Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth
by Erik Nelson
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Actor: Erik Nelson, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Robin WilliamsDirector: Erik Nelson
Brand: New Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: NEW VIDEO GROUP
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- Crackling with infectious energy, DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH pays homage to the dark prince of American letters, Harlan Ellison. Master of his craft, Ellison has heroically produced over 75 books and more than 1,700ics of fiction and non-fiction on one of his Olympia manual typewriters, including the single most popular Star Trek episode ("City on the Edge of Forever") and brilliant, award-wi
DVD Reviews of Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth
DVD Review: He has a mouth and boy does he scream...
Summary: 4 Stars
I didn't discover Ellison's work until after high school. I was working a dead-end job on the night shift at a grocery store and one of the other stockers, a slightly odd and intriguing woman, shoved a copy of Shatterday into my hands and told me to read it. It was the start of two wonderful friendships, one which has lasted through the rest of my life to this point. Even after tracking down and reading the bulk of Ellison's work, he still manages to amaze me with his wit, charm, cantankerousness, and his wildly amazing perspective on short form storytelling. Ellison is a master at plucking those moments, those essential truths and shared yearnings that we all face, and putting them into a world of nightmares and dreamscapes that's both fantastic and brutally real. I've been lucky enough to meet the man once and managed to mostly escape his razor sharp tongue, and even for all of his autobio writings, I still feel like I have a lot to learn about the man.
Erik Nelson's portrait documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, goes a long way to filling in some of the gaps. Nelson does a pretty darn good job of weaving together Ellison's story through anecdotal interviews with his contemporaries and friends, archival interviews and other video footage (including some rare home movies from Ellison's personal collection), as well as some deftly chosen passages from various short stories performed by the man himself.
My one complaint is that the documentary shies away from really covering Ellison's life as a whole, and instead focuses on his influence within his peer group and his overall "angry old Jew" personality. It ends up feeling like a special feature of a great Ellison documentary, which has yet to be made, which is kind of a shame. That isn't to say that it isn't worth the time, it very much is, it's just whetted my appetite for more. Think I'm going to go back and crack open my copy of Shatterday.
Also, a quick note on the Pizza with Harlan and Neil Gaiman featurette. the sound quality on this segment is pretty awful, with Gaiman's half of the conversation at a mouse's whisper and Ellison's chomping on his slice like crackling thunder.
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