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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543377429
Feature: This unusual fantasy stars Michael Caine as Nicholas, a teacher who arrives on a Greek island to begin a teaching position. He soon makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Conchis (Anthony Quinn), and his wife, Lily (Candice Bergen). Nicholas becomes fascinated with them, but something is amiss: the previous teacher who held Nicholas's job committed suicide under vague circumstances, and Nich
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbed
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2237742
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 10, 1968
Features:- This unusual fantasy stars Michael Caine as Nicholas, a teacher who arrives on a Greek island to begin a teaching position. He soon makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Conchis (Anthony Quinn), and his wife, Lily (Candice Bergen). Nicholas becomes fascinated with them, but something is amiss: the previous teacher who held Nicholas's job committed suicide under vague circumstances, and Nich
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This unusual fantasy stars Michael Caine as Nicholas a teacher who arrives on a Greek island to begin a teaching position. He soon makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Conchis (Anthony Quinn) and his wife Lily (Candice Bergen). Nicholas becomes fascinated with them but something is amiss: the previous teacher who held Nicholas's job committed suicide under vague circumstances and Nicholas himself is now exhibiting strange behavior. When his girlfriend (Anna Karina) comes to visit tragedy strikes and when Nicholas confronts Conchis he makes a surprising discovery.System Requirements:Running Time: 117 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG UPC: 024543377429 Manufacturer No: 2237742
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From a screenplay based on his own novel, John Fowles's The Magus is another mildly intriguing big budget Hollywood bellyflop that caves in on its own lofty ambitions. Viewed as a late 1960s time capsule, The Magus is somewhat enjoyable fare replete with grade school level symbolism, and Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, and Candice Bergen doing their best with the hokey dialogue. Michael Caine plays a school teacher running away from a clinging lover who falls under the spell of Anthony Quinn on a remote Greek Isle. Is Quinn a magician, a psychiatrist, a filmmaker? Who cares? Fowles was so disappointed with a previous adaptation of his work (The Collector with Terrence Stamp), that he insisted on writing the screenplay himself. He should have left that job to the professionals. The film score by Brit-jazz legend Johnny Dankworth is lovely, however. --Kristian St. Clair
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For 40 years this film has had to stand as testament to the worst that the industry can concoct, which is constantly reinforced by THAT quotation from Woody Allan. I came to the DVD re-release of `The Magus' like many people, having last read the book quite a few years previously, and with this reputation had fairly low expectations, but in the event viewed the film with interest, and at this distance in time believe there is a case for a reappraisal.
The book is probably impossible ... Read More
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This is one film, based on the excellent existentialist novel by one of the greatest British authors since Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence, that should have been a success. After all, author John Fowles wrote the screenplay himself. Fowles admitted that he greatly admired Lawrence, and it is, therefore, a pity that this film version of his novel didn't turn out as well as film versions of Lawrence's SONS AND LOVERS and WOMEN IN LOVE.
I read the novel before I even went to college and ... Read More
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There are certain works of art that are enormously flawed, because their creators take ridiculous risks that don't always succeed, glorious leaps that sometimes end with inglorious splats on a very hard floor. Yet at the same time, that willingness to fail on such a large scale also leads to something dazzling & compelling.
And so it is with "The Magus."
Let's agree that the film is so much less than the book -- how could it be otherwise? So let's simply look as the film ... Read More
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I was at Treasure Island in California in 1969, waiting for my orders to go to my ship. A friend that was going through this time, told me I had to watch this movie. We saw it and to this day, I will not forget this movie!!! It has such great actors. You will not forget it either.
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I stole the title of this review from another reviewer here who made the point that the style and themes of this film were hot in the 60's. "Nothing's what it seems to be...Life is just a dream, etc." With some sex and nudity thrown in.
I read the book when it first came out and was entranced by it! 'Don't think I've ever seen the film till now...if I did, it didn't make much of an impression on me. I found the beginning to be quite interesting. Michael Caine plays the callow but ... Read More
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