Oppenheimer via their online store was no longer in stock [4K steelbook] but I did manage to get three more 4K Steelbook titles for $9.99 w/free s/h. Luckily, I do have the non steelbook 4K edition of Oppenheimer!
So I just finished watching all 541 minutes of THE OFFER via Paramount's excellent 4 disc 1080/DTS~HD MA 5.1 set and thoroughly enjoyed it! One wonders how THE GODFATHER ever got made after viewing this series.From Paramount Pictures, a 10 part mini series focusing on the [almost impossible] making of Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Offer-Blu-ray/310492/#Review
Where is this offered for $15?As part of Criterion's continuing new releases from the Janus Film Collection, I watched Belgian directors' Felix Van Groeningen/Charlotte Vandermeersch's expansive adaptation of novelist Paolo Cognetti 2016 book THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS
Spanning over four decades and shot in the Italian Alps, it's the story of two young boys who meet in a remote Alpine village and become lifelong friends.
The two leads [as adults], Luca Marinelli and Alesandro Borghi are magnificent as Pietro and Bruno who both share a love of the soaring mountains and reconstruct a house which Pietro's father built many years before on a remote mountain top before becoming estranged for 15 years as each pursues their own destinies. And the ending is a real tearjerker!
The Eight Mountains boasts gorgeous cinematography and a modest DTS~HD MA 5.1 soundtrack but inexplicably it was shot in 1:33.1 which puzzled me since the majesty of the scenery, IMO, should've commanded the full 1:85.1 scope which ironically, the two acompanying documentaries share!
VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and at the asking sale price of $15 ...... one of the jewels in my expanding Criterion collection of World Cinema!
When both Amazon and Barnes and Noble had their 50% off sale on ALL Criterion titles some months ago. Usually it's a bi annual event so check this thread for any updates on future sales!
Great flick! You seen de Palma's Blow Out? Another goodie.
Hmm. No relation to Keno(I'll bet!) or Rhino...Arriving April 23rd from KINO CLASSICS and Russian Director Andrei Tarkovsky NOSTALGHIA [Native UHD4K from OCN]
Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.” This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice). Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L’Avventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. As J. Hoberman wrote, “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”
Kino Lorber, Mr. E. Will wait until KL has their bi annual sales and blows out their 4K titles for $17.99 ... or less!
Mr. Ralph, lately you seem to have "Blow Out" and 'Blow Up" on the brain, cinematically speaking!
I believe you have me confused with Timothyperson [Pete]...see post 6,071 above!
I haven't seen this Tarkovsky but golly, I hope Solaris gets a 4K release soon with audio that's something other than the mono that's on Criterion's BD.Arriving April 23rd from KINO CLASSICS and Russian Director Andrei Tarkovsky NOSTALGHIA [Native UHD4K from OCN]
Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.” This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice). Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L’Avventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. As J. Hoberman wrote, “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”
