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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0026359329524 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Hbo Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video MPN: 93295 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 26, 2006 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Editorial Review: Product Description: In an incandescent performance Gretchen Mol (The Shape of Things) stars as Bettie Page who grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day. Complemented by an ensemble cast of acclaimed actors such as David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck) and Lili Taylor (High Fidelity) the film brings to vivid life Bettie?s fascinating world.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 026359329524 Manufacturer No: 93295 Amazon.com: The cult pin-up idol Bettie Page gets the full-fledged biopic treatment in The Notorious Bettie Page, a movie that somehow seems as tame and innocent as the naughty photographs Bettie made in the 1950s. After a few scenes of Bettie growing up, the film quickly leads us to her more-or-less glory years, when she posed for countless peekaboo photos and some nudie films. These would make her an underground star for decades--long after she gave up modeling for religion, in fact. Gretchen Mol, a premature starlet in a redemptive role, does nicely at suggesting Bettie's too-trusting nature, maintaining her equipoise in a sleazy world. Her nude scenes are as liberated and no-sweat as those old nudist films always wanted people to believe. Director Mary Harron plays most of the film in the black-and-white that Bettie thrived in, which seems fitting enough (although the Kodachrome-bright color interludes are welcome). There's an air of "Ed Wood" about the project, and Harron maintains a similarly jovial tone, but the film does have a tendency to fall into the and-then-this-happened metronome rhythm of film biography. Even a promising venture into the Senate hearings on pornography is a minor joke. Jared Harris and Lili Taylor, veterans of Harron's "I Shot Andy Warhol," play colorful characters out of the grindhouse world, but few supporting players get a chance to make an impression. The main draw is Mol's commitment to the role and the film's goofy re-creation of a most peculiar subculture at an unlikely time. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This film could have stood to be a tad more notorious...Some films suffer from a heavy hand; direction that is too concentrated on a deep and meaningful delivery that the real meat of the film finds itself bogged down by a self-imposed dramatics. That is not that case with `The Notorious Betty Page'. There is a completely different problem running through the veins of this film. `The Notorious Betty Page' suffers from direction that takes its material too lightly, making what could have been a deeper and more meaningful biopic feel almost hollow in ... Read More Rating:  - Ugh. Don't even rent this one.To be fair, I didn't view this entire movie. I couldn't finish it. Although the camera work is lovely, the costumes are beautiful and accurate, and Ms. Mol made a fabulous Bettie, this movie does not do the famous pin-up queen any justice. Flashbacks of her early life are pitiful-poor young Bettie the victim is mistreated by one man after another, pouting and crying. She was a strong woman in reality, but this film presents her as an abused creature to be pitied. Although it is never stated, ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful Acting and Period Detail: Still Bettie Page Remains an Elusive FigureI can say two things about this film. Gretchen Mol did a brilliant job for "The Notorious Bettie Page," a bio-pic of the "Pin-Up Queen" or cult pop culture icon, directed by Mary Harron ("American Psycho"). Shot part in black and white, and part in color (and the colors you see here are soft like Technicolor), the film is also benefited from its period detail of the 1950s. And what else? Not much. The film follows the events that happened in her younger days in Nashville and, though ... Read More Rating:  - you're forced to watch the trailersI'm a diehard pinup fan and love this movie. However, I HATE the DVD. They made it so that when you put in the DVD and the trailers for 3 other movies start playing, you can't go to the menu, you can't skip, you can't fast-forward, you can't even pause! Is this what DVDs are coming to? Forced preview watching? I'm disgusted with HBO, or whoever is responsible for this decision. Rating:  - Great Buy!Great movie and in great condition. Speedy service and a pleasure to do business with. |
