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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381423129
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 11, 1998
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 62675
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 1966
Editorial Review:
Description:
Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut.
Amazon.com essential video:
The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The best movie ever made
This is the best campy 60's science fiction movie ever made. The DVD is full of extra's including a great behind the scenes commentary. You won't be disappointed.
Rating:  - You are better off reading the book
"Fahrenheit 451" would be an ok movie if it was not based on such a good book. The movie, based on a book by Ray Bradbury with the same name, is about a world in which reading is not permitted, books are all banned, people are engulfed by their TVs (not that far-fetched anymore huh?!) and firemen start fires.
Montag is a fireman and has been living the life he is expected to life, carrying out the job he is expected to perform and conforming nicely to a society that controls, bans and ... Read More
Rating:  - Hard to stay interested in this one
I am having a hard time rating this movie. It's not that the movie was bad, but it did absolutely nothing for me watching it. As a matter of fact it bored me. Fahrenheit 451 had no action, it wasn't particularly thought provoking, it hardly had anything to make it even look or feel like a science fiction movie. It might have came from one of Ray Bradbury's most popular stories, but the movie version just didn't do much.
If you are into action you can forget it. There is no action in this ... Read More
Rating: - An inspiring tale of hope!
Don't touch me, reader!
In this film, Montag, is an up and comer at the local fire-station where books are burned. He has a beautiful wife and a promotion coming up. But he starts to read books and his life falls apart! He becomes anti-social, ruins his marriage, and ruins his career! In this movie there are people that memorize books in order to keep them alive even after they're burned. If I was going to do this I would be sure to memorize the book this was written as to make sure man remembers ... Read More
Rating: - The Future Is Now?
With "Fahrenheit 451" the brilliant French director Francois Truffaut made his first film in color and his only on in English. Based on the science fiction classic by Ray Bradbury, it takes place in the future where a totalitarian government is in place. People are forbidden to read. Houses have huge television screens installed in the walls; the inhabitants of this negative utopia take pills to stay on an even keel. Firemen no longer put out fires but rather burn books because they make people think, make them ... Read More
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