Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 0738329027728 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Kino Video Manufacturer: Kino Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 01, 2003 Running Time: 104 minutes Sales Rank: 71314 Studio: Kino Video Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1974
Product Description: In the face of a modern urban life devoid of anything but an uninterrupted parade of dehumanizing compromise & disappointment stanley tenuously guards his fragile individuality in between gulps of booze. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 04/01/2003 Starring: Gene Wilder Karen Black Run time: 104 minutes Director: Tom Ohorgan
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Rating: - A Gift
This is a rare treat. I waited a long time to see this once more. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are a fantastic duo. This tops "The Producers."
Rating: - Is that a horn on your nose or are you just happy to see me?
Remember how in junior high science class taught you black is the absence of all color while white is the presence of all color. It never had any logic but I accepted it, although math class made it tough with negatives and positives (so far so good) and zero, the presence of nothing. Huh!
Well this film proved Zero is everything. Zero Mostel turns into a rhinoceros right before your eyes in a twenty five minute scene. Watch that about ten times. The first time just watch it, the second time watch Gene Wilder, who is perfect as the straight man, but who is so unaware of what's coming next, you can catch him grinning. The other eight time, realize there are no special effects and that Zero is like the careers of the entire silent era comedy people, plus Harpo Marx and Harry Ritz, condensed into less than a half hour.
This is not to put down the rest of the movie, although it is honest to ... Read More
Rating: - dreadful
This is a dreadful film which shows little understanding of the playwrights original intention and particularly the humor inherent in the original script. Instead the director and cast go for mugging, pratfalls and a wild and now hopelessly outdated "60's" feeling -
Rating: - Disappointing
One would think that the combination of Eugene Ionesco, Zero Mostel, and Gene Wilder would be a guaranteed success. Sadly, such is not the case with the American Film Theatre production of "Rhinoceros" as committed to film in 1974. While the theme of maintaining one's identity as everyone else goes along with the herd (originally a metaphor for Nazism, McCarthyism, etc.) is intact, Ionesco's text has been so altered that is is destroyed. Here it becomes subject to slapstick, poor unfunny added situations, exaggerated performances, and clumsy direction. The film has been criticized for "staginess," but that is not the real problem. It makes use of camera movement, external sets, etc.; it just has no rhythm. It is a trial to get through it--certainly not the case with Ionesco's original, either on stage or as read to one's self. Gene Wilder is always diverting but the character he portrays has been so tampered with ... Read More
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