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4-Disc Set
DVD
1987 -
Release Date: 02/26/2008
Time:
218
mins.
Label: Criterion Collection
DVD Features:
4-Disc Set
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: "The Italian Traveler"
Audio Commentary: Bernardo Bertolucci - Director; Jeremy Thomas - Producer; Ryuichi Sakamoto - Composer; Mark Peploe - Screenwriter
Behind the Scenes: Making Of
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Interviews:
1. Bernardo Bertolucci - Director (30 mins; on BBC's "The Late Show)
2. David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Composers
Additional Products:
Booklet
Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi, the Manchurian emperor of China who ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of three, is a prisoner in the palace he rules over. Outside, real power changes hands with each coup d'etat. Pu Yi grows to manhood, is tutored by a Westerner (Peter O'Toole), and marries a gorgeous princess (Joan Chen). However, the adult Pu Yi (John Lone) is destined for a communist reeducation camp when the war is over. From start to finish, Pu Yi is a passive antihero who can never come to grips with the idea that the absolute power conferred on him as a child was only a mirage. The mistakes Pu Yi made trying to realize that power, especially collaborating with the Japanese during the war, provide Bertolucci with the chance to explore his familiar theme of collaboration and its moral consequences (as he did in THE CONFORMIST and 1900). In the end, Pu Yi seems to have reached a kind of peace, and the terrible waste of a special man's life disappears into a drab, grey-clad Beijing.
Cast:
"...Numbingly beautiful....Sumptuous chinoiserie..." -- Rating: B+
-- Troy Patterson
, (Entertainment Weekly)
"...A film of unique, quite unsurpassed visual splendor, THE LAST EMPEROR makes for a fascinating trip to another world..." -- Cart. , (Variety) "...[The film] has the feel of other-worldliness, of science fiction..." -- Harlan Jacobson , (Film Comment) "...If you want a staggering and certainly singular movie experience, THE LAST EMPEROR will do very nicely..." -- Sheila Benson , (Los Angeles Times) "[T]here's no faulting the use of genuine locations, the magnificent costumes of Vittorio Storaro's breathtaking cinematography." -- Rob Leedham , (Total Film) 4 stars out of 5 -- "[D]izzyingly respendent....Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 heavyweight is, perhaps, the last known sighting of the old-school epic." -- Ian Nathan , (Empire)
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Criterion Collection
Blu-ray Disc
1987 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 01/06/2009
Time:
164
mins.
Label: Image Entertainment, Inc.
Blu-Ray Disc Features:
Audio:
DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Additional Footage - Bertolucci Video Images - China
Audio Commentary - Bernardo Bertolucci, Director; Jeremy Thomas, Producer;
Mark Peploe, Screenwriter; Ryuichi Sakamoto, Actor/Composer
Documentary - 1. THE CHINESE ADVENTURE OF BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
2. Behind The Scenes Design/Art Production
3. Making of THE LAST EMPEROR
Featurette - THE ITALIAN TRAVELER: BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI -
Fernand Mozskowicz, Director
Interview - Bernardo Bertolucci, Director - 1989; David Byrne, Composer;
Ian Buruma, Writer
Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Additional Product:
Booklet - Essay - David Thomson, Critic
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Criterion Collection/Special Edition
DVD
1987 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 11/18/2008
Time:
164
mins.
Label: Image Entertainment, Inc.
DVD Features:
Region 1
NTSC
Keep Case
Widescreen 16:9
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Subtitles - English SDH - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Bernardo Bertolucci, Director; Jeremy Thomas, Producer;
Mark Peploe, Screenwriter; Ryuichi Sakamoto-Composer/Actor
Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Additional Product:
Booklet- Essay - David Thomson, Critic
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