1334 Wild at Heart

[domino harvey]

“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” With this torrid adaptation of the novel by Barry Gifford, David Lynch pushed his vision of nightmarish Americana into new realms of delirious excess and feverish romanticism. Burning with libidinal abandon, Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage are Lula and Sailor, outlaw lovers whose reckless passion sends them on the run through a menacing South, where their dream of freedom collides with a vortex of violence and depravity. Blending all-American iconography ranging from Elvis to The Wizard of Oz into a twisted southern-gothic soap opera, and featuring memorable supporting turns by Willem Dafoe and Diane Ladd, the film conjures a dark dreamscape of danger, desire, and fantasy that stands as perhaps the most transcendently perverse love story of the 1990s.

4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration of the unrated international version, supervised by director of photography Frederick Elmes and approved by the David Lynch Estate, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Alternate 5.1 surround mix newly created from the original 35 mm DME magnetic tracks by rerecording mixer Dean Hurley
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
New introduction by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
Archival documentaries featuring interviews with Elmes; director David Lynch; actors Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, and Isabella Rossellini; novelist Barry Gifford; editor Duwayne Dunham; filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci; and other members of the cast and crew
Deleted scenes and outtakes, with a new 5.1 surround mix by Hurley
Readings from Room to Dream, a 2018 book coauthored by Lynch and critic Kristine McKenna
Segments from a 1988 episode of Cinéma, de notre temps featuring Lynch
Music video directed by Lynch for Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An excerpted interview with Lynch from filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley’s book Lynch on Lynch, and a new introduction by Rodley

New cover by Fred Davis, based on the original theatrical poster

[soundchaser]

No Industrial Symphony No. 1 feels like a pretty big missed opportunity.

[denti alligator]

No Industrial Symphony No. 1 feels like a pretty big missed opportunity.

Unless it'll be on the rumored shorts box.

[Drucker]

Wow the "Wicked Game" music video!

[Forrest Taft]

As it’s the video directed by Lynch, it is not the best known video with Helena Christensen, fyi.

[Adam X]

New 4K digital restoration of the unrated international version, supervised by director of photography Frederick Elmes and approved by the David Lynch Estate

… dreams do come true!

[WrathOfAguirre]

New 4K digital restoration of the unrated international version, supervised by director of photography Frederick Elmes and approved by the David Lynch Estate

… dreams do come true!

Are there significant/noticeable differences? As much as I love Lynch, this is one film of his I've only seen a couple of times (and years ago at this point, probably going back to Netflix DVD mail-in days, IIRC).

[Roger Ryan]

New 4K digital restoration of the unrated international version, supervised by director of photography Frederick Elmes and approved by the David Lynch Estate

… dreams do come true!

Are there significant/noticeable differences? As much as I love Lynch, this is one film of his I've only seen a couple of times (and years ago at this point, probably going back to Netflix DVD mail-in days, IIRC).

Lynch was required to blur out one portion of a shot showing graphic violence as well as add colored filters to a couple of shots supposedly to reduce the sexual explicitness. I never minded the color filters which looked like an intentional artistic choice by Lynch (and likely were even if he had not originally intended for them to be there), but the censoring of the violence always looked sloppy and I'll be happy to have it gone. For clarity, no footage was actually cut for the U.S. version; shots were just manipulated.

[WrathOfAguirre]

Interesting! Sounds fairly inconsequential, though. Thanks for the details.