The Leopard - Criterion Collection
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Box set
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Special Edition
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 15 July, 1963
DVD Release : 08 June, 2004 |
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The Leopard - Criterion Collection description
With this magnificent Criterion DVD release, Luchino Visconti's 1963 historical drama The Leopard will finally earn widespread recognition as one of the most beautiful epics ever produced. In adapting the popular novel by Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa (an Italian equivalent to Gone with the Wind, set during the tumultuous Garibaldi revolu ... review details
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The Leopard - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews
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Well worth a second viewing with the English commentary on
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Other reviewers have provided plenty of information on this film which I won't repeat here. Nor will I indulge in a bout of political or philosophic pontification which does little justice to the viewer's independent judgement or the film itself. In response to some of the fiery commentaries posted earlier, I'd only say - Visconti was far too subtle a film-maker to wear his politics on his sleeve, and the film was a complex work of art and not a piece of ideological agit-prop. No fiery rhetoric to stir one's heart, no panning shots of peasant misery to rouse one's indignation here. In fact, I was impressed - given the director's self-professed Communist associations - how true the film stayed to the novel's decaying (some would say decadent) aristocratic vision.
The Criterion edition of the DVD comes with English audio commentary by film critic Peter Cowie. Cowie's commentary provides an interesting comparison between the film and the novel on which it is based, and at the same time is chockful of subtle period historical and social details which the viewer might have otherwise missed. For that the film is well worth two viewings - once with the original Italian soundtrack and once with the audio commentary, and the second viewing is well worth the time because one gets twice as much out of the film the second time.
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