Julie & Julia Blu-ray

Julie & Julia

 (2009)

Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance



A culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, the true stories of how Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days and introduce a new generation to the magic of French cooking. Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada) co-stars in director Nora Ephron's delicious comedy about joy, obssesion and butter. Bon appétit!

For more details about Julie & Julia on Blu-ray, see the Julie & Julia Blu-ray Review

Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams
Director: Nora Ephron

Julie & Julia Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


Julie & Julia cooks up a visual tour de force 1080p, 185:1-framed transfer that's as perfect as a freshly-baked Boeuf à la Bourguignonne. The transfer exhibits tremendous depth in every scene where detail -- far, wide, near, and everywhere in between -- is to die for. The film's exterior French locales positively sparkle. Building façades and paved roads are awash in palpable textures; each leaf on a vine growing around Julia's home as seen near the beginning of the film is sharp and intricately detailed, every leaf an individual and each with its own identifiable shape, texture, and edging; a Parisian subway station appears appropriately cold and reveals plenty of fine detail on the cement floor, wall tiles, and various posters hanging about; and an outdoor farmer's market as seen in chapter three comes alive like few scenes before it, awash in depth and detail throughout the frame and sparkling through a broad array of colors that jump straight off the screen. Color reproduction is impeccable throughout; interiors take on a slightly warm tone but are nevertheless handsomely reproduced. Flesh tones are natural, blacks impeccable, and the image is rounded out by a pleasantly thin veneer of film grain that rounds out a pitch-perfect and film-like transfer.

Julie & Julia Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


Julie & Julia simmers on Blu-ray with a reserved yet appealing and tasty DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless soundtrack. It should come as no surprise that Julia & Julia's soundtrack isn't of the same sort as that found on a Terminator Salvation or Star Trek, but the presentation is no less clear or faithful to the source. The track delivers plenty of fantastic atmospherics in both the Paris and New York segments; slight blowing winds, pedestrian footsteps and chatter, honking horns, and squealing brakes bring each big city environment to wholesome sonic life with a delicate yet palpable rear-channel presence. Music is light and fluffy, like a perfectly-baked cake. Sweet, delicious, and easy on the way down, it flows effortlessly from the speakers and makes for a pleasant, crystal-clear listen. In addition, dialogue is clear as a bell, and Meryl Streep's whimsical speech patterns in particular are perfectly clear and intelligible. Though not the stuff that's going to stretch a sound system to its limits, Julie & Julia's lossless DTS track is just as appetizing in its own way.

Julie & Julia Blu-ray, News and Updates

• Today on Blu-ray - December 8th - December 8, 2009


• Julie & Julia Announced for Blu-ray - October 5, 2009

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