The Importance of Being Earnest - Criterion Collection
by Anthony Asquith
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Actor: Edith Evans, Michael Denison, Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Walter HuddDirector: Anthony Asquith
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
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Movie Review: One of my favs!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you love, classic British comedy, this is for you. Oscar Wilde's wit is hilariously interpreted. Edith Evans (Lady Bracknell) and Margaret Rutherford (Miss Prism) are a delight! And Joan Greenwood's plummy performance (Gwendolyn) is not to be missed! The play is my all time favorite: I see it every chance I get. I bought this dvd for those times when it's been too long since the last time I've seen it on stage. I have the 2002 re-make as well, but the classic is in a class of it's own.
Summary of The Importance of Being Earnest - Criterion Collection
Oscar Wilde's comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen. The Criterion Collection is proud to present The Importance of Being Earnest on DVD for the first time.If you're looking for the definitive example of dry British wit, look no further than The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course, it helps to have Oscar Wilde's beloved play as source material, but this exquisite adaptation has a charmed life of its own, with a perfectly matched director (Anthony Asquith was raised in the rarified, upper-class atmosphere of Wilde's play) and a once-in-a-lifetime cast. Mix these ingredients with Wilde's inimitable repartee, and you've got a comedic souffl? that's been cooked to perfection. Opening with a proscenium nod to its theatrical origins, the film turns Wilde's comedy of clever deception and mixed identities into a cinematic treat, and while the 10-member cast is uniformly superb, special credit must be given to Dame Edith Evans, reprising her stage role as the imperiously stuffy Lady Bracknell. To hear her Wilde-ly hilarious inflections and elongated syllables is to witness British comedy in its purest form, fully deserving of the royal Criterion treatment. --Jeff Shannon
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