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Zardoz [DVD] [1974]

DVD ~ Sean Connery
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  • Actors: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton
  • Directors: John Boorman
  • Writers: John Boorman
  • Producers: John Boorman, Charles Orme
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2003
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000065UHI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,734 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A box office failure at the time, John Boorman's 1974 cult science fiction film Zardoz is an entrancing if overly ambitious project that offers pointed commentary on class structure and religion inside its complex plot and head-movie visuals. Its healthy doses of sex and violence will involve viewers even if the story machinations escape them. Beautifully photographed near Boorman's home in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001), its production design is courtesy of longtime Boorman associate Anthony Pratt, who creates a believable society within the film's million-dollar budget.

A bewigged Sean Connery is Zed, a savage "exterminator" commanded by the mysterious god Zardoz to eliminate Brutals, survivors of an unspecified worldwide catastrophe. Zed stows away inside Zardoz's enormous idol (a flying stone head) and is taken to the pastoral land of the Eternals, a matriarchal, quasi-medieval society that has achieved psychic abilities as well as immortality. Zed finds as much hope as disgust with the Eternals; their advancements have also robbed them of physical passion, turning their existence into a living death. Zed becomes the Eternals' unlikely messiah, but in order to save them--and himself--he must confront the truth behind Zardoz and his own identity inside the Tabernacle, the Eternals' omnipresent master computer. --Paul Gaita



DVD Description

Set in the year 2293, these sci-fi cult classic stars Sean Connery as Zed, one of a race of uneducated 'Brutals', commanded to murder and enslaved by their god Zardoz who appears in the form of a gun-spitting, flying stone head.
Written and directed by John Boorman (Excalibur, Zardoz offers symbolic commentary on class structure and religion, and is sure to both challenge and entertain audiences.

PRODUCT DETAILS
Feature Running time: 101 minutes
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of hearing English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish.
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9)
Sound Quality: English 4.1
DVD Special features: Still gallery, Radio Spots, Audio Commentary, Theatrical Trailer

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a (furrowed browed) product of its time, 26 Jun 2002
By P. Sanders "prhsuk" (Belfast) - See all my reviews
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Lets make no mistake: Zardoz is a British sci-fi film from the early 1970s. Let that sink in for a moment before judging this odd little curio too harshly. You may have heard about Zardoz - yes, it's from Sean Connery's oddly "forgotten" period (somewhere between James Bond and Highlander) - the same period in which he starred in the dark classic "The Offence". And, yes, he does run around in a vaguely nappy-like costume (but he still looks all smouldering and hirsute, which is good). Yes it has dated. And yes it is pretentious, smart-arsed, a bit confusing and thoroughly loopy, like a lot of dystopian '70s sci-fi. But after all the dreck that followed (the admittedly classic) Star Wars in 1977, I think these are lovable qualities. It's time to give Zardoz a big hug, for all its lumpy, smart-arse pretensions.

Zardoz is simply unlike most other sci-fi. It's set in a sterile future, but this future is in lush countryside, not a grim rainy city or lots of white corridors. Some future inhabitants of Earth live in an apparent idyllic paradise, but to do so they manipulate the rest of the world into barbaric warfare - they give guns to a warrior class who murder, rape and enslave the general population. The upper class see themselves as peaceful hippies, but what they do to others and their own dissenters is unspeakable.

John Boorman's direction is fascinating. Some of the visuals are still stunning - the iconic flying stone head (which really ought to be on the DVD's front cover), the projecting ring, the colourful costumes - and there is actually a lot of humour in this film. It's also funny to see sci-fi featuring a world full of well spoken RP accents! Connery is a fascinating leading man - is he a curious hero? A rampaging threat to society? Or an animal, just out for himself?

Watch and see. If you care about "serious" science fiction (and why not, once in a while), then put down your plastic light sabre just for a few hours and watch something REALLY unusual.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying on many dimensions, 15 Oct 2005
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zardoz [DVD] [1973] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This movie is satisfying on many dimensions from social commentary to sci-fi to visual impact to mystery and so forth. It is impossible to extract much logic from it when watched on commercial TV as every word and gesture has a meaning and an answer as to what will come next. Being permeated with flashbacks and revelations that come later in the movie it is not practical to tell the story as it needs to be revealed in the proper order for the cohesion to take place.
The story takes place in the future sometime after the un-named calamity has divided humans into those in enclaves, called vortexes and others that live outside. Arthur Frayne (Niall Buggy) a resident of Vortex Four and has reason to travel outside to the brutels. There he poses as a god (Zardoz). The meaning of Zardoz may be reveals in time. On one of the trips Arthur does not return; instead ZED (Sean Connery) a genetically designed assassin returns in his place. This leads to many questions as where is Arthur and is there a purpose or just coincidence that Zed is here? How did he get here? More important is he what he appears to be?

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Weird and wonderful and very cheap., 8 May 2004
By Mr. A. P. Venables "andi02" - See all my reviews
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I bought this cheap, thought it would be rubbish.
Made by John Boorman, the guy who made Deliverance (yahoo), Exorcist II (arrgh) and wrote the book Adventures of Suburban Boy.
Zardoz is wonderfully imaginative film. The start is truly great and you don't have to wait very long at all for it to get interesting.

Sean Connery plays Zed a hero who attempts to make sense of his future society, a society of immortals and fascist oppression. The film though a bit arty, violent and rude is nevertheless brimming with great ideas. At times the film feels like an episode of the peerless TV show the Prisoner. Though there are also moments it feels like a pretentious Star Trek episode. You can live a happy and forfilled life without having to watch Zardoz.

It is a great film with some embarrassing sci-fi pretensions and moments of incomprehensible weirdness. If you are bored through watching too many very clichéd films then try this. If you want some slick and polished entertainment you should look elsewhere.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "ZardoZ"
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Slightly wooden acting in some places by a couple of the main actors prevented me from giving it a 5 star rating. I am an avid fan of SciFi.
Published 3 months ago by Richard Spain

2.0 out of 5 stars Overkill
In brief 'Zardoz' is a film about a group of immortals who, bored with life, use their advanced intelligence to convince people living outside their fortress that they are Gods,... Read more
Published on 19 May 2007 by Lain

2.0 out of 5 stars Great opening sequence
It's funny how one's memory can play tricks on you. I watched this film years ago and thought it was pretty good. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2006 by wendy

3.0 out of 5 stars And here I introduce the concept of Zardoz
Coming from the same mythic archetype as Logan's Run, Zardoz will (as John Boorman admits in the commentary) fail as a film if the viewer can't forgive it's low(ish) budget. Read more
Published on 25 Jul 2004 by Murray

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