Carnivale: The Complete First Season
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Actor: Guy Chapman (II), Hot PieBrand: CARNIVALE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Russian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video
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- 1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pistilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over, man will forever trade away wonder for reason. See the conflict of goo
DVD Reviews of Carnivale: The Complete First Season
DVD Review: The Best Mini-Series ever done!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Carnivale is one of the best examples of perfection in casting, set design and furnishings, costumes and cinematography available today! The story is an excellent example of top-shelf screenwriting and the direction is superb. The only regret I have about this too short series is that it had to end after only two season because of a lack of funds. If I ever win the lottery or come into any serious money I will pay to have it completed - it is that good!!! A must watch and a great teacher for any serious film-makerCarnivale: The Complete First Two SeasonsCarnivale: The Complete Second SeasonCarnivale: The Complete First SeasonCarnivale [Blu-ray]!DVD Review: warning: spoilers in DVD commentary for episode 1 season 1!
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, a warning if you haven't seen the whole series yet - wait until you watch the whole series before listening to the director/writer commentary on episode 1 of season 1. Unfortunately they seem to assume everyone has done this, and let loose with a couple of big spoilers even within the first 15 minutes (at which point I turned it off since I've only made it 2/3 through season 1 so far, and what they said was complete news to me!). They really should've put a warning at the beginning of the commentary that they would be trigger-happy with the spoilers, that they were going to be talking in a "series-specific" context and not an "episode-specific" context.
I've seen the first 8 out of 12 eps of season 1, and so far I rate this 5 out of 5. Exceptional writing, acting, directing. They capture amazingly the world of traveling carnivals out west during the dust bowl / great depression. Really interesting, well-rounded characters. If you're frustrated by drawn-out story arcs and plot lines though, a la Lost, this series may not be for you. Myself, I love the involving mythology and the pacing works perfectly for me. For me, this ranks along with Lost and Firefly as some of the best television of the past decade.
DVD Review: another great show from HBO
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not really a TV guy, but a friend of mine told me I'd like this one and he was right. Very smart writing, good characters, and amazing actors.
If you enjoy shows like Deadwood, with somewhat "deep" characters and amazing scenery/sets/acting, you'll love this. It's about much more than a carnival during the Great Depression. It's a good coming of age story that a lot of people will relate to.
DVD Review: String Along
Summary: 2 Stars
I watched this series based on Amazon recommendations. The series reminds me of a long string along movie where you hope it gets good but doesn't and then has a big let down ending. There is some interesting sex parts and lots of twisted love triangles but that was all it had good. The entire first season was slow to get the plot going. Overall a big let down. Would not buy the season or bother to watch it or recommend it to anyone. Stephen King's The Stand was better than this series with a similar plot of good vs evil.DVD Review: Dust Bowl 1934
Summary: 5 Stars
I just love Carnivale, it takes you on a journey back in time, magical, mistical, good vs evil. The great depression, a young man is drawn into the world of Carnivale. I watch one episode every night. I am hooked. I watched it on HBO five years ago, and am loving it today. I also bought season 2. a much darker version, but also very good.
Description of Carnivale: The Complete First Season
1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pistilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over, man will forever trade away wonder for reason. See the conflict of good vs. evil played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:3 Audio Commentaries with Creator Daniel Knauf, Executive Producer Howard Klein and Directors Rodrigo Garcia and Jeremy Podeswa
Featurette:"Making of Carnivale" Featurette detailing how set and costume designers collaborated to achieve the look of the Dustbowl in the 1930s
Carniv?le doesn't waste any time making its--wildly ambitious--aims clear. As carnival manager Samson (Michael J. Anderson, Twin Peaks' diminutive backwards-talker) notes in pilot episode "Milfay," directed by Rodrigo Garc?a (son of Gabriel Garc?a Marquez), "To each generation [is] born a creature of light and a creature of darkness." With that the story begins. The year is 1934, the setting the Oklahoma dustbowl. In short order, Ben Hawkins (In the Bedroom's Nick Stahl) loses his mother and his home. He's poor, he's alone--he needs a job. So he joins Samson's carnival, en route to the West. Hawkins, naturally, is the good guy. Waiting for him in California is the not so good Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown, The Shawshank Redemption), a fire and brimstone preacher with supernatural powers and a fiercely loyal sister (Amy Madigan). Hawkins, as it turns out, has similar powers....
Created by Daniel Knauf (Wolf Lake), Carniv?le feels like David Lynch (weird, slow, occasionally kinky), plays like American Gothic (Shaun Cassidy's cult series about a good kid and an evil sheriff), and looks like John Ford's Grapes of Wrath. It features one of television's most colorful casts of characters. They include Sophie (Clea DuVall), who reads fortunes--with her comatose mother's assistance, the vaguely sinister Lodz (Patrick Bauchau), blind absinthe-drinker and mentalist (he can see both the future and the past), and Ruthie (Adrienne Barbeau), snake charmer, strongman's mother, and all-around maternal figure. By the final episode of the season ("The Day That Was the Day"), also directed by Garc?a, one of these characters will be dead. Carniv?le won five richly deserved technical Emmys for its first year, including awards for cinematography and art direction. Like HBO's edgy Deadwood, it's period drama for people who don't normally like period drama. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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