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The Leopard - Criterion Collection (1963)

Starring: Luchino Visconti, Burt Lancaster Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (101 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Actors: Luchino Visconti, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon
  • Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: June 8, 2004
  • Run Time: 187 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (101 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00003CWQL
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,263 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Special Features

  • Special Edition Three-Disc Set
  • New digital transfer of original 185-minute Italian release, supervised by director of photography Ciueppe Rotunno, with restored image and sound plus new subtitle translation
  • New transfer of of the 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue (including Burt Lancaster's actual voice)
  • Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie
  • A Dying Breed, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D'Amico, cinematographer Guiseppe Rotunno, Sydney Pollack, and many others
  • Interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo
  • An exclusive video interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania on the history behind The Leopard
  • Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
  • Original trailers and newsreels

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With this magnificent Criterion DVD release, Luchino Visconti's 1963 historical drama The Leopard will finally earn widespread recognition as one of the most beautiful epics ever produced. In adapting the popular novel by Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa (an Italian equivalent to Gone with the Wind, set during the tumultuous Garibaldi revolution of 1860-62), Visconti was initially reluctant to cast Burt Lancaster as the melancholy Prince of Salina--the aging aristocrat "leopard" of the title--who accepts change as inevitable during the struggle for a unified Italy. But Lancaster (even with his voice dubbed in the fully restored Italian release) delivered one of his finest performances, modeled after Visconti himself, and reacting to political and familial upheavals with the wisdom and whimsy of a man who knows that his way of life--and all he holds dear--must change with the times. You won't find a more intimate epic, and Giusseppe Rotunno's masterful cinematography represents the pinnacle of painterly beauty, matched only by the authentic splendor of the film's impeccable production design. The climactic hourlong ballroom scene--which even the hard-to-please Pauline Kael called "one of the greatest of all passages in movies"--is utterly breathtaking. Anchored by Lancaster's performance and the romantic pairing of Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, The Leopard is sheer perfection, fully restored to its 185-minute glory. --Jeff Shannon


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Making its long-awaited U.S. home video debut, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy. Burt Lancaster stars as the aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation, represented by his upstart nephew (Alain Delon) and his beautiful fiancée (Claudia Cardinale). Awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, The Leopard translates Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel, and the history it recounts, into a truly cinematic masterpiece. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the film in two distinct versions: Visconti's original 187-minute Italian version, and the alternate 161-minute English-language version released in America, in a newly restored, three-disc special edition that also features a new hour-long documentary on the making of the film, and more.

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140 of 145 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Panoramic View of Sicily during Its Unification, June 23, 2001
By Bruce Frier (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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It is incomprehensible to me why this movie has not yet made it to DVD. I think it is easily Visconti's greatest work, and one of the masterpieces of Italian film from a great era in general; and it is also a flawless adaptation of one of the finest Italian novels of the twentieth century. The film is a close study of a noble Sicilian family, and especially of its Prince (played by Burt Lancaster in what I think is also his best role), as they interact with the new middle-class parvenus of revolutionary Italy. The cinematic values of the film itself are stunning, from the vast panoramas of the desolate Sicilian countryside, to the stifling intimacy of the final ball (which lasts nearly an hour on film without once being boring). What is most amazing is the depth of the film. Even small gestures are carefully observed and capture the nuances of an aristocracy in decline. I loved "Death in Venice" as well, but this film should justly be considered Visconti's most tightly controlled and haunting.
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74 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS DVD IS NOT CUT!!! SOME OF THE REVIEWS ARE ALL WRON, September 26, 2004
criterion gives a real royal treatment to this movie and it is higly earned by it...in some reviews people say that the movie is cut and italian version is better blah blah...what they dont know is this 3 disc set has all two of them...check that out yourself:
DISC ONE
*The Film - Visconti's original Italian version (185:52)
Audio commentary by Peter Cowie (film scholar)
English HoH subtitles (removable)
2.21:1 Anamorphic NTSC (Super Technirama OAR)
Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono

DISC TWO
"A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard", a new documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D'Amico, cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others (61:31)
Interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo (19:30)
Video interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania on the history of the Risorgimento (13:36)
Promotional Materials:
- Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
- Italian newsreel footage (3:11)
- Italian theatrical trailer (3:40)
- American theatrical trailers (2) (3:46)

DISC THREE
*The Film - alternate American release (161:23)Subtitles:NonePicture format:2.35:1 Anamorphic NTSC Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 1.0 MonoCase type:Special CaseNotes:Black Triple Alpha case
Disc 1 is region-free (R0); discs 2 and 3 are encoded R1
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60 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly masterpiece, if there was ever one, January 11, 2001
By Jorge Goded (Spain, living in the UK) - See all my reviews
I saw this film twice in Spain, the first time at least fifteen years ago, in its original version and length, not, as I have read here, an American dubbed-abreviated version. I think this is the best movie by Visconti, although to be fair I have not seen all of them. It seems amazing, however, its relative obscurity, compared for example to the somewhat overhyped Death in Venice, which I consider to be much inferior to Il Gatopardo. It is also one of my favourite films of all time. Lancaster's performance is unforgetable, the ambience, the music, the story and the painful ending, all amount to a masterpiece difficult to match. The Sicilian landscape is captured in all its magic and grandiosity and dominates my memories of the film. Comparing it to Gone with the Wind is, I think, a bit frivolous, as, with due respect, the estethics of both films - one Italian-European, the other American - are light years apart, without at all questioning the merits of the American film. Sadly, the pervasive notoriety of GWTW is also light years apart from the obscurity of Il Gatopardo. Il Gatopardo truly deserves to be taken out from that obscurity and get a much higher recognition as an all time classic. Will that ever happen? I doubt it, but at least I join the fans of this film in begging for its integral and original release in DVD, asap please.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Turbulent Times at Sicily!
Director Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was undoubtedly a refined film maker, won Cannes' Golden Palm (1963) with the present film. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Maximiliano F Yofre

5.0 out of 5 stars My first movie review of one of my favorite actors.
The cinematography was just beautiful. The movie was a bit long, though. Burt Lancaster's performance was as I would expect it to be, his whole personality was infused with the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sharon R. Grabowski

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Work
One of the most congenially transposed efforts from great literature to film. This must have provided a template for the later scenic glimpses in The Godfather. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Rodney J. Moss

1.0 out of 5 stars The Leopard film is not The Leopard Book
The Leopard is a dated boreing pretentous film. We stopped watching after
one half an hour. The acting was Bert Lancaster at his worst. He was pompous and dull. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jill S. Heavenrich

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous to look at and intimate to the touch; an outstanding cinematic feat...
One of the most beautifully shot films I think I may have ever seen; `Il Gattopardo' is a stunning cinematic achievement to say the least. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Andrew Ellington

5.0 out of 5 stars Stop Calling it Gone With the Wind or The Godfather...The Leopard is Far More Subtle
While FF Coppola undoubtedly learned a thing or two about telling a dynastic story with a historical backdrop from The Leopard, and while Fox undoubtedly marketed the film as an... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Thomas Plotkin

4.0 out of 5 stars Visconti's Italian epic provided a curious change of pace...
Visconti was widely praised for both the realism and vaguely politicized tone of his early films, and the operatic sumptuousness of his later historical costume dramas... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Roberto Frangie

5.0 out of 5 stars "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
"We were the Leopards, the Lions, those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking... Read more
Published 13 months ago by G. Merritt

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Overwhelmed
I'm a Lancaster fan, and he was fine in this richly made production, but the story was not carried along rapidly enough to keep my attention, nor was the then new Italian... Read more
Published 15 months ago by C. N. Seger

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful film but baffling DVD
The film is incredible, but the DVD left me confused. First of all, this is NOT the original cut of this film. Secondly, the sides are chopped off. Read more
Published 21 months ago by John Shane

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