The Village (Widescreen Vista Series)
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Actor: Adrien Brody, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William HurtBrand: PHOENIX,JOAQUIN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX; French (Original Language), Unknown; French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Movie Reviews of The Village (Widescreen Vista Series)
Movie Review: Ivy's strength & courage are remarkable.....
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is frakkin' *brilliant* on so many levels-- not the least of which are the Games the well meaning Village elders are playing (and conspire to continue to play) on their own children to continue to enjoy an idyllic, but ultimately unreal world of relative calm, peace & tranquility themselves. Who are the real monsters when the adults are willing to not just lie, but LIVE a lie, for their own ends?
Given the context of Ivy's belief system, her courage is truly remarkable- being willing to go into & through the woods, blind & on her own for her loved one is the real, unrecognized strength of this story.
The scene between Bryce Dallas Howard (as Ivy-- what an extraordinarily beautiful person she plays!) & Joaquin Phoenix (as Lucius) on the porch at night is why I watch movies-- pure poetry for the eye, ear, mind & heart-- and the comment, almost in an off hand way, that we do not touch those who we really have feelings for is breathtakingly insightful.
I applaud the director's courage in making this movie. If you like this, you may also enjoy Signs & Unbreakable.
Summary of The Village (Widescreen Vista Series)
M. Night Shyamalan (SIGNS, UNBREAKABLE, THE SIXTH SENSE), the director who brought you the world's greatest thrillers on DVD, now creates his most thought-provoking triumph yet ... breaking international records and dazzling audiences around the globe! THE VILLAGE is a smart, edge-of-your-seat chiller crawling with terrifying surprises and frightening twists and turns. An isolated, tight-knit community lives in mortal fear of an oppressive evil inhabiting the forbidden forest just beyond their tiny village. So frightening that no one ventures into the woods ... until one villager dares to face the unknown. With unforgettable performances from Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Adrien Brody, and newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard, this powerful motion picture is one of Hollywood's best psychological thrillers and ranks with the best of Hitchcock!Even when his trademark twist-ending formula wears worrisomely thin as it does in The Village, M. Night Shyamalan is a true showman who knows how to serve up a spookfest. He's derailed this time by a howler of a "surprise" lifted almost directly from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Cliff Robertson that originally aired in 1961. Even if you're unfamiliar with that Rod Serling scenario, you'll have a good chance of guessing the surprise, which ranks well below The Sixth Sense and Signs on Shyamalan's shock-o-meter. That leaves you to appreciate Shyamalan's proven strengths, including a sharp eye for fear-laden compositions, a general sense of unease, delicate handling of fine actors (alas, most of them wasted here, save for Bryce Dallas Howard in a promising debut), and the cautious concealment of his ruse, which in this case involves a 19th-century village that maintains an anxious truce with dreadful creatures that live in the forbidden woods nearby. Will any of this take anyone by genuine surprise? That seems unlikely, since Emperor Shyamalan has clearly lost his clothes in The Village, but it's nice to have him around to scare us, even if he doesn't always succeed. --Jeff Shannon
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