Wittgenstein
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 24, 2008
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Karl Johnson | |
Performer: | Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton & Clancy Chassay | |
Directed by | Derek Jarman |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Jarman has passed through the soul of his first master, Ken Russell, to a cinematic 'other side' where his work has the ethereal potency of unstressed metaphor...
Film Comment
Offers many zany snapshots of the 20th century Austrian who made philosophy more self-conscious
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Spirituality and Practice
[T]his is Jarman in playful and provocative groove....You can't help but be heartened by the way Jarman ignores the conventions of film biopics.
Sight and Sound
Rating: A --
Johnson tore into his role like a hungry barnyard dog into a carcass.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...An immaculately lensed, intellectual jape....Always visually alert...
Variety
...The film's playful and more heartfelt aspects are fused in mournfully beautiful imagery...
New York Times
One of Britain's most famous avant garde filmmakers, Derek Jarman, constructs a biopic of Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein with a bravura display of visual imagery
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Urban Cinefile
Product Description:
A highly stylized comic biography of eccentric German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Johnson), this film features the thinker struggling with the absurdities of his life, including a bright green martian and an out-of-place rhinoceros, while also tackling serious subjects such as society's feared reaction to his own homosexuality. Derek Jarman directs this spare, understated look at the life and work of the brilliant yet tortured man. Utilizing only a sparse collection of props to evoke each era and locale, the film follows Wittgenstein from his childhood home in Vienna (symbolized simply by a grand piano) to his enlistment in World War I and, finally, to Cambridge University in England, where he befriended scholars Maynard Keynes (John Quentin) and Bertrand Russell (Michael Gough) and engaged in homosexual affairs with his students. Although he left Cambridge several times, briefly living in Norway and once trying to move to Soviet Russia to assist the revolution there, Wittgenstein always returned to the university--and it was there he finally died. Throughout his life, the philosopher, whose writings explored issues of language and communication, struggled futilely to make others understand his own complex words and ideas--a sentiment expertly captured by Jarman's unique film.
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