Wilde (Special Edition)
by Brian Gilbert
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Actor: Gemma Jones, Jennifer Ehle, Jude Law, Stephen Fry, Vanessa RedgraveDirector: Brian Gilbert
Brand: Sony
Producer: Alan Howden
Producer: Alex Graham
Producer: Deborah Raffin
Producer: Marc Samuelson
Writer: Julian Mitchell
Writer: Oscar Wilde
Writer: Richard Ellmann
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Wilde (Special Edition)
DVD Review: Steven Fry horribly miscast as Wilde
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall this was a good film, but it was irksome to see the beautiful Oscar Wilde portrayed by the corpulent and homely Steven Fry. DVD Review: Good Entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
I had already seen the movie years ago. Always liked it and still do, even though now I see Stephen Fry's performance as not so brilliant. But it's still worth seeing it, especially for Vanessa Redgrave's performance. Superb as always!DVD Review: FLAWLESS
Summary: 5 Stars
... I see this flawlessly brilliant film through the eyes of a multimedia creatively gifted 57 year old Gay man, and it deserves my highest reccomendation. Above all, Life has taught me that if you haven't really lived an experience, you can not really understand it. I understand this film all too well, and it's as blindingly brilliant to me as staring at the noonday sun, remembering so many full moons. History has hidden the nevertheless relentless facts that Gay Men slammed Western "Civilization" with Democracy (Aristogeiton & Harmodius), The Renaissance (the usual gang of suspects), The Enlightenment (Sir Francis Bacon, and The Digital Information and Communications Technology Regvolution which finally globally liberated Free Speech (Sir Alan Turing). At every turn, we have been Humanity's Conscience and Salvation against the systemic mass-murderous stupidity, ignorance, cowardice and evil which, by 2008, has reached inevitable Endgame.
Oscar Wilde's greatest triumph, above so very many others, was his ineluctable love of a spoiled young aristocrat. This film explicates the sinuous Gordian Knot which had to eventually unravel, dropping the Sword of Damocles through his throat. To have risked one's own Life and sanity for such a passionate Love is wholly beyond the comprehension of those who have not lived that experience, much less lived through it more than once, as have I. At the moment when we each inevitably realise that Death has tapped us on the shoulder, it is the things we did not do that we regret.
A Life lived as Art Itself bequeaths a Gestalt far beyond the sum of its individual components; mainstream people can merely manage a laboratory-created Chatham emerald envious green. Oscar Wilde is a stellar component of the constellation of My Tribe's Heritage and Legacy, which shall forever surmount, well, what is always better surmounted. Oscar, We Love Ye ... Huzzahs all 'round.
DVD Review: A Reliable Version
Summary: 4 Stars
Brian Gilbert's "Wilde" stands as a realiable version of the Irish writer's later years. Wilde's relationship with Alfred Douglas, Robert Ross, his wife Constance and many other characters is consistent, and agrees with reports left by contemporaries who knew well Oscar Wilde and his circle. Good performances by Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Michael Sheen and Tom Wilkinson. The latter, as the marquis of Queensberry, is outstanding - although portraying such a clich?ed character is obviously a much easier task than, say, the ambiguity of Wilde himself or the never too well explained behaviour of Constance Wilde. Art direction is superb and manages to take us into the very rooms where action takes place in a most natural manner. Vanessa Redgrave makes a short apparition, though she fails to capture Wilde's mother eccentricities properly, as well as the influence she had on her son's life. DVD Review: Top Notch!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I could watch this gem over and over. Stephen Frye is brilliant as Wilde. He is charming, sweet, endearing, and utterly believable. I was shocked that Jude Law (who is heterosexual) could do such a convincing job of acting the part of a gay man. The scenes between the two were poignant, passionate, provocative, and very capable of provoking a visceral response from the viewer. It IS a love story and not a biography of Wilde...which is exactly what it is intended to be. Pooh on those who dissed it because it focused more on Wilde's love for Bozie and not as much on his talent as a writer and poet. There are so few homosexual love stories as tasteful and aesthetic as this one and I cherish it. If you wish to watch a tender, tragic, tasteful love story between two gay men, this is a must see.
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: RDrama DVDs
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