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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543233640
Feature: Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange ignite the screen in a strikingly original "coup de cinema" (The New York Times). "Titus" is a "wild ride" (Chicago Tribune) - a shocking journy into the depths of the human heart - a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme. A film by Julie Taymor, acclaimed creator and director of Broadway's "The Lion King." Episodes-Bonus Fea
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 30
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageLatinOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2233365
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Running Time: 162 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: February 11, 2000
Features:- Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange ignite the screen in a strikingly original "coup de cinema" (The New York Times). "Titus" is a "wild ride" (Chicago Tribune) - a shocking journy into the depths of the human heart - a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme. A film by Julie Taymor, acclaimed creator and director of Broadway's "The Lion King." Episodes-Bonus Fea
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Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange ignite the screen in a strikingly original "coup de cinema" (The New York Times). "Titus" is a "wild ride" (Chicago Tribune) - a shocking journy into the depths of the human heart - a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme. A film by Julie Taymor acclaimed creator and director of Broadway's "The Lion King."Episodes-Bonus Features:Disk 1:Commentary with Julie TaymorScore and commentary track with composer Elliot GoldenthalScene Specific commentary by Anthony Hopkins and Harry LennoxDisk 2:Q&A with Julie Taymor at Columbia University30 documentary "Muse of Fire: The Making of Titus"6 minute Making the Penny Arcade NightmaresCostume GalleryAmerican Cinematographer ArticlesTheatrical TrailersTV spotsSystem Requirements:Running Time 162 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 024543233640 Manufacturer No: 2233365
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Considered by many to be Shakespeare's worst play, Titus Andronicus is a bloodthirsty tragedy full of villainous heroes and bottomless revenge--hardly the stuff of big-screen directorial debuts, it would seem. Yet Julie Taymor dives headfirst into moviemaking with Titus, a spectacular adaptation that manages to find beauty and humor in the piles of carnage.
The story begins simply enough by Shakespearean standards: celebrated Roman warrior Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) returns from a hard-won victory to bury his slain sons and avenge their deaths by killing the eldest son of his enemy, Tamora, queen of the Goths (Jessica Lange). Tamora responds by seducing the impressionable new emperor and setting all of Rome into a downward spiral of revenge, madness, and death.
Taymor, who won a Tony for her Broadway production of The Lion King, throws all her theatrical sensibilities at the story--armies are exquisitely choreographed, blood is shed so beautifully that it hardly seems real, and characters are costumed in symbolic combinations of ancient Roman and 20th-century garb. She plays up the dark comedy at every opportunity, lending a carnival flavor to the story's most gruesome moments. Excellent performances from Hopkins (whose deranged Titus is more than a little reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter), Lange, and the supporting cast help make the endless treachery credible. --Claire Campbell
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I actually saw this movie 4 times when it was in theaters in 1999. Some have made comments that all the good Shakespeare roles were taken and that Anthony Hopkins got stuck with Titus. I have to question if they actually understood the movie.
Julie Taymor, perhaps one of the least appreciated directors of our time, picked Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" was one of The Bard's first works to be published around 1594 and may be his earliest tragedy. The story revolves around the fall ... Read More
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It arrived new in shrink-wrapped plastic just days after ordering. Had seen it when it first was released, but since many family tragedies have marred my life in the last two years, was ready for a little uplifting Shakespeare to brighten my life, make me feel better about my own condition, and have a few laughs at the expense of cannibalism and totally major family drama. Had to steel up to prepare to view it again, waiting for my summer school classes to end, just in case it might have made me ... Read More
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I saw this film in theater and I said to myself..THIS IS REALLY STRANGE.....Hopkins plays this for all its worth as Titus.I think of this as Hannibal for the Shakespeare crowd with a touch of head trip of Masterpiece Theater Truely a very strange surreal travel to a very strange part of Rome where the one has to see to really believe
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The critics have historically rated Titus Andronicus as a weak early work of the great Shakespeare. Yet Julie Taymor's film interpretation is startling in its presentation, challenging the viewer with visually shocking scenes and superb acting so as to allow the viewer to reconsider this work. Even though I found the play to be blood thirsty and cruel with rash behaviors contrasted against devious and evil plots, the quality of the acting propels the film forward and the unique set designs ... Read More
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My reaction on reading the play "Titus Andronicus" with the flesh pie ending was disgust.The wretched and bitter revenge of the Empire as a play witnessed by the grandson of Titus Andronicus. Vengence is a large dead family that falls upon Rome.
This play is Shakespeare's send down of the Roman Empire.
The acting and staging are modern and relatively well done.
It is a tragedy of really bad ( Roman Titus and family) and worse (Goth Tamora, Moore Aaron and sons).This play should ... Read More
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