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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Image Entertainment EAN: 0014381262223 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Image Entertainment MPN: IMED2622D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 02, 2004 Running Time: 205 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1990 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/02/2004 Starring: Michael Grandage Director: Trevor Nunn Average Rating:
 Rating:  - othello classicAs wonderful a production of Othello as there can be found. Plus, it's shot as a stage production which gives it leverage as an educational tool. Rating: - Unbiased Review?I am a fan of Imogen Stubbs and, accordingly, cannot write an unbiased review. Rating:  - The Green Eyed Monster Strikes with FerocityOthello is a difficult production for me to watch at any time. Seeing the horrors of jealousy run amuck to the destruction of innocence is painful at the best of times. In the instance of this production it is even more painful because it is so well done. The story of Othello is that of a Venetian general who marries a local daughter of a nobleman. The general happens to be black. In an effort to sabotage the general, Iago undermines the faith of the husband for his wife leading ultimately ... Read More Rating: - AmazingI have only seen two other productions of Othello. One was an amateurish high-school like production staged as it would have been in Elizabethan times complete with Elizebethan sets and a second one was a production at my high-school set in what was either a modern day boot camp or Iraq with the sort of acting that should have been in the first production I saw. But this one takes the cake. The acting is amazing. Trevor Nunn has given us an amazing production as he has done so before with "Porgy and Bess", ... Read More Rating: - Not perfect but getting thereI have never made up my mind if it is more painful to watch "Othello" or "King Lear." In both cases, you feel like leaping onto the stage and strangling the leading character for being so utterly stupid. It is the supreme test of any actor to make these men sympathetic enough to move an audience to tears. Once during a lecture, someone asked me for a fast distinction between comedy and tragedy and I came up with "Comedy is what happens when women are in charge, tragedy when men are." I do not think I have seen ... Read More |
