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Gallipoli [DVD] [1981] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Mel Gibson
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Charles Lathalu Yunipingli
  • Directors: Peter Weir
  • Writers: Peter Weir, David Williamson, Ernest Raymond
  • Producers: Ben Gannon, Francis O'Brien, Martin Cooper, Patricia Lovell
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Paramount
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Jun 1999
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00000J11Z

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Amazon.co.uk Review
An outstanding drama, Gallipoli resonates with sadness long after you have seen it. Set during World War I, this brutally honest antiwar movie was cowritten by director Peter Weir. Mark Lee and a sinfully handsome Mel Gibson are young, idealistic best friends who put aside their hopes and dreams when they join the war effort. This character study follows them as they enlist and are sent to Gallipoli to fight the Turks. The first half of the film is devoted to their lives and their strong friendship. The second half details the doomed war efforts of the Aussies, who are no match for the powerful and aggressive Turkish army. Because the script pulls us into their lives and forces us to care for these young men, we are devastated by their fate. --Rochelle O'Gorman.

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Set against the 1950s Stalinist architecture of Moscow State University, Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygen in Moscow concert celebrated, in September 1997, the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow. Witnessed by over 3.5 million Russians and unspoiled by rain or fog, this remains one of Jarre's finest performances. The 60-minute video includes a dedication to Princess Diana, who had died the week before, a magnesium waterfall during "Oxygene 13", and a live link-up with the Mir space station crew. The highlight is "Oxygene 12", a brilliantly edited mix of projections, fireworks and an onstage film. Jarre's trademarks are all present: the laser harp, fireworks, projections, sky trackers and his own brand of electronic music.

Also included is an hour-long, making-of documentary "Making the Steamroller Fly", which features interviews with Jarre and his "tribe" discussing the music and the concerts. For fans this is a chance to see footage of Jarre's earlier concerts in Paris, China, Houston and Lyon as well as insights into a 20-year history of electronic music and mega-concerts.--Colin Neal

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely stunning - extremely moving at times., 20 Feb 2002
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This review is from: Gallipoli [VHS] [1981] (VHS Tape)
I found this film to be a masterpiece. Gibson and Lee both put in sound performances and conveyed their characters emotions well. With some light-heartedness it's not all doom and gloom, but it makes you realise how bad WWI actually was.
From a sheer entertainment point of view it's 99.9% on my scale, but historically it's only about 80%. Still a magnificent war drama made better by some humerous sections of the film.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Will senseless carnage ever end?, 25 Sep 2005
By Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gallipoli [DVD] [1981] (DVD)
Among the abundance of research material I have accumulated over the years, here is a brief commentary which is relevant to this film. I would be grateful to anyone who can identify the source. "The generals thought they could do the job in three days. Land on the Gallipoli peninsula, clear it of Turks and disable the seaward defences. With a bit of luck it could all be accomplished in 72 hours. They failed too, and at a much greater cost in lives than the naval assault. For 259 days, from April 1915 to January 1916, the allied forces hung on to their toeholds on Gallipoli. A total of about 500,000 men were landed there over the course of the campaign and almost 300,000 of them became casualties. For the Turks it was a great victory and marked the time they successfully stood against the greatest empire the world had ever seen. It threw up Mustapha Kemal, an obscure divisional commander, and propelled him on the road that would lead him to become the 'Father of the Nation.' For the Australians it would provide the sacrifice that tempered their newly-forged nation in blood. For the British it was just another fiasco in a war full of them." I also want to acknowledge Ernest Raymond's novel Tell England, (subtitled A Study In A Generation), published in Great Britain in 1922 and now out-of-print. Anthony Asquith directed an earlier film version (1931) of Raymond's novel, Battle of Gallipoli.

Directed by Peter Weir and co-starring Mel Gibson (Frank Dunne) and Mark Lee (Archy), this film first focuses on Frank and Archy's childhood and youth, then shifts its attention to Gallipoli where so many of their eager and courageous comrades perished during combat with Turkish forces. So many lost their lives, to a significant extent because they were poorly-prepared for and then poorly-led in combat. To Weir's credit, he allows the narrative to unfold without (or so it seems to me) imposing his own political opinions. Some have referred to this film as being "anti-war." They may be correct but I prefer to view Gallipoli as an indictment of morally corrupt and incompetent leaders who betray the trust of youth, waste their lives to achieve unrealistic objectives, and then wash their filthy hands in the blood of those whom they have sent to their death.

The acting is consistently outstanding but even more impressive to me is the cinematography. Credit Russell Boyd with capturing a series of images which have an impact I lack the eloquence to describe. They simply must be seen. One is of naked young soldiers swimming beneath the surface of a harbor under attack and as they struggle to escape death, the water becomes pink. (I wonder if Spielberg had that scene in mind when he planned the water-level photography during the first action sequence in Saving Private Ryan.) Weir co-authored the spare but literate screenplay with David Williamson. Well-done indeed. Those who share my high regard for this film are urged to check out All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Attack! (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), and The Big Red One and Breaker Morant (both released in 1980). The next time political and military leaders are seriously thinking about placing young men and women in harm's way, they should first be required to sit down and watch all of these films one after another...and then after taking a brief break, see them again.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Its not just about war, 3 Jul 2004
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This review is from: Gallipoli [DVD] [1981] (DVD)
Gallipoli is a beautiful film that should appeal to lovers of drama, war, friendship and to all women, as it stars a young Mel Gibson and an equally good looking Mark Lee!
The film delves deeply into the friendship of two men as they head to war and ,unknowingly, the massacre at Gallipoli. As you feel so close to the two young men the end is particually tragic.
The villains of this film are not the Turks, but the relentless officers who would happily sacrifice men, but stay safely behind lines themselves. By the end of the film you feel like wringing their necks!
There are some scenes which are really effective and must be given credit to Peter Weir for, such as the first assault of the Australians on the Turks, which envolves no glimse of battle, but just the faces of Mel Gibson and Mark Lee against a background of a setting sun and hurriedly made graves, with scrappy crosses, as they watch the horror unfold and the boys image of war being an adventure quickly vanishing from there faces in the bloodshed. The final scene as the men realise their fate and write their last letters, leaving tresures to their loved ones, is moving without being sentimental and goes well with the desperate pictures of Mel Gibson's runner. Although the final image of the film is terrible, it is not that which haunts you the most after watching the film, but rather the thought of the terrible waste of lives in pointless warfare.
This film is to sad to watch to often, but that is really its only major fault.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing movie
I recently rewatched the film and can say that it still works as an intense drama and as a serious antiwar statement. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful film
I watched this film years ago when it was shown late one night on TV and I was blown away, I ended up crying at the end - not something I usually do at films. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Seriously moving
This 1980 film maps the friendship of two Australian men and how they came to face the true massacre in Gallipoli during the first world war. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Moving
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Published on 25 April 2003 by rmfran

1.0 out of 5 stars No justice to an awful period in history.
It's just a poor portrayal of what was an awful period in history. Not historically accurate for a start, which given the sensitivities of the issue was a mistake. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars Gallipoli
All in all disapointing. Conveys the terrible waste of WWI and the catastrophic top-led British army system, but there is no real relationship between the audience and the main... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good for fans of Jarre, at least
The best thing about this video is not the concert itself, but the interesting hour long documentary about Jean Michel Jarre featured at the end ("Making the Steamroller... Read more
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