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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox, Jason Robards, Zvonimir Crnko
Directed By: Karel Reisz
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301024426
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301024427
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Studio: Universal Studios
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Summary: One of the great films and one of the greatest perfomances
Comment: Karel Reisz's direction is superb, and Vanessa Redgrave's performance as Isadora Duncan is one of the greatest performances ever filmed. A brilliant and deeply soul-satisfying movie about a pioneer of awareness - yes I said awareness (in addition to the art of dance).
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Summary: A Film Not To Be Forgotten
Comment: I first saw this film with my mother when I was about 11 or 12. This film, aside from sometimes drawn out dance sequences, was a captivating portrayal of Ms. Duncan. Her vigor for life and disregard for anyone's objections was potrayed beautifully by one of the most talented actors of our time.
When you watch it's like you go along for the sporatic emotional rollercoaster that Duncan goes through. One minute she's elated, next she's moved to tears, and finally alcohol induced exhaustion. I loved it... I'd hate to see it disappear! Redgrave's performance related to me at 12 and still at 23. I have it on vhs and want the dvd!
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Summary: Vanessa Redgrave is Simply Great in Isadora!
Comment: Only one person can play Isadora Duncan and be successful at it and
that's Vanessa Redgrave. She played every range of emotion one could
possibly play and was just hypnotic...I guess that's why she received
an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe nomination (to name a few) and
won the Cannes (to name a few). I've seen Vivian Pickles in Isadora and she's good, but I saw more spark
from Redgrave, incidentally I saw Vivian's performance of Duncan before
Redgrave's. Ken Russell is a great film maker, but this was his warming
up film I suppose. His greatest is, of course, The Devil's (which also
stars Vanessa Redgrave).
Redgrave has many scenes in which she show cases that she was the
deserve win for Oscar, or at least tie with Kate Hepburn who was
also marvelous that year. I purchased a book recently on the Oscars and
they had an article that said that 1968 was a hard year to decide what
films should be nominated and in their list of what films were
runner-ups, Isadora was in it.
The best three scenes would have to be: The Russian Dance, the scenes with "the Frog prince", and the final scene (Believe me there are more!). Isadora has the most unexpected end that your mouth will be wide open even after the credits have stopped (providing you don't know much about Duncan, then your mouth will be open until the credits appear.)
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Summary: A Tour De Force Performance by Vanessa Redgrave
Comment: I love Vanessa Redgrave and her ability to perform and bring to life, the late and beloved and controversial dancer, Isadora Duncan. Her relationships with men were quite interesting with Isaac Singer of the Sewing machine empire and the Russian. Vanessa manages to capture the role so superbly that the time flies by so fast. It would have been nice to see Dame Ellen Terry who was the grandmother to her two children in the film but sadly the life of Isadora Duncan was met with tragedy. American actress Cynthia Harris better known for playing Helen Hunt's mother on Mad About You has a supporting role.
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Summary: "Rise up from your chairs & contend for your lives!"
Comment: Sister #3: As a family, we saw quite a few movies at drive-in's during the 1960's and 1970's in our blue, 1961 Ford Falcon van. I had the habit of falling asleep on the floor of the car somewhere around the second half of the first or second movie. Many a viewing of James Bond movies were totally lost on me. This, however, is one of the few movies I saw at a drive-in that I did not fall asleep through.
It was 1968 and I was 11 or 12. I loved this movie. Here, on film, was a creative woman carving out her own life and making her own destiny. Everything about this movie appealed to me. I loved Vanessa Redgrave in the part, I loved her free-flowing clothes and hair, I loved Isadora's dancing, her nonconformity and unconventionality and, I especially loved the scene where Isadora and her brother run through the British Museum, past the Elgin Marbles, on their first trip to England, chanting, "Rise up from your chairs and contend for your lives!" (that is the way I remember it). To me that seemed the ultimate call to freedom. I hoped one day to run, like Isadora and her brother, through the British Museum, past the Elgin Marbles declaring my delight. I thought fondly and nostalgically of Isadora and her brother when I visited the British Museum with my husband in 1997. "Rise up from your chairs & contend for your lives!" I chanted under my breath on my first sight of the Elgin Marbles. Long live the spirit of Isadora Duncan, say I!
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