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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: MCDOWELL,MALCOLM EAN: 0014381416022 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Analysis Film Releasing Corporation Languages: Manufacturer: Analysis Film Releasing Corporation MPN: 014381416022 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Analysis Film Releasing Corporation Release Date: October 02, 2007 Running Time: 156 minutes Studio: Analysis Film Releasing Corporation Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1980 Editorial Review: Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: UN Release Date: 2-OCT-2007 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Remember the dumbstruck, jaw-dropped expressions on "Springtime for Hitler's" shocked opening-night audience in Mel Brooks's original film of The Producers? That will no doubt be your face through much of the two-and-a-half-hour running time of this infamous 1979 pornographic epic that was a (Penthouse) pet project of publisher Bob Guccione. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But don't take our word for it. Listen to Helen Mirren--yes, the Oscar-winning Queen herself--who stars as Caesonia, Caligula's third wife and "the most promiscuous woman in Rome" (and in this film's salacious vision of Pagan Rome, that is saying something). In her very gracious, thoughtful and candid audio commentary that alone is worth the price of this set, she remarks, "I think it's a movie that is unlike any other, which is difficult to achieve." And for those of a more prurient bent, she adds, "It has an awful lot of bottoms." Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) gives a brave and fearless performance as Caligula, the hated and feared emperor corrupted by absolute power and no doubt voted Most Likely to Be Assassinated. The film unflinchingly charts his plummet into madness and the brutality of his reign in scenes of hardcore sex and violence that cannot be described here ("I can't watch," Mirren cries to her interviewers over one scene in which unfortunate characters are beheaded by a blade-spinning combine. "I can't even listen to it"). Caligula is also a career curiosity for author Gore Vidal, who wrote the original screenplay, but later demanded his name be removed from the credits, and venerable actors Peter O'Toole, appearing briefly as the syphilitic Emperor Tiberius Caesar, and John Gielgud as Nerva, a Senator who'd rather take his own life than "live with this reptile." This controversial film's tortured history is untangled in a very helpful booklet that is packaged along with this set's three discs. One is hard-pressed to think of a more reviled film graced with such a gala presentation, but Caligula's defenders and the curious will be amply rewarded with both the original uncut theatrical version of the film and a re-edited alternate version. Supplementary material includes an hour of deleted footage, a pretentious "making of" documentary made during the film's production and a new interview with director Tinto Brass, whose softcore tendencies clashed with Guccioni's more extreme vision (Brass did not have final cut, allowing Guccione to insert more explicit footage into the film). McDowell contributes his own lively audio commentary. "God help us," he groans as the film begins, but by its bloody conclusion, he proclaims he has "no regrets at all" about making the film. Caligula, Mirren maintains, is "an irresistible mix of art and genitals." And you've got to hand it to Guccione. Especially in these politically correct times, it is still strong and scandalous stuff. --Donald Liebenson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A hideously crippled masterpiece.There are two reactions to this film: 1. "I absolutely HATED it!" and 2. "I absolutely LOVED the sex in that movie!!!!". EIther way you cannot deny- this film, meant to be good, was edited badly. SHORT ATTENTION SPAN SUMMARY: 1. Thought of as a surreal black comedy 2. Scripted as a homoerotic political satire 3. Shot as an erotic mindflip of a movie 4. Edited as a disaster 5. Released as a disaster. What could have been a great film was ... Read More Rating: - I AM ALL MEN AS I AM NO MAN AND SO..........I AM GODThe opening credit I typed is spoken brilliantly by Malcolm McDowell as the title character CALIGULA. In this we follow Caligula and his HORRORSHOW ways of torture-incest-decapitation/castration & bloodletting,there is also lots and lots of sex!!! This being a Penthouse film release one would expect that but this is much more then just a porn film. It is the first and only porn film I have seen(and friends I have seen a lot "COUGH")that actually tells a story. We follow Caligula on his quest for ... Read More Rating: - Sex, Nudity, Death....Kind of like Roman History turned into a Rock N' Roll Music Video. Big name stars, lots of dancing, naked women, costly sets and, yes, a horse. Not for kids. Let's face it, a unrated movie, in which Penthouse took part in making is not something some adults should see. And DON'T even pretend you're watching it for the history. HBO's ROME kind of gets some of it right, when it comes to daily life. But this movie is like using the Smurfs to explain the Dark Ages. Don't even pretend it has anything ... Read More Rating: - Caligula (Three-Disc Imperial Edition) worth buyingThe hundreds of different reviews of the movie Caligula are mixed, but everyone must admit one thing: there has never been a movie like it made. In the late 1970s, Penthouse Magazine came up with an extremely original idea: let's make a movie that has legitimate, mainstream actors in it and also pornography. In the 30 years since Caligula first came out, I can't think of another movie that has even attempted to do such a thing. Even if you've seen earlier, 1980s editions of Caligula, you haven't seen ... Read More Rating: - The way it really wasDispite what many have written, this movie is authentic and great pains went into the details. The death machine itself cost millions to make and is accurate down to the last detail. The depravity in Nero's court is right on spot, as is the "Royal Bordello" that Calligula created. I read articles on this detail when it was first released. This authenticity is the only reason such well respected actors partook of it. They felt the message was most important. Yes, there is some porn and a lot of nudity. Absolutely ... Read More |
