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No one will complain no, far from it, but Warner continues its editorial and HD brings one of its flagship titles most of the seventies. The President's Men will now benefit from a Blu-output Ray Zone A in the first instance on February 15. Readable zone B, this title will be available in a brand new edition includes a 40-page digibook, reworked the film / remastered and accompanied by a proposed soundtrack in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. A list of supplements sufficient to justify a purchase has also been published. Here it is:

• Commentary by Robert Redford
• Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of All the President's Men
• Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
• Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
• Vintage featurette Pressure and the Press: The Making of All the President's Men
• Vintage Jason Robards Interview Excerpt from Dinah!, Hosted by Dinah Shore
• Alan J. Pakula Thrillers Trailer Gallery

It will be January 4th next, and not for Halloween, that will be released this "mockumentary" recounting the events surrounding a dramatic exorcism, and presented / produced by Eli Roth. Lionsgate will offer the title in Blu-Ray edition, in zone A, which will present the film in 1080p as well as DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (discrete). Impossible at this time whether this title will be readable in Zone B. Logically, Studio Canal will handle the French edition in Zone B, in some supplements mois.Voici content:

• Audio commentaries:
  • Director Daniel Stamm and Actors Ashley Bell, Patrick Fabian and Louis Herthum
  • Producers Eli Roth, Eric Newman and Tom Bliss
• Featurettes:
  • The Devil You Know: The Making of The Last Exorcism
  • Real Stories of Exorcism
• 2009 Cannes Film Festival teaser trailer
• Witnesses to year Exorcism: An Audio Commentary With A Haunting Victim, Deliverance Minister and Clinical Psychologist
• Audition Footage
• Theatrical Trailer

More rhythmic than Bandof Brothers, brilliantly staged, highly emotional and dramatic as desired, the new miniseries (10 episodes an hour) produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Speilberg, The Pacific, which evokes the events of the War world in the Pacific region where the Marines intervened and the U.S. Army prepares to disembark via a High Definition Blu-Ray box set on November 3 in our area B.

On the program, 1080p transfers, accompanied by a soundtrack in English proposed DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. The explosive mix of the series, far more acoustically speaking event that Band of Brothers, can only gain by the change, including the lavish opening credits featuring the beautiful score by Hans Zimmer, bass, and emotional significance by a mix of symphonic beauty. Here's opening credits, which highlights the theme of "Honor" composed by Zimmer:

As for supplements, HBO (via Warner) will offer:

• Profiles (49 minutes, HD)
• The realization
• Making-of (23 minutes, HD)
• An analysis of the Pacific War (10 minutes, HD)
• Track of comments and additional content in PiP

A real event, and believe the first reviews of our fellow North Americans, the technical results exceed expectations on all points, with a strikingly realistic acoustic rendering and scale, and the images breathtaking.

The monument of David Fincher, the Social Network, has been slated for release this winter zone B. It will be on February 11th that videophiles will take ownership of the final stage of prolific and extraordinarily talented filmmaker, able to reinvent its formal system of one film to another. Sony will handle the issue in our country and abroad, which brings us to confirm the presence of a track DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French AND in the original. All under 24-bit and 48 Khz. On the occasion of the theatrical release of the film event, our contact and friend Michael Coleman made a documentary on the sound aspect of the film, which is more a documentary collection Soundworks, available on the website. This documentary gives voice to Ren Klyce, the brilliant sound designer and mixer Fincher's regular since the beginning of his career. The soundtrack of The Social Network, as all the productions of Fincher, was mixed, edited and finalized at the studio of George Lucas' Skywalker Sound in California. True superman of sound in film, endowed with a sense of hearing extraordinary, Klyce has composed the sound worlds anthology of Fight Club or Seven:

"The Social Network" Sound for Film Profile from Michael Coleman on Vimeo .

SYNOPSIS

Christian, a penniless young poet just arrived in Paris, is carried away by Toulouse-Lautrec and his friends in the crazy Parisian life. He meets along the way Satine, a courtesan and lead dancer at the Moulin Rouge, with whom he falls in love. He was assigned to write a review for the cabaret. But the Duke, an aristocrat easy financing the project, has views of Satine ...

VIDEO CODEC: AVC
1080p
FORMAT: 2.35:1
FOX (France) Availability: October 2010 (Area B)

Overall, this edition HD provides a visual rendering fully sparkling (colorimetry absolutely sumptuous and spicy CinemaScope frames accented ...), offering images generally dense and often extremely pitted, if not highly detailed. The actors' faces filling the CinemaScope frame is absolutely superb show of presence and density, revealing unprecedented visual experience, enhanced by a fine in the report which regularly imposes the total respect. The definition displays great values ​​once past the first five minutes, stylish and soft. The fluidity of the AVC codec leaves transpire defects and manages to keep up an assembly often syncopated with relish. The colors and the full color temperature can completely rediscover the work in all its chromatic richness: well, no more "bleeds" at the dense red. All breathe a lasting and retinas, exacerbating the same time the size of the baroque feature non-standard. Contrast and brightness show striking deep, with a rendition of a black depth and density that is not suspected. Overall this baling HD dazzles and surprises from plane to plane, and managed to meet the specific cinégénie if applied by the filmmaker to his images while offering a visual rendering of contrasts, with rich and varied aspects, a lush chromatic format Blu-Ray can highlight as never before. Completely successful and accomplished.

DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1: English. French, etc. ... talian are available in DTS 5.1.
24 Bit, 48 Khz
OFFSET: no

Here's what we could have written about the DVD edition of the film, was released a few years of this: For the musical rendering of the fluidity or dynamics, it is to the DTS track appropriate heading. On this level there, it's all good. The center speaker is available in full band: really enjoying a high quality hi-fi in the sung passages, she radiates the voice with warmth, clarity (great, really) and a very welcome presence. For the rest, available in the acoustic space as well as sound design is actually quite traditional, calm and composed, although furious moments seized the soundtrack and shatter all channels. When the soundtrack is getting worse, ie regularly, it is difficult to detect a dominant fault. However, even at high volume or in the moments loaded, the impression that nothing really shines ... No follies dominates in the frequency response ... Anyway, we've heard better, and madness (that the real) musical emanates from the film would be part of a more virulent in terms of expressiveness (here well in hand colored DTS) and creativity. This disappointment is tempered by the 'energy bubbles' that emit most of the songs of the film firmly anchored in the heart of the speakers, they burst with energy and fidelity symphonic particularly flattering on the DTS track. The box is having a field day and offers enough creative impulses at times. The heat of this soundtrack is more represented in two songs: Medley Elephant and One Day I'll Fly Away. The grain of voice, palpable, accentuates the emotion of music and reveals a certain sound aesthetic.

What is it with this Blu-Ray edition, intended to displace easily made ​​the DVD via the choice of codec DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1? After some dissipation inherent in DTS codec Mi Flow SD of the previous edition, this edition Blu-Ray allows, again, to rediscover (almost) completely the film. While some dialogues show buried or just striking musical passages sung and displayed a spectral cleanliness and responsiveness symphonic score. Mixing it gets a width and spatial discrete far been conspicuously absent. Music, or rather the music no longer suffer from distortion, but offer increased fidelity and responsiveness that encourages multi drive up the high decibel level of the amplifier without suffering strain (s). The soundstage is widening, and the music is at the heart of fast diffusers (the speakers), by adding a fine rendering takes up very quickly towards a heightened musicality. The closeness of the vote in songs and multliplie accentuates the emotion. They are made, as was the case on the DVD edition, with a warmth and tonal correctness that borders, provided the ultimate realism. Sensationalism, and to say the least. Admittedly, mixing and sound design remains fairly front end, but this track is lossless HD allows a more acoustic scale down while being wider and close to both, and use the stage further back, at low frequencies musically very promising and supported at the appropriate passages. Speed ​​and accuracy are here sounds common chamber, amplifying the same emotions that are gaining musical presence, stability, and clarity. In his large ensemble, sound floor and spread with tact and precision, finesse and orchestral realism, carrying masses of sound in a sensory whirlwind we suggest you listen to higher than usual. Dynamics often becomes an asset of choice, stunning at times, and capable of great and lively too. Management of all these sound masses and fulfilments of these fields surround gains enormously from the 24 Bit definition, which allow to stage the sounds and textures without sacrificing accuracy or strike the ear, and sought here more rigorous due the pervasiveness of music and songs of immanence (known for most of the rest). The frequency response surprised by the accuracy of stamps issued, and the consequent scale orchestral passages. Strength and a sound architecture sound chip amplified and enhanced by the codec DTS-HD Master Audio eradicates many details, displaying a "bright" and "sparkle" aptly capable of powerful booms and rich a quality of sound projection at once clear, relevant, and just massive. Again, this is a successful, vibrant and sensory, which has sufficient powers of seduction to bring chills when passing key as Elephant Love Medley or One Day I'll fly away (already on the discs DTS Demo DVD format, but far, far away to compete with the acoustic precision offered on this Blu-Ray edition crystal clear).

All extras are presented here in HD (1080i or p) and VOSTF:

• Spectacular, spectacular! : PiP mode with audio commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin (Art Director), Donald McAlpine (cinematographer) and Craig Pearce (co-writer)
• Audio commentary with Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Donald McAlpine and Craig Pearce
• A word from Baz Luhrmann (1min 58s)
• A creative journey (11min 04s)
• The house of Iona (7min 11s)
• The Making of Moulin Rouge (25min 55s)

• Unpublished archives:
• - Father & Son (6min 22s)
• - First assembly of rap Zidler (3min)
• - Baz encourages artists to totally let go (5min 16s)
• - Being kissed, touched ... (1min 51s)
• - Nicole and Jim repeated at Iona (1min 25s)
• - First choreography of Nicole and Ewan (2min 29s)
• - The jitter Zidler (42s)
• - Lead the man in the moon (3min 34s)
• - Staging Like a Virgin (2min 21s)
• - The happy ending of the Duke (1min 02s)
• - The Tango of jealousy - first tests (2min 37s)
• - Rehearsals - tango of jealousy (3min 31s)
• - Rehearsals - the scene of rapture (3min 45s)
• - On the set of Toulouse tonight (1min 05s)
• - First test voice of Nicole Kidman - Sad Diamonds (1min 38s)
• Stars:
• - Nicole Kidman in the role of Satine (3min 44s)
• - Ewan McGregor in the role of Christian (3min 23s)
• - John Leguizamo in the role of Toulouse (2min 31s)
• - Jim Broadbent in the role of Zidler (2min 29s)
• - Richard Roxburgh in the role of the Duke (2min 44s)
• Screenwriters:
• - Interview with writers Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce (4min 09s)
• - Craig Pearce reads the first draft of the screenplay (2min 29s)
• Design:
• - Interview with the chief costume designer Catherine Martin and Deco (6min 49s)
• - Interview with Angus Strathie co-costume designer (2min 22s)
• - Evolution of the intro (4min 38s)
• - The Green Fairy (3min 57s)
• - The Mill (2min 12s)
• - At Christian (2min 35s)
• - The dance (2min 56s)
• - The Garden of Delights (3min 04s)
• - The Gothic tower (1min 44s)
• Choreography:
• - Can Can - extended scene (4min 49s)
• - Tango - extended scene (5min 58s)
• - Hindi - extended scene (3min 39s)
• - Coup d'état - extended scene (57s)
• - Interview with choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell (6min 14s)
• Music:
• - Musical Journey (9min 54s)
• - A medley of love songs (4min 28s)
• - Fatboy Slim Interview (3min 56s)
• - Lady Marmalade (4min 33s)
• - Come what may (4min 15s)
• - One day I'll fly away (3min 57s)
• The editing room:
• - Interview with Jill Bilcock and Baz Luhrmann on the mounting (3min 46s)
• - Model preview of the director (4min 40s)
• Documents internet Toulouse tonight:
• - Introduction (57s)
• - Can Can (2min 05s)
• - The Bohemians (2min 06s)
• - The Duke (2min 08s)
• - Christian (2min 29s)
• - Extras (2min 09s)
• - Satine (2min 15s)
• - The film crew (2min 21s)
• - A day with Toulouse (2min 37s)
• - The End (2min 28s)
• Marketing:
• - Moulin Rouge around the world (2min 10s)
• - Film Trailer (2min 26s, VO)
• - Japanese Trailer

With many (if not tons) of delay in days of extremely satisfied and a radical change of pace, here's a news item announcing a big event: our friends at Wild Side are preparing to offer Blu-Ray (SD DVD also available) six remastered works of Italian maestro Dario Argento. Program: Masters of the carefully restored, and six notable works including The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and especially the beautifully Dantesque Suspiria, codes chromatic visual anthology.

The films will be presented in 1080p, and (confirmation pending), will be presented in DTS-HD Master Audio or Mono 5.1. As a supplement, the publisher will offer a high-class editorial, as you will see with the list of those on the edition of Suspiria:

• Interview with Dario Argento (26 min)
• Interview with Luciano Tovoli, Director of Photography (26 min)
• Interview with Claudio Simonetti, composer (13 min)
• Interview with Davide Bassan, Son and assistant art director (13 minutes)
• Interview with Dario Argento, Italian Special edition (20 minutes)
• In the depths of Suspiria with Daria Nicolodi (13 min)
• Viewed by Argento ... Pascal Laugier, Alain and Jean-Baptiste Schlockoff Thoret (26 min)
• Argento Connection - With Dario Argento, Claudio Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Romano Albani, Luciano Tovoli, Davide Bassan and Daria Nicolodi (26 min)
• The restoration of Suspiria (13 min)
• Bad form, radio Unpublished special Claudio Simonetti (France Culture)
• Trailer
• Photo Gallery

Other titles, most of which are completely new to our market video, however, does not offer expanded supplements. Suspiria exists remastering 5.1 (6.1 Discrete same to be exact), since a DVD release early 2000, area 1, the film offered in this format, with results quite honorable. Outputs programmed to November 3.