Description
DVD Features:
Number of Discs: 2
Rated: R
Run Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
Video: Color
Released: February 13, 2007
Originally Released: 2006
Label: Warner Home Video
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen – 16.9
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 – English, French, Spanish
Subtitles – English, French, Spanish – Optional
Addititonal Release Material:
Additional Scenes (9) – Introductions by Martin Scorsese
Featurettes:
The Story of the Boston Mob – The Real Life Gangster Behind Jack Nicholson's Character
Crossing Criminal Cultures – How Little's Italy Crime and Violence Influence Scorsese's Work
Trailer – Theatrical Trailer
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio & Jack Nicholson
Performer: Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, Ray Winstone & Alec Baldwin
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Edited by Thelma Schoonmaker
Screenwriting by William Monahan, Siu Fai Mak & Felix Chong
Composition by Howard Shore
Produced by Jennifer Aniston, Brad Grey, Brad Pitt & Graham King
Director of Photography: Michael Ballhaus
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2006 – Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan
Academy Awards 2006 – Best Director: Martin Scorsese
Academy Awards 2006 – Best Picture
Entertainment Reviews:
Entertainment Weekly – 10/13/2006
"THE DEPARTED is splattered with moments of pure, dead-eyed, blood-soaked Scorsesean violence….Nicholson provides a menace that's half silky, half seedy." — Grade: A-
Total Film – 11/01/2006
4 stars out of 5 — "DiCaprio fully justifies his place as Marty's new muse….[He delivers] THE DEPARTED's most dangerous turn."
New York Times – 10/06/2006
"The speed and Mr. Scorsese's sureness of touch, particularly when it comes to carving up space with the camera, keep the plot's hall of mirrors from becoming a distraction."
Rolling Stone – 10/19/2006
4 stars out of 4 — "The actors bring their A games to this triumphant bruiser of a film, its darkly wanton wit the only defense against complete chaos."
Sight and Sound – 12/01/2006
"[A] juicy and enjoyable gangster picture. It has generous salty humour, tremendous narrative drive, an absorbingly complex plot of multiple betrayal, and a roster of entertaining actors."
Box Office – 12/01/2006
"Martin Scorsese here succeeds in creating a bleak picture with a fatalistic Irish sensibility."
Premiere – 01/01/2007
Included in Premiere's "10 Best Movies Of The Year" — "[With] enough bravura acting for a dozen such pictures…"
Rolling Stone – 12/28/2006
Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2006" — "[A] model of what directing is when craft rises to the level of art."
Entertainment Weekly – 12/29/2006
Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" — "Scorsese's got the best of men at the tops of their games. THE DEPARTED is this year's meatiest movie diversion."
Film Comment – 01/01/2007
Ranked #1 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."
Film Comment – 01/01/2007
"[T]his 'gangster movie' feels like a direct emanation from a society in a state of severe moral disorientation….THE DEPARTED reminds us that if there's truly an enemy, it's within."
USA Today – 02/16/2007
4 stars out of 4 — "[I]t's a rare treat for moviegoers to see six major actors, all in strong roles, together in one movie."
Ultimate DVD – 03/01/2007
5 stars out of 5 — "DiCaprio stands tall, even when sharing the screen with Nicholson….THE DEPARTED is his master class…"
Ultimate DVD – 07/01/2007
5 stars out of 5 — "[W]ith Nicholson and DiCaprio together on screen for the first time, a performance masterclass is assured."
Wall Street Journal – 09/17/2010
"THE DEPARTED has become a classic in its own right, thanks in no small measure to William Monahan's script…"
Product Description:
Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating
