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(aka 'David Lynch's Wild at Heart')
directed by
David Lynch
USA 1990
David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" is unlike anything that's ever been made before. It's swampy and destabilizing in that subversive, perversely original, signature Lynchian way. But "Wild at Heart" isn't the David Lynch movie that anyone could have hoped for -- not his new fans, who've discovered him through "Twin Peaks," or his older ones.
At his best -- in "Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet" and the pilot for "Twin Peaks" -- Lynch achieves a fragile, almost godlike tone, where comedy and tragedy bleed together, and irony and passionate, obsessive sincerity are mixed in precisely equal portions. His images are projections straight from the bogs of the unconscious, and they make it onto the screen raw and undiluted, dripping wet. There's an ineffable potency and danger in them -- they carry vibrations from the lizard realm -- and, watching his films, we can be simultaneously repulsed and enthralled.
"Wild at Heart," though, is lacking in the dreamlike irrevocability of his most brilliant work. From the outset, just after the wondrously poetic opening credits, he seems to misstep. In "Wild at Heart" -- which Lynch adapted from a novel by Barry Gifford -- the director is working with pulp conventions; it's a road movie about a pair of seemingly doomed young lovers named Lula and Sailor (Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage) on the run from the girl's hysterical mother (Dern's real mother, Diane Ladd). But Lynch wants to explode the rules of the game without really understanding them.
Excerpt from Hal Hinson review in the Washington Post located HERE
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Theatrical Release: May 1990 - Cannes Film Festival - France
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DVD Comparison:
Universal (Korean) - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Universal - Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1- NTSC
Thanks to Pavel Borodin and Mark Wilson of NicheFlix for the PAL screen captures!
(Universal (Korea) - Region 0 - NTSC LEFT vs. Universal - Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL - MIDDLE vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1 - NTSC - RIGHT)
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Universal Studios Region 0 - NTSC |
Universal Studios Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL |
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| Runtime | 1:59:48 (taken from PAL source) | 1:59:52 (4% PAL speedup) | 2:04:48 |
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2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
2.35:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
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| Audio | English (DD 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) | English (DD 5.1), DUB: French (DD 5.1), German (DD 5.1) |
English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), DUB: Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0) |
| Subtitles | English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, none | Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, none | English, French, Spanish, None |
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Release Information: Studio: Universal (Korea)
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Release Information: Studio: Universal (Europe)
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Chapters 21
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Release Information:
Edition Details: • New
transfer supervised by David Lynch, with upgraded picture and sound |
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NOTE: Lynch's true Director's cut
was shown privately only to his closest friends and associates to obtain
their opinion of the film. They begged him to cut the film, claiming that the film was just too violent in content. He did and later premiered the film at Cannes (to loud boos, but it won the Palm d'or regardless) Dafoe's shotgun blast to his head was still uncut at this point. By the time of the film's US release, it was decided (by Lynch or the MPAA, I'm not completely sure) that the shotgun sequence would be digitally obscured by additional smoke and some explosion optics. This was okayed by Lynch and is the official US release version...and that is what's on the MGM disc. I don't know if this was the same version that played in the rest of the world, but MGM hasn't censored the DVD...it's the original theatrical release version. (Thanks to Bill McAlpine for this information) ADDITION: (Universal - Korean - NTSC) - Dec -04 - the Korean release is also the 'directors cut' but they did not adjust for the TV standard, and it exhibits ghosting and combing throughout. No change in or scorecard. ***** Well, if Lynch really supervised the transfer we can only assume that the MGM colors are accurate, but of course he must have approved the censorship as well. Both Universal and MGM DVDs are sharp and personally I am leaning toward the Universal as a superior image (especially contrast). The NTSC is brighter and also redder (washed out?), almost as if it was manipulated. Although the Universal has some 5.1 audio DUB options, we are giving the nod to the MGM for its dual choice of original English audio options (2.0 and 5.1). The MGM extras are great and easily outweigh the PAL editions (not hard to beat 'none') and the Region 1 menus have some real effort put into them... tack on to this that the PAL edition seems to be out-of-print everywhere and we will give an overall recommendation to the MGM NTSC ! |
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(Universal (Korea) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Universal - Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL - MIDDLE vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1 - NTSC - BOTTOM)
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(Universal (Korea) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Universal - Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL - MIDDLE vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1 - NTSC - BOTTOM)
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(Universal (Korea) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Universal - Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL - MIDDLE vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1 - NTSC - BOTTOM)
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(Universal (Korea) - Region 0 - NTSC TOP vs. Universal - Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL - MIDDLE vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1 - NTSC - BOTTOM)
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(German edition - TOP 2 images vs. MGM (SE) - Region 1 - NTSC - BOTTOM)
NOTE : We can now verify that the Region 1 DVD (Lynch approved!) IS the theatrical cut. TOP 2 images are part of the sequence that was removed (from Korean NTSC and German PAL edition aka the 'director's cut').
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What the Region 1 shows...
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| Extras: | MGM |
| Menu: | MGM |
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| Distribution |
Universal Studios Region 0 - NTSC |
Universal Studios Region 2, 4, 5 - PAL |
MGM Region 1 - NTSC |
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