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Actor: Alice Beardsley, Howard Erskine, John Buckwalter, Marvin Chatinover, Ralph BellBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Primary Contributor: Mia Farrow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Zelig
DVD Review: offbeat and funny
Summary: 4 Stars
"Zelig" is one of the lesser seen movies of Woody Allen. His wit shines throughout. If you have a place in your heart for nostalgia and laugh out loud funny, get this movie.DVD Review: A Unique, Original Film by Woody Allen
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1983-mockumentary from director Woody Allen is one of his most fascinating, unique films. Allen portrays Leonard Zelig, a human chameleon who frequently appears during the course of history. The term chameleon never clicked with me while reading synopsis' of this film, but Zelig is quite literally a chameleon, having the ability to transform into people he's around making it easy to fit in with anyone; black, Jewish, doctors, etc. The plot, told with "old," narrated footage of Zelig and intercut with present-day "interviews," follows Zelig as he gains national attention for his remarkable ability. Doctors are baffled and eventually find themselves giving up on Zelig, with the exception of Dr. Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow), who thinks she can help him.
Allen incorporates himself into actual, historical footage throughout the film (the funniest being one involving Hitler) and he does it seamlessly. Considering Allen didn't have the digital technology of today, it's impressive how effortlessly and perfectly he had himself weaved into this pre-existing footage. Equally impressive though are the scenes filmed specifically for the film, which look and feel exactly like footage from the era. While the film sounds like it's driven by a gimmick, Allen never lets you in on the fact that it is a gimmick `cause every shot, every song just feels right.
The film blends Allen's filmmaking styles, with both his witty, subtle humor and some dramatic elements. While it's not exactly more "accessible" than other Allen films, it's experimental nature will appeal to non-Allen fans. There are films that share similar themes and attributes with Zelig, but it's one of Allen's most original films.
Overall, it's a fascinating and amusing entry in Allen's filmography. At only 71 minutes, Woody Allen gives us one of his most memorable creations. I don't think it's a perfect film, but it's so good that the bad isn't worth mentioning.
GRADE: A-
DVD Review: The Inventive Woody
Summary: 5 Stars
"Zelig" is presented in such a straight documentary format that you have to remind yourself this is not about an actual historical subject. Patrick Horgan so typifies the refined British narrator that he is able to incorporate some old gags with great ease. DVD Review: Humoristic dissection of the human mind
Summary: 5 Stars
Woody Allen stands, by far, as my favorite director of all times. I have seen all his movies, since I was a kid. Of course, there are the big ones, the masterpieces, but I find a great pleasure in some of his -for the mainstream- less known plays, such as Zelig.
This not comedy, this is pure genius in the understanding of human nature. It is Allen's essay of the desperate need of people to fit into society, to be accepted, to belong. This is the kind of movie that separate Allen for the ordinary and make him of the greatest genius of cinema.
Psychology in cinematic therms, I always consider Zelig as the ultimate dissection of the social distress: how an person needings to be part of something drive him to the point of eliminate his own individuality.
The movie's approach as a fake documentary is also one of the biggest achievements of Allen, a brilliant portrait of humanity.
DVD Review: SHOWING ONE'S TRUE COLORS
Summary: 5 Stars
Uproariously funny spoof of one Leonard Zelig, a totally ubiquitous sort,who effortlessly turns into types with whom he is associating. Filmed in 1930's newsreel style, with appropriate background music, and third party narration, it's Allen at his best, treading waters that anyone else would fear for slander. As psychiatrists attempt to diagnose his condition, Zelig is busy annnoying a Pope, coming between 2 presidents, changing nationalities, changing races,and stupifying the entire planet. It's a film for those who are still able to laugh at themselves and the human condition, at least for 90 minutes. This reviewer is surprised by the relative paucity of reviews, but not the qualityof the film thereof. Lighten up and enjoy!
Description of Zelig
Mr. Personality? Or Mr. Personality disorder? Find out in Woody Allen's madcap mockumentary about an identity crisis of hilarious proportions! Thematically intricate, technically complex and filled with some of the most astonishing special effects ever, Zelig is "pure magic" (Newsweek)! Nominated* for two Oscars?(r), this "work of breathtaking virtuosity" (Playboy) isfurther proof that Allen "is the premier American filmmaker of his day" (The New York Times)! Leonard Zelig (Allen) is a social quick-change artist whose neurotic insecurity forces him to mimicmentally and physicallywhomever he's with. Treated by Dr. Eudora Fletcher (Farrow), Zelig is slowly cured, and in the process goes from side-show freak to national celebrity to Eudoras fianc?(c)! But when misdeeds from Zelig's multiple-personality past start to surface (larceny, bigamy and an unauthorized appendectomy), the human chameleon is on the run again, and Eudora must search the world over to find and save the only man who's every man she's ever wanted!The thinking person's Forrest Gump, Woody Allen's 1983 Zelig is a funny, atmospheric mock-documentary about the collision of one man's manifest neuroses colliding with key moments in 20th-century history. Allen plays the title character, a self-effacing, timorous fellow with such a porous personality that he physically becomes a reflection of whoever he is with. Complex and painstaking, the film's pre-Gump special effects manage to place Allen, buried under a series of makeup and prosthetic guises, in a number of scenes along with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally, a pope at the Vatican, and famous guests at a garden party hosted by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Similar in tone and satire to some of Allen's short, comic pieces published in The New Yorker magazine, Zelig is a one-note movie that takes its delicious time establishing the fullness of its central joke. It's well worth the wait. --Tom Keogh
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