The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1
by Daniel Attias, Jack Bender, Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Bronchtein, Martin Bruestle
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Actor: James GandolfiniDirector: Daniel Attias, Henry Bronchtein, Jack Bender, Martin Bruestle, Peter Bogdanovich
Brand: hbo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 93301
Studio: HBO Home Video
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- Several crises threaten Tony and his crew; for starters, rival boss Johnny Sack (Vince Curatola) is in prison, and the always-tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack?s surrogates. Then there are the inevitable power struggles that ensue when certain family members are eliminated, by natural and other causes.Running Time:
Movie Reviews of The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1
Movie Review: "The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls..."
Summary: 5 Stars
...so says the striking voice of William S. Burroughs, reading his philisophical poem of death & beyond ("Seven Souls") to begin this rich & twisting 12 episode narrative, part one of two. The poem is an appropriate choice, and attentive viewers will be rewarded by keeping it in mind while watching this final season.
This DVD, including Part-One only, puts our now very familiar hero on the road to transformation. Where exactly we find him at the end, celebrating Christmas wearing a French beret & witnessing his own son's transformation, each viewer must conclude for themselves.
The season begins, after a fast-paced hour ("Member's Only") involving a disturbing and comically miserable suicide, with Tony shot by his arch enemy and falling into a deep coma. There he finds himself stuck in a Southern California airport hotel, slowly loosing his identity and memory to become mixed up with a (imaginary?) solar heating systems salesman from Arizona named Kevin Finnerty. He awakes from his coma, returned to New Jersey, but feeling "not myself."
In the wake of the Boss's shooting, the men around Tony seem at first to be reenergized, but suddenly begin to face a painfully comic series of challenges to their crumbling facades of masculine strength, and subsequent crisis of identities. The linchpin here is the secretly homosexual Vito, who, exposed, flees to a gay paradise in a New Hampshire hamlet ("Live Free or Die"), surrounded by handsome, rugged motorcycle riding, gay volunteer fireman.
Here Vito too slips his skin before our eyes to become a happy, almost different person...only to sabotage himself, fleeing NH after enduring one honest day's work, shooting a poor homeowner on his drive back to NJ. We also witness Jonny Sack's public tears at his daughter's wedding, Silvio's hospitalizing asthma, Bobby submission to his wife and retreat to his toy train set, Paulie "You're doing a heck of a job" Walnuts, & "drop the knife" A.J. are all examples of this masculine projection collapsing. But Vito's outing is the most public and embarrassing for everyone.
This well worth the price 6th season DVD, with a very revealing audio commentary from Creator David Chase, continues The Sopranos' dramatization of a creeping sense of decline in modern American life. "Things are trendin' downward..." Tony observed to Dr. Melfi in the series 1999 premier. He said that while we see him read a newspaper headline, "Clinton Warns Medicare Could Be Bust By 2001." The character's dilemma here in 2006 resembles the very public collapse of the current White House administration's projections of unbending masculine strength, authority, and competence. I'm thinking specifically about the type of male character personified in the former secretary of defense, the vice president, and the president himself. Attempted personification, I guess I should say.
The current weak American dollar is mocked in the episode "Luxury Lounge." While Chris goes uncomprehendingly bananas for the free "swag" he sees being given away in Hollywood, the Italian assassins are flying home (in the final scene) laughing about the loot they have purchased cheap, taking advantage of the weak U.S. currency. David Chase is pointedly sitting across the aisle in this scene, going oversees himself.
But the real story remains Tony and his emotional reaction to the shooting. Whether his trauma has brought him real spiritual or moral insight, or the wisdom to avoid disaster for himself and his family, Part 2 should answer. But so far, Season 6 is probobly the best season since #3, and essential viewing for fans who have been following Tony Soprano's emotional life from the beginning...
Summary of The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1
The first part of the sixth season of the television program about the complicated life of New Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 11/07/06
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
The Sopranos, Season 6, Part 1 is the most contentious release yet in the acclaimed series' history. While many fans think it jumped the shark at the exact moment Vito said "I love you, Johnny Cakes"
Series creator David Chase seems to be saying with this season that character is destiny. If so, then Season Six, Part 1 is taking the necessary time to flesh out who these people really are, and is leaving the destiny part up for Part 2. The fact that the series? writers have been able to maintain such a strong show with so many interweaving storylines for so long is a feat not to be taken lightly. That said, this season of The Sopranos does deserve some of the criticism it's received: the Vito storyline would have been better served by resolving it in fewer episodes, and the season ending is the most unsatisfying one yet, leaving many fans wanting more. But the bottom line is that this season deserves more praise than criticism, proving that even at its weakest, The Sopranos is still the strongest show on TV.--Daniel Vancini
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