Topsy-Turvy (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
Gilbert & Sullivan & So Much More
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 29, 2011
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Allan Corduner & Jim Broadbent | |
Performer: | Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Ron Cook, Timothy Spall, Kevin McKidd, Alison Steadman, Katrin Cartlidge & Dexter Fletcher | |
Directed by | Mike Leigh | |
Edited by | Robin Sales | |
Music by | Sir Arthur Sullivan | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Leigh | |
Composition by | Carl Davis & Carl Davis | |
Produced by | Simon Channing Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Pope |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2000 -
Best Costume Design: Lindy Hemming
Academy Awards 2000 -
Best Makeup: Chris Blundell & Trefor Proud
Entertainment Reviews:
...What a merry revelation -- one of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise...
USA Today
...Beautiful to look at...as funny as it is poignant, TOPSY-TURVY boasts a handful of great supporting turns...
Total Film
Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's Ten Best Movies of 1999 -- A touching masterwork about the art of making art...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The real magic of this film is in the way most of the characters skillfully navigate their way around each other's sizable but fragile egos.
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Film Threat
Rating: 4/4 --
There is not an unrealized or extraneous character in the film, and I can't remember a movie that so completely studies the intricacies of bringing a production to the stage.
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Big Picture Big Sound
If you are a Gilbert and Sullivan buff, you will be in heaven. If you are not, the first thing you will need to know is that the film is nearly three hours long.
Houston Chronicle
The film runs out of momentum about two-thirds of the way through, but by then its exquisitely wrought human and historical detail- and its lavish servings of fine singing- have cast a lingering spell.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director's most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous period just before the conception and production of the pair's THE MIKADO (first staged in 1885), Leigh's film rings true with an authenticity that transports the audience back to Victorian England with remarkable ease. Leigh, who comes from an extensive theater background, researched this period in English history exhaustively, from etiquette to the costumes to the production numbers. Both Jim Broadbent (as the negative-minded William Schwenk Gilbert) and Allan Corduner (as the "genius," Arthur Sullivan) deliver impassioned, entirely believable performances, as do the supporting players--particularly Kevin McKidd, Lesley Manville, and Leigh regular Timothy Spall. Notably different from the director's previous brutally realistic, modern day examinations (such as NAKED and SECRETS AND LIES), Leigh's film bears genuine affection for the work of Gilbert & Sullivan, which shines through in every frame. Successfully blending comedy, music, historical drama, and human emotion, TOPSY-TURVY proves that Leigh is not just a brilliant chronicler of modern class conflicts in England; he is a thorough, sensitive filmmaker with a tight grasp on the human condition.
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