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A wonderful film featuring a magnificent central performance, bafflingly overlooked both by Bafta and the Academy Awards.

John Hodson said:

A wonderful film featuring a magnificent central performance, bafflingly overlooked both by Bafta and the Academy Awards.

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I would really like to see this. I have his 'Slave Ship' hanging on my wall.

CULVER CITY, Calif. (March 9, 2015) MR. TURNER, the latest film from seven-time Academy Award® nominee Mike Leigh (Another Year), arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD May 5 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score and Best Production Design, MR. TURNER features an award-winning lead performance by veteran actor Timothy Spall (The Kings Speech) as British painter J.M.W. Turner. Spall was recognized for his role in the film with the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as by the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics. Additionally, the films Oscar®-nominated cinematographer, Dick Pope, was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography from the American Society of Cinematographers, and was honored with the Cannes Film Festivals Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist for bringing to light the works of Turner. In recognition of his remarkable body of work, writer/director Mike Leigh was named this years recipient of BAFTAs John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing. This Sony Pictures Classics film was an official selection at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and New York Film Festival.


Bonus features on the Blu-ray and DVD for MR. TURNER, hailed as one of the best pictures of the year by The New York Times A.O. Scott and Washington Posts Ann Hornaday, include a deleted scene, commentary with Writer/Director Mike Leigh, and the making-of featurette, Many Colours of Mr. Turner. Exclusively available on Blu-ray is The Cinematic Palette: The Cinematography of Mr. Turner featurette, which further explores Dick Popes extraordinary contribution to the film.

Synopsis

Spanning the last 25 years in the life of Britains most revered painter, MR. TURNER is a remarkably rich portrait of a complex, contradictory man whose relationships with his family, fellow artists and lovers were often as turbulent as the canvases he painted. Hailed as one of the best films of the year, MR. TURNER is a beautifully shot epic and stands as another masterpiece from Mike Leigh, the seven-time Oscar®-nominated director of Another Year and Topsy-Turvy.


MR. TURNER is written and directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Tessa Ross, Norman Merry, Gail Egan and Georgina Lowe. Starring Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson and Lesley Manville.


DVD/Blu-ray Special Features:

· Commentary with Writer/Director Mike Leigh

· Many Colours of Mr. Turner Featurette

· Deleted Scene


Exclusive Blu-ray Special Feature:

· The Cinematic Palette: The Cinematography of Mr. Turner Featurette


MR. TURNER has a running time of 149 minutes. It is rated R for some sexual content.


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John Hodson said:

A wonderful film featuring a magnificent central performance, bafflingly overlooked both by Bafta and the Academy Awards.

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And if you admire Turner's canvasses, as I do, you'll be impressed by the evocation of light and shadows as Turner experienced them, captured by the DP, Dick Pope.

As John stated, a magnificent central performance from Timothy Spall, sadly overlooked by the public as well.

Can't wait.

The combination of Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall makes this irresistible.

This is a gem. Excellent portrayals all around. You really get a sense of what daily life entailed in the early-mid 1800s. The art of conversation, sadly just about extinct today, was a big part of a social life then and is well portrayed here, but interestingly contrasted with Turner's grunts and groans as means of communication. A very yellow film, but highly appropriate. Beautifully photographed with some head snapping shots. The scene on the water at sunset near the end of the film is a real beauty.

Watched this last night. The whole film is composed like painting -- each shot with a color palette and composition that was beautiful.