Labyrinth

Starring:David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm, Natalie Finland, Shari Weiser, Brian Henson, Ron Mueck, Rob Mills, Dave Goelz, David Alan Barclay, David Shaughnessy, Karen Prell, Timothy Bateson, Frank Oz, Michael Hordern, Denise Bryer, Steve Whitmire, Kevin Clash
Director: Jim Henson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro's own unlimited imagination, Pan's Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), have just moved into an abandoned mill with Carmen's new husband, Captain Vidal (Sergi López, With a Friend like Harry). Carmen is pregnant with his son. Other than her sickly mother and kindly housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verdú, Y Tu Mamá También), the dreamy Ofelia is on her own. Vidal, an exceedingly cruel man, couldn't be bothered. He has informers to torture. Ofelia soon finds that an entire universe exists below the mill. Her guide is the persuasive Faun (Doug Jones, Mimic). As her mother grows weaker, Ofelia spends more and more time in the satyr's labyrinth. He offers to help her out of her predicament if she'll complete three treacherous tasks. Ofelia is willing to try, but does this alternate reality really exist or is it all in her head? Del Toro leaves that up to the viewer to decide in a beautiful, yet brutal twin to The Devil's Backbone, which was also haunted by the ghost of Franco. Though it lacks the humor of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth represents Guillermo Del Toro at the top of his considerable game. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Description

Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Video Prologue by Guillermo Del Toro Audio Commentary by Director Guillermo Del Toro
Featurette:The Power of Myth Featurette The Faun and the Fairies Featurette The Color and The Shape Featurette The Charlie Rose Show featuring Director Guillermo Del Toro The Director's Notebook
Production Sketches
Storyboards:Storyboard Video Prologue by Guillermo del Toro. Storyboard/Thumbnail compares
Theatrical Trailer:Theatrical teaser, Theatrical trailer, TV spots

Customer Reviews:

Hated it.......2007-07-04

FIRST - there should be warnings to folks that it's subtitled and I don't see that anywhere - Pretty much everything on the DVD and descriptions are in English except the movie itself. It might be a good movie for stylist, process enthusiasts, or people who enjoy tragic tales, but for some one who is an escapist, or just like to actually enjoy a movie, this is not the one.
I'd call it a perverse exploitation of darkness and depression - choices only of one evil or another - reminds me of that disburbing feeling I got when I read le malentendu in high school. From reading the other reviews, I guess I'd have to say this movie was just too far above me.

Love It!!.......2007-07-04

I bought this movie without ever seeing it because I heard it was good. I loved it and its much better than I ever thought. It really is a fairytale for adults and I'm glad I bought it, I recommend it to everyone!

I loved being lost in this labyrinth!.......2007-07-03

Guillmero Del Toro is one of the best film makers and one of the most important.
He keeps the mysteries of folk tales and fairy tales alive in this excellent film.
I cannot give enough praise, just watch the film and see for yourself!

del Toro's creativity and detemination...with unexpected levels of violence.......2007-07-03

Writer/Director Guillermo del Toro is simply off-the-charts here in terms of creativity, imagination and having the dogged determination to get all this shaped into a project and then to film. And Sergi López is a personal favorite, equally adept at playing bad (and, wow, is he ever bad here) and good. And Maribel Verdú? Well, Y Tu Mama Tambien...enough said.

That said, I believe Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others is the better film (the best film in at least five years, in my opinion), and deserving of its Oscar this year. I'll also note that I was more than a little jarred by how unrelentingly violent "Pan's" was. Sure, it depicts guerrilla warfare and it's hard to dress that up as happy chat, but - wow - when Sergi López takes a broken bottle to the that guy's face, it literally left me shaken for the next ten minutes.

Excellent, but bizarre film!.......2007-07-03

Okay, I don't know about the rest of you, but I was left with wanting Ofelia to discover more of the labyrinth and deal with more evil, shady characters. To be honest, my attitude towards Pan went from skeptical to acceptance. I honestly, thought Pan was out to get Ofelia as if he were the Devil incarnate.

I give it 5 stars because it's truly an original and imaginative film, but I was disappointed we didn't encounter more ghouls and ghosts within the labyrinth and see more of the labyrinth. The story focused too much on the captain and his brutality rather than Pan's labyrinth.

It was 2 stories within 1 film. On the one side, you have Ofelia's step-dad, a cruel Spanish captain, and on the other hand, you have Ofelia, a young, innocent child who is trying to escape the terrible events that surround her at every corner.

This is an interesting film, but not for the squeamish. As one reviewer asserted, "This is a fairy-tale for adults," so true.

Jason

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Hated it
Love It!!
I loved being lost in this labyrinth!
del Toro's creativity and detemination...with unexpected levels of violence
Excellent, but bizarre film!

Pan's Labyrinth
Starring: Ariadna Gil , Ivana Baquero , Sergi López , Maribel Verdú , and Doug Jones
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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ASIN: B000O76ZQC
Release Date: 2007-05-15

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Description

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Feature Audio Commentary by Director Guillermo del Toro
Theatrical Trailer:Theatrical teaser, Theatrical trailer

Customer Reviews:

Hated it.......2007-07-04

Love It!!.......2007-07-04

I loved being lost in this labyrinth!.......2007-07-03

del Toro's creativity and detemination...with unexpected levels of violence.......2007-07-03

Excellent, but bizarre film!.......2007-07-03

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Labyrinth ~ David Bowie
Came in perfect condition
David Bowie Fans
Kid friendly w/ a dash of adventure.
I love David Bowie

Labyrinth
Starring: David Bowie , Jennifer Connelly , Toby Froud , Shelley Thompson , and Christopher Malcolm
Director: Jim Henson
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Sarah (a teenage Jennifer Connelly) rehearses the role of a fairy-tale queen, performing for her stuffed animals. She is about to discover that the time has come to leave her childhood behind. In real life she has to baby-sit her brother and contend with parents who don't understand her at all. Her petulance leads her to call the goblins to take the baby away, but when they actually do, she realizes her responsibility to rescue him. Sarah negotiates the Labyrinth to reach the City of the Goblins and the castle of their king. The king is the only other human in the film and is played by a glam-rocking David Bowie, who performs five of his songs. The rest of the cast are puppets, a wonderful array of Jim Henson's imaginative masterpieces. Henson gives credit to children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, and the creatures in the movie will remind Sendak fans of his drawings. The castle of the king is a living M.C. Escher set that adults will enjoy. The film combines the highest standards of art, costume, and set decoration. Like executive producer George Lucas's other fantasies, Labyrinth mixes adventure with lessons about growing up. --Lloyd Chesley

Customer Reviews:

Labyrinth ~ David Bowie.......2007-07-03

This is a great movie specially for the kids. It also has a great soundtrack as well and excellent graphics. Also a Must own for any David Bowie Works Collecter. Also not bad for those capturing that era of time and those young at heart. thumbs up.

Came in perfect condition.......2007-06-27

I have always loved this movie since I was a kid. It's a bit cheesy for an older crowd but it's a good time and has a lot of good songs in it.

David Bowie Fans.......2007-06-27

If you love magic and fairytales this is the movie for you! Granted it is a bit older, but David Bowie plays a great role and sings you into this magical world. I had never seen it and bought it because he was in it. My stepmother loves him too so of course I bought her a copy. If you have young ones or are just young at heart this is the movie for you!!!

Kid friendly w/ a dash of adventure. .......2007-06-27

I think the title say's it all. I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid, it was a big thing in my home as I grew up listening to Bowie right down from his Ziggy days. I had forgotten how that felt until my daughter came home one afternoon telling me about this movie her teacher showed the class during the last week of school... I can't remember exactly how she explained her view of the movie, but I knew exactly what she was talking about and began singing some of the songs in it... "You remind me of the babe.. The Babe? The babe with the power....." And she beamed a brilliant smile as she said "Yes! that one..." To this day, that movie gets more play then any disney movie my kids have.. They adore watching that movie.. often going round singing the very same somes... I was glad of the reminder my daughter brought hoem of a childhood long since gone. Even more that I found the movie..

I love David Bowie.......2007-06-08

I cant help myself, David Bowie is my hero. And Jennifer Connelly shines in this movie as well

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Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition)
Starring: Bowie , and Connelly
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Release Date: 2007-08-14

Product Description

Relive the magic! This newly restored, 2-disc anniversary edition of Jim Henson's Labyrinth contains an all-new commentary and bonus features that are guaranteed to captivate as never before. David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly invite you into a magical universe where nothing is what it seems! Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend night isn't young Sarah's (Connelly) idea of fun. Frustrated by his crying, she secretly imagines the Goblins from her favorite book, Labyrinth, carrying Toby away. When her fantasy comes true, a distraught Sarah must enter a maze of illusion to bring Toby back from a kingdom inhabited by mystical creatures and governed by the wicked Goblin King (Bowie).

Jim Henson Fantasy Film Collection (Labyrinth / The Dark Crystal / MirrorMask)

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Jim Henson's Film Collection Family Hit
Jim Henson's Magic.
Wonderful Fantasy Films
A Masterpiece Collection
Puppets and CGI

Jim Henson Fantasy Film Collection (Labyrinth / The Dark Crystal / MirrorMask)
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Release Date: 2006-09-05

Customer Reviews:

Jim Henson's Film Collection Family Hit.......2007-05-14

If this sounds childish or reads juvenile please forgive the wounded one hand typist. LOL!!!

This film collection is wonderful!! My grown children adore it because it brings back happy memories of their childhood and my only grandchild is mesmerized by "The Dark Crystal", as are all of my neices and nephews. The Labyrinth is my grown girls choice and I love them all.They actually get up to sing and dance with the music and songs that to this day they know every word to.
Thank you for bringing joyous memories and delightful entertainment to my family,Through the eyes of the master puppeteer.

Mrs. Cheryl D. Fowler

Jim Henson's Magic........2007-05-12

To gather a large proportion of Jim Henson's work together is really wonderful. Somehow he and his team managed to provide a depth to all he did which makes his work long lasting. This is very apparent in the mysterious "MirrorMask" which is extremely challenging."Labyrinth" has always been a family favourite with us and it too has a depth of concept which is very powerful.Images such as the Junk Woman and the Man with the bird growing on his head are creative and strange."The Dark Crystal" is an early work and has certain crudities which are not apparent in the later films. However the inventive images of Brian Froud are wonderful and add much to the film.

Wonderful Fantasy Films.......2007-01-18

Great films that do justice to the legacy of the Jim Henson Company.

A Masterpiece Collection.......2006-09-17

Everyone of us has a favorite muppet, that is how well Jim Henson stood out as one of the most creative minds for family programing and now his legacy is remembered in a box set of the three non muppet films. These movies are nothing but pure grandure of fantasy used to stimulate the mind and senses. The stories are origional family friendly and a pleasure to watch over and over again. Jim Henson worked with other creative minds of the time such as Rick Callum, Frank Oz and of course one of Jim Hensons' equils George Lucas. No wonder these movies are so good.

The Dark Crystal, the first of these films is Lord Of The Rings with muppets. Its the story of a dying world and two races of creatures created by the breaking of the keeper of the world, the Dark Crystal. Now it is up to Jen, the last of his race to unite the crystal before the three suns of the planet align. Dark Crystal is an eye popping marvel. It doesn't move too quickly but that is how Jim Hensons' work is most of the time. But just watching the fact that there is not a single human in this movie and that its all done through the magic of puppetry and voice acting keeps you in your seat itching to see what happens next.

Labyrinth, probably the fan favorite of the three is the most entertaining in my eyes. Picture a twisted Wizard of Oz, with goblins. It's the story of a young, but still hot Jennifer Connely as she wishes her baby brother is taken away by the infamous Gobin King (That is David Bowie and yes he is singing!)Now she muse get to the caslte through a puzzeling maze filled with creatures you have never seen anywhere else before her brother becomes a goblin. This movie is great its a must see.

The last one was made long after Jim Henson left us, but the story of Mirrormask stays true to the legacy of Jim Henson storytelling. Filled with stimulating images, crazy creatures and a important moral to lesson to learn.

This collection goes right up there with the great movie trilogies of the past 35 years. It is worth every penny and there is no doubt in my mind you will want to watch them as much as you can.

Puppets and CGI.......2006-08-30

Of course, we all remember Jim Henson for bringing us those fuzzy, adorable animal puppets and their variety show.

But Henson also produced some very memorable, intriguing fantasy films, and after his death his production company has continued that tradition. "The Jim Henson Family Film Collection" brings together three classic films from Henson and his company, as well as an accompanying book of unknown content.

"Labyrinth" becomes a problem for teenage Sarah, who is stuck babysitting her crying baby stepbrother. But when she idly wished that the goblins would steal him, she never expected it to happen -- or that the Goblin King Jareth (David Bowie) would challenge her if she tries to get her brother back.

Now Sarah has only thirteen hours to navigate a changing, hazardous maze, with Jareth's castle at the center of it. To find her way, she will have to befriend strange creatures and avoid lethal bogs, nasty fairies, head-jugglers, and finally Jareth himself -- or her brother will be turned into a goblin himself.

"The Dark Crystal" is the heart of this movie, where on another world, there are two strange races -- the enormous, gentle, peaceful Mystics, and the nasty, vulture-like, vicious Skekses. They are somehow connected to a massive crystal that was broken long ago, and now a shard is missing from it. What's more, three suns are about to come into conjunction, and the shard has to be back in place.

The Mystics have cared for one of the last Gelflings, an orphan named Jen. As the conjunction approaches, they send him out to find the lost shard. Along the way, Jen finds new friends who assist him in his quest, including another Gelfling. But can they avoid the Skekses? And what will happen when the suns line up, and the crystal is completed?

These movies were created in whole by Jim Henson, and even in the darker moments, they have his unmistakeable stamp. More recent -- and quite different in tone -- is "Mirrormask," which instead has the stamp of writer Neil Gaiman, and seems like a warped "Alice in Wonderland." But Henson's production company does a great job with all the weird special effects.

In "Mirrormask," we're introduced to Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), a young circus girl who longs for a "normal" life, and makes elaborate, otherworldly drawings. But one night her mother collapses, and needs life-saving surgery. The guilt-ridden Helena is suddenly whisked into a world that looks very like her drawings, where everyone has a mask -- and the beautiful queen of light (who looks a lot like Helena's mom) is in a coma.

Helena is determined to wake the queen, and gets juggler Valentine (Jason Barry) to accompany her on her quest for the mysterious Mirrormask. But the stakes become higher when the forces of darkness -- and their eerie queen -- target Helena, and she finds that a dark duplicate of herself has taken over her life. Now Helena must somehow defeat the dark forces, with her mother's life -- and her own -- hanging in the balance.

All three of these movies are classics of one type or another, and each embraces a different kind of fantasy. One is about wanting to be swept into an idyllic fantasy life. One is entirely of another world. And one is about the dangers of the other world.

To top it off, three are coming-of-age stories, whether for a teenage girl or a Muppet Gelfling -- they all focus on someone pursuing something that can save what is important to them, and growing as a person along the way. The scripting tends to be tight and a little wry. Sometimes it gets goofy, but well-acted (and in Bowie's case, well-sung).

What's more, the styles of each movie change: "Dark Crystal" is very fantastical and serious, even with some gross, dark parts, while "Labyrinth" is more kiddy-friendly and Muppety, with the little chivalrous fox (though Bowie's tight pants are a BIG distraction). And "Mirrormask" has a different style altogether, with lots of shadowy buildings, eerie lighting, fleshy masks, wide bodies and tentacle-like limbs.

The "Jim Henson Fantasy Films" are a good collection of films, showing off Henson's more fantastical side. Definitely worth seeing.

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Excellent Eastern European Stop-Motion Animation!!!
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Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness
Starring: Zdenek Martínek , Frantisek Husák , and Ivan Vojtek
Director: Jirí Barta
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Release Date: 2006-09-12

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Excellent Eastern European Stop-Motion Animation!!!.......2007-03-11

I purchased this specifically for the Pied Piper and was amazed that every film was solid.

INFORMATION NOW! (Review to follow).......2006-08-31

Since Amazon doesn't seem to know what it's got this is straight from the horses mouth... Review after release

Includes the legendary animated film The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Revered as one of the world's most significant figures in animation, Czech filmmaker Jiri Barta has made a career fashioning stunningly gothic worlds of horror and fantasy that are infused with sublime humor and intense moral examinations. Mixing the aesthetic traditions of such artists as Gaudi, Kafka, Poe, Fritz Lang, The Brothers Quay and Jan Svankmajer, Barta's films are wondrous creations that go far beyond mere children's tales.

His early paper cut-out extravaganzas-Disc Jockey (1980) and The Design (1981)-give way to the object ballet of A Ballad about Green Wood (1983), in which logs celebrate the eternal renaissance of spring. Old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives In the Club of the Laid Off (1989), and myriad styles of handwear spring to life as a brief history of international cinema in the award-winning The Vanished World of Gloves (1982). Barta's international reputation was cemented with The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1985), a very un-Disney adaptation of the classic German fairytale in which carved wooden puppets in a gothic cubist town are plagued by live rats. Considered one of the greatest works of puppet animation, it recalls the dark medieval epics of Ingmar Bergman. His only live action film, The Last Theft (1987), is a jewel thief/vampire flick shot in the style of 1970s European exploitation cinema.

Working mostly from the prestigious animation studio founded by the legendary Jiri Trnka, Barta's works have been criminally overlooked in the U.S. Kimstim is proud to present all eight of Jiri Barta's films, available for the first time together on one DVD.

* A Ballad About Green Wood
11 minutes, color, 1983
* The Club of the Laid Off
25 minutes, color, 1989
* The Design
6 minutes, color, , 1981
* Disc Jockey
10 minutes, color, 1980
* The Last Theft
* 21 minutes, color, 1987
* The Pied Piper of Hamelin
55 minutes, color, 1985
* Riddles For a Candy
8 minutes, color, 1978
* The Vanished World of Gloves
16 minutes, color, 1982

Critical Acclaim

"Extraordinary... Barta creates a gothic never-was world caught somewhere between Gaudí and Kafka, Caligari and Svankmajer."- TIME OUT

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Puppets kick (explitive deleted)!!
The Labyrinth rocks
ROCKED!

Labyrinth (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Kenny Baker , David Barclay , Sean Barrett , Timothy Bateson , and Robert Beatty
Director: Jim Henson
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Release Date: 2005-07-26

Product Description

Labyrinth PSP UMD Movie MODEL- 11907 VENDOR- UMD MOVIE FEATURES- Labyrinth PSP Movie A young girl, who enters a world of her own creation, experiences her first awareness of love, responsibility and danger. George Lucas produced and Jim Henson directed this gothic fantasy which pits living and breathing actors Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie (who, along with Trevor Jones, provides the films music) against a motley collection of Muppet monsters. The film centers upon teenage Sarah (Connelly), who lives in a fantasy world of myth and magic, evil spells, and wondrous enchantment. She is baby-sitting her little brother when she cavalierly wishes that goblins would take him away. She gets her wish, and a coterie of goblins abduct him. She then encounters Jareth (David Bowie), the ruler of a mystical world one step removed from reality. He tells Sarah that the only way to get her brother back is to find her way through a M.C. Escher-like labyrinth and find the castle at the center. As she makes her way through the maze, she faces a number of horrific challenges (like the Bog of Eternal Stench) before she finds her way to the gravity-defying castle, where her brother is being held by the evil goblins. -- SPECIFICATIONs ----------------------------------- MPAA Rating : PG Genre : Childrens Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure Theatrical Date : 1986 Run Time : 122 minutes Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures a http://sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=IM9RrHcFL1dR2jXO_2BbpzgIdMk_PW5NJS4=?CategoryName=umdandDept

Customer Reviews:

Puppets kick (explitive deleted)!!.......2007-04-26

This movie blows away all its contenders! There are so many twists and turns and so many side adventures that I hardly see how anyone wouldn't love this movie! I usually do not like Muppet movies, but this particular movie makes you forget that you are watching puppets and it takes you away. David Bowie is good in this movie, but maybe they could have shaved a few of his songs off of the script, as well as a few of the other songs, but even with the slight overreliance on music, it was an awesome flick. Jennifer Conelly is a total honey too! lol

The Labyrinth rocks.......2007-02-07

The Labyrinth rocks in any form or size it is in. Yay for David Bowie!!

ROCKED!.......2006-01-02

This movie ROCKS!!! I loved every second of it. If you don't like fantasy this movie is not for you!!

Labyrinth (Collector's Edition Boxed Set)

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Labyrinth ~ David Bowie
Came in perfect condition
David Bowie Fans
Kid friendly w/ a dash of adventure.
I love David Bowie

Labyrinth (Collector's Edition Boxed Set)
Starring: David Bowie , Jennifer Connelly , Toby Froud , Shelley Thompson , and Christopher Malcolm
Director: Jim Henson
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Description

Journey into the fantastical world of LABYRINTH, starring David Bowie, and Jennifer Connelly in one of her first lead roles, and a cast of incredible creatures created by Jim Henson and produced by the Master of Myth, George Lucas! The classic fantasy adventure film available in an all-new Collector's Edition. DVD will be re-mastered to add new bonus materials.

Customer Reviews:

Labyrinth ~ David Bowie.......2007-07-03

Came in perfect condition.......2007-06-27

I have always loved this movie since I was a kid. It's a bit cheesy for an older crowd but it's a good time and has a lot of good songs in it.

David Bowie Fans.......2007-06-27

Kid friendly w/ a dash of adventure. .......2007-06-27

I love David Bowie.......2007-06-08

I cant help myself, David Bowie is my hero. And Jennifer Connelly shines in this movie as well

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nice tribute to Mr. Carter

Labyrinth of Time [Region 2]
Starring: Elliott Carter
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ASIN: B000H4VZH6
Release Date: 2006-09-26

Customer Reviews:

nice tribute to Mr. Carter.......2007-01-13

This is a nice tribute to Mr. Carter, a gentle man in the way he speaks, quite different than his ruggedly thorny, powerful penumbral anguish- ridden music.
Carter's music sits conceptually in the center of the 20th Century, so Charles Rosen tells us, in an appearance here between Stravinsky and Schoenberg or situated with strong reference to the European post-war musical paradigm. Rosen plays a little snippet from Carter's "First Piano Sonata", a Forties transitional work as the "Cello Sonata" both being good examples of this centerness; one a time keeper (the piano) the other a freer atonal agent, the cello. Both are interesting works, impassioned, quite free for the cello trying to relieve itself from the tyranny of obvious time, the (steady quarter notes) from the "stravinsky-aspect". We find this music sounding interestingly as a background for Carter gazing out his apartment speaking quite freely throughout this DVD, overdubbed and directly. He always reminds me of Burgess Meredith the actor. As Meredith, Carter's persona shares a stern dignity a cultured authority quite close to accepted musical discourse, never straying too far from what is known and can be done through serious music. We find also images of the young Carter, now perhaps a younger Robert Redford. There are vintage photographs revealed herein that gives this a way to some degree.

The piece here runs through Carter's life chronologically, quite useful to some degree and quite impossible to explore all aspects of his exceptional oeuvre.

We begin with reminiscences, visiting war torn Europe the First and then Second World Wars with recollections of extended residence situations throughout his career. These form a useful conceptual "hinterland" for much of the known complexity the dodecaphonic content of what his music has said and what it implies when you hear it.

His Greenwich Village apartment is the situs for much of the dialogue here; beautiful shots looking west I believe, and traversing different seasons as well. The gritty-ness, the untouched and abandoned edifices, the modernity of New York City, the metropolis is like a singular metaphor for Carter's music. He had provided modernity a new paradigm to create music to engage a concept to compose music, to explore rhythmic readings over longer distances of time; hence the title "labyrinth" here is useful. I think Carter certainly ushered in the thinking of found concepts, and found working means to organize all the functions of music, its complexity subverted slightly to render a different context, or to engage a text for a purely instrumental work as he has so frequently.

He writes music in a modest room, books on the back wall; original editions of Proust and Crane, with numerous size bound and loose-leaf pages of music manuscript(s)surrounding the work area. Some I believe are "notebooks" of tone configurations and/or skeletal premonitions or finalized ones of the work in front of him. An indefatigueable worker writing every day at his own concocted large 3-foot board tipped upwards, to the left an adjustable neck light clamped to the desk illuminating the proceedings, the music written with fine point pencil (automatic) in hand tying notes over a barline as he loves to do. He has an electrical eraser, with a motor adhering to Stravinsky's canon that music is really written "avec le gum" with an eraser.

The scenes looking outside this elegant spartan-like apartment have his wife's Helen sculptures. There are also multiple shots throughout of New York City, the nocturnal occasional lights and the crisp sunny mornings, all with the Twin Towers still standing. This reminds one of the situated-ness of Carter's music, that his music has dealt with the turbulence, the durability and chaos, the various "Times", the of the 20th Century. Carter's surface view is that man always finds a way out of this chaos. The music as well written over a lifetime of development has interestingly searched for concepts for these paradigms to put into play where the music unfolds over differing expanse(s) of time.

We learn for example in the 'First String Quartet' (written in Arizona under a Guggenheim Grant) was about the explosion of a chimney from a film. How does one represent different "movements" of durations, different speeds of time, gradations of pulses. This requires pre-planning Carter tells us sitting at his long mahogany dinner table. If you know the Carter 'Quartets' they are all excursions, a treatise in differing speeds, characterizations of persona, gesturings and modulations of pulse and rhythmic occurrences, large polyrhythms distributed over the entire work.
There are ample situated performances here with snippets of rehearsals as the Arditti Quartet, intense facial shots while playing the "Piano String Quintet". But Arditti only plays here no speaking live. However Ursula Oppens has a short moment on the opening of the massive "Piano Concerto", This Carter wrote in light of the new Berlin Wall. He was there with composition students in West Berlin at the time. "No",(to Ms Oppens) Carter says", "that's not quite right it has to be more dream-like ","No", "try again. . . "."Also I don't like the staccato. . . " "Yes, that's it. . . " The metaphor here is the piano represents "freedom" against the tyrannical orchestral (chordal constructed) accompaniment.
Also a moment with cellist Fred Sherry, another discussion in rehearsal over a sixteenth rest, Sherry exclaims, "if they are all downbows, you don't need the rest" it is assumed "to re-take the bow".

Carter also visits Nadia Boulanger's old studio in Paris where he once studied, a time the Nazis assumed power, yet there was this "Light" of culture that was and will be, the "illumination" of her studio. After (or prior) we see Carter then flipping through a bin of books in a street-side bookstore; Then a rehearsal with Pierre Boulez and Carter's "Clarinet Concerto". "No" Carter exclaims," he never does this part right", Boulez makes a note in the score and then speaks well of Carter, an "anomaly", in the uncompromising nature of the music, and as a composer working within a culture (American I assume) that always compromises culture for the "cashbox"(my word not Boulez's).

Sorry there wasn't footage of his larger works performed, although he did speak briefly about his "Symphony for Three Orchestras". There is also none of the conflicts of Carter's acceptance (within "Organized Music", i.e. who controls what, who gets played and how often). This was not discussed and a fairly conflict-free portrait of Carter the composer. But there are good useful parallels into the way Carter's music works, quite abstractly, (and safe) as his walking down a New York City street with its "chaos" of traffic, ambulance sirens, honking horns the onward rush, and stops, and the noise of foot-traffic. His music is much more complex than this but the metaphor is well understood.
The low points are excerpts from Carter's opera "What Next", explicated by the work's instigator Daniel Barenboim. The work is predictably about an atrocity, here a street accident is utilized as a metaphor for the time(s) we live?. The Berlin production is admirable but I don't find this relevant nor creative, nor interesting, nor inventive drama, nor congruent with Carter's massive oeuvre. You may find it otherwise.

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield / The Labyrinth of Sex (Something Weird)

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Absolutely Fabulous DVD ! A must-have of any Mansfield Fan
Did these people have no shame? At all?
Be Aware that Marilyn Monroe Does Not Appear In This Film
A Strange Mix
A very interesting movie!

The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield / The Labyrinth of Sex (Something Weird)
Starring: Jayne Mansfield , Robert Jason (II) , Mickey Hargitay , Fernand Aubrey , and Carolyn De Fonseca
Director: Arthur Knight , Joel Holt , and Charles W. Broun Jr.
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ASIN: B0000A0DX8
Release Date: 2003-08-12

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Absolutely Fabulous DVD ! A must-have of any Mansfield Fan.......2006-06-03

I owned the VHS version of ''The Wild,Wild World'' but decided to get the DVD this winter.
WELL..That was a great purchase !
I understand people that could see the documentary of Jayne in Europe,as pretty cheaply made,BUT it is still Jayne,and if you love her (as I do),any film she was in (except The Girl can't help it,and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter) was done on the cheap,with ridiculously small budgets.
'The Wild,Wild World' gives you the chance to see a candid Jayne in all kinds of very campy situations,and the best scenes are when Jayne pretends to be offended by the goings-on...
It shows a Jayne Mansfield who was indeed a true-original,rather eccentric person in the anal-retentive American Fifties.I can't help comparing her to what Anna Nicole Smith has done with her 'career' as a media sensation,BUT Jayne was doing basically the same FIFTY years ago,which was understandbly much more shocking for the common-folks.
When Jayne talks about her film roles,you wonder if she is laughing with you or at herself.
I don't understand how she can be compared to Marilyn Monroe.MM was looking for privacy,more serious roles,spoke to journalists only if she absolutely had to,when Jayne was waking up her daughter in the middle of the night to prepare drinks for journalists who needed something to write about.Jayne was not too picky about her roles,and the kind of attention she was getting,and it was her undoing.Sad,but she needed the money to keep up that image,all those children,dogs,and...husbands.
NOW ,about ''The Labyrinth of Sex'': It is HYSTERICAL !! and a great choice to make the DVD a double-feature,just like the good-old days of the Drive-ins !
When you get over the awful dubbing,the documentary is rather well made,naive to today's standards of course,but well-intentionned.Some viewers will just see crass-exploitation,but if you are into Campy,Kitsch movies,and you see Ed Wood Jr. as a genius...well you will love IT !.The movie trailers are very funny as well,and make you wish you could find them.
So my conclusion is that DVD is an EXCELLENT purchase,a must-have for any serious Jayne Mansfield Fan !!!

Did these people have no shame? At all?.......2005-07-24

Damn. There's nothing remarkable about the second item on this DVD; it's your standard European-made sexploitation film. "The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield," on the other hand, is reprehensible. It's a hodge-podge of vacation footage of Mansfield, clips from her movie project, and material entirely unrelated to Mansfield, linked only by the voiceover... and then, after an hour or so of light-hearted softcore buffoonery, the movie cuts to her death, spending the last twenty minutes obsessing on her husband and children and the large, mostly empty mansion she has left behind.

This movie has the feel of something slapped together for the sole purpose of trading off a famous name after Mansfield's death. This is exploitation in its worst form. I found the sudden change in tone, the large volume of non-Mansfield material, and the sheer obsessiveness of the last twenty minutes disgusting in the extreme. Those looking for cheesy bad movies to enjoy, or softcore porn to tittilate, go elsewhere; this one is not merely bad, but evil.

Be Aware that Marilyn Monroe Does Not Appear In This Film.......2004-02-14

I have not seen this film, but I realize that the actress in the short segment titled "Apples, Knockers & the Coke Bottle" is being advertised as Marilyn Monroe. For a long time, it was thought that it was indeed Monroe, but the actress who appears in is actually a woman named Arline Hunter. Hunter does bare a striking resemblance to Marilyn, but be assured it is not Marilyn who appears in this film.

A Marilyn Fan

A Strange Mix.......2004-01-06

This is an unusual disk in that the contents are not really of the same theme.

First we have the Wild World of Jayne Mansfield. Jayne was a very intelligent beauty who excelled at playing the dumb blond. This film shows Jayne touring Europe after her nude Playboy appearance. But just when you get used to seeing things through her eyes, the film switches scope as we reach the point of her death in a car crash. The film then becomes a retrospective showing her widower, children, and her mansion. The film really ends on a rather sad note.

The second film is The Labyrinth of Sex, a supposed documentary on sexual deviation. This is more a collection of vignettes with a doctor lecturing between them. There is an operating room scene that is not for the squeamish. All in all the film seemed like something that was done just because it could be.

Parisian Rendezvous is one of the short films included on the disk. Two lovers circle the glob in opposite directions rushing to be back in each other's arms. This film has some of the sadness of the Jayne Mansfield film.

Finally we have The Apple Knockers and the Coke. This is a silent striptease short staring Marilyn Monroe. A fake apple tree, a bottle of coke and Marilyn's attributes star in this multi-part short.

All in all an unusual assortment of films with each aiming at a different audience.

A very interesting movie!.......2003-12-22

If you like Jayne Mansfield and her bizarre life and world this is your movie. Maybe she was not Marilyn or Taylor but after see this movie I can tell she is and always be ........... and nobody will be as Jayne Mansfield.........ibem if you are a normal person.......
I am looking for more movies of Jayne, thanks to Amazon.

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