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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, the third movie Dennis Hopper directed, which only got a limited US theatrical release in 1982, is finally getting a release of the 4K restored print on its 40th Anniversary in New York City at the Metrograph in November 2021 The movie featured the late Linda Manz as a teenager trapped[...]

Extraordinary." Today, celebrity fans of "Out of the Blue" include Jack Nicholson, Natasha Lyonne and Chlöe Sevigny, Warren Beatty, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater.  Neil Young contributed the title theme song that inspired the movie to the UK band Primal Scream, who incorporated Linda Manz's famous opening ham radio dialogue into their song "Kill all Hippies". When[...]