La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
War, Drama, History • 5h 45m
Director: Peter Watkins
Cast: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue, Geneviève Capy, Anne Carlier, Véronique Couzon, Piotr Daskiewicz, Nicole Defer, Patrick Dell'Isola, Jürgen Ellinghaus, Caroline Esnard-Benoit, Gérard Watkins, Aurélia Petit, Roland Fontaine, Przermyslaw Galkiewicz, Jean-Michel Gallois, Joachim Gatti, Jean Giacinti, Virginie Guibbaud, Armelle Hounkanin, Catherine Humbert, Steve Kreisler, Lucette Labreuil, Michel Labreuil, Rémy Le Champion, Jean Legal, Elisabeth Lemaitre, Gaston Lepage, Manon Lepage, Micheline Letourneur, Béatrice Mandelbrot, Elsy Mandelbrot, Leila Mandelbrot, Tilly Mandelbrot, Samy Nogaro, Laurent Parisi, Flora Pierre, Marek Przbyla, Prune Sauvageot, Pascal Schiltz, Dirk Sikorski, Zinedine Vergnaud, Philippe Welsh, François Damiens
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Overview
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.
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Director: Liliana Cavani
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Director: John Ford
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Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Anthony Mann
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Olive Blu-ray
Barebones Olive BD of a Paramount HD master. Visually it's solid overall with some moments of great clarity, primarily in the big outdoor and aviation sequences. Otherwise it shows its age.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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