the nightmarish industrial cityscape in Eraserhead. “What everyone else finds ugly, I find beautiful,” he says proudly. And the director has pretty much remained true to his word, hasn’t he?
Eraserhead is a landmark picture, but its original release in 1977 was slow to reach an audience. It gained its must-see reputation only after the film was picked up to run on the midnight movie circuit that...
(The Criterion Collection)
Everything Ugly Is Beautiful
By Raymond Benson
One of the many excellent supplements that appear on this disc is a rare video interview from 1979 with David Lynch (and cinematographer Frederick Elmes). For those of us who have aged along with the director, it is a striking glimpse at a young artist at the beginning of his strange and wonderful career. In it, he explains that he is attracted to sometimes harsh, oppressive settings, such as the nightmarish industrial cityscape in Eraserhead. “What everyone else finds ugly, I find beautiful,” he says proudly. And the director has pretty much remained true to his word, hasn’t he?
Eraserhead is a landmark picture, but its original release in 1977 was slow to reach an audience. It gained its must-see reputation only after the film was picked up to run on the midnight movie circuit that...
- 9/16/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
One of the most prestigious honors a film can receive is to be added to the Criterion Collection, which solidifies a movie's status as an important piece of cinema. At long last the honor has been bestowed upon David Lynch's Eraserhead, and we've got all the release details on tap for ya today!
Hitting both DVD and Blu-ray, the Criterion release of Lynch's 1977 feature debut comes our way courtesy of a brand new 4K digital restoration with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
As always, a handful of new special features will be included on both discs, and you'll find a full listing below along with the cover art.
In the film Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a series of strange encounters with the beautiful girl across the hall and the woman living in his radiator.
Hitting both DVD and Blu-ray, the Criterion release of Lynch's 1977 feature debut comes our way courtesy of a brand new 4K digital restoration with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
As always, a handful of new special features will be included on both discs, and you'll find a full listing below along with the cover art.
In the film Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a series of strange encounters with the beautiful girl across the hall and the woman living in his radiator.
- 6/17/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
The Criterion Collection announced yesterday their September new releases, consisting of four brand-new titles and one Blu-ray update. American artist David Lynch finally joins the collection, as many film aficionados have been hoping for years. Lynch's debut feature, Eraserhead, is getting the Criterion treatment, with a Blu-ray and a DVD edition coming (there will be no dual format in September). In terms of extras, Eraserhead will come together with the making-of documentary Eraserhead Stories, six Lynch short films (all of them previously released on the "The Short Films of David Lynch" DVD), and both new and archival interviews. Two Criterion favorites are part of September's lineup also. I'm talking about Roman Polanski and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who in conjunct have now almost twenty films in...
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- 6/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The Criterion Collection has announced their September titles, which include David Lynch's first feature film "Eraserhead" and Roman Polanski's powerful "Macbeth" adaptation. Check out the full list of films (and some special features) that Criterion will be releasing below (Descriptions courtesy of The Criterion Collection): "Eraserhead" (1977) Director: David Lynch David Lynch's 1977 debut feature, "Eraserhead," is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey remains one of American cinema’s darkest dreams.Special Features to look forward to: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray, "Eraserhead Stories," a 2001 documentary by David Lynch on the making of the film, new and archival interviews with cast and...
- 6/17/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Cinephilia & Beyond has quickly become one of my favourite online daily stops. Today they posted a rare, hour and a half documentary titled Eraserhead Stories, which features David Lynch reminiscing about the six years he spent putting together his first feature length film, Eraserhead. The doc itself has quite a few Lynchian qualities of its own; shot in black-and-white, and in front of a curtain, with Lynch explaining in great detail, the nuts and bolts of creating a bizarre and disturbing look into a man’s fear of parenthood. Lynch was thirty at the time of the Filmex premiere of Eraserhead and he had only two previous short films to his credit (The Alphabet, The Grandmother). Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, Lynch’s radical feature was no easy task to shoot, but with persistence and dedication, he completed the project, and Eraserhead went on to become...
- 1/14/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
What is there to say about “Eraserhead”, David Lynch's first, dreamlike, horrifying film, a movie so weird it seems to defy all criticism and comment? Well, it turns out that if you're David Lynch, there's quite a lot to say. So, how about a whole hour and a half of discussion of the film, in the shaped of the Lynch-directed 2001 documentary “Eraserhead Stories”?Not, of course, that Mr. Lynch is going to answer any questions you might have. Oh, no no no. He kicks right off by telling us that he doesn't even remember writing the script or coming up with the title: it just happened somehow. Nor is he ever, ever going to tell us how he made the baby. But, into a typically Lynchian 50s microphone, he will tell us how his very early adventures in movie-making came together, how he met some of the key people,...
- 1/14/2014
- by Ben Brock
- The Playlist
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