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Topic: South Pacific Blu Ray
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Paul Adsett
Film God
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 29, 2009 11:15 AM
South Pacific was, to my knowledge, never released on super 8, except for the excellent trailer from Derann. It has however been available on DVD for several years in an uninspiring letterboxed widescreen format. But now, on it’s 50th anniversary, Twentieth Century Fox have just released this wonderful film in anamorphic blu ray disc – and it is totally awesome. It’s like seeing it for the first time. The Hawiian scenery never looked so breathtakingly beautiful with details on the distant hills and mountains visible for the first time on a video format. The Technicolor is what you expect of Technicolor, with rich saturated color images. And the Rogers and Hammerstein soundtrack is glorious. This is what film buffs revere about the great classic films, particularly the musicals – a viewing experience that pulls you right back to when you saw this film for the first time in Todd-AO. I know it should’nt, but on Blu-Ray this film looks as good as you would expect to see it in a 35mm theater. Just flawless. It’s a 2-disc package, and the second disc is just loaded with extra features about the film, including Mitzi Gaynor’s screen test. Seeing this made me realize how important hair styling is in movies. In the screen test Mitzi is wearing shoulder length hair, and although she is obviously displaying her great singing and dancing style, she looks like a normal pretty girl. In the movie however, her hair is trimmed short and swept up, which gave her much more appeal and sophistication. So hats off to whoever her hair stylist was. Incidentally, Mitzi is still performing, and is appearing in several US cities this year and 2010. She still looks gorgeous.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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