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  • Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones, Dario D'Ambrosi, Raz Degan
  • Directors: Julie Taymor
  • Producers: Adam Leipzig, Brad Moseley, Conchita Airoldi, Ellen Dinerman Little
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Aug 2000
  • Run Time: 162 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305962987
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 105,168 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Considered by some to be Shakespeare's worst play, Titus Andronicus is a bloodthirsty tragedy full of villainous heroes and bottomless revenge--hardly the stuff of big-screen directorial debuts, it would seem. Yet Julie Taymor dives headfirst into moviemaking with Titus, a spectacular adaptation that manages to find beauty and humour in the piles of carnage. The story begins simply enough by Shakespearean standards: celebrated Roman warrior Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) returns from a hard-won victory to bury his slain sons and avenge their deaths by killing the eldest son of his enemy, Tamora, queen of the Goths (Jessica Lange). Tamora responds by seducing the impressionable new emperor and setting all of Rome into a downward spiral of revenge, madness, and death.

Taymor, who won a Tony for her Broadway production of The Lion King, throws all her theatrical sensibilities at the story--armies are exquisitely choreographed, blood is shed so beautifully that it hardly seems real, and characters are costumed in symbolic combinations of ancient Roman and 20th-century garb. She plays up the dark comedy at every opportunity, and an eclectic and powerful score by Taymor's composer husband Elliot Goldenthal helps lend a carnival flavour to the story's most gruesome moments. Excellent performances from Hopkins (whose deranged Titus is more than a little reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter), Lange, and the supporting cast help make the endless treachery credible. --Claire Campbell, Amazon.com

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Why is it Shakespeare's worst play?, 22 Nov 2004
By yorrick (Norway) - See all my reviews
Having studied Shakespeare for as long as I remember, and having read through the entire corpus, give or take one or two of the comedies, I find it hard to understand why so many people unquestioningly judge this to be the worst of Shakespeare's plays. The rhetoric is fascinating - Tamora's manipulation of natural imagery for her own lustful purposes in Act II.iii, sits alongside Titus' ethereal joy in the forest as a life-giving force in one of the most subtle and satisfying inversions in drama. The disintegration of Roman civilisation is allied to the descent of one man into madness with devastating effect. The rape of Lavinia is painfully - but hopefully - depicted. All this in the original. This stunning adaptation is one of the finest that I have seen. The Dionysian vitality of its cast - without exception - is fascinating alongside the dry, rather embarassed RSC productions of recent years, in which the sole purpose seems to be a race to see who can get through their quota of lines fastest. I loved this adaptation, and rate it as one of the most fascinating and original that I have seen. It has the ability to shock. Seeing Lavinia with twigs for arms and blood pouring from her mouth made my heart skip. This is not Shakespeare's worst play, and nobody need be embarassed by it. Indeed, it is one of the finest examples of Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, portrayed here with vigour and enthusiasm, not to mention a sense of originality that puts my faith back into modern film-making.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome and spectacular, 24 Mar 2002
By Mr. L. O. G. Owen (Norwich) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titus [VHS] [2000] (VHS Tape)
There are two ways of dealing with "Lesser Shakespeare". That is to say, there are two ways of dealing with the less famous, arguably less good, Shakespeare plays.

One is to produce it apologetically. To essentially say "Hi. Yeah. This is a Shakespeare play. It's not very good, but it's Shakespeare, so it must have *some* value, right? Sorry if you don't like it. We don't much, either".

The other is to embrace the play for all it's worth and try to squeeze every last drop out of what it has to offer. And such, it would seem, is the ethic of Julie Taymor.

Visually, "Titus" is superb and the casting is practically perfect. To rattle off a whole host of celebrities: Anthony Hopkins gives a world-weary battle-hardened eloquence to the title role, Jessica Lange is energetic and wonderfully evil as Tamora, Lennix plays Aaron with vigour and enthusiasm, Angus MacFadyen portrays Lucius superbly as the noble young soldier, Alan Cumming plays Saturninus with all the camp insanity befitting the part, Laura Fraser plays the part of Lavinia with exact distress and emotion the part needs and, in doing so, proves that she can actually act (which came as something of a surprise), James Frain does well as Bassianus, and Colm Feore, frequently overlooked in reviews, is superb as the noble brother of Titus, Marcus.

Sadly, Demetrius and particularly Chiron, played by Matthew Rhys and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers respectively, are less good. Rhys-Meyers seems to have only a vague impression of what his lines actually mean, and thus his interpretation of the part is not great.

The text is fairly heavily abridged, but so few people are familiar with the original text that Taymor easily gets away with it.

On the whole though, this is a really quite spectacular movie. The interpretation, an abstract merging of modern day objects (motorbikes, guns et cetera) with Roman objects (swords, temples et cetera) works very well. Taymor's choice to embrace the weirdness rather than tone it down to make it more realistic is what makes this movie so brilliant.

I look forward to seeing how the Royal Shakespeare Company handles the play.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and magical film, completely underrated., 2 May 2001
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This review is from: Titus [VHS] [2000] (VHS Tape)
It's a mystery to me why this film hasn't got a better reputation - in fact, some reviewers seem barely able to look past the bloodshed to the brilliant cinematography underneath. From the opening, very theatrical scene of the soldiers marching like automatons in to the arena to the scenes in a Roman senate, more reminiscent of a nightmare vision of 1930s fascism than I Claudius - the film tantalises your senses. And Sir Anthony Hopkins really conveys the pain and encroaching insanity experienced by the disgraced Titus. The only reason I can think this film hasn't got a better reputation is that US audiences are so use to a mean gruel of sentimental, unchallenging movies that Titus scared the pants off them. But don't let that put you off.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Julie Taymor's directorial debut of the Bard's weakest play
The fault with "Titus" is basically the original play by William Shakespeare. "Titus Andronicus" was his first and clearly the least of the Bard's tragedies. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2004 by Lawrance M. Bernabo

4.0 out of 5 stars taymore does the bard
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Shakespeare ever!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Shakespearean drama
Titus Andronicus has long been known as Shakespeare's bloodiest play. This film stays true to its origins while the cast expand their parts to create sympathy for some admittedly... Read more
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