Wild At Heart [DVD] [2003]

One of my favourites, haven’t seen for years..Amazing..everyone at their best!!

David Lynch over the top movie. Mad and bad. Very entertaining but not for the easily offended.

‘Blue Velvet’ will always be one of my favourite films, but this pales in comparison. Yes, its great entertainment, if you like lots of surrealism, fantasy, sex and utterly bizarre characters, but this film goes too far IMHO to make it a classy or truly creditable film. If you just want a wingding or a blast for a couple of hours, to take you away from the reality of the shop floor or office then this’ll do nicely! It’ll take you so far away you’ll need your passport to get yourself back!David Lunch’s work is well known of course, and very well respected - He has had over 30 award nominations for his films, winning 4 Baftas.Quite how Diane Ladd, as Marietta, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in this - as the crazy mother of Lula is beyond me? I found her persona and depiction almost laughable, and totally hammy!Having said that, I thought Defoe as ‘Bobby Puru’ just wonderful and very much one of the highlights of the film, Cage & Dern were very good as the lovers but the story was just so stupid at times that it rather devalued what they were doing.For me Lynch tries too hard here to fill the film with weirdoes and the bizarre! - Blue Velvet gets it just right; this is simply over the top, but still good old fashioned entertainment. However, at the end you’ll say to yourself, “What the hell was that all about?”

Nothing more to say... except maybe; get a 4K edition sorted!

From the outset I will come clean and state that this is one of my favourite films; this particular shiny disc being the third version of it I have owned plus the soundtrack CD. It was the first David Lynch film I experienced 30 odd years ago and I still love it. However I seem to alone in this as none of my friends and family 'get it'.At the time of its release there was a fashion for road movies notably Thelma and Louise (1991). There was something of a formula: chrome-plated Cadillac, two fugitives on the run from corrupt police and a finale in Monument Valley. In the febrile world of Lynch's imagination these ingredients mutate in to a nightmare world of sex, violence and bizarre characters. Despite Sailor (Cage's) initial display of uber violence, the love affair between him and Lula (Dern) is the single thread of goodness and morality in this tale. As is often the case with baddies, Willem Defoe comes close to stealing the show as the grotesque, perverted villain. His prosthetic teeth and gums being the stuff of nightmares.Despite the horrors encountered on the road the film has (unexpectedly) a happy ending. Seen as a montage of memorable set piece sequences the film delivers again and again. The 'Wicked game' sequence driving through the desert at night is one of my favourite film moments ever.

Just got to say I was VERY excited to finally get this awesome David Lynch classic on blu ray! This is one of my favorite "wierd" movies from Lynch. When I watched this bare bones blu ray, I couldn't help but noticed how lack of detail in most of the picture. It is as if someone turned the sharpness all the way down when tranfering this to this format. Why would Universal use DNR (digital noise reduction) when they normally do not!? There is so little detail that it made me sad that this classic got such a shoddy transfer to blu ray. The colors don't even stand out. And David Lynch knew how to use color in this masterpiece. The ONLY thing good about this disc that it is anamorphic (finally) and in its original 2.35 widescreen format. But having the anamorphic picture does not help in any way, in fact it brings out the ugliness in the transfer.I hope Universal remasters this title for the upcoming David Lynch box set on blu ray. And not take out the detail and grain like they did on this first go around. Wonder what Lynch would think if he saw how drab his film could look. The non-anamorphic DVD blows away this rubbish! The Laserdisc, even with bleeding colors, looked better (and its not upconverted to 1080p).Also to note, my HD TV is properly calibrated and I have watched some awesome looking blu rays on it. This is not one of them. Please Universal UK, fix this terrible transfer the second time around.Why hasn't anyone else stated this problem in their reviews? Or am I expecting too much with blu ray? I expect the film to look its best, not like this. And I realize it was made in 1990, but it has to look and sound better!

The Region 1 full length restored Special Edition is the definitive DVD version for aficionados of David Lynch's extraordinary movie Wild at Heart. Overseen by the director himself, the lovingly restored sound and picture quality literally blows all other versions out of the water (including the Blu-Ray). Hugely generous with terrific extras, this is the disc to permanently add to one's DVD library of evergreen classics. At the time of posting this review, Amazon.com's price of nearly $65, seems astonishing when compared to Amazon.uk's lowest used price of exactly the same Region 1 issue for only £3.50.So if you've purchased this version, break out a beer, big up the sound, and chill out to Lynch's crazy road movie masterclass. The wonderful performances of Nicolas Cage and the beautiful Laura Dern are of course legendary, but revisiting the movie reminds me how Willem Dafoe stole the show with his deeply disturbing pitch perfect psycho Bobby Peru. Dafoe's performance in this role must rate as one of the truly great moments of menace in the history of American cinema.

Really didn't like the film until we got about half way through. Crude, down and dirty, with plenty of madness and selfishness and hate... not easy to watch unless you enjoy that kind of stuff... Then it turned, and we 'got it'... the spark of humanity, of kindness, of love, despite all the odds. It worked.. and there were plenty of Lynch touches adding oddities... I'd liken it to emerging from a pit of snakes into a sweet spring meadow. Great actors.

The DVD arrived in pristine quality as well as arrived earlier than expected, and is a welcome addition to my collection. Thank you!

Aún no he abierto la película, pero ha llegado pronto y en buen estado. Muy buena edición

merci

Basada en la novela homónima de Barry Gifford, "Wild At Heart" fue lanzada un año después de la edición del libro, en agosto de 1990.Dirigida por David Lynch, y protagonizada por Nicolas Cage y Laura Dern, incluyó muchas referencias a "The Wizard Of Oz" y a Elvis Presley, que le dieron un toque bastante original. Fue ganadora de la Palm d'Or en el Festival de Cannes el mismo año, a pesar de que público y crítica estuvieron divididas.Sin duda, "Wild At Heart" es un filme bastante polémico, y no es muy digerible para todo tipo de público. Originalmente, tenía una duración de 4 horas de metraje y muchísima más violencia de la que incluye el corte final; mucha gente salía de las salas de cine en las proyecciones de prueba debido a una escena en donde el personaje de Harry Dean Stanton era torturado y asesinado. La censura siguió al filme hasta su versión final en USA, ya que 2 escenas más fueron eliminadas: un perro que se lleva una mano mutilada (fans de Kurosawa, reconocerán este homenaje) y la famosa escena de Willem Dafoe con la escopeta (ambas fueron recuperadas para ésta edición, aunque la de Willem Dafoe es "maquillada" con humo y fuego para cubrir el efecto del splatter; si, persiste la censura).A pesar de todo, "Wild At Heart" es una película que nos cuenta la historia de amor entre Sailor Ripley y Lula Pace Fortune, y de como pasan duras pruebas a través de un mundo lleno de asesinos, violadores, mafiosos, personajes bizarros y sus propios demonios a través del camino amarillo buscando su destino más allá del arcoíris. Esta versión de David Lynch incluye un final feliz que no existe en el libro (que en lo personal, me gustó mucho, ¡es fantástico!).Otro punto fuerte del filme es el soundtrack. La música que se incluyó en ella es bastante ecléctica; se incluye Rock N' Roll, Pop, Jazz, Big Band, cortes clásicos, Thrash Metal e incluso Nicolas Cage canta 2 versiones de Elvis Presley: "Love Me" (con la banda de Thrash Metal Powermad de fondo) y "Love Me Tender". Incluso, volvió a lograr que "Wicked Game" de Chris Isaak llegara a las listas de éxitos nuevamente. Por cierto, David Lynch dirigió un video promocional para la canción especialmente para promocionar la canción y la película (escenas del filme incluidas).Bien, está edición en DVD lanzada por KL Studio Classics en 2015, bajo licencia de Fox/MGM, tiene uno de los mejores transfers de video de esta película existentes en el mercado, incluso es ligeramente más brillante y nítido que la Edición Especial de 2004 en la cual, David Lynch supervisó personalmente el transfer. Esta versión en HD también está supervisada por el mismo Lynch (muy probablemente sea la versión usada en el Box Set "Lime Green" del año 2008).En cuanto al material extra, incluye exactamente los mismos usados en la versión del 2004: el documental "Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making Of Wild At Heart" que es un nuevo making of creado para esa edición; "Dell's Lunch Counter" que son entrevistas extendidas al nuevo documental; una entrevista con David Lynch acerca del proceso de creación del DVD (la primera versión supervisada directamente por él); el making of original de 1990; 4 spots para TV y el tráiler original de cine. Como nota adicional, fue un buen detalle usar el arte original del cartel de cine (de USA) como portada. Yo le doy 5 estrellas de calificación a ésta edición sin ningún problema.Recomiendo este producto a todo cinéfilo que le gusten las películas poco convencionales, a los fans de las novelas de Barry Gifford y a todos los fans de los filmes de David Lynch.¡¡¡100 % Recomendable!!!

Sailor (Nicolas CAGE) et Lula (Laura DERN) s’aiment d’un amour passionné et fusionnel, mais la mère de Lula – complètement hystérique – n’accepte pas leur liaison et engage un tueur pour se débarrasser du jeune homme. La cavale – hallucinée – des deux amants à travers l’Amérique, va les entraîner dans un monde étrange et dangereux…Sexe, mensonges & rock n' roll pourrait être la devise de ce film, qui repose avant tout sur une histoire d'amour intense entre deux cœurs sauvages (‘Wild at Heart’). Le mauvais garçon et sa blonde dulcinée – très justement interprétés – sont entourés de personnages plus déjantés les uns que les autres.‘Sailor & Lula’ est un film noir et flamboyant à la fois, réalisé par le virtuose David LYNCH qui parvient à sublimer cette love story dans un monde cruel et violent.Ce long-métrage a remporté la Palme d’or au Festival de Cannes 1990.