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Red Desert (UK BD) in October
18-09-2008 20:26 | 2215 views | Dave Foster | Show Backlinks
BFI have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Red Desert on 27th October 2008 priced at £24.99 RRP. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il deserto rosso tells the story of Giuliana (Monica Vitti), a young married woman suffering a mental and emotional crisis and embarking tentatively on an affair.
Antonioni’s first film in colour is presented on a single-layer disc with the following features:
Region coding is TBC.
Antonioni’s first film in colour is presented on a single-layer disc with the following features:
- 1080P 1.85:1 Widescreen
- Italian PCM Mono (48k/16bit)
- Brand new restoration with new improved English subtitle translation
- New full-feature commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs (with subtitles for the hearing impaired)
- Original trailer
- Illustrated colour booklet containing newly commissioned essays, notes, and Antonioni’s recollections of making Red Desert
Region coding is TBC.
Comments
Member
Posts: 847
Is rthis any good? I've never heard of it but non-English language BDs are so rare, it's a treat just gettiing one.
PCM Mono - Excellent!
Member
Posts: 180
Originally Posted by tonyleung:
Is this any good?
Well, obviously this is all down to personal taste, but it is regarded as a masterpiece.
Member
Posts: 637
More to the point, its creative use of colour remains pretty much unique to this day - and will probably remain so, since no-one in the CGI era is going to go to the lengths that Antonioni did.
Member
Posts: 180
Previous releases on VHS and DVD suffered from faded colour or botched colour timing of the print. Apparently this was transferred from the original negatives in Rome by a technician who knew exactly what he was doing.
For cineastes, this should be a contender for DVD of the year.
Gun crazy
Posts: 127
"Red Desert" was Antonioni's first film in colour. I wouldn't rank it as high as the previous trilogy (L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse) or what he achieved with Blow Up or The Passenger. It's a little flawed, with a weaker argument compared to these movies and it's more or less a work of transition.
However, the photography is magnificent, with an impressive use of colour and I got to acknowledge that "lesser Antonioni film" is one of the sweetest insults one can imagine.
Member
Posts: 847
Thanks guys. It does sound good.
Administrator
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This has been pushed back a week to 27th Oct.