DVD
Rome. The complete second season
Record details
- ISBN: 0783150415
- ISBN: 9780783150413
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Physical Description:
videorecording
videorecording
videodisc
5 videodiscs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher: [New York] : HBO Home Video, [2007]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Originally broadcast on HBO during the 2006-2007 season. Contains all 10 episodes from the second season. Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary on episode "Passover"; "A tale of two Romes" featurette; "All roads lead to Rome" featurette; Season 1 recap -- Disc 2: "All roads lead to Rome" featurette -- Disc 3: "The making of Rome, Season II" featurette; "All roads lead to Rome" featurette -- Disc 4: audio commentary on both episodes; "The rise of Octavian: Rome's first emperor" featurette; "All roads lead to Rome" featurette -- Disc 5: audio commentary on both episodes; "Antony & Cleopatra" featurette; "All roads lead to Rome" featurette. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | disc 1. Passover / writer, Bruno Heller, director, Tim Van Patten. Son of Hades / writer, Bruno Heller, director, Allen Coulter -- disc 2. These being the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero / writer, Scott Buck, director, Alan Poul. Testudo et Lepus (The tortoise and the hare) / writer, Todd Ellis Kessler, director, Adam Davidson -- disc 3. Heroes of the Republic / writer, Mere Smith, director, Alik Sakharov. Philippi / writer, Eoghan Mahony, Roger Young -- disc 4. Death mask / writer, Scott Buck, director, John Maybury. Necessary fiction / writer, Todd Ellis Kessler, director, Carl Franklin -- disc 5: Deus impeditio esuritori nullus (No God can stop a hungry man) / writer, Mere Smith, director, Steve Shill. De patre vostro (About your father) / writer, Bruno Heller, director, John Maybury. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Lindsay Duncan, Tobias Menzies, Kerry Condon, Simon Woods, Max Perkis, Lyndsey Marshal, Indira Varma. |
| Target Audience Note: | TV-MA. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0. |
| Language Note: | English (5.1) or dubbed Spanish (2.0) dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
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| Genre: | Television programs. Historical television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Creston Public Library | DVD FIC ROM (Text) | 35140001117665 | Fiction Videos | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Video Librarian Reviews : Video Librarian Reviews
Unlike Deadwood, HBO's Rome ends on a note likely to satisfy viewers swept up in its lavishly mounted spectacle and captivated by the dramas of both the historical and fictional characters. Season two begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, charting the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian (Simon Woods), the latter surprisingly named Caesar's sole heir. The series' most compelling relationship remains that of a pair of fellow soldiers and unlikely friends: the honorable Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus "violence is the only trade I know" Pullo (Ray Stevenson), who more or less reverse roles when Vorenus is overcome with bitter grief in the wake of his wife's suicide. The second season also ups the ante in the rivalry between Atia (an Emmy-worthy Polly Walker), who is Antony's mistress, and Servilia (Lindsay Duncan), with attempted poisoning and sickening torture. Another gripping subplot deals with Vorenus' estrangement from his children, presumed slaughtered at the end of the season opener, but whose true fate may be even more devastating to the father who cursed them. Compiling all 10 episodes from the 2007 final season, DVD extras include interactive text commentary on all episodes, five audio commentaries, and four featurettes (on the history of the city, a second season "making-of," and profiles of Octavian, and Antony and Cleopatra). In writing Rome's epitaph, we come to praise this series, not to bury it: although two seasons was not enough to establish a Rome empire, it still stands as one of HBO's crowning achievements. Highly recommended. (D. Liebenson) Copyright Video Librarian Reviews 2007.
