Production Company(ies)
Brooksfilms
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Butler’s Wharf, Shad Thames, Southwark, London, England, UK
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1980
 

 
Genre(s)
Biography/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, directed by David Lynch, written by Sir Frederick Treves, Ashley Montagu, Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch, biography, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Peter Bradshaw, Ed Potton, Adam Nayman, Richard Corliss, Richard Brody, Dave Kehr, Kenneth Turan, Sean Mulvihill, Matt Brunson, Mike Massie, Grant Watson, Leigh Paatsch, PG rating, produced by Jonathan Sanger, Dolby, Surround, Scope (2.35:1), Joseph Merrick, Elephant Man, congenital disorder, sideshow, disfigurement, refined soul, stodgy British upper class, dignity, London, caring actress, death at 27, Cool Hand Luke, Harold and Maude, Rebel Without a Cause, The Hustler, Shine
 

Cast & Crew

John Hurt

Anthony Hopkins

Anne Bancroft

John Gielgud

Wendy Hiller

John Merrick

Dr. Frederick ‘Freddie’ Treves

Mrs. Kendal

Carr Gomm

Mothershead

John Hurt – John Merrick, ‘The Elephant Man’
Anthony Hopkins – Dr. Frederick ‘Freddie’ Treves
Anne Bancroft – Mrs. Kendal
John Gielgud – Carr Gomm
Wendy Hiller – Mothershead
Freddie Jones – Bytes

 

David Lynch

Sir Frederick Treves

Jonathan Sanger

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
David Lynch
 
Writer(s)
Sir Frederick Treves, Ashley Montagu, Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
 
Producer(s)
Jonathan Sanger

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 8 Oscars
10 wins & 22 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Peter Bradshaw

Ed Potton

Adam Nayman

Richard Corliss

Richard Brody

Guardian

Times (UK)

The Ringer

TIME Magazine

New Yorker

THE ELEPHANT MAN
  All Critics (54) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (4)
  It is an absorbing and satisfying drama, and Hurt’s Merrick is very powerful.
 
  March 12, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  Many Lynchian tropes are here, from a sense of foreboding to a fascination with the grotesque, in terms of Merrick and outsiders’ reactions to him.
 
  June 14, 2019 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Ed Potton
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  From deep beneath layers of latex makeup, Hurt inhabits a highly specific physical and behavioral characterization, while also conveying the essential, universal loneliness of the human soul.
 
  April 15, 2019
 
  Adam Nayman
  The Ringer
  TOP CRITIC
  This is a tale of redemption and transcendence, of the hunchback of London Hospital, of the noble phantom who wanted to go to the opera, of Beauty and the Beast.
 
  April 22, 2014
 
  Richard Corliss
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Lynch’s powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness. That’s the very movement of the story itself.
 
  April 22, 2014
 
  Richard Brody
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch’s personal themes — the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions — and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie.
 
  April 30, 2008
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Lynch has a dead-on feel for the shivery intangibles that crawl under the skin and into the subconscious.
 
  November 4, 2021
 
  Kenneth Turan
  New West/California
  With The Elephant Man, Lynch asserts his unique brand of empathetic storytelling – one that always balances the light with the dark, the good with the evil.
 
  October 13, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Sean Mulvihill
  FanboyNation.com
  Following his startling debut with Eraserhead, David Lynch retained that picture’s industrial imagery, unnerving sound design, and oddball atmosphere and layered them over this rich story.
 
  October 13, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  It’s equal parts scary and sad – a Frankenstein’s monster that can garner both fright and sympathy.
 
  September 6, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  This is by far the most conventional of David Lynch’s films, and thus perhaps it is the easiest with which to demonstrate his immense skill at narrative story-telling.
 
  July 4, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
 
  Grant Watson
  Fiction Machine
  Flawless interpretation of the hit stage play about a Victorian Era gent living with a confronting physical affliction.
 
  April 17, 2020
 
  Leigh Paatsch
  Herald Sun (Australia)…

 

Plot
In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called “The Elephant Man”. In actuality, the creature on display is indeed a man, twenty-one-year-old Joseph “John” Merrick, who has several physical deformities, including an oversized and disfigured skull, and an oversized and disfigured right shoulder. Brutish Bytes, his “owner”, only wants whatever he can get economically by presenting Merrick as a freak. Treves manages to bring Merrick under his care at the hospital, not without several of its own obstacles, including being questioned by those in authority since Merrick cannot be cured. Treves initially believes Bytes’ assertion that mute Merrick is an imbecile, but ultimately learns that Merrick can speak and is a well-read and articulate man. As news of Merrick hits the London newspapers, he becomes a celebrated curiosity amongst London’s upper class, including with Mrs. Kendal, a famed actress. Despite treated much more humanely, the question becomes whether Treves’ actions are a further exploitation of Merrick. And as Merrick becomes more famous, others try to get their two-cents worth from who still remains a curiosity and a freak to most, including to Bytes, who has since lost his meal ticket.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
John Hurt’s portrayal of Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man is described as “very powerful” by critics.
 

 
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2020-2021 Mid Season Primetime
 
Genre(s)
Crime, Documentary, War
 
Keyword(s)
Documentary, HBO Documentary Films Shows, Jigsaw Productions Shows, Storied Media Group LLC Shows, TV Shows from 2021, TV Shows from United States, English Language, GLAAD Media Awards Nominees, HBO Documentary Films Shows, Jigsaw Productions Shows, Storied Media Group LLC Shows, TV Shows from 2021, TV Shows from United States, English Language, NAACP Image Awards Winners, Female Producer
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

Links
 

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Streaming Platforms
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2021-2022 Mid Season Primetime
 
Genre(s)
Crime, Detective, Drama, Mystery
 
Keyword(s)
Impacted by COVID-19, Female Producer
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

Links
 

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(Click to Visit)
 
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Streaming Platforms
HBO, Paramount
 
Stream Now

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Coming soon…
 

 
Production Company(ies)
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Hessischer Rundfunk
 
Distributor
New Yorker Films
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Huayna Picchu, Peru
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1977
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure
 
Keyword(s)
starring Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Cecilia Rivera, Peter Berling, directed by Werner Herzog, written by Werner Herzog, Adventure, box office performance, budget, reviewed by James Berardinelli, Derek Malcolm, Peter Bradshaw, David Jenkins, Cath Clarke, Variety Staff, Brian Eggert, Sarah Brinks, Mike Massie, Allen Almachar, David Nusair, Pat Padua, produced by Werner Herzog, MPAA rating, Don Lope de Aguirre, Don Pedro de Ursua, Inez, Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, Don Fernando de Guzman
 

Cast & Crew

Klaus Kinski

Ruy Guerra

Helena Rojo

Del Negro

Cecilia Rivera

Don Lope de Aguirre

Don Pedro de Ursua

Inez

Brother Gaspar de Carvajal

Flores

Klaus Kinski – Don Lope de Aguirre
Ruy Guerra – Don Pedro de Ursua
Helena Rojo – Inez
Del Negro – Brother Gaspar de Carvajal
Cecilia Rivera – Flores
Peter Berling – Don Fernando de Guzman

 

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Werner Herzog
 
Writer(s)
Werner Herzog
 
Producer(s)
Werner Herzog

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

James Berardinelli

Derek Malcolm

Peter Bradshaw

David Jenkins

Cath Clarke

ReelViews

London Evening Standard

Guardian

Little White Lies

Time Out

AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD
  All Critics (50) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (2)
  Aguirre is a compelling piece of historical fiction that lingers in the memory largely because of its lush, claustrophobic atmosphere and the towering presence of Kinski.
 
  October 1, 2018 | Rating: 3/4
 
  James Berardinelli
  ReelViews
  TOP CRITIC
  The whole movie merges landscapes and character with such force that, once seen, you never forget it.
 
  June 7, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Derek Malcolm
  London Evening Standard
  TOP CRITIC
  It looks more magnificent and mad than ever, one of the great folies de grandeur of 1970s cinema, an expeditionary Conradian nightmare like Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
 
  June 6, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  A journey down river to the mouth of Hell, but also so much more.
 
  June 6, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
 
  David Jenkins
  Little White Lies
  TOP CRITIC
  Made for buttons, it’s an awesome feat of filmmaking.
 
  June 4, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Cath Clarke
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  The acting is properly larger than life, especially Klaus Kinski as the title character, a lean, driven but imposing man who has heads lopped off when in any way interfered with in his task of destruction and exploration.
 
  September 29, 2008
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God shows Herzog’s mutual affection and abhorrence for Nature, how it remains ambivalent to human desire and cruel to our often maniacal ambitions.
 
  February 14, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  I love how Herzog uses the Spanish characters to point out how absurd their conquest is.
 
  April 1, 2021
 
  Sarah Brinks
  Battleship Pretension
  In the lead is Kinski, with such an unfathomably potent screen presence that all he has to do is stare to evoke dread, as his character grows more delusional by the minute.
 
  August 27, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  There are some filmmakers who do the work as a job, others because they simply enjoy it. Herzog does it because it is ingrained in his very being.
 
  August 4, 2020
 
  Allen Almachar
  The MacGuffin
  …an irrelevant and sporadically interminable piece of work.
 
  July 29, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/4
 
  David Nusair
  Reel Film Reviews
  His Spanish conquistadors were no match for the natural splendor and terror of the Amazon, but Herzog was, and he conquered cinema.
 
  August 28, 2018
 
  Pat Padua
  Spectrum Culture…

 

Plot
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and don Lope de Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to “the golden city”, or to certain destruction?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Klaus Kinski’s performance as Don Lope de Aguirre is described as “towering” and “unfathomably potent” by critics.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Wildwood Enterprises
 
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Parking garage, ABC Entertainment Center – 2040 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1976
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Walter Coblenz, directed by Alan J Pakula, written by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, William Goldman, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Richard Combs, Joseph Gelmis, Arthur Knight, Dave Kehr, Gary Arnold, Ian Nathan, David Dugas, Michael Calleri, Dennis Harvey, Mike Massie, Donald McLean, Jim Ross, PG, Watergate scandal, investigative journalism, Washington Post, Democratic Party Headquarters, White House staffer, Deep Throat, free press, unchecked power, real-life events, taut, solidly acted, benefits, dangers, origins, real-life events, quintessential American movie, several levels, fascinating, portrait, investigative journalist, chaotic life, Alan Pukula’s directing, screenplay, camera angles, editing, acting, role reversal, tactics, information, technical side, horror movies, MCU movies, Netflix series, TV premiere dates
 

Cast & Crew

Robert Redford

Dustin Hoffman

Jack Warden

Martin Balsam

Hal Holbrook

Bob Woodward

Carl Bernstein

Harry M. Rosenfeld

Howard Simons

Deep Throat

Robert Redford – Bob Woodward
Dustin Hoffman – Carl Bernstein
Jack Warden – Harry M. Rosenfeld
Martin Balsam – Howard Simons
Hal Holbrook – Deep Throat
Jason Robards – Ben Bradlee

 

Alan J. Pakula

Carl Bernstein

Walter Coblenz

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Alan J. Pakula
 
Writer(s)
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, William Goldman
 
Producer(s)
Walter Coblenz

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 4 Oscars
17 wins & 21 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Art Direction Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Winners, Oscar Best Writing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Richard Combs

Joseph Gelmis

Arthur Knight

Dave Kehr

Gary Arnold

Sight & Sound

Newsday

Hollywood Reporter

Chicago Reader

Washington Post

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
  All Critics (65) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (4)
  A story that has been marshalled with dazzling skill and precision, but lacks the imaginative hooks that might have taken it even further in mood and meaning.
 
  March 17, 2020
 
  Richard Combs
  Sight & Sound
  TOP CRITIC
  All the President’s Men is a quintessential American movie: It does a lot of things well and makes it all look simple. It works on several levels.
 
  March 31, 2016
 
  Joseph Gelmis
  Newsday
  TOP CRITIC
  While there’s an undoubted fascination in all this, after a couple of hours it begins to wear thin.
 
  July 22, 2015
 
  Arthur Knight
  Hollywood Reporter
  TOP CRITIC
  The opening of the film, with Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) first stumbling over the story, is involving and sometimes exciting, but from then on it degenerates into confusion and repetition.
 
  July 22, 2015
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Political commentators seem to feel that this All the President’s Men will have a far-reaching political impact this year. I’d be more inclined to believe it if the film affected a provocative emotional tone. Pakula is just too cool under the collar.
 
  July 21, 2015
 
  Gary Arnold
  Washington Post
  TOP CRITIC
  As smart and cautionary now as it was in the ’70s.
 
  February 13, 2012 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Ian Nathan
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman combine precisely the right amounts of awe and grit as Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein. And they are supported by an enormous and outstanding cast.
 
  August 4, 2021
 
  David Dugas
  United Press International
  The superbly acted, good-looking movie is expertly directed by Alan J. Pakula and well-written by William Goldman.
 
  January 14, 2021
 
  Michael Calleri
  Niagara Gazette
  A superb reconstruction of the Watergate scandal-with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford fairly self-effacing as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward…
 
  October 16, 2020
 
  Dennis Harvey
  48 Hills
  It’s understated to allow for the happenings and the implications to grow more impactful on their own, essentially mimicking a documentary style of filmmaking.
 
  August 27, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  As grippingly suspenseful as any James Bond thriller, and it’s all true.
 
  May 13, 2020
 
  Donald McLean
  Bay Area Reporter
  Although many tales have been told, it is the genesis story of the Nixon/Watergate scandal that remains its most compelling.
 
  February 13, 2020
 
  Jim Ross
  TAKE ONE Magazine…

 

Plot
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of White House fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the White House.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of All the President’s Men includes Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, and Jason Robards.
 

 
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