Streaming All About Eve Online
Vendredi, juin 4th, 2010 |
Streaming All About Eve Online.
Movie Title: All About Eve All About Eve is available for streaming or downloading. |
I managed to come by this a few days before its official release date and am jubilant to narrate that it finally gives this classic film the treatment it deserves. The video and audio have been restored from orignal source material with noticeable improvements over the previous DVD transfer. The report has none of the scratches and dust that were point to on the earlier version, and there is a Dolby stereo option as well as the fresh mono. The stereo soundtrack offers greater clarity and depth and there’s no low-level hum or voice.
Besides offering a major improvement in the quality of the image and sound, the modern DVD also includes a marvelous selection of extras. There’s a 25 cramped “Backstory” from AMC that is very informative and captivating. There are two separate commentary tracks, one with Celeste Holm, Christopher Mankiewicz (Joseph’s son), and Kenneth Geist, the other with Sam Staggs, author of “All About ‘All About Eve’”. There are
promotional interviews with Davis and Baxter, four newsreels, a trailer, and a restoration comparison.
The restoration comparison is one of the strangest that I’ve seen. Instead of an audio track explaining the problems and processes interested in the transfer, there’s a series of screens with text printed on them. There then follows a series of comparisons from various versions of the film. There’s nothing really spoiled with any of this, but considering the astronomical amount of time and disaster that goes into a restoration of this magnitude, I expected something a bit more dynamic.
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For any “All About Eve” fan, passe or original, this is the DVD we have been waiting for, and at five dollars less than the modern DVD, a right bargain.
Highly recommended!
Bette Davis made this movie in 1950 when her career was faltering;her last film was the insipid “Beyond the Forest” (now considered a minor camp classic by some.) “All About Eve” is relished by many who hail it as Davis’s all-time greatest performance(which is,in all fairness, arguable) as the forty year faded magnetic actress Margo Channing.Many also feel Davis never looked better than she does here (her costume designer for this was the legendary Edith Head) .The acting is genuinely valid and the screenplay is music to the ears;as a consolation for not winning the AA,(it went to Judy Holliday) Davis received the coveted Unique York Film Critics Award for Best Actress.George Sanders is peerless as the poison pen critic Addison De Witt;( he won the academy award for best supporting actor.) Thelma Ritter is hilarious as the wise ancient companion of Margo’s who’s seen it all happen before. Celeste Holm gives an absolutely pretty performance as Karen Richards(she tells Eve “I’m the lowest fabricate of celebrity” she being the wife of playwright Lloyd Richards(Hugh Marlowe,whose wooden personality suits the role he plays.) Gregory Ratoff’s timing in the “bicarbonate of soda” scene is wonderful and Gary Merrill is honest on as the cynical Bill whose age (32) creates insecurity for Margo; she fears she’ll lose him to some young “babe”.The film holds up extremely well,considering it will be 50 years frail next year.Marilyn Monroe has an laughable bit as a “Graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts” Finally we near to the gal who played the “dinky worm” of the title: Anne Baxter.She is astonishingly straightforward and realistic in her interpretation of the louse;if she seems to be a bit on the drab side, it’s only because she’s underplaying to the “Queen Mother”, studying and using her idol as a stepping stone in order to accumulate her name in electric lights and reign supreme as a Lady of the Theatre; in other words, she’s diabolical as HELL! If you’ve never seen this movie, you’re in for a treat. If you have’nt seen the DVD version do so;the print is crystal definite and adds immensely to the film’s viewing pleasure.This is Mankiewicz’s masterpiece and it won the Oscar for the Best Recount of 1950.
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