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The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 2) [DVD] [1999]
enlarge	Actors: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Nancy Marchand, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£13.99~~ Buy Used: £0.74 as of 22/11/2009 15:25 GMT details You Save: £13.25 (95%) New (5) Used (13) from £0.74 Seller: zoverstocks Sales Rank: 41429 Format: Full Screen, PAL Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 116 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900250597 ASIN: B000050GQE Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Release Date: April 16, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review IThe Sopranos/I, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, Inouveau riche/I brood.pThe series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.pUnlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's IGodfather/I epic, IThe Sopranos/I sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.pThe first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --ISam Sutherland, Amazon.com/I

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