C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
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Actor: Anton RodgersBrand: GAIAM AMERICAS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 54 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Good Times Video
Movie Reviews of C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
Movie Review: Imagination Reflects Heavenly Truth
Summary: 5 Stars
I was prepared not to like this DVD, as it seemed to be yet another attempt to tie into Lewisania and the recent film of the Chronicles of Narnia. After all, what could be the point of a DVD that lasts only an hour, and what could be said that hasn't already been said? But this film instantly drew me in and quickly disarmed me. It's not a documentary in the general sense of the word, but is built around Anton Rogers, as C. S. Lewis, recalling his life, and segues into various scenes.
Anton Rogers plays Lewis far better than Anthony Hopkins, and instead of sets, the shots are on location at Oxford, including the Eagle and Child pub where Lewis met with "Tollers" (J.R.R. Tolkien), Charles Williams and the other writers and friends known as the Inklings. My title comes from one of the numerous great lines Rogers says throughout the film, which seems largely drawn from Lewis' two autobiographies, Surprised By Joy and All My Road Before Me, as well as A Grief Observed, which he wrote after his wife Joy's death, and originally published under a pseudonym.
The last was a difficult time for Lewis, and the handling here, while necessarily telegraphic in such a brief film, is better than in Shadowlands, where it was played solely for effect. I found the ending somewhat unsatisfactory, but it's probably difficult to tie up at that point when in fact Lewis wrote more books and lectured for some time after. This film assumes one has read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and refers to it as the first Narnian Chronicle, which it originally was, having been written in 1950. The recent reordering of the books to follow chronological events in Narnia has caused some confusion, but of course, all one needs to do is read them in the old order. That said, this DVD is like opening the wardrobe again, as it takes one further up and further in, beyond Narnia.
Summary of C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
NOW MEET C.S. LEWIS, AN EXTRAORDINARY CREATIVE FORCE, IN THIS ENGAGING BIOGRAPHY, FILMED IN OXFORD, ENGLAND, WHERE HE LIVED,WORKED AND IMAGINED 'THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE,' 'THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW' AND THE OTHER TALES THAT MAKE UP THEBELOVED 'CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.'Similar DVD Movies
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