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S E A R C H D V D B e a v e r |
(aka "Shame" )
Sweden
1968
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Shame was both Ingmar Bergman’s
examination of the violent legacy of World War II and his scathing
response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow
and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a
remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the
city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military
struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvist’s
handheld camera work, the two are faced with uncomfortable moral
choices. This film, which contains some of the greatest scenes in
Bergman’s oeuvre, shows the devastating impact of war on individual
lives.
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Former musicians Jan Rosenberg (Max von Sydow) and his wife, Eva (Liv
Ullmann), have left the city to avoid a civil war and now live on a
rural island where they tend a farm. While the situation seems
idyllic, the couple's isolation begins to wear on their
relationship, and eventually the armed conflict that they've tried
to flee arrives on the quiet island in the form of soldiers. Try as
they might, Jan and Eva ultimately can't evade either the war or
their own marital problems. |
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Theatrical Release: September 29th, 1968 (Sorrento Film Festival)
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Criterion - Region FREE - Blu-ray
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Shame is being released individually by Criterion on Blu-ray in February 2019:
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| Distribution | Criterion (Ingmar Bergman's Cinema) - Region FREE - Blu-ray |
| Runtime | 1:43:44.676 |
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1.37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc One: 49,970,115,621 bytesFeature: 20,462,948,352 bytesVideo Bitrate: 2 2.75 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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| Audio | LPCM Audio Swedish 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit |
| Subtitles | English, None |
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Release Information: Studio: Criterion
1.37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc One: 49,970,115,621 bytesFeature: 20,462,948,352 bytesVideo Bitrate: 2 2.75 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • shares the Blu-ray Disc with The Passion of Anna
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Shame in the News (5:21)
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. The Criterion Blu-ray of Shame is part of their Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 100th Anniversary 30 Blu-ray Boxset (reviewed, as a work in-progress, HERE). Shame this Blu-ray with The Passion of Anna. See comparative captures, a listing of technical details, extras etc., on this page. This is from a 2015 restoration as evidenced by the starting source-text screen:
The image looks very strong although not as technically robust as some of the other transfers in the Boxset. Obviously a significant advance upon the past DVDs. It, again, has uncompressed, original Swedish, mono audio and optional English subtitles. The extras consist of Shame in the News which runs about 5.5 minutes and is a news item that shows director Ingmar Bergman and some of the cast and crew of Shame before filming began. It was originally broad cast on Swedish television on September 9th, 1967. In the next supplement, Ingmar Bergman talks about Shame in a 1/4 hour excerpt of an interview recorded for the Swedish television program Forum, originally broadcast in September of 1968. Criterion has included a new (2018), 21-minute, interview with Liv Ullmann discussing Bergman and Shame. A significant extras if the 1 1/4 hour an Introduction to Ingmar Bergman documentary produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of Shame. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to Shame as well as the just-released Hour of the Wolf. Great to see this in 1080P as we have suffered through poor quality SD transfer for years. NOTE: Yes, as has been leaked, we can now confirm that this Blu-ray set is Region FREE! |
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Shame is being released individually by Criterion on Blu-ray in February 2019:
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| Distribution | Criterion (Ingmar Bergman's Cinema) - Region FREE - Blu-ray |
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