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Giuseppe Torantore's wonderful love poem to the cinema, which won the Best Foreign Film Academy Are for 1988, has arrived via Arrow, in a two-disc set -- theatrical (124 minutes) and director's cut (174 minutes) -- and it's a winner in every respect.
With a new scan, derived from the OCN, imagery is magnificent. Actually, the best I've ever seen, inclusive of theatrical screenings. Color, grain, black levels are spot on. Something one would expect with James White at the helm.
This is an easy one to recommend, as both the film, as well as the presentation are top drawer.
There are a multitude of extras, that allow those re-visiting the film, as well as newcomers to achieve full understanding of the work.
For those who love the cinema, and have somehow missed Cinema Paradiso, just go with this one.
For those familiar with the work...
you know.
The great Roger Ebert wrote the following for his review in 1988, and it rings even truer today.
"Yet anyone who loves movies is likely to love "Cinema Paradiso," and there is one scene where the projectionist finds that he can reflect the movie out of the window in his booth and out across the town square so that the images can float on a wall, there in the night above the heads of the people. I saw a similar thing happen one night in Venice in 1972 when they showed Chaplin's "City Lights" in the Piazza San Marco to more than 10,000 people, and it was then I realized the same thing this movie argues: Yes, it is tragic that the big screen has been replaced by the little one. But the real shame is that the big screens did not grow even bigger, grow so vast they were finally on the same scale as the movies they were reflecting." - Roger Ebert
You can find all of this thoughts on the film here:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-1990
Image - 5
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
Highly Recommended
RAH
With a new scan, derived from the OCN, imagery is magnificent. Actually, the best I've ever seen, inclusive of theatrical screenings. Color, grain, black levels are spot on. Something one would expect with James White at the helm.
This is an easy one to recommend, as both the film, as well as the presentation are top drawer.
There are a multitude of extras, that allow those re-visiting the film, as well as newcomers to achieve full understanding of the work.
For those who love the cinema, and have somehow missed Cinema Paradiso, just go with this one.
For those familiar with the work...
you know.
The great Roger Ebert wrote the following for his review in 1988, and it rings even truer today.
"Yet anyone who loves movies is likely to love "Cinema Paradiso," and there is one scene where the projectionist finds that he can reflect the movie out of the window in his booth and out across the town square so that the images can float on a wall, there in the night above the heads of the people. I saw a similar thing happen one night in Venice in 1972 when they showed Chaplin's "City Lights" in the Piazza San Marco to more than 10,000 people, and it was then I realized the same thing this movie argues: Yes, it is tragic that the big screen has been replaced by the little one. But the real shame is that the big screens did not grow even bigger, grow so vast they were finally on the same scale as the movies they were reflecting." - Roger Ebert
You can find all of this thoughts on the film here:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-1990
Image - 5
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
Highly Recommended
RAH
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