Lord of the Flies 1963

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Lord
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Special features: audio commentary featuring director Peter Brook and more ; audio recordings of William Golding reading from his novel Lord of the Flies ; deleted scene, with optional commentary and reading by Golding ; Interview with Brook from 2008 ; collectin of behind-the-scenes material ; new interview with Feil ; Excerpt from Feil's 1972 documentary the empty space ; Something queer in the warehouse, a place composed of never-before-seen footage ; trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey Macnab.
Tom Chapin, James Aubrey, Hugh Edwards.
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 its source material.
Blu-ray, widescreen, PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Contents: Lord of the flies.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

LOTF submitted by hcf on August 30, 2014, 4:17pm Such a disturbing story but well done.

The Lord of the Flies, 1963 submitted by leighsprauer on July 27, 2022, 9:23pm The standard Lord of the Flies. (I’m assuming everyone has read it and knows the plot. If not, go do that now.) It’s been at least 25 years since I’ve read it, so I can’t really say how true to the book it is (although I do remember that I pictured some parts differently), but I’ll assume it’s pretty close.
The production quality is fairly poor, as you might expect from an old movie filmed outside, but other than that, it’s as good a job as I expect you could do for a movie version.
I will say that the chant of the choir – a version of the Kyrie – was something that I don’t remember from the book, but was really quite striking and added to the sense of horror in the movie; a rare case in which a movie can outperform a book.
So I guess my final verdict is that that book is better, but this isn’t too bad.