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Carnivale - The Complete First Season

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783128382
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 078312838X
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 07, 2004
Running Time: 720 minutes
Sales Rank: 1036
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 2003



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Description:
1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pistilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over, man will forever trade away wonder for reason. See the conflict of good vs. evil played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:3 Audio Commentaries with Creator Daniel Knauf, Executive Producer Howard Klein and Directors Rodrigo Garcia and Jeremy Podeswa
Featurette:'Making of Carnivale' Featurette detailing how set and costume designers collaborated to achieve the look of the Dustbowl in the 1930s




Amazon.com:
Carnivàle doesn't waste any time making its--wildly ambitious--aims clear. As carnival manager Samson (Michael J. Anderson, Twin Peaks' diminutive backwards-talker) notes in pilot episode 'Milfay,' directed by Rodrigo García (son of Gabriel García Marquez), 'To each generation [is] born a creature of light and a creature of darkness.' With that the story begins. The year is 1934, the setting the Oklahoma dustbowl. In short order, Ben Hawkins (In the Bedroom's Nick Stahl) loses his mother and his home. He's poor, he's alone--he needs a job. So he joins Samson's carnival, en route to the West. Hawkins, naturally, is the good guy. Waiting for him in California is the not so good Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown, The Shawshank Redemption), a fire and brimstone preacher with supernatural powers and a fiercely loyal sister (Amy Madigan). Hawkins, as it turns out, has similar powers....

Created by Daniel Knauf (Wolf Lake), Carnivàle feels like David Lynch (weird, slow, occasionally kinky), plays like American Gothic (Shaun Cassidy's cult series about a good kid and an evil sheriff), and looks like John Ford's Grapes of Wrath. It features one of television's most colorful casts of characters. They include Sophie (Clea DuVall), who reads fortunes--with her comatose mother's assistance, the vaguely sinister Lodz (Patrick Bauchau), blind absinthe-drinker and mentalist (he can see both the future and the past), and Ruthie (Adrienne Barbeau), snake charmer, strongman's mother, and all-around maternal figure. By the final episode of the season ('The Day That Was the Day'), also directed by García, one of these characters will be dead. Carnivàle won five richly deserved technical Emmys for its first year, including awards for cinematography and art direction. Like HBO's edgy Deadwood, it's period drama for people who don't normally like period drama. --Kathleen C. Fennessy



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Thoroughly captivating
From the very cool opening titles, where you zoom into Tarot cards 3-D style that are fused with scenes ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - We Live By A Code...
Amazing show, but PAINFULLY slow. It took about two episodes to get me hooked, but once it did, Carnivale ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the best yet lesser known shows to ever be on TV.
I'm a big fan of many of the HBO TV series that have come out in the past including Soprano's, The Wire, Entourage, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Very good but not for everyone
I bought this show on a whim after enjoying a few other HBO series(The Wire, Deadwood, etc) and was ultimately satisfied. ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Interesting, but slow
Great cinematography, an interesting premise, and interesting characters that are well-cast are the strenghts of Carnivale. ... Read More

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