This looks like its 1.85:1 aspect ratio, but on imdb it says the picture is 1.33:1 (IE. 4:3). Does anybody know about this? Also, word around the net is that PBS lost the original master tapes, yet on IMDB it says it was shot on 16mm film.
The UKleG novel was published in 1971; it has a President that can't put two sentences together, an Afgan war and nuclear Pakistan, Global greenhouse choking urban death. What more could you dream-up?
It's a real odyssey what happened to this film. They had to get viewers to send in pieces, because PBS actually erased it from the original master tapes to save money on tapes. Simply unbelievable. And the original Beatles was removed and replaced w/ an inferior version over rights. Sad. Great teleplay. Great story.
Science fiction is still about ideas; sadly, what appeals in most movies is space opera. Both versions of the Lathe of Heaven movie are available on DVD; and both are worth watching.
One of the greatest made for PBS movies ever made. Cheap budget but absolutely 1st rate plot. Dr. Haber tries to correct all the mistakes of the world through the mind of George Orr, who is able to dream things into reality.
I always wondered if LeGuinn got any inspiration/ideas from H.G. Wells and his The Man Who Could Work Miracles, which was also performed as a radio drama several times in the 50s.
Can someone post the whole movie from 1980?
TheLourdes2009 2 years ago
This looks like its 1.85:1 aspect ratio, but on imdb it says the picture is 1.33:1 (IE. 4:3). Does anybody know about this? Also, word around the net is that PBS lost the original master tapes, yet on IMDB it says it was shot on 16mm film.
sjk1983 2 years ago
What if reality was being pulled out from under us all the time?
;-)
Dream on all you Gerogeorrs
WC3POchannel10A 2 years ago
The UKleG novel was published in 1971; it has a President that can't put two sentences together, an Afgan war and nuclear Pakistan, Global greenhouse choking urban death. What more could you dream-up?
visualzone 2 years ago
Yes this was a classic.
I saw it when it originally aired on PBS.
Afterwards we watched Saturday Night Live with Elliot Gould as the host and musical guest Garry Newman & The Tubeway Army!
My friends and I were on mescaline in Cape Cod.
mooville32 3 years ago 2
It's a real odyssey what happened to this film. They had to get viewers to send in pieces, because PBS actually erased it from the original master tapes to save money on tapes. Simply unbelievable. And the original Beatles was removed and replaced w/ an inferior version over rights. Sad. Great teleplay. Great story.
humbleradio 3 years ago 2
What a wonderful score!
lysis28 4 years ago
Science fiction is still about ideas; sadly, what appeals in most movies is space opera. Both versions of the Lathe of Heaven movie are available on DVD; and both are worth watching.
EdwardStratton 4 years ago
...Remember when Sc-Fi was about IDEAS
...& not just Action/Adventure, Future Cops &/or Thinly-Veiled Advertisements for the f***in' Army - ?!?...
RevRabbitNov63 4 years ago 4
Read the novel... The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin... impeccable...
jennellybean612 4 years ago 2
Please play this in it's entirety. Please I beg of you.
cyclopticeye 4 years ago
One of the greatest made for PBS movies ever made. Cheap budget but absolutely 1st rate plot. Dr. Haber tries to correct all the mistakes of the world through the mind of George Orr, who is able to dream things into reality.
Spiderking9 4 years ago
I always wondered if LeGuinn got any inspiration/ideas from H.G. Wells and his The Man Who Could Work Miracles, which was also performed as a radio drama several times in the 50s.
humbleradio 3 years ago