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starring: Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Maloneydirected by: Oliver Parker
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780629363
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780629361
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 18, 2000
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 5616
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1995
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Othello loves not wisely but too well. Desdemona epitomizes unconditional love. Coming between them is their most trusted friend iago orchestrating an entire chain of fateful events. He is perhaps the most cunning villain of all time. Studio: Castle Rock Hm Video Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Laurence Fishburne Kenneth Branagh Run time: 125 minutes Rating: R Director: Oliver Parker
Amazon.com:
Oliver Parker, a stage and film actor (Hellraiser), made his directorial debut with this scaled-back version of Shakespeare's play about the paranoid Moor, Othello (Laurence Fishburne), and his manipulative friend, Iago (Kenneth Branagh). Parker gets the story so lean he starts running a little short on the author's subtext, and if it's possible to overemphasize the banality of Iago's scheming and Othello's malleability, he does so. The director throws out what is universal in the story and makes it all seem merely ordinary, human, and unfortunate, which is the opposite of what watching Shakespeare should be. In the end, it's hard to care what these characters have done to one another. Branagh's Iago is a little flat and unfocused, while Fishburne is excellent as a quieter Othello than we're accustomed to. With Irène Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - DVD of "Othello"
The product was received in short order, in excellent condition, and was just what I wanted.
Rating: - Finally a black Moor...Mr. William would have been pleased
For his directorial debut Oliver Parker has chosen a great cast: the always incredible Laurence Fishburn as Othello, and the famous Shakespearean "maniac" Kenneth Branagh as Iago. Like Laurence Olivier, Branagh is another talanted actor, whose name is forever linked to the name of William Shakespeare in the movie industry. However, it's Fishburn who truly carries the film on his shoulders. His portrayal of Othello, with all that mixture of love and hate, devotion and betrayal, passion and intense ... Read More
Rating: - Brannagh as a great Iago
I've watched 3 other filmed Othellos (see my other reviews) and I liked Brannagh the best as Iago. Fishburne's Othello is enjoyable yet somehow affected, Desdemona can't really figure out how to pronounce english let alone speak elizabethan/jacobean prose, but Brannagh is great! I watched this film and Olivier's with my roommate who is NOT an english major/afficianado and she could understand him -- go figure. Brannagh does what he does best and he isn't anything other than himself playing Iago ... Read More
Rating:  - 21st Century Shakespeare?
I should, perhaps, disqualify myself as a reviewer of this admittedly lush production, because I found the first twenty minutes of it so dismayingly bad that I did not care to watch the rest. In what I take to be an effort to make Shakespeare accessible to audiences raised on Bruce Willis and Matt Damon, director Oliver Parker delivers something emotionally incoherent, clumsy, shallow, and crass. Branagh, Fishburne, and Jocob seem to inhabit different dramatic universes. I was unable to believe that ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie for the classroom!
I'm a teacher who taught Othello this semester and this video REALLY helped bring the script alive! Excellent choice for the Shakespeare buff or someone looking to expand their horizons.
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