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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790785301 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790785307 Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: D28881D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 17, 2004 Running Time: 131 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 1971 Editorial Review: Product Description: Abroad on a rest holiday composer Gustav Aschenbach (Dick Bogarde) is to all the world reserved and civilized. But when he glimpses someone who inspires him to give way to a secret passion it foreshadows his doom. Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers The Damned) transforms Thomas Mann's classic novel into "a masterwork of power and beauty" (William Wolf Cue). Like Aschenbach Visconti is an artist obsessed: his movies are awash in mood period detail and seething emotions beneath placid surfaces. Earning its maker a Cannes Film Festival Special 25th Anniversary Prize Death in Venice - with a soundtrack feast of Gustav Mahler music and a haunting Bogarde performance-is Visconti at his best.Running Time: 130 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085392888122 Amazon.com: Luchino Visconti's adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel is the very definition of sumptuous: the costumes and sets, the special geography of Venice, and the breathtaking cinematography combine to form a heady experience. At the center of this gorgeousness is Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde in a meticulous performance), a controlled intellectual who unexpectedly finds himself obsessed by the vision of a 14-year-old boy while on a convalescent vacation in 1911. Visconti has turned Aschenbach into a composer, which accounts for the lush excerpts from Mahler on the soundtrack (Bogarde is meant to look like Mahler, too). Even if it tends to hit the nail on the head a little too forcefully, and even if Visconti can test one's patience with lingering looks at crowds at the beach and hotel dining rooms, Death in Venice creates a lushness rare in movies. For some viewers, that will be enough. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Visual PoemLuchino Visconti`s Death In Venice (1971) Alvy Singer: "You're not going to come back to New York?" Annie Hall: "What's so great about New York? It's a dying city, you read Death in Venice." (Woody Allen's ANNIE HALL, 1979) Luchino Visconti's movie is not only a fine adaptation of Thomas Mann's celebrated novel, but it's one of those few films that succeeded in adding another dimension to the literature they stemmed from. Amongst those works I can ... Read More Rating:  - Technically exquisite, but tedious and pretentious.I found this movie to be beautifully photographed but very tedious, if not pretentious, if not downright *annoying.* Toward the end of the movie, there's a scene where a woman is singing what I believe is a Polish song. And she goes on and on and on and on and on and on. She gave me a freakin' headache! It's interesting that many of the reviewers here who gave the film 5 stars freely admit that it's ... "slow moving" ... "not an ... Read More Rating: - Resubmitting review of "Death in Venice"I already submitted this review last week. What I recall stating was that this was a beautiful VHS copy, am glad to have it, but that neither Amazon nor the seller gave any information that this was dubbed rather than subtitled. So, as I stated before, this is a terrific product but more information would be much appreciated, especially with films where subtitles are preferred. Rating:  - Film only for those gifted from Muses and GracesIt is hard to believe that some fellow from Illinois or the Midwest in general may enjoy this Gift from Venus. So, please, go and rent some other piece of junk at Blockbuster, you all farm-minded ignorants. I'll signore Pecorelli Rating: - The sound of silenceThe casting, acting, and visual surroundings are superb. One scene in particular stays with me: Aschenbach has seated himself so that he can compose music while looking at the boy (and we hear the Mahler he is composing). What I don't understand is Aschenbach's interior silence. The story (Thomas Mann's) is told by a narrator, but Thomas Mann hardly ever created a principle character who wasn't full of recordable thoughts and feelings, and Aschenbach is not that exception. Aschenbach quotes ... Read More |
