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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? [DVD] [1966]
enlarge	Director: Mike Nichols Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£9.99~~ Buy New: £6.98 as of 22/11/2009 00:17 GMT details You Save: £3.01 (30%) New (9) from £6.98 Seller: Amazon.co.uk Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 2920 Format: Anamorphic, Black White, PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 124 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5051892009621 ASIN: B002GJI762 Theatrical Release Date: 1966 Release Date: October 12, 2009 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours


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Customer Reviews: Groundbreaking, iconic and beautiful November 1, 2009 Peter Scott-presland (London) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful There are several DVD transfers available on this site. I haven't seen the others, but this version is beautifully clear, with excellent sound. There's commentary from director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, no mean director in his own right Medium Cool [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]. br / br /Whenever I get into the same old argument with a young sprog about whether Elizabeth Taylor can act, I always give them "Who's Afraid..?" It is unanswerable. She is pitch perfect. Every nuance, every gesture, every intonation is there. Oscars often go to the wrong person, but this performance blew all others in 1966 out of the water, and got Liz her second. There are several extended takes where the camera is metaphorically on its knees to her, and rightly so. Her intensity will have your heart in your mouth. It should however be noted that Burton as husband George matches her in his more solid, understated way, and provides the bedrock which allows her to fly. br / br /It's also worth saying that although this is an adaptation of a stage play, it avoids most suggestions of stageyness, apart from too many melodramatic statements of Total War (Albee's fault, not the director's). It works brilliantly as a film. The images are beautifully composed, particularly long shots in the garden of characters alone in the dark, calling like lost children. At the time it came out, Nichols was much criticised for opening the play out, but doing so adds richness. The garden is a place of desolation and confession; the little roadside bar just another claustrophobic venue for George and Martha to drag their misery into. The camera is always at the right place, looking at the right things, and the editing is as sharp as a button. br / br /So powerful are the central performances that many viewers took the film for autobiography and imagine that the Burton-Taylor relationship was really like this. So it's worth insisting that this is not some kind of therapeutic or self-indulgent psychodrama for the principals, but superlative craft from two supreme practitioners. It is also, finally, a love story, and the need these two damaged characters have for each other is ultimately very moving. Who's Afraid... November 16, 2009 Ruby Slippers (UK) This is a confusing version of Albee's play as it moves beyond the claustrophobic living-room of a house on the campus of a small New England college. The film ventures outside which detracts from the original play's stifling atmosphere. br / br /Having said that, Elizabeth Taylor is excellent as the bitter Martha and Richard Burton is a tragic George.

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