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  RETURN TO OZ - DVD
Where The Wizard of Oz denoted Dorothy's transition from Kansas to Oz by a dramatic shift from sepia tone to colour, Return to Oz subtly desaturates upon her arrival.
Return to Oz conjures memories of reading Baum's novels as a boy daydreamer, cold nights under the covers when I was alone with my imagination.
Return to Oz is the first Anchor Bay DVD I've ever reviewed (or viewed, for that matter); reports of their sucking have been greatly exaggerated.
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 Return To Oz
Return to Oz is dark, but parents were also taking their children to see faces implode and bloodily melt away in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also forgotten was the fact that Return to Oz is much closer in spirit to the books by L. Frank Baum.
Return to Oz is also a discovery--a discovery of Murch's finely-tuned direction, hauntingly beautiful cinematography by David Watkin, and an unforgettable score from David Shire.
Return to Oz is a must see for those who want to escape to a new land.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Return to Oz at Epinions.com
Writer Frank L. Baum provided an answer in Ozma of Oz (on which this film was almost totally based save for some situations and characters from The Marvelous Land of Oz), but so did Walt Disney in the 1985 film Return To Oz.
From here on out, Return To Oz sees Dorothy with a new cast of characters and a new sidekick in the form of an often animatonic Billina (a chicken).
The cruel people she encountered in her earlier experiences at the hospital are reflected in the antagonists throughout Return To Oz.
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 Return to Oz DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Return to Oz was first released to DVD in August 1999, as one of a number of live action Disney films (predominantly from the '70s and early '80s) that the studio leased out to the small studio called Anchor Bay.
Return to Oz is the only film directed by Walter Murch, who is famous for his sound editing work on such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.
Return to Oz is an enjoyable fantasy movie, which departs from the warm and friendly feel that have marked most of Disney's live action films.
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 Return to Oz Movie -The 80s Rewind «
Return to Oz is not a film for small children, mind you.
Return to Oz is a beautifully crafted film, both visually and psychologically.
In Return to Oz, he is also the voice of the Nome messenger, and appears as a police man and a hospital attendant.
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 Return to Oz
The History of Return to Oz In 1954 Walt Disney purchased the rights to Baum's 13 Oz Sequels(The Marvelous Land of Oz-Glinda of Oz).
Production for "Oz" started in 1984 by the time the film was half way through production its title was changed to "Return to Oz".
*In Ozma of Oz Langwidere was the head-hunting Princess
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 Return To Oz
Taking place several months after the events of The Wizard Of Oz, Return To Oz picks up with Dorothy (endearingly played here by a young Fairuza Balk) having trouble sleeping in her new house.
Return To Oz is a highly recommended as a family film--but beware, for it does get intensely dark in some areas, which might scare small children.
Special features include an interview with the now grown up Balk, who talks about what it was like to shoot the movie and the effect that Return To Oz had on her career.
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 Return to Oz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Baum's novels Ozma of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz, which were written as sequels to the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Return to Oz is often referred to as a sequel to the 1939 Wizard of Oz, but this is only partly true.
Uncle Henry and Aunt Em's financial woes (the loss of the house due to the tornado and the bank forclosing on the farm) are a strong theme in The Emerald City of Oz.
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 Return to Oz
Return to Oz Return to Oz If you’ve been watching Oz on E4 you’ll already know about the violent and oppressive Oswald State Penitentiary.
Oz has been running on HBO in the US since 1997, but it’s never got the same attention in this country as its channel-mates The Sopranos and Sex In The City.
But it’s not all misery in Oz, there are a few love-stories there - most notably between Ryan O’Reily and Gloria, McManus and most of the female staff and Beecher and...
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 Amazon.co.uk: Return To Oz [1985]: DVD: Fairuza Balk,Nicol Williamson,Walter Murch,Jean Marsh,Piper Laurie,Matt ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Return to Oz is a 1985 live-action sequel that split critics and audiences alike: you don't fool with Mother Nature, spit into the wind, remake Casablanca, or trash the land of Oz.
In 1899 Dorothy Gale returns to the land of Oz, only to find the enchanting Emerald City in ruins, and all her old friends have been captured by the Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi...
Such a good childrens film- a truely underated classic and, if you have actually read the Oz books (there were 14 of them) you realise that this film matches the orignal vision of L Frank Baum far more than the 1939 version of the Wizard of Oz which deviated quite wildly from the original book.
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 Return to Oz (1985)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It soon becomes clear that she was called back to Oz for a reason, as the evil Nome King has turned everyone to stone and the mad Princess Mombi is after more human heads for her collection.
The events and characters in "Return to Oz" are often quite macabre (decapitation for a hobby, eerie guys on wheels…) and the tone of the film is heavier since there isn't any singing and dancing going on.
Perhaps a little too scary for the smallest children but "Return to Oz" nonetheless is a compelling and spontaneous adventure, highly recommended to those who like their fairy-tales sinister.
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 Amazon.ca: Return To Oz: DVD: Walter Murch,Fairuza Balk,Robbie Barnett,Sean Barrett,Bruce Boa,Justin Case,Peter ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A dark fantasy-adventure, Return to Oz follows in the tone of the original L. Frank Baum books, Ozma of Oz and Land of Oz, rather than posing as a sequel to the classic of all family films, The Wizard of Oz.
However, Return to Oz is stylistically compelling, doing its best to cinematically render Baum's original character drawings of the Tin Man and the Scarecrow.
The "Fairuza Returns to Oz" Interview is 1999 and she talks about what it was like for her to be in the movie, talking about the Special Effects, Director Walter Murch, Cast, the Parade Scene and the other things releated to the movie - like how people asked "where's the video?" and such.
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 SSONET.com.au : Sydney Star Observer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
CHRISSY AMPHLETT RETURNS TO THE ROLE OF JUDY GARLAND IN THE BOY FROM OZ.
As The Boy From Oz neared its world premiere in Sydney in 1997, many thought rock star Chrissy Amphlett was taking the career risk of a lifetime attempting to play Judy Garland in the musical.
Speaking with the Star during a break in The Boy From Oz rehearsals, Amphlett is a far cry from either the rock’n’roll Divinyls rock diva or the sassy, showbiz survivor she plays in the show.
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 Amazon.com: Return to Oz: DVD: Fairuza Balk,Nicol Williamson,Jean Marsh,Piper Laurie,Matt Clark,Michael Sundin,Timothy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I had read the Oz books for years (including the then-elusive non-Baum books written after his death) and always loved the mix of danger, whismy, and enchantment in the books.
"Return to Oz" is a sequel of sorts of the "Wizard of Oz" book and film, based around the second and third books of L. Frank Baum's Oz series.
Dorothy (this time played by Fairuza Balk) has returned home to Kansas, but her insomnia and her constant talk of the wonderful land of Oz is worrying poor Aunty Em.
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 IMDb Title Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fairuza Returns to Oz (1999) (V) Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt (2003) (TV)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Return to the Arena: The Making of 'Rollerball' (2000) (V) Return to the Edge of the World (1978)
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 Return To Oz
Return To Oz Return To Oz Originally released: 1985
Dorothy’s (Balk) return journey is more frightening than flying monkeys.
Just when everything's going Bell Jar-shaped, Bettina the chicken rescues her mistress, and Dorothy finds herself in a new Oz, run by the rock-eating Nome King (Williamson).
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 Retro Junk | The Return to Oz
As I was gently reminded by a reader, The Return to Oz was in fact one of the most terrifying things our innocent 80's eyes encountered.
They soon discover that the Oz they left is more than a little less friendly than before and that if you step on sand, you turn to stone.
This is indeed a darker Oz, as Dorothy encounters a myriad headless little girl statues that leaves one more than a little unsettled as all of the men statues seem to have retained their heads.
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 Return to Oz - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
Hugh Jackman showed why he is a genuine boy from Oz yesterday, standing on the sidelines of a schoolboy rugby match at Northbridge.
Jackman entertained six-year-old son Oscar while his actor wife Deborra-Lee Furness played with their 10-month-old daughter Ava during a junior match at the grounds of the Shore School.
The actor, who grew up in the North Shore suburb of Wahroonga, went to school in Sydney before training as an actor in Perth.
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 Return to Oz
The main reason for this is that Return to Oz is a sequel in name only; it takes an approach to the material that's far darker and far more faithful to the original series of books than the movie.
As you might expect, she wakes up in Oz, which she finds ravaged by an entity known as the Gnome King and his partner in crime, Princess Mombi, a sorceress who changes heads like one would change dresses.
A few facts about Oz's history and geography-never mentioned in the film Wizard of Oz-are brought up as though the audience and Dorothy should be familiar with them, even though we're led to think this is only Dorothy's second visit since Wizard of Oz.
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 Return to OZ
Frank Baum (novels Ozma of Oz and The Land of Oz)Gill Dennis Walter Murch
Dorothy, back in Kansas, can't stop thinking about Oz, and even believes that her friends have sent her a key.
It's up to Dorothy, Billina, and their new friends, the clockwork Tik-Tok (aka the royal army of Oz), Jack Pumpkinhead, and a Gump-thing to defeat Mombie and the Nome King and restore the rightful ruler of Oz to her throne.
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 Return to Oz Movie: Return to Oz DVD is available from Bestprices.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Return to Oz Movie: Return to Oz DVD is available from Bestprices.com
This sequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ adheres to author L. Frank Baum's wonderful fantasy novels as Dorothy returns to Oz where she battles a powerful Gnome King and a vain witch.
So young Dorothy journeys back into the magical realm of Oz, only to find a crumbling yellowbrick road and the Emerald City in an advanced state of decay.
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 Return to Oz
After clicking her red shoes together and finally returning to Kansas, Dorothy finds that, in fact, there is someplace better than home -- especially when her family concludes that any girl who keeps insisting that she's visited a magical kingdom isn't right in the head.
Sections for Return to Oz Return to Oz at Rotten Tomatoes
musical sequel to 'The Wizard of Oz' bombed at the box office and was faulted by most critics as being too weird and scary for kids.
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 return to oz
A storm has propelled Dorothy Gale and her talking pet chicken Bellina back to Oz, but things aren't as she left them.
The yellow brick road is all broken, and her old friends the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man have been turned to stone.
cabin by the lake return to cabin by the lake
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 Return to Oz
Return to Oz The House of Checklists is provided as an information resource for
Note: The format is of "sticker-cards," with the story (including pictures) and a puzzle on the backs.
Title or (Character Pictured) Back Text or (puzzle item) 1 Return to Oz Return to Oz - Topps Storycards 2 Follow the Yellow Brick Road...
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 RETURN TO OZ
Perhaps not suitable for all children due to some frightening imagery, Return to Oz should prove extremely satisfying to fans of fantastic cinema and iconoclastic filmmaking in general.
Dorothy escapes the doctor's clutches thanks to the aid of a mysterious young girl in the asylum, and Dorothy leaps into a river during a thunderstorm to escape.
Strange sentinels called Wheelers (men strangely contorned onto huge wheel limbs) trap Dorothy and eventually force her into the clutches of the petulant Princess Mombi (Jean Marsh), who keeps a gallery of severed female heads that she changes for her own on a regular basis.
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 Wichita Eagle | 07/06/2006 | Music for every taste coming up this week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Music Theatre of Wichita will present the stage version of "The Wizard of Oz" about Dorothy and her little dog Toto and their adventures in the Land of Oz at 8 p.m.
REV IT UP A 1949 Mercury resembling Joe the Pharaoh's souped-up machine in the movie "American Graffiti" is just one of many attractions at the Moonlight Car Show and Street Party, to be held on First Street between Washington and Broadway from 6 p.m.
YO HO HO Johnny Depp returns to the high seas in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," in which the swashbuckling Jack Sparrow must save himself from Davy Jones and his phantom crew.
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