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directed
by Sergio Corbucci
Italy 1966
NOTE: The Arrow 4K UHD edition of Django with HDR is compared to Blu-rays and DVDs HERE
Sergio Corbucci’s ground-breaking Django is one of the greatest and most
influential Westerns ever. Seminal, yet banned for decades, its aesthetics of
visual cruelty transcended the genre and shaped today’s film-making language.
Its major influence is declared by Quentin Tarantino - among many Hollywood
directors - and seen in all his films. *** Originally banned in Britain for its comic-strip iconoclasm and graphic violence, this rates alongside Leone's 'Dollars' trilogy as one of the daddies of the spaghetti/paella Western. It's a clean- up-and-paint-the-town-blood-red revenge drama with a difference. Nero's mud-spattered ex-Yankee soldier, first seen squelching towards a US-Mexican border ghost town, a coffin forever in tow, has every Western hero's quality in extremis. His speed-of-light gunslinger outlaw has a romantic heart - his wife was killed by one of Major Jackson's KKK-like henchmen - and an enigmatic morality. He solves the war between Jackson's men and General Rodríguez' bandidos by dispensing death to all, but his sympathies are shown when he later teams up with Rodríguez for a gold heist. Corbucci's style is a mix of social realism, highly decorative visuals, and finely mounted action sequences. For the rest, there are enough mud-wrestling prostitutes, whippings, ear-loppings, explosions and scenes of wholesale slaughter to keep any muchacho happy. |
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Theatrical Release: April 6th, 1966 - Italy
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Review: Cult Films - Region FREE - 4K UHD
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Runtime | 1:32:09.416 | |
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Release Information: Studio: Cult Films
1.66:1 2160P 4K Ultra HD Disc Size: 94,384,333,071 bytes Feature: 69,676,053,312 bytesVideo Bitrate: 91.78 MbpsCodec: HEVC Video
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• BONUS FEATURE: 80 min with QUENTIN TARANTINO in DJANGO & DJANGO
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NOTE: The Arrow 4K UHD edition of Django with HDR is compared to Blu-rays and DVDs HERE
NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
and
4K UHD
captures were taken directly from the respective
discs.
Like Umbrella's 4K UHD transfer of Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Criterion's 4K UHD transfers of The Others, Rules of the Game, Branded to Kill, In the Mood For Love, Night of the Living Dead and, further examples, Masters of Cinema's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, ClassicFlix's I, the Jury, and Kino's 4K UHDs of The Apartment, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, In the Heat of the Night, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as well as Koch Media's Neon Demon + one of the 4K UHD transfers of Dario Argento's Suspiria, the Cult Vision transfer of "Django" does not have HDR applied (no HDR10, HDR10+, nor Dolby Vision.) It is stated as "The restoration of Django was made by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and by Surf Film, from a 4K scan of the original camera negative and from the Italian sound negative. The restoration was carried out in 2018 at L'Immagine Ritrovata."
It actually looks exceptional - even without the HDR pass. It
is brighter than the Arrow
4K UHD, shows a shade more detail in the
dark areas of the frame (Django's jacket) and the colors (flesh tones)
appear more balanced. It has wonderful grain and an atmospheric bitrate - I
wouldn't disagree with Cult Vision's statement that "this definitive
version is pristinely faithful to the original filmmakers’ vision".
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The audio gives the option of
liner PCM dual-mono (24-bit) tracks - in
English (default) or Italian language options. The sound is flat and has production limitations
(that we often note in Italian productions of this era,) The DUB is, as
usual, a bit awkward but the dialogue is clear enough and there is a
score by
Luis Bacalov (The
Seduction,
Il
Postino, A
Bullet for the General,
Shoot First, Die Later,
Django Unchained,
City of Women) including the funky Django (theme
- conducted by Bruno Nicolai) performed by Rocky Roberts work
wonders for the pasta-genre lounge-y atmosphere in the opening and ending.
It's so cool. Several themes from the Django score were used in
Damiano Damiani's
A Bullet for the General. Cult Films offer optional English
translated subtitles for the Italian soundtrack or English subtitles for the deaf
and hard of hearing English soundtrack (samples of both below)
on their Region FREE
4K UHD. There is no
second disc in the package.
There are
extras on the
4K UHD disc. A very
cool addition is Luca Rea's 2021 documentary "Django & Django"
described as "A riveting feature-length testimonial by Quentin Tarantino
complements this edition: showing many clips, he explains how Sergio
Corbucci’s ‘Django’ permeates his own films from ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to his
resounding tribute ‘Django Unchained’, and whimsically Tarantino tells how,
in his ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’, his fictional actor, played by
Leonardo DiCaprio, ends up working for the real Sergio Corbucci." It is
essentially an homage to Italian director Sergio Corbucci of the 1960s by
contemporary director Quentin Tarantino, recounting a memorable period in
Italian cinema with the sensibility of today with archival footage of
Corbucci, plus Ruggero Deodato, Franco Nero and Tarantino himself.
We also get a dozen minutes of Franco Nero on being Django extolling
the director, the iconic character and fans plus 20-minutes of director
Ruggero Deodato on being Sergio Corbucci’s assistant and, lastly, the great
Alex Cox defining Django for less than 1/4 hour. The package has a
whopping perfect-bound 64 page book with foreword by Franco Nero: “Django
The Western Cranked-up!” by Kevin Grant. FAB Press + Art Card with
original posters, a slip case & reversible inlays with 3 key artworks
(see above) and these limited editions are serial-numbered.
The Cult Films
4K UHD of
Sergio Corbucci's "Django" looking very 'real',
unembellished and pristinely film-like with impressively consistent grain. Like Sergio Leone's
A Fistful of Dollars, Django was gaining utility from Akira
Kurosawa's
Yojimbo.
Know for its playfully over-the-top, ultra-violent tendencies (ex. María's
whipping by Mexican bandits, the ear-severing scene, perhaps inspiring
Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs)
and being Franco Nero's breakthrough role (although he wanted to perform
roles in more "serious" films to initiate his career), Django is a
huge fan-favorite - infinitely rewatchable.
Pure joy for fans who love the machismo excesses of the pasta-western genre.
Beauty contest winner ("Miss Trieste") Loredana Nusciak looks stunning in
this
4K UHD
transfer. Django, in a dubbed and subtitled form, was shown in selected
theatres to coincide with the release of Quentin Tarantino's
Django Unchained.
Django has continued to be enjoyed worldwide, and the
Cult Film's
4K UHD
release is absolutely recommended! I can even suggest a double-dip for
those who have the Arrow. |
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