David Lynch: Elephant Man (1980, 124 Min.) Online Versions of the Goldenrod Handouts Have Color Images & Hot Links
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October 30, 2018 (XXXVII:10) David Lynch: Elephant Man (1980, 124 min.) Online versions of The Goldenrod Handouts have color images & hot links: http://csac.buffalo.edu/goldenrodhandouts.html DIRECTED BY David Lynch WRITING screenplay by Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, and David Lynch; Frederick Treves (book) (as Sir Frederick Treves), Ashley Montagu (in part on the book "The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity") PRODUCED BY Stuart Cornfeld (executive producer), Jonathan Sanger (producer), and Mel Brooks (executive producer, uncredited) MUSIC John Morris CINEMATOGRAPHY Freddie Francis (director of photography) FILM EDITING Anne V. Coates PRODUCTION DESIGN Stuart Craig ART DIRECTION Robert Cartwright SET DECORATION Hugh Scaife COSTUME DESIGN Patricia Norris MAKEUP DEPARTMENT hairdressers: Paula Gillespie and Stephanie Kaye; makeup artists: Beryl Lerman and Michael Morris; makeup application: 'Elephant Man' / makeup supervisor: Wally Schneiderman; makeup creator: 'Elephant Man' / makeup designer: 'Elephant Man': Christopher Tucker The film received eight nominations at the 1981Academy Awards: Best Picture: Jonathan Sanger; Best Actor in a Leading Role: John Hurt; Best Director: David Lynch; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Stuart Craig, Robert Cartwright, Hugh Scaife; Best Costume Design: Patricia Norris; Best Film Editing: Anne V. Coates; Best Music, Original Score: John Morris. CAST Anthony Hopkins...Frederick Treves John Hurt...John Merrick Alfie Curtis...Milkman Anne Bancroft...Mrs. Kendal Bernadette Milnes...1st Fighting Woman John Gielgud...Carr Gomm Brenda Kempner...2nd Fighting Woman Wendy Hiller...Mothershead Carol Harrison ...Tart (as Carole Harrison) Freddie Jones ...Bytes Hugh Manning...Broadneck Michael Elphick...Night Porter Dennis Burgess...1st Committee Man Hannah Gordon...Mrs. Treves Fanny Carby... Mrs. Kendal's Dresser Helen Ryan...Princess Alex William Morgan Sheppard...Man In Pub (as Morgan Sheppard) John Standing...Fox Kathleen Byron...Lady Waddington Dexter Fletcher...Bytes' Boy Gerald Case...Lord Waddington Lesley Dunlop...Nora David Ryall...Man With Whores Phoebe Nicholls...Merrick's Mother Deirdre Costello...1st Whore Pat Gorman...Fairground Bobby Pauline Quirke...2nd Whore Claire Davenport...Fat Lady Kenny Baker...Plumed Dwarf Orla Pederson...Skeleton Man Chris Greener...Giant Patsy Smart...Distraught Woman Marcus Powell...Midget Frederick Treves...Alderman Gilda Cohen... Midget Stromboli...Fire Eater Lesley Scoble...Siamese Twin (as Lisa Scoble) Richard Hunter...Hodges Teri Scoble...Siamese Twin James Cormack...Pierce Eiji Kusuhara...Japanese Bleeder Robert Lewis Bush...Messenger Robert Day...Little Jim Roy Evans...Cabman Patricia Hodge ...Screaming Mum Joan Rhodes...Cook Tommy Wright...First Bobby Nula Conwell...Nurse Kathleen Peter Davidson...Second Bobby Tony London...Young Porter John Rapley...King In Panto Lynch: ELEPHANT MAN—2 Hugh Spight...Puss In Panto program, Twin Peaks,* a show that raised the bar of what was Teresa Codling...Princess In Panto expected from television, setting the stage for an era of Marion Betzold...Principal Boy “premium television” that some would argue has not surpassed Caroline Haigh...Tree Lynch’s initial accomplishment. In 2017, Lynch brought Twin Florenzio Morgado...Tree Peaks back to television, directing and co-writing all 18 episodes Victor Kravchenko...Lion / Coachman in the new series, prompting some to consider the work an Beryl Hicks...Fairy eighteen-hour film. In 1990, Lynch took the distinguished Michele Amas...Horse Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart (1990). He Lucie Alford...Horse was nominated, in 1992, for the Palme d'Or for Twin Peaks: Fire Penny Wright...Horse Walk with Me (1992)* and, again, in 1999 for The Straight Story Janie Kells...Horse (1999). At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, he was, again, Lydia Lisle...Merrick's Mother nominated for the Palme d'Or, and he won, in a tie, Best Director for Mulholland Drive (2001), for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2002. Lynch has directed 80 films, video shorts, documentaries, and television series. Some of his other directorial works include: Six Men Getting Sick (1966, Short), Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967, Short), Fictitious Anacin Commercial (1967, Short), Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967, Short), The Alphabet (1968, Short),** The Grandmother (1970, Short), The Amputee (1974, Short),* The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988), Chris Isaak: Wicked Game, Wild at Heart Version (1990, Video short), Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990, TV Movie),*** Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995, Short), Lost Highway (1997),* Eraserhead Stories (2001, Video documentary), Darkened Room (2002, Short),** Coyote (2002, Documentary short),** Inland Empire (2006),**** Working with Marilyn Manson (2007, Video documentary short), David Lynch Cooks Quinoa (2007, DAVID LYNCH (b. January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana) is Documentary short), Blue Green (2007, Video short), Ballerina one of the few contemporary filmmakers to inspire an (2007, Short),** Moby: Shot in the Back of the Head (2009, eponymous qualitative term: Lynchian. The late American Video short), Dream #7 (2010, Short), 42 One Dream Rush novelist and cultural critic David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) (2010, Short), Ariana Delawari: Lion of Panjshir (2010, Video said that in film “a regular domestic murder is not Lynchian. But short), Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted (2013, Video if the police come to the scene and see the man standing over the short), Duran Duran: Unstaged (2014, Video documentary), and body and the woman's 50s bouffant is undisturbed and the man Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014).* and the cops have this conversation about the fact that the man *Indicates films and television series Lynch acted in killed the woman because she persistently refused to buy, say, for **Indicates films Lynch did cinematography for instance, Jif peanut butter rather than Skippy, and how very, very ***Indicates films Lynch composed music for important that is, and if the cops found themselves somehow ****Indicates films Lynch acted in and did cinematography for agreeing that there were major differences between the brands He has written 41 films and other video projects and and that a wife who didn't recognize those differences was produced 41 films and other video projects. He has also acted in deficient in her wifely duties, that would be Lynchian.” Lynch 25 films and television series, including: Heart Beat (1980), went to art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Arena (1987, TV Series documentary), Zelly and Me (1988), Philadelphia which inspired Eraserhead (1977),*** a film that Nadja (1994), BlueBob: Thank You, Judge (1999, Video short), he began in the early 1970s (after a couple of shorts) and which The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed (2002, Short), DumbLand (2002, he would work on obsessively for five years. The final film was TV Mini-Series short), Hollyshorts Greeting (2008, Short), Peixe initially judged to be almost too weird for release, but thanks to Vermelho (2009, Short), Louie (2012, TV Series), The Cleveland the efforts of distributor Ben Barenholtz, it secured a cult Show (2010-2013, TV Series), Family Guy (2010-2016, TV following and enabled Lynch to make his first mainstream film Series), Girlfriend's Day (2017), Lucky (2017), and The Black (in an unlikely alliance with Mel Brooks), though The Elephant Ghiandola (2017, Short). Man (1980)* was shot through with his unique sensibility. This He has also done cinematography for 14 films and film also led to Lynch’s first Academy Award nominations for shorts, some of which are: The Pig Walks (2002, Short), Factory Best Director and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Mask (2002, Short), Dead Mouse with Ants (2002, Documentary Material from Another Medium. Its enormous critical and short), Bees (2002, Documentary short), Lamp (2003, commercial success led to Dune (1984),* a hugely expensive Documentary short), BlueBob Egg (Short), Early Experiments commercial flop, but he was nominated, again, for the Academy (2008, Short), and The 3 Rs (2011, Short). He has also composed Award for Best Director in 1987 for, arguably, the definitive music for 9 films and shorts, some of which are: No Frank in “Lynchian” film Blue Velvet (1986). From 1989 to 1991, Lynch Lumberton (1988, TV Movie documentary), BlueBob: Thank collaborated with Mark Frost to create the iconic television You, Judge (1999, Video short), Lady Blue Shanghai (2010, Lynch: ELEPHANT MAN—3 Short), Good Day Today (2011, Video short), David Lynch & Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), King Lear (2018 TV Chrysta Bell: Bird of Flames (2012, Video short), Star (2014, Movie), Westworld (2016-2018 TV Series), and The Pope (2018 Short), and Night Ride The Director's Cut (2017, Short). post-production). FREDDIE FRANCIS (b. December 22, 1917 in Islington, London, England—d. March 17, 2007 (age 89) in Isleworth, Middlesex, England) did cinematography for 36 films and directed 37 films. He won two Academy Awards: one for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White in 1961 for Sons and Lovers (1960) and Best Cinematography in 1990 for Glory (1989). These are some other films he did cinematography for: Hell in Korea (1956 director of photography), Time Without Pity (1957 as Frederick Francis, photography), Room at the Top (1959 director of photography),