Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 16, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of British boys attempt to govern themselves on an uninhabited island in Lord of the Flies.
The 1963 adventure-drama Lord of the Flies is the first film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding’s 1954 debut novel
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, Golding’s legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center.
The novel famously concerns a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results, marking the end of the children’s innocence…and then some.
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 resulting masterwork earned Brook a nomination for the Golden Palm at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
Criterion previously issued Lord of the Flies on DVD back in 2000, but now re-issues it on standard DVD along with giving the film its Blu-ray debut.
The new DVD and Blu-ray editions contain the following features, a bunch of which appeared on the initial DVD release in 2000:
• New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by cameraman and editor Gerald Feil, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring director Peter Brook, producer Lewis Allen, director of photography Tom Hollyman, and Feil
• Audio recordings of William Golding reading from his novel Lord of the Flies, accompanied by the corresponding scenes from the film
• Deleted scene, with optional commentary and reading by Golding
• Interview with Brook from 2008
• Collection of behind-the-scenes material, featuring home movies, screen tests, outtakes, and stills
• New interview with Feil
• Excerpt from Feil’s 1972 documentary The Empty Space, showcasing Brook’s theater methods
• Something Queer in the Warehouse, a piece composed of never-before-seen footage shot by the boy actors during production, with new voice-over by Tom Gaman, who played Simon
• Trailer
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey Macnab and an excerpt from Brook’s book The Shifting Point
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