Catch-22 R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 26, 2017
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen & Jon Voight | |
Performer: | Orson Welles, Paula Prentiss, Buck Henry, Jack Gilford, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Bob Balaban, Norman Fell, Charles Grodin, Austin Pendleton & Peter Bonerz | |
Directed by | Mike Nichols | |
Edited by | Sam O'Steen | |
Screenplay by | Buck Henry | |
Original story by | Joseph Heller | |
Art Direction by | Harold Michelson | |
Produced by | John Calley & Martin Ransohoff | |
Director of Photography: | David Watkin |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A]n intelligent, star-studded adaptation of Joseph Heller's classic antiwar novel...
Premiere
Rating: 4/5 --
Starts out pretty funny, gets incredibly weird by the end.
New Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Quite simply, the best American film I've seen this year.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
If you liked M*A*S*H, You'll love this!
Tsunami Magazine
Rating: 4/10 --
Not so much a cohesive story as a string of only tangentially related vignettes stripped of their original context, Catch-22 fumbles as an adaptation and as a war film in its own right.
Full Review
The Retro Set
Rating: B --
Released during the Vietnam War, the movie was a commercial failure, but seen from today's perspective, its black humor holds up well.
Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
...Arkin anchors a comic ensemble that presents a dozen kinds of madness...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Based on Joseph Heller's critically acclaimed, best-selling novel, CATCH-22 is Mike Nichols's provocative antiwar satire that tells the frenetic tale of a group of World War II fliers trapped in the insanity of the Mediterranean. The "catch-22" of the title deals with a military snafu that results when Yossarian (Alan Arkin), a bombardier in the war, attempts to get out of the military by feigning insanity. Yet the simple fact that he is able to acknowledge his own mortality automatically renders him sane. Frustrated into submission, the frazzled Yossarian must return to the frontlines to watch his friends and compatriots die off one by one.
After the success of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF' and THE GRADUATE, Nichols bravely attempted to translate Heller's beloved novel to the big screen. As the terrified Yossarian, Arkin is his typically brilliant self. The rest of the all-star cast--which includes heavy-hitters Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Bob Newhart, and Anthony Perkins--further bring Heller's scathing vision to life. While the breakout success of Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and Nichols's experimental approach to the material might have attributed to the film's lackluster box office response, CATCH-22 remains a strikingly relevant condemnation of war.
After the success of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF' and THE GRADUATE, Nichols bravely attempted to translate Heller's beloved novel to the big screen. As the terrified Yossarian, Arkin is his typically brilliant self. The rest of the all-star cast--which includes heavy-hitters Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Bob Newhart, and Anthony Perkins--further bring Heller's scathing vision to life. While the breakout success of Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and Nichols's experimental approach to the material might have attributed to the film's lackluster box office response, CATCH-22 remains a strikingly relevant condemnation of war.
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