Titus (2-DVD) R
If you think you know Shakespeare... Think again.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 18, 2006
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Searchlight
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Lange & Anthony Hopkins | |
Performer: | Harry Lennix, Alan Cumming, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Laura Fraser, Angus Macfadyen, Colm Feore, James Frain & Blake Ritson | |
Directed by | Julie Taymor | |
Edited by | Françoise Bonnot | |
Screenwriting by | Julie Taymor | |
Composition by | Elliot Goldenthal | |
Story by | William Shakespeare | |
Produced by | Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor & Jody Patton | |
Director of Photography: | Luciano Tovoli |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It's hard to see it matching the success of other recent adaptations of the Bard.
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Eye for Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...audaciously steps outside of the tradition when it comes to film adaptations of the bard's works, but it also does so much more: notably, find distinct meaning in a play where all notions of importance lacked a central point.
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Cinemaphile.org
A striking addition to the Shakespeare filmography.
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Time Out
...[Taymor] allows her mind to roam, finding metaphors to visually represent mood....A stunning vision... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Box Office
A consistently absorbing entertainment that never becomes either campy or facetious, given its inescapable exaggerations.
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Observer
Rating: 2/4 --
At once mesmerizing and jarring to the point that the audience can never get comfortable in the film.
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Big Picture Big Sound
Rating: B -- Recommended
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Based on Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS (one of the Bard's lesser-known and most gruesome works), director Taymor (Broadway's THE LION KING) brings this adaptation to life with dazzling imagery and haunting immediacy. Titus (Hopkins) is a victorious Roman general who makes two mistakes: supporting the wily Saturninus (Cumming) as the new Emperor, and wronging Tamora, Queen of the Goths (Lange), by killing her eldest son. Murder follows murder as the tides of fate change, as Tamora is aided by her two reckless sons and her Moor lover, Aaron (Lennix). The body count is raised higher and higher until Titus finally holds a very special dinner banquet. Taymor's bold visual sense verges on absurdity, but her sense of morality, as well as powerful acting by Hopkins and company, combine to tell a powerful, violent tale.
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