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Nov 6, 2023 · Picture 8/10. The Criterion Collection has regained the rights to Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now from Paramount and has upgraded it to 4K UHD. Using StudioCanal’s newer 4K restoration in place of their own from 2015, the 2160p/24hz ultra-high-definition digital presentation is delivered on a triple-layer disc in the film’s original ...
Picture 8/10. The Criterion Collection presents Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of about 1.85:1 on this dual-layer disc. Taken from a new 4K restoration of the film, Criterion’s release delivers the film in 1080p/24hz. The European Optimum disc gained a somewhat infamous reputation for having a heavy ...
Oct 3, 2023 · A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as for its naturalistic eroticism and its unforgettable climax and denouement—one of the great endings in horror history. Year: 1973.
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Aug 15, 2024 · Re: 745 Don't Look Now #101 Post by thekeystobarton » Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:35 am Question for anyone who may know more: on my first viewings of the film I did not fully catch that in the opening sequence when we see the close-ups of the slide showing the red coat in the church, you can clearly see that there is no arm/hand coming out of the left sleeve of the coat (the right-sleeve is not ...
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Apr 15, 2008 · 745 Don't Look Now. #1 by swo17 » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:04 pm. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
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Your claim that Don't Look Now is successful because its ending is rooted in human drama strikes me in contradiction to your earlier claim which made me enter this discussion in the first place, that the serial killer is a demon. That would add a level of the supernatural complication which I can't see as being intended at all.
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Dec 9, 2004 · Perhaps its closest companion piece would be Don't Look Now, although this film is a lot more enigmatic (almost willfully obtuse) and frustrating than the Roeg film. Don't go into this one looking for characters to behave with any sense of self-preservation (they don't!), but instead for the spectacular imagery and its strange take on obsessive motherhood in the face of loss.
Mar 10, 2015 · New conversation between editor Graeme Clifford and film writer and historian Bobbie O'Steen “Don’t Look Now,” Looking Back, a short 2002 documentary featuring Nicolas Roeg, Graeme Clifford, and cinematographer Anthony Richmond Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio Something Interesting, a new piece on the writing and making of the film, featuring recent ...
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May 19, 2009 · Nothing ever feels safe or grounded or "right"; Roeg suffuses the entire film in a bath of pure unease. Of course the off-season Venice setting works wonders in adding to the gloomy, haunted atmosphere; it's one of the most memorable cities depicted on film, and certainly one of the eeriest.
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Jan 11, 2006 · Bearing influences from the likes of Hitchcock, the then-booming Italian giallo film and more specifically, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, Alice, Sweet Alice is an absolutely essential - if often overlooked - entry in the canon of 1970s American horror. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
