0:57.41rdimucci said:
It’s my favorite classic film period.
You haven't opened it yet?! But there's a lovely set of coasters for your drinks inside!
All the same, when Bogart first sees Ilsa again he almost looks like he's been physically hit in the gut.
An emotional moment for me in the movie is when Victor Laszlo (with Rick's permission) gets the band to play La Marseillaise, the lyrics of which were written during the French Revolution in 1792. The first part of the chorus in English goes...
"To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!"
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!
That French actress who sings and cries during that song really has a punch. She only passed away a few years ago...
Madeleine Lebeau, Jilted by Bogart in ‘Casablanca,’ Dies at 92Madeleine Lebeau, Jilted by Bogart in ‘Casablanca,’ Dies at 92 (Published 2016)
A patriotic, tear-stained scene made Ms. Lebeau a symbol of French resistance. She made two more American films before working in France through the 1950s.www.nytimes.com
Humphrey Bogart and Madeleine Lebeau, who played a spurned girlfriend in “Casablanca.”Credit...Warner Bros., via Photofest
By William Grimes
May 16, 2016
Madeleine Lebeau, a French actress who attained movie immortality with one scene, when the camera zoomed in on her tear-stained face as she sang “La Marseillaise” in “Casablanca,” died on May 1 in Estepona, Spain. She was 92....
Ms. Lebeau was 19 when she was cast in “Casablanca” as Yvonne, the spurned girlfriend of Rick Blaine, the owner of Rick’s Café Américain, played by Humphrey Bogart.
In one of the film’s pivotal scenes, Nazi officers in the cafe begin singing the patriotic song “Watch on the Rhine,” whereupon the Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid, orders the house band to strike up the French national anthem....
All the reviews at the time stated that the 2012 blu ray transfer was from a fresh 4K scan from the original negatives, so you might just want to open this up and treat yourself....
Is the 2008 edition the one whose outer box has an ornately laser cut cover? That’s the one I have.
I might do that, but, I tend to watch "Casablanca" on digital more than Blu-ray as iTunes digital is derived from the same master used on the 2012 BD release as most of the new bonus material for that 2012 release is listed as extras on iTunes.
Curtiz is among my favorite five directors of all-time.
