Complicated Women (2003)
Documentary, TV Movie • 56m
Overview
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Director: Hugh Munro Neely
Cast: Jane Fonda, Frances Dee, Karen Morley, Kitty Carlisle, Mae Madison, Mark Vieira, Mick LaSalle, Molly Haskell, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, C. Aubrey Smith, Chester Morris, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire, Fredric March, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, Greta Garbo, Helen Twelvetrees, Irving Thalberg, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, John Gilbert, Johnny Weissmüller, Katharine Hepburn, Kay Francis, Leslie Howard, Lewis Stone, Loretta Young, Norma Shearer, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Maureen O'Sullivan, Miriam Hopkins, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Montgomery, Ruth Chatterton, Tallulah Bankhead, William H. Hays, Gilbert Roland, Lee Phelps, Nat Pendleton, Warner Oland, Maurice Murphy, Herbert Marshall, George F. Marion, Aline MacMahon, Dorothy Mackaill, Paul Lukas, Jack La Rue, Allen Jenkins, Olin Howland, Jean Hersholt, Ann Harding, Cary Grant, William Gargan, Douglass Dumbrille, Cecil Cunningham, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, Virginia Bruce, Charles Bickford, Robert Barrat, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extras
Available in Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extra, although since it was a TV movie, its source is still likely SD
Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extras
Available in Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extra, although since it was a TV movie, its source is still likely SD
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Director: Jonathan Demme
Director: Jonathan Demme
DE Koch Media is presented in the correct 25fps and is likely better compressed than UK Dogwoof (29 vs 14 Mbps), but it doesn’t have English subtitles.
US Drafthouse is in 24fps for Region A compatibility, and is encoded at around 30 Mbps.
(Although bitrate does not solely determine the quality of the encode, the difference is large enough here and there are no publicly available caps.)
No info on the JP VAP Blu-ray.
DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.
DE Koch Media is presented in the correct 25fps and is likely better compressed than UK Dogwoof (29 vs 14 Mbps), but it doesn’t have English subtitles.
US Drafthouse is in 24fps for Region A compatibility, and is encoded at around 30 Mbps.
(Although bitrate does not solely determine the quality of the encode, the difference is large enough here and there are no publicly available caps.)
No info on the JP VAP Blu-ray.
DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.
Director: Bert Stern
Director: Bert Stern
Director: Dwain Esper
Kino Lorber Blu-ray was mastered in 2K and 4K from the original 35mm negatives and several 35mm prints
Director: Dwain Esper
Kino Lorber Blu-ray was mastered in 2K and 4K from the original 35mm negatives and several 35mm prints
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