#891
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Apparently there is a problem with the film on the Blu-Ray disc of 'Citizen Kane' Criterion are making replacement copies available to all of their customer who have purchased the disc, along with an additional $10 gift certificate
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#892
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For people who don't know what the issue is, it was reported from some early reviews that the contrast levels go really flat about half way through the film, so instead of the strong blacks and whites everything is a milky grey silver instead. The 4k disc isn't affected by it, just the bluray.
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#893
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'Adoption' (1975) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-ray - $27.96 and DVD - $20.96 Release date: March 8 "Trailblazing auteur Márta Mészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Through intimate camera work, Adoption immerses the viewer in the worlds of two women, each searching for fulfillment: Kata (Katalin Berek), a middle-aged factory worker who wants to have a child with her married lover, and Anna (Gyöngyvér VÃ*gh), a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and political forces that shape women’s lives, as each navigates the realities of love, marriage, and motherhood in her quest for self-determination." Special features:
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#894
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'Le Cercle Rouge' (1970) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 2 disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo - $34.96 Release date: March 15 "Alain Delon plays a master thief, fresh out of prison, who crosses paths with a notorious escapee (Gian Maria Volontè) and an alcoholic ex-cop (Yves Montand). The unlikely trio plot a heist, against impossible odds, until a relentless inspector and their own pasts seal their fates. With its honorable antiheroes, coolly atmospheric cinematography, and breathtaking set pieces, Le cercle rouge is the quintessential film by Jean-Pierre Melville—the master of ambiguous, introspective crime cinema." Special features:
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#895
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'The Flight of the Phoenix' (1965) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $27.96 Release date: March 22 "A downed airplane is a motley group of men’s only protection from the relentless desert sun, in this psychologically charged disaster epic, one of the all-time great survival movies. James Stewart is the veteran pilot whose Benghazi-bound plane—carrying passengers played by an unshaven ensemble of screen icons including Richard Attenborough, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Dan Duryea, Peter Finch, and George Kennedy—crash-lands in the remote Sahara. As tensions simmer among the survivors, they find themselves forced to trust a coldly logical engineer (Hardy Krüger) whose plan to get them out may just be crazy enough to work—or could kill them all. Directed with characteristic punch by Hollywood iconoclast Robert Aldrich, The Flight of the Phoenix balances adventure with human drama as it conducts a surprising and complex examination of authority, honor, and camaraderie among desperate men." Special features:
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#896
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'The Last Waltz' (1978) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for 2 disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo - $34.96 or Blu-Ray - $27.96 Release date: March 29 "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to document the farewell performance of the legendary group the Band at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (including renowned cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond, László Kovács, and Michael Chapman) and art director Boris Leven to design the strikingly theatrical sets, Scorsese created a grandly immersive experience that brings viewers onstage and inside the music itself. That music — as performed by the Band and a host of other generation-defining artists, including Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, the Staple Singers, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young — lives on as an almost religious expression of the transcendent possibilities of rock and roll." Special features:
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#897
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'Love Jones' (1997) - Pre-order available from Criterion Films direct for Blu-Ray - $27.96 Release date: March 29 "Steeped in the bohemian cool of Chicago’s 1990s Black creative scene, love jones — the smart, sexy, and stylish debut feature of writer-director Theodore Witcher — is a love story for anyone who has ever wondered: How do I know when I’ve found the one? Larenz Tate and Nia Long have magnetism and chemistry to burn as the striving, artistically talented twentysomethings — he’s a poet, she’s a photographer — who spark over their love of literature and jazz, but whose mutual reluctance to commit to a relationship leaves them both navigating an emotional minefield of confusion, jealousy, and regrets. Velvety cinematography; an unforgettable, eclectic soundtrack; sophisticated dialogue; and refreshingly low-key, naturalistic performances by an ensemble cast that also includes Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson, Bill Bellamy, Bernadette Speakes, and Leonard Roberts come together in an intoxicating, seductively moody romance that engages both the heart and the mind." Special features:
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#898
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Pity. I already own the SC 4K......
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#899
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Hopefully ARMY OF SHADOWS is UK bound on Criterion,LCR is clasd but Army is the better film I reckon. Be picking up Flight of the Phoenix-never got round to getting the Eureka release. Never seen it-what a cracking cast.
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#900
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Coming soon...?
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