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Steven Spielberg's 2005 Munich, would be an exciting military / spy drama and a fun film to watch, if only it hadn't actually occurred, which sets a very dark tone throughout the film.
Photographed in S35 on that medium formerly known as film, that look is beautifully retained in the new Blu-ray by Universal.
To those who may be unaware, the studio sends mixed messages these days, which, unless you look closely, could make it seem as though there's a almost devil may care attitude about what shows up on store shelves.
And that presumption would be incorrect.
The problem is this.
With thousands of titles in their library, it's difficult to create all those new skews without mixing in some older transfer with new ones. When someone selects a catalog title with an older transfer to review today, questions can arise about why everything isn't current.
The answer is that because of the cost of proper 4k re-mastering, color, clean-up and all of the things that go with a new product, only a limited number can be sourced annually.
That preface is a way of explaining that Munich is one of the new batch.
With an absolute appearance as cinema, even on the largest screens, it shows what can be done when need and budget meet professionalism and modern technology.
Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski's work has been beautifully harvested, and every technical function from harvest to compression and authoring has been dealt with beautifully.
Munich was nominated for a multitude of awards, inclusive of five Academy Awards, inclusive of Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing and Music.
This is a tense, exciting film, that's sometimes difficult to watch, but in my humble opinion is an important film to part of one's overall knowledge of cinema in our time.
Image - 5
Audio - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
A beautiful Blu-ray
Very Highly Recommended
RAH
Photographed in S35 on that medium formerly known as film, that look is beautifully retained in the new Blu-ray by Universal.
To those who may be unaware, the studio sends mixed messages these days, which, unless you look closely, could make it seem as though there's a almost devil may care attitude about what shows up on store shelves.
And that presumption would be incorrect.
The problem is this.
With thousands of titles in their library, it's difficult to create all those new skews without mixing in some older transfer with new ones. When someone selects a catalog title with an older transfer to review today, questions can arise about why everything isn't current.
The answer is that because of the cost of proper 4k re-mastering, color, clean-up and all of the things that go with a new product, only a limited number can be sourced annually.
That preface is a way of explaining that Munich is one of the new batch.
With an absolute appearance as cinema, even on the largest screens, it shows what can be done when need and budget meet professionalism and modern technology.
Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski's work has been beautifully harvested, and every technical function from harvest to compression and authoring has been dealt with beautifully.
Munich was nominated for a multitude of awards, inclusive of five Academy Awards, inclusive of Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing and Music.
This is a tense, exciting film, that's sometimes difficult to watch, but in my humble opinion is an important film to part of one's overall knowledge of cinema in our time.
Image - 5
Audio - 5
Pass / Fail - Pass
A beautiful Blu-ray
Very Highly Recommended
RAH
