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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0897246001560
Format: Widescreen, NTSC
Label: City Lights Pictures, Independent Cinema Restorative Archive
Manufacturer: City Lights Pictures, Independent Cinema Restorative Archive
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: City Lights Pictures, Independent Cinema Restorative Archive
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Running Time: 300 minutes
Sales Rank: 4835
Studio: City Lights Pictures, Independent Cinema Restorative Archive
Theatrical Release Date: July 26, 1985
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Product Description:
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
This groundbreaking film (the first independent ever to receive the top four Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Hector Babenco), adapted for the screen by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Leonard Schrader from Manuel Puig's novel set in a non-specific Latin American country, takes a penetrating look at the role of sex and politics under an oppressive right-wing regime. The timeless story, more relevant today than ever, follows the complex relationship between two distinctly different men with opposite views about life - building with powerful emotional crescendo as they gradually come together in a stunningly transcendental conclusion. Hurt delivers his Oscar-winning performance in this captivating tribute to the power of film and fantasy as escape from inhumane conditions.
Run time: 121 minutes
Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
A strange odyssey from novel to film is chronicled in Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman. Creative team Manuel Puig, William Hurt, Hector Babenco, David Weisman, Leonard Schrader, and Raul Julia confess the daunting challenge and profound satisfaction of creating this watershed film - which almost never made it to the big screen. Burt Lancaster's mysterious obsession, director Babenco's epic struggle with author Puig, the birth of today's independent cinema - all play parts in the startling saga of this timeless gem. Filmmaker David Weisman's Tangled Web captures the many unique and emotional moments that serendipitously turned this courageous movie into a masterpiece.
Run time: 109 minutes
Amazon.com:
Kiss of the Spider Woman starts out simply enough, hemmed in by the narrow walls of a Latin American prison cell. Molina (William Hurt) is telling his new cellmate, Valentin (Raul Julia), his favorite story. Molina is a delicate homosexual imprisoned for seducing a minor; Valentin is a bearded revolutionary still bleeding from his interrogation. If their film unfolded into the typical prison buddy plot, it'd still be a good movie. But this is a great movie. There are stories twisting within stories, each drawing a new, surprising level of difference between the two heroes: escapism versus realism, romance versus politics, gay versus straight, hero versus coward. As their unstable friendship grows more real, their stories become more vivid--whether Molina's fondly remembered Nazi propaganda noir, Valentin's tortured romantic history, or a tropical island fable told merely to pass the time. (Each substory stars Sonia Braga, a neat bit of casting that further blurs the line between fantasy and reality.) By the end, each man has changed just enough to taste the other's tragedy--a transformation that gives each the strength to define freedom on his own terms, despite the brutality of the prison and the bleak world beyond its walls. --Grant Balfour
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN 2 DISC EXCLUSIVE EDITION
THE MOVIE IS QUITE GRIM. BUT THATS ONLY ON THE SURFACE.HURTS AND JULIAS PERFORMANCES ARE MIND BOGGLING. THEY LITERALY SUCK YOU INTO THE MOVIE . WILLIAM HURT IS DRFINATLY GAY. WHILE RAUL JULIAS IS A POLITICAL PRISONER. THEY COULDNT BE MORE OPPOSITE. BUT THATS THE BEAUTY OF THE FILM MAINLY JULIAS ACCEPTANCE of THE GAY HURT. THE EXTRAS ON THE SECOND DISK ARE FANTASTIC I WOULD RECOMEND THIS. IF YOU HAVE PREJUCES IN GAYS I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEE THIS. AND YOU WILL FIND THAT THE HUMAN SPIRIT IS AT WORK HERE. ... Read More
Rating:  - very disappointing transfer quality
I am delighted to finally have this movie in my movie collection again. I have sorely missed this title since I got rid of my laserdiscs. But I am shocked by the quality of the transfer. I consider my standards low - I have been thrilled with the quality of some titles that have been poorly reviewed by those with higher standards, like reviewers at dvdfile and highdefdigest. But I was truly shocked by this title. I am sure that my laser looked better. And this is a blu-ray! Still, I am thrilled ... Read More
Rating: - What about spanish language subtitles?
hi there ¡ ...I'm looking for information about this DVD edition; ...the thing is; I need to know if spanish language subtitle is availabe for this movie, ...maybe dubbed to spanish? ...anyone can answer it to me?.Thanks.
THIS MOVIE IS REALLY A MASTER PIECE OF CINEMA , DON'T MISS.
Rating:  - Disappointing Blu-Ray transfer
Since this was the DVD and Blu-Ray debut of KOTSW, I was expecting a decent transfer if not an outright restoration. We got neither. The video on the Blu-Ray shows a softness akin to VHS or laser disc and there are numerous artifacts that appear throughout the film. If someone went through all the trouble of releasing a deluxe edition they should have at least made it more presentable.
Rating:  - William Hurt is amazing in an extraordinary film...
Captivating film with amazing performances that really holds your attention. William Hurt deserved his Oscar, and the late Raul Julia was just as good. The two actors portray prison inmates who gradually begin to accept one another, as Raul Julia's character slowly abandons his prejudices for William Hurt's flamboyantly homosexual film buff, whose method of escape from the harsh prison is to talk about, in detail, his favorite Nazi propaganda film.
Superbly directed and acted, I ultimately ... Read More
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