Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
by Michael Winterbottom
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Actor: Jeremy Northam, Keeley Hawes, Rob Brydon, Shirley Henderson, Steve CooganDirector: Michael Winterbottom
Brand: HBO HOME VIDEO
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Producer: Anita Overland
Producer: David M. Thompson
Producer: Henry Normal
Producer: Jeff Abberley
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Writer: Laurence Sterne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: HBO Home Video
Product features:
- Michael Winterbottom's TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY is a rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Crammed with literary jokes and dark humor, and aided by stellar performances by Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon and Naomie Harris, Shandy's warped tales reveal far more abou
DVD Reviews of Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
DVD Review: Very memorable
Summary: 5 Stars
A great film, interesting and thought provoking without taking itself too seriously, whatever some other reviews may say. It isn't the usual but there's far too much of that anyway. I do accept it may not be every one's cup of tea, for me one of my favorite films of the last decade.DVD Review: a horrible mixture
Summary: 2 Stars
We have more conversation between the actors than we have
of the fictionalization here.
The acting may be good what there is of it:
just hard to find with all the stuff that isn't really the movie?
I gave up on it after about a third of the way
since it never seemed to get past the birth
of Tristram Shandy.
DVD Review: Thankfully, I borrowed the public library copy (details)
Summary: 2 Stars
This film evolves from the novel (by Sterne) "...which could never be made into a film." It still has not.
We have two elements here:
1. A contemporary attempt (morbidly unsuccessful) to replicate the humor of Monty Python, and,
2. A sort of an abysmal "anti-film."
More important is perhaps what this movie is not: a film conveyance of the novel "Tristram Shandy." Most of the scenes concern the PRODUCTION of the film with clips of supposed British wit as the actors and the production crew interact in an impromptu fashion. The entire result is embarrassingly pathetic and, while I personally thought that Monty Python was roll-in-the-floor hilarious, this flick is devoid of practically any levity at all.
So unless you can generate a laugh out of watching a window fall, mashing a post-toddler's fake penis, I'd definitely pass this one by.
Not recommended.
DVD Review: Mere Waste of Time
Summary: 2 Stars
It is a next example of English humour famous for its very specific worldwide.
Staging story of Old Britain mixes surrounding with characters' affairs.
The most memorable is the non-stoppable scenes of giving birth, not overshadowed with a natural process of lovemaking preceding.
DVD Review: Garbage dressed up as postmodernism
Summary: 1 Stars
This film is dire, self-satisfied, pretentious and - more importantly -dull. A 90 minute examination of Steve Coogan's (fictionalized?) ego is only clever and postmodern if you happen to be Steve Coogan or a member of his immediate family. Is he a bigger star than Rob Brydon? Will he cheat on his wife with the pretty assistant? I don't care and neither should you. The only question I am interested in is why Michael Winterbottom saw fit to touch this steaming pile of smug middle class turd when he could have been making another film with a point and a social conscience, qualities with which he is more usually associated. Shame on you Michael, you let your famous friends turn your head.
Description of Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
Michael Winterbottom?s TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY is a rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Crammed with literary jokes and dark humor, and aided by stellar performances by Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon and Naomie Harris, Shandy?s warped tales reveal far more about himself than any conventional autobiography.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Extended takes
Interviews
Theatrical Trailer
Michael Winterbottom is no stranger to literary adaptation. Both Jude and The Claim were drawn from works by Thomas Hardy. Nor is the versatile filmmaker a stranger to the post-modern romp, like 24 Hour Party People. In that paean to Manchester's music scene, Steve Coogan was Factory honcho Tony Wilson. In Winterbottom's take on Laurence Sterne's digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the prolific helmer combines literature with lunacy and brings Coogan back as the titular character--and then some. Coogan doesn't just portray the 18th century squire, but his father Walter and insecure actor "Steve Coogan." It's a film about the making of a film, effortlessly shifting between Tristram's tumultuous birth and his frustrated adulthood--bogged down in the writing of his life story--and between fiction and (what appears to be) fact. There are no end to the worries on and off the set: Coogan worries his heels aren't high enough, Rob Brydon worries his teeth are too yellow, and Coogan's girlfriend (Kelly Macdonald) worries she isn't seeing enough of him. It may sound like Spike Jonze's Adaptation, but in spirit, it more closely resembles Tony Richardson's Tom Jones. Coogan and his co-stars, particularly Naomie Harris as the ultimate film nut, Gillian Anderson as the American brought in to boost the project's profile, and Brydon as Tristram's Uncle Toby are as game for the challenge as their fearless leader. Consequently, Tristram Shandy isn't just one of Winterbottom's best films--it's one of the year's best. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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