Angel Heart R
Harry Angel has been hired in search for the truth. Pray he doesn't find it.
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
Also released as:
Angel Heart
for $8.10
DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 30, 2008
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Maple Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet & Robert De Niro | |
Performer: | Rick Washburn, Stocker Fontelieu & Charlotte Rampling | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenwriting by | Alan Parker | |
Composition by | Trevor Jones | |
Produced by | Elliott Kastner & Alan Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Seresin | |
Executive Production by | Mario Kassar & Andrew G. Vajna |
Entertainment Reviews:
'The banality of evil' is a phrase one hears. It doesn't mean that you can represent evil with cliches.
Full Review
The Spectator
The book's so good it deserves a better movie, but Rourke's performance is such that Angel Heart stands out from the necromancy movie crowd.
Full Review
Film4
4 stars out of 5 -- ANGEL HEART duly remains a well-regarded Faustian puzzle of a film.
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 2/4 --
Metaphysical and emotional anemia is an important tradition in cult horror/mystery, a category the daffy plot twists and crimson, incestuous excesses of Angel Heart sit quite cozily in.
Full Review
Slant Magazine
[Rourke] gives off a vibe of mangy cool...
Rolling Stone
...It is a movie cool to the eye....It is the film's cumulative atmosphere that builds its mounting sense of doom...
Los Angeles Times
...A definitive 1980s period piece...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
In Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART, based on the novel FALLING ANGEL by William Hjortsberg, a New York City gumshoe is hired to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where he takes up with Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), the beautiful young daughter of a voodoo priestess, whom he believes will be able to shed light on the growing mystery surrounding the missing musician. As Angel closes in on the truth of the case, his contacts start turning up dead. He begins to suspect he might be next.
Parker (MISSISSIPPI BURNING) threads a commentary on the limitations of modern Western society into his sensual, suspenseful thriller. As the story unfolds, Angel relies less and less on his failing, overwhelmed rational mind (and handgun) and more on Epiphany's ancient mojo. Rourke captures the unraveling protagonist perfectly, and Bonet adds an erotic and mysterious edge with her performance. Robert De Niro is both funny and malevolent as Angel's mysterious client, Louis Cyphre. Shimmering with a beguiling mist of the macabre, ANGEL HEART provides an unexpectedly haunting dose of gothic noir.
Parker (MISSISSIPPI BURNING) threads a commentary on the limitations of modern Western society into his sensual, suspenseful thriller. As the story unfolds, Angel relies less and less on his failing, overwhelmed rational mind (and handgun) and more on Epiphany's ancient mojo. Rourke captures the unraveling protagonist perfectly, and Bonet adds an erotic and mysterious edge with her performance. Robert De Niro is both funny and malevolent as Angel's mysterious client, Louis Cyphre. Shimmering with a beguiling mist of the macabre, ANGEL HEART provides an unexpectedly haunting dose of gothic noir.
Description by Maple Pictures:
Harry Angel, a down-and-out fifties Brooklyn gumshoe, takes us on a journey of violence and murder that canvasses the desperate stre ets of Harlem, smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and ultimately to voodoo rituals in the sweltering swamps of Louisiana. "Angel Heart"...A truly unsettling film experience.
Keywords:
Detectives
|
Mystery
|
Occult
|
Psychodrama
|
Thriller
|
Self-Discovery
|
Murder
|
Hell
|
Film Noir
|
Recommended
|
Devil / Demons
|
Theatrical Release
Product Info
- UPC: 057373201503
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item