Gormenghast
by Andy Wilson
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Actor: Christopher Lee, Ian Richardson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Stephen Fry, Zoë WanamakerDirector: Andy Wilson
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Al Burgess
Producer: Estelle Daniel
Producer: Hilary Salmon
Producer: Michael Wearing
Producer: Rebecca Eaton
Writer: Malcolm McKay
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Unknown
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2675
Studio: BBC Worldwide
Product features:
- A charismatically evil kitchen boy threatens the power of a thousand-year-old dynasty in this fantastic presentation of theic novels by Mervyn Peake. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 794051267528 UPC: 794051267528 Manufacturer No: E2675
Movie Reviews of Gormenghast
Movie Review: Gormenghast, a great mini-series from great novels
Summary: 5 Stars
The Groans have ruled over the earldom of Gormenghast for seventy-six generations. Just as the future seventy-seventh Earl, Titus, is being born, rebellion rears its head in Castle Gormenghast, within whose walls dwell a collection of madmen and grotesques.
This BBC mini-series retells Mervyn Peake's epic fantasy novels, Titus Groan and Gormenghast, in a very faithful treatment. This one is a must-see for those who have read the novels, and for those that haven't, it presents a wonderful tail of romance, betrayal, comedy and treachery.
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Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 09/26/06
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
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Dubbed: no
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The BBC's lavish, glowingly designed adaptation of Mervyn Peake's eccentrically brilliant novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast is a triumph of casting. Ian Richardson's Lear-like depiction of the mad earl of a remote, vast, ritual-obsessed building is matched by the brutal pragmatism of Celia Imrie as his wife, the synchronized madness of Zoë Wanamaker and Lynsey Baxter as his twin sisters, and the duplicitous charm of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike, the kitchen-boy determined to take over no matter how many deaths it costs. John Sessions is surprisingly touching as Prunesquallor, the family doctor who realizes almost too late what Steerpike intends.
It is always tricky to film a book dear to the hearts of its admirers. Wilson and his design team achieve a look rather more pre-Raphaelite than Peake's own illustrations--shabby velvets, garish sunlight, and dank, stone passages. The score by Richard Rodney Bennett is full of attractive surprises--fanfares and waltzes and apotheoses--and John Tavener's choral additions are plausibly parts of the immemorial ritual of Gormenghast. --Roz Kaveney
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