BIANCO2NERO
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- Jul 15, 2010
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- Real Name
- Sergio Angelini
I ordered the Spanish releases of FREUD and Michael Anderson's THE NAKED EDGE and am pleased with both, despite limitations for both.
FREUD is non-anamorphic widescreen and although the cropping seems a little tight at 1.85:1 during the titles, it otherwise offers a very decent image, not pristine perhaps, but with excellent contrast and a print fairly free from scratches. This is an official release from Universal or a great and unjustly neglected movie with a sensation score by jerry Goldsmith of course. The running time is just over 134 minutes which seems correct given the 4% speedup from the original theatrical running time of 140 minutes.
NAKED EDGE, Gary Cooper's last movie, has a flamboyant visual style that makes it seems like a more restrained and more expensive version of the black and white thrillers then being made by Hammer and Mario Bava. The print is very good indeed but the DVD presentation is a little furstrating because although anamorphic it appears that the wrong flag was set so it defaults to anamorphic 2.35 when the film's aspect ratio as presented is actually closer 1.69:1 (and even says so on the back of the DVD sleeve) - if you reset the screen and zoom in it looks great but you obvipously lose the advantage of the anamorphic encoding. Both are Region 2 PAL of course and offer versions either in English or Spanish, with or without subtitles.
There are no extras on either disc.
FREUD is non-anamorphic widescreen and although the cropping seems a little tight at 1.85:1 during the titles, it otherwise offers a very decent image, not pristine perhaps, but with excellent contrast and a print fairly free from scratches. This is an official release from Universal or a great and unjustly neglected movie with a sensation score by jerry Goldsmith of course. The running time is just over 134 minutes which seems correct given the 4% speedup from the original theatrical running time of 140 minutes.
NAKED EDGE, Gary Cooper's last movie, has a flamboyant visual style that makes it seems like a more restrained and more expensive version of the black and white thrillers then being made by Hammer and Mario Bava. The print is very good indeed but the DVD presentation is a little furstrating because although anamorphic it appears that the wrong flag was set so it defaults to anamorphic 2.35 when the film's aspect ratio as presented is actually closer 1.69:1 (and even says so on the back of the DVD sleeve) - if you reset the screen and zoom in it looks great but you obvipously lose the advantage of the anamorphic encoding. Both are Region 2 PAL of course and offer versions either in English or Spanish, with or without subtitles.
There are no extras on either disc.