Learning on ScreenTitus
- Synopsis
- Julie Taymor’s film version of Titus Andronicus, based on her 1994 off-Broadway production, with Anthony Hopkins as Titus and Jessica Lange as Tamora. This adaptation is both ‘stylised and stylish...Taymor deserves full credit for making the experience both horrible and appallingly funny’ (The Guardian, 2019).
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain; Italy; United States
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of release
- 1999
- Duration
- 162 mins; 14,580 feet
Credits
- Director
- Julie Taymor
- Producer
- Jody Patton; Julie Airoldi; Julie Taymor
- Cinematographer
- Luciano Tovoli
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Screenplay
- Julie Taymor
- Music
- Elliot Goldenthal
- Costume
- Milena Canonero
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Historical period
- No period
- Plays
- Titus Andronicus
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Estimated budget $25 million.
- Figures
- $2,0007,290 total US domestic gross (Box Office Mojo). 2005
- Awards
- Academy Award 2000. Nomination for Best Costume Design.
- Reviews
- Reviewed by John Wrathall in Sight and Sound (10/00), p61. Wrathall makes comparisons between TITUS and Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR (1998).
Buchanan, Judith. Shakespeare on Film (Harlow: Pearson Educational), 2005. pp. 242-56.
Production Company
- Name
Urania Pictures
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Retail outlets
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