Dreams with Sharp Teeth
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 26, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Featured: | Robin Williams & Neil Gaiman | |
| Directed by | Erik Nelson | |
| Subject: | Harlan Ellison | |
| Produced by | Erik Nelson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/4 --
A fascinating, if cautious, portrait of a great writer and a world-class crank who is never less than compelling and often completely justified in his rants.
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TV Guide
Rating: B+ --
Snappy documentary on prolific writer Harlan Ellison.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
If there is a criticism to be lobbed at Nelson's judicious but otherwise highly entertaining tribute, it's that it too often plays the role of the fawning, autograph-hungry fanboy, willing to accept all of the abuse Ellison wishes to hurl at it.
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indieWire
Rating: 5/5 --
Although nearly every filmgoer will enjoy the larger than life player in this 90- some minute presentation, writers will especially relate (or take exception, as the case may be).
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Horror.com
Documentarian Erik Nelson, overcautious of his subject, is content to let Ellison luxuriate in his legacy of infamy--as a lothario, and a litigious and pugilistic combatant.
Village Voice
Rating: 8/10 --
(Ellison) does not suffer fools easily, and from his tight-rope walkers point of view there are an awful lot of fools down there.
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Movie Metropolis
What makes this bracing documentary, 27 years in the making, is Ellison's incredible personal history.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Product Description:
Harlan Ellison is as well known for his outsize personalty as for his substantial literary output, which includes some of science fiction's greatest works. This fond portrait of the aging enfant terrible looks back at his classic novels and short stories, his days as a screenwriter--producing some of the best-known episodes STAR TREK and THE OUTER LIMITS--his singing career, and his hilarious opinions on everything under the sun. While Ellison (as usual) does most of the talking, Robin Williams and Neil Gaiman also manage to get a few words in.
Product Description:
Crackling with infectious energy, DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH pays homage to the dark prince of American letters, Harlan Ellison. Master of his craft, Ellison has heroically produced over 75 books and more than 1,700 classics of fiction and non-fiction on one of his Olympia manual typewriters, including the single most popular Star Trek episode ("City on the Edge of Forever") and brilliant, award-winning short stories, some written in bookstore windows, on very public display.
Wildly imaginative writer, flame-tongued provocateur, unholy fusion of Lenny Bruce and Mark Twain, Ellison's remarkable personal journey is lovingly rendered by director Erik Nelson.
The film draws on over 25 years of exclusive video footage that captures Ellison at his most inspiring and irritating, curmudgeonly and lovable. See Ellison rant about the idiocies of geekdom, confess to mailing a dead gopher to an executive at a publishing house, recall his rebellious childhood, and speak about the joy (and craft) of writing. The film features candid interviews with famous and surprising friends, including actor Robin Williams, author Neil Gaiman and Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica), who flesh out Ellison's prodigious contributions to the worlds of literature and popular culture, as well as their very personal encounters with this unique Force Of Nature.
Whether a die-hard Ellison fan or someone tragically uninitiated, DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH will amuse, inspire, infuriate, and edify.
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