Deliverance (Deluxe Edition)

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A classic thriller has been remastered and loaded with extras.......2007-06-14

This DVD is the 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the film. One of the great things about Deliverance is that, even though it is an adventure filmed in the 1970's, it has managed to not age like a 70's film. It is both depressing and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful at the same time. The four leads do a tremendous job of playing the parts of urban dwellers who want a weekend of adventure in the wilds of Georgia and wind up getting far more than they bargained for. It has much to say about what it takes to make a man uncivilized and whether or not there is a bit of savagery in all of us, despite how domesticated we may be in predictable situations. Past these observation I won't rehash the plot elements since just about everybody on earth knows the details, and if you don't I won't spoil it for you. The film is newly remastered and will have many special features which include:

Commentary by John Boorman - Director Boorman discusses the adventures, the team, the controversy and everything it took to make Deliverance a classic film.

Deliverance: The Beginning - Take a historical look at the novel and its adaptation to the screen.

Deliverance: The Journey - Along from the early stages of filming to the creation of classic moments, such as the Dueling Banjos scene.

Deliverance: Betraying the River - The making of one of the most controversial and ground-breaking sequences in film history.

Deliverance: Delivered - A reflective look back on the completion of the film, its impact and how the idea for the shocking ending came to be.

The Dangerous World of Deliverance - The original behind-the-scenes documentary on the difficult conditions and challenges of making this film. This is on the 2004 release also.

Theatrical Trailer

This information comes from a press release by Warner Home Video. I have the 2004 release of this DVD, and quite frankly it looks fine now. I guess the primary reason to upgrade would be for all the extra features and the commentary, which are all new with the exception of "The Dangerous World of Deliverance", which was on the 2004 version of the DVD.

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Much Better than Just the "Scene"
Squeal, squeal like a pig.............
Bugger Your Neighbor
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Pristine Wilderness and a toothless horror roled into one movie

Deliverance
Starring: Jon Voight , Burt Reynolds , Ned Beatty , Ronny Cox , and Ed Ramey
Director: John Boorman
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: 6305558159
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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One of the key films of the 1970s, John Boorman's Deliverance is a nightmarish adaptation of poet-novelist James Dickey's book about various kinds of survival in modern America. The story concerns four Atlanta businessmen of various male stripe: Jon Voight's character is a reflective, civilized fellow, Burt Reynolds plays a strapping hunter-gatherer in urban clothes, Ned Beatty is a sweaty, weak-willed boy-man, and Ronny Cox essays a spirited, neighborly type. Together they decide to answer the ancient call of men testing themselves against the elements and set out on a treacherous ride on the rapids of an Appalachian river. What they don't understand until it is too late is that they have ventured into Dickey's variation on the American underbelly, a wild, lawless, dangerous (and dangerously inbred) place isolated from the gloss of the late 20th century. In short order, the four men dig deep into their own suppressed primitiveness, defending themselves against armed cretins, facing the shock of real death on their carefully planned, death-defying adventure, and then squarely facing the suspicions of authority over their concealed actions. Boorman, a master teller of stories about individuals on peculiarly mythical journeys, does a terrifying and beautiful job of revealing the complexity of private and collective character--the way one can never be the same after glimpsing the sharp-clawed survivor in one's soul. --Tom Keogh

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Much Better than Just the "Scene".......2007-08-31

This film created a subculture of slang and forever associated banjo music with something banjo music maybe doesn't deserve to be grouped with.

That said, this film is far bigger than it's one infamous scene that even those who haven't seen the movie seem to know about. It's a classic man vs. nature vs. man vs. "man's nature" as four friends with very different personalities are physically tested by the woods, the rapids and themselves on an ill-advised whitewater trip.

Intense ending. the only weak link is the actor that plays Drew, who could have afforded to play the weak link role more subtly.

Squeal, squeal like a pig....................2007-08-10

This 1972 movie staring Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox was excellent viewing on big screen home tv as it was in the theater. The impact this film has on me is still great. It's a story of 4 men that dare to take a canoe ride down a river in Georgia (because "it's there") and what they encounter along the way. That's briefly as I can give without telling you what exactly happens. But none of them come out the same from the weird experience. It depicts the "genetic deficiencies" of mountain people (or hillbillies, not Beverly Hillbillies). These grotesque people along the river pop out and in one horrific scene, make Ned Beatty "squeal like a pig". The movie is a must see and a must buy for any film buff...

Bugger Your Neighbor.......2007-06-29

Deliverance, it seems, has indelibly embedded itself in popular consciousness, despite its being nearly as old as me. The banjo-totin' cretin with fingers of fury, Ned Beatty's harrowing porcine approximations, vengeful crackers stalking the woods above the river--these images, enhanced for home audiences by a first-rate digital transfer and crystal-clear audio remix, have aged well--much better, in fact, than Burt Reynolds, one of the film's actors, whom seeing sans hairpiece and porn mustache was uncanny--and have, I think, taken on an added relevance for these times of dire ecological prospects. The impending demise of the town of Aintry, Georgia and the river running through it at the hands of a hydroelectric utility is a harbinger our fate writ small.

Deliverance is also interesting for being one of a slew of '70s films whose subject matter is those marginal types stalking the hinterlands, and the various perversities around which their aggregate identities are organized. In addition to Deliverance, the ' 70s saw the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, and, Friday the 13th. Admittedly, Deliverance distinguishes itself from this company in its thematic content, which aims for psychological and philosophical depth, as opposed to mere exploitation. The existential glosses of Deliverance are nothing short of masterful. The images of dying and death have an agonizing physicality to them, and the dead bodies themselves seem almost to make the screen sag under their insistent corporeality (The actors portraying the two key hicks deserved Oscars for their utterly convincing expirations). Such touches elevate Deliverance above the sensationalism it flirts with.

Intercalated with the theme of masculine self-actualization, are those of man's collisions with both nature and civilization, either having the power to undo an individual. For the hillbillies, Georgia's hill country is a mis-en-scène of very palpable degeneracy, while for the four vacationers, the city is the same. The gap-toothed menace of the lustful rustics finds its complement in Ned Beatty's flabby lubricity. The city takes what the country makes, and vice versa. This is most clearly seen in the neat narrative symmetry at work between Burt Reynolds and John Voigt's respective characters. Oppositions in this movie are never facile, though, and one is left with the sense that the Weltanschauung expressed in it is one eternal Manichean struggle; civilization consumes nature (the hydroelectric dam destroying the river), and is in turn consumed by nature (this is at work at many levels in the film, but the most striking image is the rising waters around Aintry). Viewing Deliverance again has led me to muse upon the historical and culture dimensions of the '70s, and what anxieties the film and those of its ilk capture.

Don't miss this one.......2007-06-19

This movie is worth getting for the banjo duel alone.You'll swear that hilly-billy boy is no actor but some genuine in-bred genius they found in the mountains.The film moves in and out of juxtapositions between civilization and wilderness.Great acting and riveting throughout.

Pristine Wilderness and a toothless horror roled into one movie.......2007-06-07

Ah, what can be more splendid than a white water rafting trip through the pristine waters on the last natural river in the Great American Southeast!

Some city slickers, who are still southern, but city slickers nonetheless, decide to answer the call of their inner outdoorsman and venture down the stream less traveled in this 1972 thriller.

Each of these four friends has a decidely different personality and seems to embody a different type of man. No suprise, Burt Reynolds plays the part of the bow-and-arrow wielding, muscular alpha male of the group. The other three look a bit maladjusted to outdoor life. Their place seems to be the office cubicle, or perhaps, on a weekend, the golf course. When pitted against the inbred dangers of the untamed Georgia wilderness, they look like nothing more than fodder, or perhaps potential male damsels in distress.

Surrounded by lush wilderness and a river of tinkling, flowing water, their canoe trip looks like a treat to the eye, even with 1970's era film technology. If you're a camper or a fisher, you'd half wish you were there. That is, until trouble strikes.

The film might be more tramatic to the urban half-men that populate American cities during the information age, any fear that you've had of the slack jawed, backwoods yokel with increase exponetially when you hear the famous "squeal like a pig" line.

The four city slickers are pitted against a pair of mutated swamp dwellers who know every inch of the deadly wilderness. With no transportation other than a pair of flimsy canoes, will the four friends reach civilization alive? Even if they do reach the next town, will they get past the sheriff?

The movie isn't non stop violence, there are only a couple scenes of it. Usually the impulsive human being needs a dose of violence or sex every few minutes or they immediately lose interest. This flick keeps your interest with suspense and worry about what might happen next. If you've ever enjoyed a suspense or a thriller, then this one is highly recommended, as it is top of the line in its genre.

No more will be given away in this review so you can see for yourself what suprises are in store.

Skip the camping trip and check out Deliverance.

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Deliverance [Blu-ray]
Director: John Boorman
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000Q8X5A8
Release Date: 2007-09-18

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In the unfamiliar Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a gut-wrenching fight for survival against the merciless forces of nature and the brutality of man. Their only escape is a terrifying canoe ride down the raging rapids of the Chattooga River. If their heartless pursuers don't kill them, the treacherous waters just might.

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Deliverance [HD DVD]
Director: John Boorman
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000Q67DEE
Release Date: 2007-09-18

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Inspector Lynley-A Great Deliverance
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Clash of classes

Inspector Lynley - A Great Deliverance
Starring: Nathaniel Parker , Sharon Small , Anthony Calf , Amanda Ryan , and Emma Fielding
Director: Richard Laxton
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
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ASIN: B00009MECO
Release Date: 2003-07-29

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"A decapitation, a traumatized teen, and localized police corruption," a superior tells Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard. "A good result is important for all of us." The result is very good indeed, as Elizabeth George's gripping bestseller is given the grand PBS treatment. Originally broadcast on Mystery!, this production marked the long-running series' first adaptation of a whodunit written by an American. Nathaniel Parker stars as Lynley, the Oxford-educated detective (and the eighth earl of Asherton, no less). Sharon Small costars as his very reluctant partner, Sgt. Barbara Havers, a working-class cop who considers Lynley "an arrogant aristocratic ponce." Their relationship is at the heart of a baffling case involving the grisly ax murder of farmer William Tey. At the scene of the horrific crime is Tey's 16-year-old daughter, dressed in her bloodied Sunday best, and unable (or unwilling) to speak. While sorting out the clues and suspects (including a runaway wife and daughter, and a nephew poised to inherit the farm), Lynley and Havers are bedeviled by their own personal dramas (his best friend has married the woman he loves, and she struggles to take care of her senile mother). Havers, who initially has a sizable chip on her shoulder, remarks early on that maybe her new assignment is her boss's idea of a joke. "Maybe," Lynley offers, "he thought we'd make a good team." How right he is. --Donald Liebenson

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Talk about a puzzling case. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard (Nathaniel Parker, Far from the Maddding Crowd) is assigned to investigate the gruesome murder of a farmer in a seemingly peaceful country village, but it's his new partner, Sgt. Barbara Havers (Sharon Small, About a Boy), whom he's finding indecipherable. Havers is as gritty, rumpled, and working-class as the Inspector is refined, well-heeled, and sophisticated.

Is the murderer the farmer's shy daughter who was found next to her father's decapitated corpse? The nephew who stands to inherit the farm? The estranged wife who's protecting her new family from an unsightly past? Or is it a suspicious village resident with a shady past and a weak alibi?

Based on the best-selling mystery by Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance introduces Inspector Lynley with first-rate performances and abundant amounts of nail-biting suspense.

Special DVD features include: virtual tour of the Mystery! studio; Q&A with Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small; selected cast filmographies; selected cast list; biography for Diana Rigg, host of Mystery!; bibliography for Elizabeth George; selected cast list; link to the Mystery! Web site; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.

On one DVD9 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.

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I am a fan!.......2007-04-10

I had watched the series on TV but had missed the pilot.
I never knew that there was so much murder and mayhem in
London and the English countryside.

great dvd.......2007-03-22

it's a great beginning to the lynley mysteries.....havers and lynley make a great team...ithey really belong together, even though he is rich and she is not...i am tired of investing myself in these movies or shows where the lead characters do not get together in the end....

Inspector Lynley-A Great Deliverance.......2006-11-06

"A Great Deliverance" is in a series of British mysteries genre which she explains is similar to Agatha Christie novels and much like a good crossword puzzle.

Fantastic Adaptation.......2006-07-30

This was an excellent movie. It stayed very true to the book. The English countryside was a perfect backdrop for this mystery. I think Elizabeth George is a wonderful author, and I am very excited that her novels are now movies. I highly recommend this movie. I would, however, recommend you read the book first. The experience will then be even more enjoyable.

Clash of classes.......2006-03-09

They come from different worlds, they bicker and they fight but they're great together. Grit, class and murder...and a hint of romance. Above all, a great mystery.

Once Dead - Return with a Vengeance (Rising) Live DVD

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Once Dead - Return with a Vengeance (Rising) Live DVD

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This Limited Edition DVD features original Vengeance Rising Members, Doug Theime, Larry Farkas, Roger Dale Martin & Glen Mancaruso with Scott Water (Ultimatum) on vocals! Track Listing: 1. Warfare 2. White Throne 3. Mulligans Stew 4. Receive Him 5. Can't Get Out 6. Frontal Lobotomy 7. Fatal Delay 8. Into The Abyss 9. He Is God 10. Salvation 11. Burn 12. Beheaded 13. Human Sacrifice Bonus Material: - Once Dead (New Song) - Interviews - Credits - Photo Gallery - Blink (Ultimatum, Live)

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Not that good.......2006-10-10

I was excited to hear that the band was getting back to record a show. I finally tracked down the dvd and I wasn't too impressed with the sound. There were planety of mistakes, but that can be forgiven on the fact that teh group hadn't been together that long. I was wanting more from the singer. He didn't seem to have the vocals for the type of music. Its good to have for the die hard Vengenace fans though. The interview is pretty cool.

Best of the 70's (All The President's Men/Deliverance/Mean Streets/Network)

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Best of the 70's (All The President's Men/Deliverance/Mean Streets/Network)
Starring: Best of 70's 4pak
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ASIN: B00011ZBJI
Release Date: 2003-12-02

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Maiden of Deliverance

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Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance

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Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance
Starring: Brian Murphy; Pigpen Myers Rifkin; Julie Tolentino Wood, Alex Binnie, Vaginal Davis; Cathy Opie Ron Athey; Darryl Carlton; Cross
Director: Catherine Saalfield Gund
Manufacturer: Aubin Pictures
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ASIN: B000F6YVRC
Release Date: 1998-01-01

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Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance A 90 minute 35mm feature documentary film. Raised by his grandmother to be a Pentecostal minister, Ron Athey was speaking in tongues by the age of ten, a heroin addict by seventeen, and a performance artist by twenty-three. HALLELUJAH! presents Athey's life and work, spending time with him on and off the stage in Mexico City; Zagreb, Croatia; and Los Angeles. Completed 1998.

Up from the Ashes DVD - SAINT - DELIVERANCE - ONCE DEAD - ULTIMATUM

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Up from the Ashes DVD - SAINT - DELIVERANCE - ONCE DEAD - ULTIMATUM

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Live footage and clips from the Up From the Ashes concerts I & II. Featuring Saint, Deliverance, Final Axe, Once Dead, Ultimatum, Holy Soldier, and more.

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