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starring: John Cleese, David Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Pierce Brosnan, Mali Finndirected by: David Stewart, James Erskine
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790760377
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0790760371
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 195 minutes
Sales Rank: 28099
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: August 26, 2001
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and biology provide key filters in this breezy but substantial exploration of the focal impact of the face. Produced by the BBC as a four-hour series and broadcast in the U.S. on the Learning Channel, The Human Face benefits from host, narrator, and cowriter John Cleese's signature blend of erudition, enthusiasm, and wit. Along the way, Cleese presents information on the evolution of human facial features, the face's role in sexuality (including the biological significance of 'bedroom eyes'), communication through facial expressions, and the face's essential role in defining identity. Ideals of physical beauty, the reasons why visual development and artistic expression focus on the face, and the nature of celebrity are examined, as are medical anomalies such as Mobius syndrome, a condition that eliminates the ability to smile. The presenter gets strategic help from guest Elizabeth Hurley, who gamely lampoons her own celebrated beauty in various sketches, and Cleese's fellow Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin, who pops up in Python-esque skits during the program's fourth segment on fame. Comments from scientific sources are augmented by thoughtful interviews with Pierce Brosnan and Candice Bergen, who convincingly address the downside of being drop-dead gorgeous. --Sam Sutherland
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - John Cleese introduces the human face
A great series of hour-long episodes with host John Cleese introducing the human expression. It has some humor, but it is also factual with interviews with professionals and sad stories. This video is valuable for an artist to learn more about the reasons behind expression, but it is also a great video to watch for the sake of learning or information. A great tool for the classroom.
Rating: - Very good, but before choose...
The product, this dvd, claims some type of "decode" software, if you want to see this in your PC, or a kind of domestic dvd machine capable of to read it format, from Englad, I suppose.
I live in Brazil, and now I had already solved the problem in PC, but I'm still in search of another kind of domestic dvd machine to substitute that I have.
In spite of all, I' glad with my purchase. To buy more I have to solve this problems.
Rating:  - Fun at first - last episode boring
The first 3 episodes are pretty interesting and use a combination of animation and strange setups to make the points vivid and entertaining. There were demonstrations of the principles using things I had never seen before such as Indian laughter groups and the 1:1.618 golden ratio (ok I saw this in PI, but didn't know really how it connected to perfect beauty, and I had never studied otherwise).
(SPOILER - next paragraph)
In one part, a white woman who was raped by a black man ... Read More
Rating: - entertaining and educational
I love good documentaries, and I really enjoyed this series. There was so much good and interesting information about the expression of emotions, beauty, fame, and a variety of other topics, and John Cleese brought a lot of humor into it that made it easier and more enjoyable to absorb. To anyone who likes psychology, sociology, or John Cleese, I would recommend this DVD highly.
Rating: - it had me until... ZARA
ive watched this program before and ignored the one big part that can enable one to totally disregard the findings of that "beauty scientist": the fact that he agreed with the as-expected pathetic selection of the fashion committee to choose that ugly-duckling, Zara, over the other finalist Rachel, a real asian/eurasian beauty.
this time, i just couldnt stand it and had to write a review... i dont mean to be mean, but that zara is one of the ugliest pos ive ever seen.. it's fitting that ... Read More
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