Return to Oz
Return to Oz
FANTASY ADVENTURE
FAMILY
Dorothy returns home but can’t stop talking about the Land of Oz. Her family puts her in an asylum to be treated using electrotherapy. One of Disney’s darkest movies, a kids’ film containing disembodied heads, gangs of biker monsters and couches that come to life if you sprinkle them with psychedelic fairy dust. Fairuza Balk in her stunning debut as Dorothy, in the only film ever directed by sound design legend Walter Murch.
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- Direction: Walter Murch
- Script: Walter Murch, Gill Dennis, based on the novels by L. Frank Baum
- Cinematography: David Watkin, Freddie Francis
- Editing: Leslie Hodgson
- Sound: Martin Trevis, Tim Blackham
- Music: David Shire
- Actors: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark
- Production: BMI (No. 9) Ltd., Oz Productions Ltd., Silver Screen Partners II, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Productions
- Producers: Paul Maslansky
- Art Direction: Charles Bishop, Fred Hole
- Costumes: Raymond Hughes
- Executive producer: Gary Kurtz
- Sets: Norman Reynolds
- Camera: Gordon Hayman, John Palmer, Ken Worringham
- Make Up: Magdalen Gaffney, Beryl Lerman, David White
- Format: BluRay
- Color: Color
- Production Country: UK, USA
- Production Year: 1985
- Duration: 110΄
- Contact: Park Circus Ltd, info@parkcircus.com
Walter Murch
Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Rain People (1969). He edited sound on American Graffiti (1973) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation (1974), won his first Oscar for Apocalypse Now (1979), and won an unprecedented double Oscar for Best Sound and Best Film Editing for his work on The English Patient (1996). Murch was, along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, a founding member of northern California cinema. He has directed Return to Oz (1985), but he is mostly known as an editor and sound man – he is one of the few universally acknowledged masters in his field. For his work on the film Apocalypse Now (1979), Walter coined the term sound designer, and along with colleagues such as Ben Burtt, helped to elevate the art and impact of film sound to a new level. (Harry Caul)
Filmography
1985 Return to Oz
