This is an absolutely exquisite edition of this classic film. Bolt and Zinneman Directs with his usual excellence. ...a motion picture for all times! Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.

The acting from everyone is excellent. Some were already well-known and others were to go on to other, bigger things.

The film does not cover this aspect of his life, but as Chancellor of England, he was responsible for burning Protestants at the stake pursuant to law. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. I used to have on video and am very pleased it is on DVD as it should always remain in circulation. Now looking forward to hearing the historical commentary. I know not his fellow. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2019

The acting is outstanding, Orson Welles is Cardinal Woolsey and well cast, and the actor who plays Thomas Cromwell is also excellent (He also played Rumple of the Bailey for BBC)---All the other actors are excellent, even the minor ones. Kate Cameron of the In 1995, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of cinema, the Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. John Hurt and Leo McKern are standouts, with a supporting cast that is world-class. More is finally brought to trial, with Cromwell as prosecuting counsel, but he refuses to speak about the marriage or why he will not take the Oath. Likewise, he is slightly dismissive about the music of George Michael when he dies, but is ashamed later when he realises the vast scale of the singer’s — largely anonymous — philanthropy.This thrilling, intimate, sometimes poignant, often wonderfully funny book shows the workings in real time of a deeply civilised, humane and tolerant mind in an age when those virtues are in short supply.Here is a man with whom you would want to go to a match, and even share a beer afterwards.David Kynaston is one of the good guys, and this is one of the very good books.

He is also a life-long supporter of Aldershot Town Football Club: his father took him to his first match in the town when he was seven years old, and his passion for the game — and club — has barely diminished since.It can be a hard and lonely path, as anyone who supports lower league football knows, but someone has to do it. When More declines the invitation, he is summoned again to the royal palace of Hampton Court, where Cromwell has his base. The film has a beauty about it that I wish I'd see in more films.

My favorite Movie of all time and fairly accurate historically. A man for all (football) seasons: The wittier, wiser, and charming account of what it’s like to be a gentleman of a certain age by historian David … Only thing stopping it being 5* is that it has made him out to be rather more perfect & and saintly than the reality. This is simply one of the greatest movies ever made...certainly the screenplay, by Robert Bolt, is one of the greatest ever. Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. His close friend, Cromwell, in a meeting with Norfolk, implies that More's troubles would be over were he to attend the King's wedding to Anne Boleyn. While it may lack some of the wordplay of Shakespeare, it lacks none of the depth. This film even though nearly 2 hours is unable to cover very much of the history of the time and does very well to achieve what it does. A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British biographical drama film based on Robert Bolt's 1960 play of the same name and adapted for cinema by Bolt. He is very shocked (but not surprised) by the death of Leonard Cohen, a prompt for some brilliant writing about the singer’s last, and very bleak, album.Stuck in the Waitrose car park in St Albans, he hears Petula Clark’s Don’t Sleep In The Subway and is moved to muse on whether the great pop songs of the Sixties were objectively better than virtually anything that followed.He decides they probably were, in a reaction to the constraints of the Fifties, which could never be replicated. For the thinking man, it can hardly get better than this.

I have seen this lots of times and never tire of it. Love the bit when Shaw jumps from the boat and all the lackies follow, a lighter moment in a serious historical film. A request for new books to read backfires, resulting in confiscation of the books he has, and Rich removes them from More's cell, providing an opportunity for Rich to gather further information against More. The play was adapted for Australian television in 1964. A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More.An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage..

From the very beginning, as strident chords resound while the camera alternately glimpses the English countryside and follows the King's courtier in a row boat up the Thames on his way to summon Thomas More to court, we are transported back in time to the 16th century.

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Paul Scofield is sublime as Sir Thomas More and is ably supported by excellent performances across the cast, notably Leo McKern as Cromwell.

Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations David Kynaston, 69, is one of the most admired historians of the modern age who specialises in the social history of EnglandHow does a man who personifies tolerant liberal values, like Kynaston, handle all this — as well as coping with a tricky away fixture for The Shots at Guiseley?This is a book about football but, like all the best books, it is about a thousand other things as well.

The War of the Worlds (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] He was a friend of Erasmus, the ultimate intellectual of the age.