Streaming All Quiet on the Western Front Online
Mardi, juin 15th, 2010 |
Streaming All Quiet on the Western Front Online.
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All Level-headed on the Western Front has finally gotten the DVD that it deserves. After languishing for years in a stopgap DVD release that was difficult to hear and had abominable record quality, this classic anti-war film has been restored by the Library of Congress and digitally remastered. The results are astonishing.
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Note: This review refers to the modern Universal Cinema Classics release (dusky case with close-up of Lew Ayres), not some of the older releases (bluish monochrome case with a German helmet) which Amazon has seen fit to post this review on.
Picture: Astronomical improvement. The previous release was monotonous, low-resolution, sometimes blurry, and reproduced lots and lots of distracting scratches and dirt from customary reels. Now the describe is crisp, very piquant, and as shipshape as it has ever been.
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Sound: Another titanic improvement. The 1930-vintage sound effects are tranquil rather clunky and the dialogue is hard to understand once or twice, but overall the restoration is a phenomenal improvement. Very pleasurable.
There are no special features to whisper of, although the DVD does include a later, probably 1940s-era trailer and an introduction from Turner Classic Movies’ resident film historian Robert Osborne. The restoration of the sound and image are the large selling points, here.
The only negative thing I have to say is dazzling trivial–there is no chapter menu. This is only a minor misfortune, though, and in no scheme detracts from the quality of the DVD or the film itself. If you’ve been waiting for a proper release of All Serene on the Western Front or have never seen it, this is the DVD and now is the time.
Highly recommended.
Winner of the 1930 Oscars for Best Portray and Director, “All Unruffled on the Western Front” remains a beautiful and timely film. Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war recent, the movie follows a group of patriotic German schoolboys as they are urged to enlist in World War II, and shows how their initially idealistic spirits are forever changed by the brutal reality of death and dismemberment, suffering and sorrow. Beautifully acted by its entire cast (with special kudos going to Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, and Slim Summerville), the film also features some wonderful special visual effects (those two serene hands clinging to the barbed wire fence never fail to shock) and some meticulously staged battle scenes that manage to establish the viewer into the heart of the action. Arthur Edeson’s cinematography is often truly improbable in its artistry; his visual choices are impeccable. Worth a special brand is the film’s soundtrack; how unbelievable the abominable sounds of exploding ammunition must have seemed to audiences in 1930, who had first heard Al Jolson deny in 1927’s part-talkie, “The Jazz Singer”! The very last sound carry out in the film, which abruptly and startlingly leads to the conclude of the movie, is superbly executed and remains an innovative consume of sound technology.
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The Universal DVD release of this film features a broad sound transfer: on my six-speaker system, the rumbling explosions, staccato machine guns, and whizzing bullets sounded remarkably nearby. Sadly, the visual transfer was sorely lacking; the source was plagued by jumps, scratches, lines, and breaks throughout the film, and the inequity was sometimes out-of-balance. This cinematic masterpiece demands and deserves to be fully restored, and then remastered and rereleased on DVD. (Are you listening, Universal Home Video? ) The DVD extras include production notes; cast and director biographies and filmographies; and a Theatrical Trailer from one of the film’s many reissues. Warts and all, this DVD edition is definitely worth a watch - the film’s brilliance is such that it shines above and beyond this rather shoddy presentation.
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