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A Double Life(1947)
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him; although she still loves him and works with him, she couldn't stand living with him anymore. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy. For more about A Double Life and the A Double Life Blu-ray release, see the A Double Life Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on September 14, 2012 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. Starring: Ronald Colman, Edmond O'Brien, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins, Millard Mitchell Director: George Cukor » See full cast & crew A Double Life Blu-ray, Video QualityA Double Life is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Olive Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.35:1. This is another lustrous looking black and white transfer from Olive, one which for the most part offers a crisp and involving image, one with superior contrast, excellent (if sometimes quite thick) grain structure, and deep blacks, well modulated gray scale and bright whites. Cinematographer Milton R. Krasner bathes this film in shadows, with a lot of the film playing out in dim lighting, and the chiaroscuro effect is rendered with excellence and very good shadow detail here. There are a couple of head scratching moments, however, with a suddenly softer image and completely blown out contrast. A good example is captured in the ninth screencap accompanying this review of two women walking down a busy Manhattan street. This whole sequence is noticeably softer and with much poorer contrast than the bulk of the film. There are a couple of other very minor issues with the elements (see the tiny scratch over Edmond O'Brien's head in the screencap of him typing), but overall this is another fantastic release from Olive. A Double Life Blu-ray, Audio QualityA Double Life features a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio Mono track which sports decent fidelity but which unfortunately also has some minor distortion in the midrange, something that is especially unfortunate since it affects some of Miklos Rozsa's Oscar winning score, especially string cues that have sudden dynamic changes. Otherwise, though, the track sounds relatively nimble, with most of the dialogue presented cleanly and clearly (occasionally Colman tends to sound a bit jumbled for some reason). Other than the distortion issue, there really isn't any major damage to report.
A Double Life Blu-ray, News and Updates• More Olive Catalog Blu-rays for September 2012 (Updated) - June 19, 2012 Independent film distributor Olive Films has revealed further Blu-ray selections for this coming September. Titles include the 1950 adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, director George Cukor's classic noir A Double Life, Sion Sono's Love Exposure, and Orson Welles' ...
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