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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: IMAGE ENT.
EAN: 0715515045612
Feature: In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O Connor, John Huston brings to life a world of vivid, poetic American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring ri
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Label: Criterion Collection
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
MPN: CC1809DDVD
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Features:- In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O Connor, John Huston brings to life a world of vivid, poetic American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring ri
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 05/12/2009 Run time: 105 minutes
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Haw, haw, haw, don't ya just love dumb, psychotic Suth'ners who believe in the boogeyman? The fun starts with the opening credits, with some good old homespun music and handscrawled credits. It even misspells John Huston's name as "Jhon Huston." Clever. The shenanigans continue with an endless stream of Southern Gothic caricatures that would embarrass even the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and "Steel Magnolias" crowd. Getting bats--t crazy Brad Dourif to play the lead was a touch of genius and not the least ... Read More
Rating:  -
This movie fails to live up to the book, but it does a very good job in the attempt and is worth the time and money. Make sure you read the book as well, if not you are only seeing half of what is available.
Rating:  -
Depite the promise of excellence that usually accompanies a John Huston-directed film, "Wise Blood" is a bomb. The essential problem with this movies is the characters. I suppose others will see that as the strength of "Wise Blood" but these folks are so inept at life that it is down-right embarassing to watch. Good character development for a writer or director involves creating individuals with multi-dimentional personalities and the story lines succeed when the events of the story bring all those ... Read More
Rating:  -
Bizarre, funny, complicated, disturbing, and for the most part unappealing. Few directors would even attempt to bring this "unfilmmable" novel to the screen.
John Huston does just that on a shoestring budget, and the result is an eccentric cinematic baptism of seemingly misguided spirituality, Evangelicalism, and contradictions.
Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) steps off the Army bus with a bold plan--start an Atheist church. A place "where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's ... Read More
Rating:  -
John Huston sets this adaptation of Flannery O'Connors Wise Blood not in the sin-soaked South of the early-twentieth century but in the present. This may have been due to budgetary constraints but Huston makes virtue of necessity and the result is a film that looks like it grew right out of the decaying streets of Anytown, America circa the late-1970's. The result is offsetting at first, because in this translation the story is less about religion and more about an America that has lost its unifying vision (if ... Read More
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