American Experience - Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
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Actor: Ric BurnsBrand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Eugene O'Neill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS Paramount
DVD Reviews of American Experience - Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
DVD Review: Biography of a literary giant
Summary: 5 Stars
If internal emotional turmoil contributes to any writer's talent, then Eugene O'Neill has certainly earned his rights. From the day he was born, life on this earth was difficult for him. This documentary explores his life from his early childhood to his forming years as a writer. We learn how O'Neill's experiences shaped him as a writer that made him one of the most prominent american playwrights and eventually Nobel Prize winner for literature.
At the end of this documentary, you may not like O'Neill as a father or a husband; but you will definitely find a path to better understanding of his craving for privacy and why he made both personal and professional choices that he did.
DVD Review: Great Documentary Film Making!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got exposed to Eugene O'Neill via this PBS documentary. I watched the second half of it and was so moved that I had to buy it. I hadn't bought anything from PBS in some years and I have many PBS works in my library, but I just couldn't resist after seeing this. I didn't even know that I had only caught the second half until I got the DVD and watched it in its entirety. Truly brilliant work on the part of Ric Burns. I then ordered some of the DVDs of O'Neill's plays and saw first hand why the subject of this film was so admired. This film does O'Neill and his work justice. The readings of his plays from Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Liam Neeson and others are fantastic. Jason Robards who performed in the original productions of some O'Neill plays says some great words on theater acting. This is yet another great work from Burns. Very moving and inspiring in its depth of exploration of such a powerful figure as O'Neill. DVD Review: Fascinating yet heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a must for O'Neill's devotees. I teach high school English and have been surprised to find none of his plays in any American literature text our school uses. He is the preeminent American playwright. I especially appreciated the comments by the late Arthur Miller.DVD Review: American Experience - Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
Summary: 5 Stars
American Experience - Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
Utterly moving, well made documentary about America's first and greatest playwright. Written by Barbara and Arthur Gelb, the difinitive biographers of O'Neill. Narrated by Christopher Plummer (none finer)and both the Gelbs - with tour-de-force acting from excerpts of O'Neill's works by Al Pacino, Jason Robards, Zoe Caldwell, Liam Neeson, Robert Sean Leonard, Vanessa Redgrave. Additional narration by no less than two of the former Deans of the Yale School of Drama (arguably the finest in the country): Robert Brustien and the late Lloyd Richards. As an acting major at the Yale School of Drama(66), I had the privilege to peruse a few pages of O'Neill's original manuscripts. (O'Neill's works are housed in the Yale Bieneke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.)
DVD Review: American Experience - Eugene O'Neill
Summary: 5 Stars
Built around the idea of what it costs in emotional and psychological terms to be an artist, Ric Burns's captivating docu-portrait is disquieting rather than celebratory, and ultimately quite moving. O'Neill's cathartic personal struggles, like those of so many creative minds, fed into plays like "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "The Iceman Cometh," but exacted a hefty toll on the man himself. Kushner and theater director Brustein highlight what made O'Neill's unrelentingly savage moral vision so effective--and his technique unmatched--while Pacino, Redgrave, and Zoe Caldwell demonstrate why the finest actors always sought to interpret his works.
Description of American Experience - Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
The author of such innovative works as "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night," Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O?Neill wrote 20 long plays in fewer than 25 years. Much of his writing was influenced by his troubled childhood and relationships. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production, by award-winning director Ric Burns, tells O'Neill's turbulent story from his childhood to his painful death at the age of 65.General DVDs
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