Shining Through Movie Streaming
Mercredi, avril 21st, 2010 |
Shining Through Movie Streaming.
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This has always been one of my favorite films. Apparently it’s supposed to be a guilty pleasure. I can’t imagine why though. It’s not a deep or socially important work of art, but it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s just a glorious, old-fashioned piece of entertainment, gorgeously shot on location in Germany, with one of the best scores the late Michael Kamen ever wrote.
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Alright, so Melanie Griffith convinces Michael Douglas to send her as a spy into Nazi Germany because of her phenomenal streudel baking skills. It’s that kind of movie. Either you let yourself be swept away by the storytelling, or it’s just not for you.
The big news, however, is that this great movie is finally on DVD in the US. And it’s in widescreen, a vital piece of information that was left off the listing here. I was really afraid I’d walk into Tower today and see a Pan and Scan atrocity and have to leave it there unbought. Worry not, the film is presented here as it was in theaters in 1992.
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The makers of this DVD have also kindly left the original burned-in subtitles for the sequences in German, instead of replacing them with those ugly player generated ones you see so often. I always liked the font the filmmakers chose, so this was a pleasant surprise.
It would have been nice to have a director’s commentary, or some of the approximately half an hour that was removed from the version that was shot. However for under $10 what we get (two trailers) is fine.
It took long enough, with the US just about the last country on earth to get “Shining Through” on DVD, but it’s here at last, and looking as good as I could have possibly have hoped.
Let’s first quickly get the negatives out of the way. The somewhat doozy theme of Griffith and Douglas as WWII spies may be borderline incredible. That’s pretty much all one could dislike about the film (frankly, it’s all about the execution, and I loved the spy undercurrent.)
Beyond that, as I was prepared to look because this is fiction, the movie enjoys top notch production qualities. The music is beautiful, the cinematography stunning, the script deliciously memorable. The screenplay is something budding artists should watch and learn from, it never lets up for a second throughout the entire movie. There’re twists and turns, and you’re always on the edge.
Yet, quite admirably, amidst all these gripping moments, the film somehow also manages to couch a wonderfully moving romantic story. Griffith is great, and a part of her charm relies in the look she gives, that “shy-scary” look she projects, the look of the typical defenseless woman who inside is smarter and braver than any man on the planet. Were there women in that time who could be so accurately bilingual? Why, it doesn’t sound all that impossible to me.
If you enjoy watching romantic movies, don’t miss this one. It’s one of my favorites of all time, and it stands the true test of good cinema — repeat viewing. Delectable!
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