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Caligula Movie
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From the moment he ascends to the throne as Emperor, CALIGULA enforces a reign like no other as power and corruption transform him into a deranged beast.
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Supporting actors Peter O'Toole , Adriana Asti , John Steiner , Leopoldo Trieste , Mirella D'Angelo , more… Teresa Ann Savoy Producers Bob Guccione Studio RLJ Entertainment Rating R (Restricted) Purchase rights Stream instantly Details Format Prime Video (streaming online video) Devices Available to watch on supported devices
Gregorio Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2007
The CALIGULA Blu ray Imperial Edition is identical in content to the DVD edition that I reviewed last year. There is no exclusive content on this high def release. To call it high def isn't really correct because I don't suppose CALIGULA is ever going to look too great, even on Bluray. Nevertheless, the Bluray transfer offers a bit of an improvement over the DVD version, especially in the Alternative Version print. The alternative footage has been re-mastered for this edition so that the footage matches the quality of the rest of the film. This is a huge improvement over the DVD which left the "new" footage faded and dirty. The colors of CALIGULA have never looked better than they do here although there is still an excessive amount of grain in many scenes due to the condition of the source material. This edition includes a smaller sized version of the booklet included with the DVD edition. Sadly, the beautiful fold out packagaing and slipcase are replaced by the cheap standard Blu ray case. The edition is now on 2 discs instead of three. If you love CALIGULA or collect the various video releases of this film, then this release is a must have. It is the best CALIGULA has ever looked (although it is still far from perfect). DVD REVIEW This new edition of CALIGULA is entirely superior to any previous video release of the film, in fact, I suspect it probably looks better here than it did in theatres. Image has spared no expense in this stuning "imperial" edition, and it is so lavish and luxurious that it would have no doubt pleased the emperor Caligula himself. The most important feature of this release is of course how the film looks and sounds. I've owned every previous release of this film (including the Beta video tape and the LaserDisc) and I truly felt like I was watching the movie for the first time. CALIGULA is never going to look too sharp and clear, simply because of the way Tinto Brass photographed it, but I think in this edition we now have the film in it's ultimate form. The colors are bright and vibrant and background details of the awesome sets by Danilo Donati can now be seen for the first time. Lines of dialogue that I had never been able to make out before now come clearly from my speakers for the first time. It is simply amazing what Image has done with the prints. Speaking of which, we now have an entirely new cut of the film and it is a masterwork. Gone is all of Bob Guccione's hardcore pornography (and lets face it, that is what it was) and instead we are able to see for the first time the beautiful footage that Brass shot for scenes like the Tiberius Grotto and the Bordello ship. The film also unfolds differently with scenes restored to their intended running order as scripted by Gore Vidal. The woods sequence no longer opens the film but appears (in an extended form with never before seen footage) in it's proper place in the middle of the film. I will say that the editing on all of the new footage is a bit rough and it does not appear to have been "cleaned up" as much as the rest of the film stock but this is a minor complaint. / Still there is so much more to this edition of CALIGULA than just the two cuts of the film. There are three theatrical trailers that are real treasures. There are also three marvelous commentary tracks from Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and journalist Ernest Volkman. These often humorous commentaries alone would be worth the price of the video but there is SO MUCH MORE. There is a half hour interview with John "Longinus" Steiner. A full half hour interview with Lori Wagner, the actress who played Agripina (or was it Messillina?) in the Guccione porn footage. Most importantly there is an in depth interview with director Tinto Brass that is fascinating. AND STILL THERE IS MORE MORE MORE! How about an hours worth of deleted and extended scenes? This footage has not been remastered and it is often in rough shape but it is still amazing to see it. There is also around an hours worth of behind the scenes footage. The DOCUMENTARY ON THE MAKING OF GORE VIDAL'S CALIGULA is imported here from the 20th Anniversary DVD release but this time there are TWO VERSIONS, one long and one short (can you believe it?). There are also extensive still photo archives that will take you a long time to watch and trust me, these photos are worth looking at and they will show you a lot about how CALIGULA was made. There are loads of photos of Tinto Brass directing as well as fotos of Gore "I'm taking my name off this" Vidal on the set. As if all this was not enough, you can put the disc in your computer and read not one but two versions of the Gore Vidal screenplay as well as the complete novel based on the screenplay. There are also photos of the Penthouse Pets who did the porno footage as well as an unintentionally funny interview with Bob Guccione. Now we all owe a great debt to Bob, without whom there would have been no CALIGULA (at least not as we know it today) but I've gotta say that he comes off as a pretty crazy fellow in the magazine interviews and to here him blathering on interminably about "art" and "excellence" and trying to appear sophisticated had me doubled over with laughter. Not surprisingly, no one in the commentaries or interviews has much nice to say about him (Tinto Brass gives him the easiest time I suppose) but if Bob had not decided to take an already risque film and insert some explicit porn into it, I doubt very much whether we would still be sitting around talking about CALIGULA today. And now we have the best of both worlds because those who love CALIGULA for its porno aspects have disc one and those who love CALIGULA as a historical art film have disc two, and those who just want a cool fast paced sword and sandal kind of thing (or a version you can share with your grandmother) can buy the new R rated release that is sold seperately and also looks and sounds spectacular. / I forgot to mention that the imperial edition comes in a high quality slip case and fold out inner keepcase with beautiful artwork of the cast. Each of the three discs feature a photo of a different cast member, McDowell, Mirren and O'Toole. Now certainly this is the longest review I ever wrote for Amazon but it is also the most spectacular release I have ever seen of any DVD. It truly sets a new standard for what a special edition should be. Congratulations to all involved.
alan palmer Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2022
This movie was very interesting and it would now be considered a collectors item. It did happen in ancient Rome, what the movie depicts and although it had explicit sex scenes, I fell that they were not over done, considering that the movie went for a good 2.5 hours. I am glad to have it. Alan Hawera N Z
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2007
Whereas the 97 minute rated edition is absolutely meaningless, the 155 minute un-rated version has a full unity, a full flow of meaning and a deep signification. We see the character of Caligula develop his paranoid schizophrenia into what the world permits and authorizes: a murdering frenzy growing out of a sexual perverse cornucopia of impulses crying for and imposing their satisfaction in the flesh of every one else around. The first thing clearly shown is that this Roman world is based on 80% of slaves. These are not even animals. They are furniture, facilities, commodities, and you can do what you want with them, just as if they were some pieces of un-assorted trash. But the film does not concentrate on these slaves that are just a decor, even a decoration, that can easily spread and sprinkle its blood on the walls or on the floors. The film concentrates on the "people" who are free, even at times citizens. Tiberius shows how he picks one soldier of his own guard to play with him by having him forcefully filled with wine and then emptying him by directly puncturing his stomach with a sword. Just out of a caprice or for a transient impulse for sadistic pleasure. Note in those days it was not even sadistic. It was just normal. The Emperor could do what he wanted. Caligula will reach summits and records along that line, even with senators and their wives. He systematically exploited not the minds of people but the bodies of people and there was no end to his pleasure in blood, or any bodily fluid or orifice you could imagine. And when there was no door, he could always carve one with his sword. I must admit the standard death penalty and execution was a real pleasure for the onlookers that could throw oranges at the lively heads jutting out of the ground just before the reaping machine slowly came and cut off those terrorized heads like outgrowing grass. Quite more impressive than any lethal injection. But the film shows another element of that supposedly pagan Rome. Sex was in no way restricted by any rule or law. A daily activity you practiced just the same way as eating or drinking, or should I name more physiological functions, except that you did not need a taster for poison. You just took what you wanted, at any time, in any place, and very often it was all organized or even staged as part of the daily life of everyone. And there again slaves were a commodity, even if everyone could be the toy of their neighbours without being able or willing to protest. Just as they overfed themselves in banquets, even to the point of visiting the vomitarium, they over-consumed the bodies of their surrounding human beings and the men could always use a slave to do what they could not do anymore, and then get rid of the slave for good measure and as the cherry topping the whip-cream of the a la mode pastry. After a while you discover the ambition of the film. We are in 37-41 after Christ. The Christian faith and civilizing influence had still to come to cover up this deeply animal nature of man, though few animals kill for pleasure. But do not believe man has changed. Man has just learned how to hide this deep nature that can come out at any time, particularly in war time or when decency disappears in the name of some absolute rule, be it a moral or religious rule, be it the rule of a dictator or whatever. El Ghraib is a common field of realization of human barbaric impulses that have never been eradicated from man because they just cannot be eradicated. And don't tell me women would be different. These impulses are part of the very soil that nurtures, feeds and breeds the civilized or so they call it education of modern human beings. This film is a remake of sorts of Pasolini's Salo as a big expensive super-show peplum film that justifies excesses, not with the word fascism, but with the word paganism. But where is the difference, where is it different? The name does not matter when you have the same mixture of blood, wine and sperm. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Ben30 Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2014
CALIGULA filmed over a 2 year period back in the late 70's and released in cinemas in 1979 originally this film was going to be a straight forward sexual Erotic Drama about the Roman empire, actually about the Era of Rome when CALIGULA reigned power the original concept was written by Gore Vidal and Directed by Tinto Brass whose known for Erotic Dramas and in between the writer and Director is Producer Bob Guccione who was somehow part of Penthouse magazine Bob also Financed the whole film During filming nearly all scenes were played out straight from the script by Gore Vidal this is mentioned in Tinto brass's interview on the extras so the film does have a plot which included some Erotic sex scenes (but soft core sex) also included alot of Nudity, very Graphic killing and violence, lots of blood spurting in some scenes which was very controversial back in 1979 During filming Producer Bob Guccione and Director Tinto brass had alot of Arguments cause Bob wanted some more sex scenes in the film but Tinto didn't want it so During editing, Bob Guccione went behind Tinto Brass's back and filmed some more very explicit sex scenes between 2 penthouse models and other extras that were in the film the explicit sex scenes are equivelent to today's contemporary porn so you see everything in this film, even the Orgy scene is full on anyway these extra scenes were inserted back into Tinto brass's film before it was released to cinemas so you can imagine, there was lots of controversy, scandal and Lawsuits between Bob Guccione, Tinto Brass and Gore Vidal when this film was released to the public so there is 2 versions of this film the Unrated X rated cut of the film that has explicit sex scenes included, about 1 hour of extra sex and violence etc all the extra scenes that Bob Guccione Directed screwed up the film, screwed up the plot actually so the Unrated version does not make sense with the plot of the film cause the extra scenes are just for show the Unrated version goes for about 2 hrs 40mins The 2nd version is the Alternate cut of the film it's the version that has all of Bob Guccione's extra scenes cut out of the film so the Alt version is Tinto brass's Theatrical cut i'm assuming cause i've never seen Tinto brass's Theatrical cut i've only seen the Unrated X rated version i prefer the X rated version, it's about opinion, a person's perspective on the film so you either like it, love it, or hate it that's it. back in 1979 films like Caligula were Unheard of especially when you got scenes of explicit sex in a General public film you've got the X rated or Tinto brass's Theatrical cut of the film, so you choose which version to watch Both versions of Caligula are on this IMPERIAL EDITION blu-ray release Disc 1 has both versions and both versions have been given beautiful HD widescreen transfers in all new remixed 5.1 master audio surround sound Disc 1 also has has new Audio commentaries by Malcolm McDowall and Helen mirren about there experience with making the film lots and lots of special features on Disc 2 there is 2 making of Documentaries about CALIGULA, Vintage making of footage actually from 1977-78 the first one is the uncut 2 hours of behind the scenes footage and interviews the 2nd is a featurette of the same Doco but shorter so take your pick there is also brand new interviews with Tinto brass about 1 hour conversation about the making of the film, He talks about the lawsuits with Bob Guccione his relationship with writer Gore vidal, he talks about actors Malcolm McDowall, Helen mirren fantastic interview there's a new 30mins interview with one of the Penthouse models from the film, Lori wagner she talks about how she got involved in the film and her Lesbian sex scene filmed by Bob Guccione etc there's also an interview with one of the Actors in the film John steiner there's lots and lots of behind the scenes Photos and the list Goes on for some reason Malcolm McDowall & Helen Mirren didn't want to do an interview for this blu-ray but instead they've done the Audio commentary there is Vintage interviews of Malcolm & Helen from the Making of Doco anyway for fans of this film definitely get this blu-ray version, Definitely worth the cash i gave it 5 stars for sure
pekinman Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2010
If you expect to be intellectually edified and historically informed after viewing Bob Guccione's film Caligula, you will be enraged upon viewing this gargantuan, Preminger-esque porn extravaganza. Caligula (the film) has many things going for it; notably viable dialogue, largely contributed by Gore Vidal who, I believe, disowned this film once he got wind of the direction the film script was going in the hands of the producers, and wildly imaginative set pieces that are probably not too far off the mark in regards to what Rome looked like in 40 A.D. It also boasts an impressive cast of stars who seem to have believed in the project by forcing themselves to pretend they were making a movie for Lindsay Anderson (O Lucky Man) or Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange). In fact, the ever-splendid Peter O'Toole gives a chilling, scary performance as Tiberius Caesar, Caligula's grandfather. His dying emperor reminds me of Willem Dafoe's character in David Lynch's Wild at Heart, very dangerous and very insane. Tiberius, like all the historical individuals in most films about Rome, is completely bogus here, but O'Toole falls into the spirit of the cartoony nature of this flick and has a grand old time going WAY over the top as he would love to have done in every movie he's made. He is at his best in these kinds of roles, see The Ruling Class and The Lion in Winter. The English are nothing if not mercenary in a very practical sense, so the producers of Caligula were able to entice the great John Gielgud to give them one of his programmed performances for a, no doubt, very high fee for 10 minutes of film time. And I expect he enjoyed all the naked people running around in his scenes on the isle of Capri. Good work if you can get it. The historic person, Gaius Caligula, was a huge man according to the historians, who was hairy, bald and brawny. We have quite a different impression of this man stemming from the really off-base character in I Claudius, played by the otherwise great John Hurt, and this version here, played by a similarly wan and blonde, English, naughty choirboy type. Malcolm MacDowell has stated that he now knew what it was like to be a whore. Well, I expect he had a pretty good idea of that before this project, but having said that, he certainly seems to be enjoying himself enormously as this fantasy anti-hero, Caligula Caesar, who spends his days and nights fornicating with girls and fisting the boys. Helen Mirren seems game for anything and it isn't all that surprising to see her flailing her enormous breasts about in priapic rituals in old Roma. Mirren was always a superb actress who has shown over the years how versatile and adventurous she is when choosing roles, and she does them all brilliantly. After Caligula was made she went on, years later, to star in Peter Greenaway's shocking, often disgusting film The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover, finally making her way to Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth II. An amazing career when you look at her curriculum vitae. These four stars make for engaging viewing between orgies and atrocities, which are, in themselves, interesting to watch, if you have the stomach for it. Caligula is a movie for people who appreciate the beauty of the human body and are not averse to seeing it on display in a wide array of positions and activities. The dialogue is not nauseatingly inane because Guccione opted to concentrate on the sex stuff so few words were needed to add on to Vidal's work. What a con! The man was a genius. The film is made slightly cheesy, in an appropriate manner for a porn flick, by the use of 'classical' music by Aram Khachaturian and Serge Prokofiev, recorded in Mantovani-like ffffFrequency sound; lots of swooning violins in an indoor pool environment, sort of
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