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Out of the Blue: Dennis Hopper Cult Classic Gets US Theatrical Release

Out of the Blue 4K Restoration: A Chat with Discovery Productions

John Alan Simon and Elizabeth Karr had restored the movie to 35mm prints in 2010 and then a 4K digital restoration when the film prints began to wear down. "Out of the Blue" Metrograph poster, courtesy of Discovery Pictures. "Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper) is a truck driver in prison for drunkenly smashing his rig into a school[...]
“Out of the Blue”: Kickstarter to Restore Dennis Hopper’s Cult Classic in 4K

"Out of the Blue": Kickstarter to Restore Dennis Hopper's Cult Classic in 4K

He rewrote the entire screenplay over the weekend and started shooting on Monday. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elizabethkarr/save-dennis-hoppers-out-of-the-blue Hopper turned what was meant to be an after school special TV movie into a bleak, nihilistic drama that lost its certification as a Canadian movie and set producers and financiers at odds.  When the movie premiered in the Cannes Film Festival in[...]