Othello R
Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh star in Shakespeare's thrilling tale about the doomed marriage between a Moorish general and the daughter of a Venetian noble.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 22, 2013
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob & Kenneth Branagh | |
| Performer: | Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloney, Nicholas Farrell, Gabriele Ferzetti & Michael Sheen | |
| Directed by | Oliver Parker | |
| Edited by | Tony Lawson | |
| Screenwriting by | Oliver Parker | |
| Original story by | William Shakespeare | |
| Composition by | Charlie Mole | |
| Director of Photography: | David Johnson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Mr. Branagh's superb performance...guarantees this film an immediacy that any audience will understand.
New York Times
Like its hero, Oliver Parker's Othello starts mightily -- resplendent and captivating -- before crumpling under the weight of misguided choices and self-delusion.
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Independent on Sunday
Parker has shown how involving and moving Shakespeare can still be on the screen.
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Los Angeles Times
A highly engaging attempt at Shakespeare's most domestic tragedy.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
... Will not give its viewers much of an idea of the Shakespeare play, and may inadvertently give them other ideas, about interracial love, that were not much on Shakespeare's mind.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/4 --
For sheer impact, this Othello can stand side-by-side with the versions brought to the screen by Orson Welles (as restored in 1992) and Lawrence Olivier.
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ReelViews
Branagh, as Iago, is so obviously the best thing in this largely uninteresting interpretation that you feel sorry for him when he inevitably bites the big one.
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Film4
Description by OLDIES.com:
Promote someone else to the rank of lieutenant? Over Iago's dead body! And more pointedly, over the dead bodies of nearly everyone ensnared in Iago's plot of revenge.
Jealousy, passion, misplaced trust: the themes of Shakespeare's towering tragedy permeate this fresh Othello from writer/director Oliver Parker. Kenneth Branagh (Iago), Irene Jacob (Desdemona) and Laurence Fishburne as the title-role warrior who ruled armies but not his own heart play the principals in this tale set in Renaissance Venice -- yet belonging to the ages. The Moor who "loved not wisely but too well" commands attention now and for generations to come.
Jealousy, passion, misplaced trust: the themes of Shakespeare's towering tragedy permeate this fresh Othello from writer/director Oliver Parker. Kenneth Branagh (Iago), Irene Jacob (Desdemona) and Laurence Fishburne as the title-role warrior who ruled armies but not his own heart play the principals in this tale set in Renaissance Venice -- yet belonging to the ages. The Moor who "loved not wisely but too well" commands attention now and for generations to come.
Keywords:
Romance
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Stage Play
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Betrayal
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Murder
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Deception
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Tragedy
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Recommended
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Character Study
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Infidelity
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Theatrical Release
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 37,383
- UPC: 883316690932
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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