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Format | Closed-captioned, Black & White, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | Michael Lerner, Debra Messing, Sam Rockwell, Larry Pine, Melanie Griffith, Joe Mantegna, Kenneth Branagh, Winona Ryder, Gretchen Moll, Hank Azaria, Woody Allen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Judy Davis, Kate Burton, Bebe Neuwirth, Douglas McGrath, Isaac Mizrahi, Famke Janssen, Charlize Theron, Andre Gregory See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 53 minutes |
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With an incredible all-star cast, this critically acclaimed comedy takes a hysterical look at the pleasures and pitfalls of fortune and fame! Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in outrageously unpredictable directions! While Lee (Kenneth Branagh -- HAMLET, OTHELLO) explores the wilder side of his newfound freedom, Robin (Judy Davis -- DECONSTRUCTING HARRY) begins an improbable transformaiton from neurotic schoolteacher to high-profile T.V. talk show host! Whether it's partying with supermodels, sexy encounters with movie stars, or interviews with the cream of high society, CELEBRITY offers you a riotous excuse to rub shoulders with the kind of people we all love to celebrate!
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Woody Allen's portrait of the celebrity life--as seen through the eyes of a newly divorced couple--is a black-and-white, New York-style La Dolce Vita that's a chillier flip side to Allen's earlier New York valentine, Manhattan. Despite a few missteps, though, it's an admirable (if dark) and worthy addition to the Allen pantheon. Kenneth Branagh and Judy Davis (both boasting American accents) star as the once-marrieds, each struggling to build new, separate lives in a media-saturated, celebrity-driven world. He tries his hands at celebrity profiles (while peddling a screenplay to any star that will listen) and falls into the lap of a bosomy starlet (Melanie Griffith), the first in a long line of briefly attainable women. She runs into a producer (Joe Mantegna) who offers her a job as a TV personality as well as a loving relationship. This seemingly simple double plot is punctuated with twists and turns in the form of flashbacks and innumerable side trips, all ravishingly photographed in black and white by the legendary Sven Nykvist, and populated by one of Allen's largest casts ever; if you blink you'll miss countless cameos by Isaac Mizrahi, Donald Trump, Hank Azaria, and a host of others.
While Davis is splendid as usual (aside from the requisite nervous breakdown scene she's done one too many times), somebody should have told Branagh to put a kibosh on his Woody Allen imitation, which is so impeccable as to become irritating. His failure in the role, however, isn't entirely his fault, as it's also another in a long line of unlikable male protagonists that Allen has created, as if daring audiences to hate his main characters after loving them in such movies as Manhattan and Annie Hall. He's never more unlikable than in a painful sequence in which he tags along with a spoiled, temperamental teen idol (a shrewd and clever Leonardo DiCaprio) and proves himself the quintessential noodge. Far more enjoyable misadventures with Branagh include Charlize Theron in the film's best performance as a libidinous supermodel with a penchant for echinacea; a stunning Famke Janssen as a successful book editor Branagh almost moves in with; and Winona Ryder, acting like an adult for the first time, as an aspiring actress who catches Branagh's eye more than once. All manage to slip through Branagh's fingers by the end of the film.
Despite the film's lack of focus, Allen aficionados will want this film for at least two wonderful moments, one in which Davis seeks solace from a streetwise fortune teller after she's fleeing her own wedding, and a beautiful nighttime scene in which Branagh romances a captivated Ryder at a subway kiosk. Both episodes prove that Allen, despite the fitful period he's moved into, still has that movie magic. --Mark Englehart
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Director : Woody Allen
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Black & White, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 53 minutes
- Release date : August 10, 1999
- Actors : Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bebe Neuwirth, Charlize Theron
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : Miramax
- ASIN : B00000JGOI
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #27,234 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,407 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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As far as I can tell, it offends some people because it is thought to be "more of the same" late "Manhattan" period Allen ensemble work -- pity Mozart if he had been cranking out symphonies for these complainers; it is thought to be annoying because Kenneth Branagh does what is, really, a wonderful Allen impression, Woody being too old by the time was made to play the lead in the story; because the characters are more fully developed, and so perhaps more subtle and less immediately amusing, versions of the classic Allen character types that, by the time the film was made, had become well known to audiences impatient for novelty and new amusements from Allen; because, perhaps, many solid middle American types have such an instinctive and deep seated hatred for the particular New York types that populate Allen films that this film evidently pushed the buttons of those audience members to extremes that mandated vicious opining in revenge; and, perhaps, last but not least, because Allen films tend to attract either comedy lovers who are put off by misanthropic elements, or misanthropes who are put off by overly human and flawed characters that don't live up to their notions of worthiness, or which make light of misanthropic virtues.
There's a reason Woody made Stardust Memories, also one of his finest films. The raging disappointment expressed by some toward his more challenging films, and to some of his more phoned in and forgettable ones, points to the creative conflict, and conflicted audience reactions, highlighted in Stardust Memories. All that aside, "Celebrity" is a marvelous film, that surely deserves a better DVD transfer than it receives here. Hopefully, when the entire Allen catalog is given a much needed 16:9 remastering someday, "Celebrity" will re-emerge and be appreciated by new audiences.
Kenneth Branagh is a brilliant actor and more than capable director. One can almost see him eager to be an actor in a movie written and directed by Woody Allen. No doubt some of the other stars were looking for some Woody Allen magic and perhaps a chance to appear in a movie with each other. Speaking as a Woody Allen fan I can't think of any reason to condemn a general viewing audience to a showing of this movie.
Somehow we're supposed to believe that Kenneth Branagh playing another one of the neurotic New York stuttering fumbling male comedic characters is a former star high school athlete recently divorced from another neurotic New York female Judy Davis/Annie Hall retread. About one third of this movie consists of these two characters being neurotic and inhibited and recently divorced from each other. The ex-husband Lee Simon is of course incompetent on a heroic scale and we are told is simply unlucky in love. The ex-wife Robin Simon goes almost directly from the marriage bed into the arms of a man who will not only loves her idiosyncrasies but turns them into what we are led to believe will be a successful television career.
What saves this movie from a single star rating is that between being aggravated by an otherwise nothing new central plot device is a parade of clever to superior acting performances from people like Melanie Griffith, Winona Ryder, Leonardo DiCaprio and Babe Neuwirth.
There is some yammering about a culture that's lost its values and people who are famous for being famous and so on. There is no new ground being broken here. Ultimately we have two caricatures we have seen too many times from Woody Allen. They've lost their charm and here they are quite aggravating. This is a movie with a few comedic moments some pretense of philosophy and I don't know a partridge in a pear tree or something. Other than its value to collectors I can not imagine who the intended audience might be. I cannot recommend this movie.
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poursuite de ma collection Léonardo à petits prix mais les dvd sont de qualité avec amazon j'en suis toujours assurée.
Im Zentrum der Handlung steht wie so oft bei Woody Allen ein Alter Ego, der durch Kenneth Branagh gespielte, eher mäßig erfolgreiche Autor Lee. Dieser ist eine Randfigur der Mediengesellschaft, der Reichen, Schönen und Berühmten, die die Gazetten und Fernsehmagazine füllen. Lee hat eigentlich ein gutes Leben, aber er will mehr, er will dazu gehören. Und so verlässt er immer wieder bestehende Beziehungen und begibt sich auf die Suche nach einer anderen Welt, versucht eine Affaire mit einem Starmodell, versucht sich als Drehbuchautor in Hollywood und vor allem, er bewegt sich auf den richtigen Partys und in den richtigen Restaurants, um dort mit den richtigen Menschen die immer gleichen, hohlen Gespräche zu führen. Natürlich kann das nicht gut ausgehen.
Einer der Höhepunkte des Films ist der Auftritt von Leonardo diCaprio, der einen drogen- und sexsüchtigen Jungfilmstar spielt - also sich selbst, möchte man meinen. Tatsächlich ist dieser Auftritt aber fast prophetisch, da er gedreht wurde, bevor Titanic in die Kinos kam und Leonardo zu dem Star wurde, den er hier bei Celebrity von Woody Allen nur spielen darf. Das zeigt ganz gut den Realitätsgehalt dieses Films. Dann gibt es noch einen großartigen Auftitt von Charlize Theron, die ein Supermodell spielt, dass sich als getriebener Mensch erweist, als es darum geht, einmal nur für einen Moment eine menschliche Seite zu zeigen.
Der Höhepunkt des Films aber ist eine der Nebengeschichten. Denn der Erfolg, der dem Protagonisten versagt bleibt, fällt einem anderen Mitglied des Ensembles durch etwas Arbeit und eine gute Idee dann doch noch in den Schoß. Und das macht dann wohl die Niederlage des Helden am Ende komplett. So richtig böse ist eine Komödie erst dann, wenn die schlimmste aller Wendungen erreicht worden ist.
Für mich zwischen den herausragenen "Hannah und ihre Schwestern" und "Matchpoint" der schönste Film von Woody Allen.