Films (Almost Entirely Surround)

[4-earredwonder]

"James Cameron is now KING OF THE WORLD", I think Boris Johnson may have desires on that title

Methinks they'll both eventually hit icebergs and sink to the bottom of that vast POND!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Coming July 18th from CRITERION and French Director Jean~Luc Godard BREATHLESS [Native UHD4K/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 2.0]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Breathless-4K-Blu-ray/336554/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

Arriving June 20th from Kino Lorber and director John Frankenheimer THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE [Native UHD4K from the OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

Highdefdigest's MUST OWN Review:

https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/103401/themanchuriancandidate4kultrahdbluray.html

 

[esimms86]

Arriving June 20th from Kino Lorber and director John Frankenheimer THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE [Native UHD4K from the OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

Highdefdigest's MUST OWN Review:

https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/103401/themanchuriancandidate4kultrahdbluray.html

No love for Angela Lansbury’s likeness on the dust jacket?

 

[4-earredwonder]

No love for Angela Lansbury’s likeness on the dust jacket?

Mr. E.....Miss Lansbury IS the

 

[esimms86]

Mr. E.....Miss Lansbury IS the

In casting her as Laurence Harvey’s mother, we are supposed to believe that Angela gave birth to him when she was only 3 years old!

Well written and well acted, nonetheless!

 

[4-earredwonder]

In casting her as Laurence Harvey’s mother, we are supposed to believe that Angela gave birth to him when she was only 3 years old!

Well written and well acted, nonetheless!

Well Mr. E, Sally Fields was only 9 years older than Tom Hanks when she played his mother in Forrest Gump!

 

[4-earredwonder]

Coming July 4th from Paramount Pictures and director Peter Weir THE TRUMAN SHOW [Native UHD4K/HDR10/Dolby Vision/Dolby ATMOS]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Truman-Show-4K-Blu-ray/336821/#Review

 

[timothyemerson]

Twilight / Szürkület (1990) BD:

1. No surround audio on this one (only dual mono) but it's such a cool watch I thought I'd post for all y'all movie heads if you missed it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BVMXQ1FS?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

2. Based on a book (that has 2 slightly different endings depending on which version you read according to the extras on this BD) that Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001) with Jack Nicholson was also based on (with the other ending). I remember The Pledge having a cool ending from the one time I've seen it so will have to check it out again at some stage.

3. Cinematography is superb. It's very grey and bleak but if you like long takes with slow pans, you'll dig this. Some of the reviews whine about "compression artifacts". There's definitely something going on but as it's all grey scale, I suspect that the hardware just can't reproduce all the greys, so you get colour banding. It was scanned at 4K so you gotta wonder if a 4K HDR release might fix these but not sure that will be forthcoming at any stage.

4. Aspect ratio is 1.66:1 too which I always get excited about for some weird reason!

5. Score and sound design are great too. Reused bits from Herzog's Nosferatu Popol Vuh score (Bartok in there too apparently) and Kate Bush's Hello Earth.

6. Lots of extras but they're mainly useless "info".

Definitely worth a look I says.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Coming July 18th from Kino Lorber and director William Friedkin TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA [Native UHD4K from OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

 

[4-earredwonder]

On September 5th, Paramount Pictures will release director Tim Burton's SLEEPY HOLLOW [Native UHD4K/HDR10/Dolby Vision/Dolby ATMOS]

 

[4-earredwonder]

One of the great westerns with bravado performances from Charlton Heston and Donald Pleasence

https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/117011/willpenny.html

 

[Electric Moo]

Coming July 18th from Kino Lorber and director William Friedkin TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA [Native UHD4K from OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

That's a great movie!

 

[cdheer]

One of the great westerns with bravado performances from Charlton Heston and Donald Pleasence

https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/117011/willpenny.html

Donald Pleasence is so underrated. You can drop him into a terrible film and...well, it'll still be terrible, but his scenes will be a joy nonetheless.

Also, his episode of Columbo might be my favorite. Plus he was the one bad guy that Columbo seemed to regret catching.

 

[timothyemerson]

Donald Pleasence is so underrated. You can drop him into a terrible film and...well, it'll still be terrible, but his scenes will be a joy nonetheless.

Also, his episode of Columbo might be my favorite. Plus he was the one bad guy that Columbo seemed to regret catching.

True indeed. He's the Don! Great actor. Must have made a bundle back in the day cos he said yep to lots of junk.

 

[4-earredwonder]

True indeed. He's the Don! Great actor. Must have made a bundle back in the day cos he said yep to lots of junk.

British actor Donald Pleasence appeared in over 135 films and had numerous TV appearances over his long and varied career. From his appearance as Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Biofeld in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE to worldwide acclaim in the Halloween franchise, he always distinguished himself with his unique on screen persona.

 

[4-earredwonder]

And in a VERY SAD turn of events:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/remains-found-hiking-area-british-actor-julian-sands/story?id=100362745

Julian Sands - Wikipedia​

Julian Sands - Wikipedia

Julian Sands is an English actor known for his roles in films such as The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena, and Leaving Las Vegas He has also appeared on television, playing Vladimir Bierko in 24, Jor-El in Smallville, and Yulish Rabitov in Banshee. Sands was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, and came to the attention of NBC when he was cast in the TV miniseries The Sun Also Rises (1984). Sands is also known for his breakout role in the 1985 period drama A Room With A View

 

[4-earredwonder]

One of my very fav 'guilty pleasure' flicks is Ken Russell's outrageous 1986 production of GOTHIC in which Julian Sands plays British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson his wife Mary Shelley and Irish actor Gabriel Byrne as the infamously scandalous Lord Byron. According to legend, that wild week end spent at Lord Byron's estate in Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva was the inspiration for Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. Fact or Fiction?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gothic-Blu-ray/193691/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

NOW available from Paramount Home Video and director Sydney Pollack THE FIRM [Native UHD4K/HDR10/Dolby Vision/Dolby True HD 5.1]

https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/116568/thefirm4kultrahdbluray.html

 

[4-earredwonder]

From Bayview Entertainment the 3D Restoration of ROBOT MONSTER

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/robot-monster-bayview-2023-bd3d