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Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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October 13, 2014 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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February 7, 2006 "Please retry" | O-ring | 1 |
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Genre | Drama |
Format | Widescreen, NTSC, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color |
Contributor | Susan Jones, Meryl Streep, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Dora Doll, Fred Zinnemann, Hal Holbrook, Lillian Hellman, Alvin Sargent, John Glover, Jane Fonda, Elisabeth Mortensen, Lisa Pelikan, Vanessa Redgrave, Rosemary Murphy See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 57 minutes |
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Product Description
Playwright Lillian Hellman recalls World War II, her best friend and writer Dashiell Hammett. Best supporting Oscars for Redgrave and Jason Robards.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : Relay Time: 118 min
- Director : Fred Zinnemann
- Media Format : Widescreen, NTSC, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color
- Run time : 1 hour and 57 minutes
- Release date : February 7, 2006
- Actors : Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B0007ZEOPK
- Writers : Alvin Sargent, Lillian Hellman
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #15,254 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,493 in Drama DVDs
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This was exactly what I was hoping for when I began this retrospective. I wanted an amazing story told in an amazing way. Something to make me think, a puzzle to contemplate. From the opening scene to the beautiful final frame I was enthralled. While "Farewell My Lovely" was great I gave it five stars because I felt it accomplished its noble goals. "Julia" was just objectively fantastic. My top two favorite movies of all time are "Memento" directed by Christopher Nolan and "Mulholland Drive" directed by David Lynch. I rob those movies of nothing mentioning "Julia" in the same breath.
The skill of this director is unmatched by many I have seen. It was the first of his for me and I hope it won't be my last. A good example of his abilities, other than the amazing use of the camera to show me the story, comes in the train scenes. Constant droning, like the tracks, the steam that sounded like everything could go wrong at any time, the close ups, the silencing of the music which was ubiquitous to that point. All of this came together to put me on that train but more importantly to feel the paranoia.
Jane Fonda was stellar! She needed few words to convey emotion. Today female leads are usually there to appeal to the feminist and alienate males. I could completely relate to Lillian as Fonda tapped universal emotions that anyone could relate to. I'm no feminist and I don't believe "Julia" is a feminist film. Effeminate strength, which I am well equanted with having grown up with a strong grandmother and two aunts, was on display and I was so glad to see someone be female and show strength without having to imitate a male.
There was indeed a pro socialist slant. Hagel, Marks, and the proletarian dream in Vienna, that is to say the time and place for the arts, was all there as part of Julia's education. We see her struggle with the Fascist wave in France. In a flashback we see Lillian was into the glamor and the jet setting. Julia had to scold her for "not listening" which really meant "you don't care" like a good old activist presenting her credentials for moral superiority. An interesting aside: the problem with Fascists was that they were at the seat of power. Interesting that the problem with communists/socialists was when they were at the seat of power. Look at ANTIFA today (anti-fascists like Julia in ideology not actions) their solution: silence opposition with violence. The problem is more that of anthropology than idiology. Humanity seems to be the issue more so than how it is governed by the few. So susceptible to corruption. More on Julia later but I'll just say that her bent toward idiology made the movie intellectually stimulating and was never used to try to persuade the audience to embrace her views.
The Music was pitch perfect! If you have followed this retrospective you understand how important that is to me.
This movie will never be remade as no one in Hollywood today smart enough to make anything like this.
Later we discover that Julia is a force for good against the Nazis. In some sense we are to see that her socialist training prepared her for this. She is smart enough to be morally good as a socialist (after all she understood Einstein and was going to work for Sigmund Freud!) that we can trust her instincts. In truth education has hardly been the cause of good moral behavior. Ironically the Nazis were comprised of some of the most educated the world had ever seen to this point and today it's not hard to find a campus ethicist that couldn't justify almost any axiological supposition. It's important to note though that this merely betrays the assumptions of the movie's creator's unlike today where one is expected to go through rigorous indoctrination as one watches a movie. Don't believe me? Watch "The Deep End" or "Contact" as an example. You'll see. In the end it is edifying to the audience to see their intelligence respected this way.
"Julia" is not a perfect movie. There were obvious camera work flaws as well as anachronisms that are apparent on first viewing along with some editing stumbles.
I felt that the friendship between Julia and Lillian was a little forced and never had the emotional impact the film wanted me to feel.
Despite its flaws I will say that I was impressed. I will show respect for the film by offering no pro/con list. I fleshed out all points in the film that I wanted to make. I'm just thrilled I found such a wonderful movie!
Author and Play writer Lillian Hellman (JANE FONDA) is living with self absorbed author Dachiell Hammett (The Thin Man /Maltese Falcon). She struggles with her plots. Hammett is both her lover and biggest critic. Lillian has a series of flashbacks to her youth where her best friend Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) lives with her Grandparents in a wealthy affluent lifestyle. Hints of a lesbian relationship are "hinted" at but never confirmed but the love and trust apparent. Julia heads to England to become a doctor and later ends up in Vienna where she secretly joins "anti fascist" groups to combat the Nazis. When Lillian has a best selling play The Children's Hour ends up in Europe and decides to look up Julia~ who is in a hospital. Lillian is forced to leave and continues to communicate her new more exciting life in letters to Julia. Now wealthy and affluent....Lillian head to Vienna to meet up with Julia. a mysterious man meets and ask Lillian to take on a dangerous mission at the request of Julia~ "smuggle money" to Julia so help bribe the Nazis to help Jews and Communists escape~ Julia boards a train where a hat has money hidden in it~ America is neutral and she is allowed to travel VIA Berlin where she meets up with Julia. She is shocked to find Julia has a wooden leg that was the result brawl with some Nazi Brown Shirts. The hat and wooden leg are the hiding places for the money exchange. Lillian crosses to Moscow to on the last phase of her Play "tour"....but Julia has one more secret.....a daughter left with a baker in France....a telegram has Lillian back in London where the body of "Julia" is shipped after being "murdered" by the Nazis for her "underground Anti Nazi activities" and Lillian spends weeks searching France hoping to find the missing daughter of Julia named Lilly. The suspense of Jewish Lillian traveling into Nazi Germany is excellent with the tension by director Fred Zinnemann who gives us a visual delight with every scene. This is an excellent plot. Jane Fonda is first rate as the insecure Lillian Hellman. Vanessa Redgrave is first rate as Julia who has a very secret life....which takes over her life and gets her killed. Jason Robards as Hammett and Maximillian Schell as Mr. Johan the passer of messages from Julia. Oscar wins for Both Redgrave and Robards. Look for a young brunette Meryl Streep as the pushy "snooty" friend of Lillian .....this was her first acting role. 5 STARS all the way.
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Cine Avenida. Hoy dia ya no existe. Nunca me olvide de esta pelicula hasta que la busque en dvd en España ya que en algunos paises europeos ( alemania) no ha sido publicada. Es maravillosa.
Vanessa Redgrave reste un personnage très flou dans le cinéma, est-elle sympathisante nazi ou bien les combat-elle ? Rien n'affirme qu'elle soit d'un camp ou d'un autre.
En ce qui concerne Meryl Streep, elle ne compte vraiment pas pour elles !
der Film ist sehr gut,
leider kein deutsch auf der DVD. Sie ist im Regionalcode 1 (USA) gebrannt. Es läßt sich allerdings fast jeder DVD Player auf den Regionalcode einstellen, entweder im Menü einstellbar, Gebrauchsanleitung oder noch besser googlen im Internet. Hier gibt es für jedes Gerät die Anleitung bzw. Einstelltips, dann klappt das abspielen, wenn auch nur in einer Fremdsprache.