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<font size="4"><br>Spartacus</font>
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<br>DVD review David Ng</font>
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<p>For a Hollywood film, <i>Spartacus</i> has an unusually high artistic pedigree, including not just director Stanley Kubrick, but also its supporting cast (mostly British stage actors turned movie stars) and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted writer. All of this makes what went on behind the camera as interesting if not more so than the movie itself. The Criterion Collection has recently released <i>Spartacus</i> in a two-disc DVD set; the movie has been digitally transferred from the restored print used in the 1991 re-release. As breathtaking as the movie is, it’s fair to say that the extra features, which include several audio commentaries, interviews, and short documentaries, are the main attraction here. The making of <i>Spartacus</i> was its own epic struggle, a fact which this DVD release explores in exhaustive and fascinating detail.
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