Product Description

An epic tale of vengeance and survival GANGS OF NEW YORK now hits harder than ever on Blu-ray Disc™. Directed by Academy Award(R) winner Martin Scorsese (2006 Best Director THE DEPARTED) this motion picture event stars two-time Oscar(R) winner Daniel Day-Lewis (1989 Best Actor MY LEFT FOOT; 2007 Best Actor THERE WILL BE BLOOD) Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. After years of incarceration Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns to lower Manhattan's lawless corrupt Five Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. But before long Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of an erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare. Feel your heart pound while weapons and cultures clash in a chaotic symphony of life and death. Surrender to the tumultuous atmosphere of 1860s New York as phenomenal sound and stunning visual clarity transport you back in time. Prepare to experience Scorsese's masterpiece as never before on Blu-ray™ High Definition.System Requirements:Running Time: 167 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA/TRUE STORY Rating: R UPC: 786936761139 Manufacturer No: 05703300

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24747 in DVD
• Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
• Released on: 2008-07-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 167 minutes

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• An epic tale of vengeance and survival, GANGS OF NEW YORK now hits harder than ever on Blu-ray Disc™. Directed by Academy Award(R) winner Martin Scorsese (2006, Best Director, THE DEPARTED), this motion picture event stars two-time Oscar(R) winner Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, Best Actor, MY LEFT FOOT; 2007, Best Actor, THERE WILL BE BLOOD), Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cameron Diaz. After years of incar

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Gangs of New York may achieve greatness with the passage of time. Mixed reviews were inevitable for a production this grand (and this troubled behind the scenes), but it's as distinguished as any of director Martin Scorsese's more celebrated New York stories. From its astonishing 1846 prologue to the city's infernal draft riots of 1863, the film aspires to erase the decorum of textbooks and chronicle 19th-century New York as a cauldron of street warfare. The hostility is embodied in a tale of primal vengeance between Irish American son Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his father's ruthless killer and "Nativist" gang leader Bill "the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis, brutally inspired), so named for his lethal talent with knives. Vallon's vengeance is only marginally compelling; DiCaprio is arguably miscast, and Cameron Diaz (as Vallon's pickpocket lover) is adrift in a film with little use for women. Despite these weaknesses, Scorsese's mastery blossoms in his expert melding of personal and political trajectories; this is American history written in blood, unflinching, authentic, and utterly spectacular. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Daniel Day-Lewis, returning to movies after a spell of shoemaking in Florence, disports himself with royal assurance as the voluble thug William Cutting (Bill the Butcher) in Martin Scorsese's generally unsuccessful epic about nineteenth-century gang life in New York. Wielding knife and cleaver, this vengeful brawler makes spectacles of blood that he knows are gratifying to others. He's a self-amused monster, and Day-Lewis does what he can to give this semi-coherent production some theatrical panache. Scorsese and his screenwriters (Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan) never succeed in linking together the intimate personal dramas and the endless gang war between the nativist Yankees (i.e., Protestants) and the new waves of Irish immigrants. The movie isn't boring, but it's heavy-spirited, obvious, and grisly, with an emphasis on knives and blood that borders on the fetishistic. Scorsese shot "Gangs" in Rome's Cinecittˆ, and the picture has some of the depressive feverishness of "Fellini Satyricon," which was also shot there-the jeering spectators mounted in multitiered sets, the furtive life of the crime-ridden metropolis, with its hapless poverty, its barbaric entertainments, its obscure and unredeemed suffering. The movie also stars a sullen, stolid Leonardo DiCaprio as a young Irish immigrant eager to avenge the death of his father, Cameron Diaz as a prostitute and pickpocket, Liam Neeson as a fallen Irish leader, and Jim Broadbent as the corrupt political boss William Tweed. -David Denby
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