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Titus (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 73 Fresh: 50  Rotten:23 Average Rating: 6.5/10
 
Consensus: The movie stretches too long to be entertaining despite a strong cast.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins

Synopsis: Based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (one of the Bard's lesser-known and most gruesome works), director Taymor (Broadway's The Lion King) brings this adaptation to life with dazzling imagery and haunting immediacy. Titus (Hopkins) is a victorious Roman general who makes two... Based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (one of the Bard's lesser-known and most gruesome works), director Taymor (Broadway's The Lion King) brings this adaptation to life with dazzling imagery and haunting immediacy.

Titus (Hopkins) is a victorious Roman general who makes two mistakes: supporting the wily Saturninus (Cumming) as the new Emperor, and wronging Tamora, Queen of the Goths (Lange), by killing her eldest son. Murder follows murder as the tides of fate change, as Tamora is aided by her two reckless sons and her Moor lover, Aaron (Lennix). The body count is raised higher and higher until Titus finally holds a very special dinner banquet.

Taymor's bold visual sense verges on absurdity, but her sense of morality, as well as powerful acting by Hopkins and company, combine to tell a powerful, violent tale. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Harry J. Lennix, Alan Cumming, Jonathan Rhys-Myers

Director: Julie Taymor
Screenwriter: Julie Taymor
Story: William Shakespeare
Producer: Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor, Jody Patton
Composer: Elliot Goldenthal

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 4, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • 2-Disc Set

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Surround - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
  • Disc 1: TITUS - Feature Presentation

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Audio Track - Score
  • Audio Commentary - 1. Julie Taymor - Director
  • 2. Elliot Goldenthal - Composer
  • 3. Anthony Hopkins, Harry Lennix - Stars (Specific Scenes)
  • Disc 2: TITUS - Supplemental Material

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind the Scenes - "Making the Penny Arcade Nightmares"
  • Documentary - "Muse of Fire: The Making of TITUS"
  • Interviews - Julie Taymor - Director (Q & A)
  • Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailers
  • 2. TV Spots

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Essay - American Cinematographer Articles
  • Galleries - Costume Gallery

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A striking addition to the Shakespeare filmography.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Eager to allow Shakespeare's words to shine through as clearly as possible, Taymor shoots the dialogue scenes fairly straight, with a minimum of background action.

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12/02/02
John Wrathall
Sight and Sound
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3.5/5

Lacks the subtlety and subtext to make the story really work on screen.

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12/10/01
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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3/5

Whether this makes for an eyeful or an eyesore depends on your tastes.

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01/01/00
Empire Magazine
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4/5

Anyone criticizing the gruesome bloodlust of modern Hollywood might do well to ponder the body count in this play...

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01/01/00
Anwar Brett
BBC
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4/5

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08/07/08
Bob Grimm
Sacramento News & Review
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A conditional victory.

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06/17/08
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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5/5

This may just be the most striking and unsettling translation of Shakespeare ever committed to film.

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03/26/08
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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2.5/5

It's hard to see it matching the success of other recent adaptations of the Bard.

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12/07/07
Keith H. Brown
Eye for Film
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2/4

At once mesmerizing and jarring to the point that the audience can never get comfortable in the film.

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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
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A consistently absorbing entertainment that never becomes either campy or facetious, given its inescapable exaggerations.

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04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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4/5

It's amazing how enjoyable Shakespeare can be when Kenneth Branagh isn't involved.

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12/06/05
Ron Wells
Film Threat
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Hopkins unwisely echoes his performance as Hannibal Lecter, but Lange rises to the occasion with a mesmerizingly in-your-face portrait of mother love gone haywire.

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07/21/05
Houston Chronicle
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A true pleasure and a surprise.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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4/5

Tecnicamente brilhante, esta inventiva adaptação traz ótimas atuações - com exceção de Cumming, que parece estar ensaiando para um revival de Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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02/07/04
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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3.5/4

The real star of the show is Lange.

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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
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Along with everything else, the acting styles here clash, though the dissonance serves the drama's bellicose theme.

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04/25/03
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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3.5/4

Adds a wicked grin to the proceedings.

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10/25/02
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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Taymor manages to play with images and music as effectively as Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet or McKellan's Richard III, yet weaves a tale so powerful and stark that it leave you breathless.

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05/31/02
David Poland
Hot Button
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Relentless, brutal and equally witty...

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04/03/02
Paula Nechak
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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