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DVD : Don't Look NowIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato directed by: Nicolas Roeg  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 You Save: $7.99 (53%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)Binding: DVD Brand: Paramount EAN: 9780792179269 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792179269 Label: Paramount Manufacturer: Paramount Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 03, 2002 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: 1974-01 Sales Rank: 2683 MPN: PARD087044D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Nicolas Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. This intensely erotic and macabre film boasts outstanding performances by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. Amazon.com essential video: Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now once seemed radically new with its kaleidoscopic imagery, dreamlike editing, and willingness to let mystery be mysterious on several levels of reality/illusion--plus art-house darling Julie Christie in a long, nude love scene! Nowadays, this 1974 adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier ghost story looks almost classical. Following the drowning of their child in England, Laura (Christie) and John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) have come to dank, eternally dying Venice, where he is supervising the restoration of a moldering church and she is either slipping into or climbing out of madness with the help of a pair of creepy spinster sisters, one of whom can "see" even though blind. John may share this psychic power, though he resists accepting it as the canals fill with murder victims, surface realities turn shimmery as water, and a red-coated figure--the daughter's ghost?--keeps flickering in the corner of our vision. Though surreal and perplexing, the film does eventually add up, and the ending remains a real throat-grabber. --Richard T. Jameson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - great ingredients but not quite emiril dishDVD: Don't Look Now: Assuming you want horror/suspense, you could not have finer ingredients. Great actors, author(s), cinematography, Venice scenes, psychic phenomena. But, (besides a little too much butt) the continuity just was'nt there in our opinion. Lovely boats tho. Twoseniorcitizens Rating: - Still creepy after all these yearsI saw this film when it first came out and found it...well, creepy. Now, having found it on the library shelf I thought I'd see how I'd like it. Actually I did find it more tolerable this time--less scary, but it was awfully long and I lost interest about two thirds of the way through. The cinematography is gorgous and there's a lot of beauty in the film, lots of shots of the splendid old churches. It just didn't work for me. It is supposed to be extremely mysterious, with all of the dark, decaying ... Read More Rating:  - Death in VeniceNicholas Roeg's 1973 DON'T LOOK NOW may be one of the single best studio films produced during the great so-called Hollywood Renaissance of 1969-1977; it certainly is one of the most influential. Using Daphne du Maurier's brilliantly ambiguous and mysterious novella as its base, Roeg uses her ghost story to produce what is really a meditation on time and space and the way in which fiction (and particularly film) structure our epistemological awareness of them both. The primary setting is Venice during the ... Read More Rating: - Magnificent atmosphere, but the climax is a problemDevastated by the death of their young daughter, an architect and his wife (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) spend some time in Venice, where the wife becomes convinced that a pair of sisters (Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania) has the psychic ability to contact the dead girl. The husband, however, tries to remain coolly rational about the situation, even as evidence mounts that he may have the gift himself. It all culminates in a startling conclusion. I find I have to evaluate this film ... Read More Rating:  - Slow.....It's bad, when about halfway through the movie, I wanted it to end. I don't mind a slow movie if it leads up to something incredible. The ending was NOT scary, and it was so anti-climatic that I was expecting more. THIS IS IT???? Positives: Some good suspense, which seemingly had nothing to do with the story.. Julie Christie naked I'm not a fan of gore or anythign like that, I really do like a good suspenseful movie. This one just does not deliver. Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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