Keep Up Your Right Blu-ray - Jean-Luc Godard

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S E A R C H D V D B e a v e r

(aka "Keep Your Right Up")

France 1987

"Basically an episodic comedy, Jean-Luc Godard's Soigne ta droite a French-Swiss coproduction, features Godard himself as the comic lead, rehearsals of the rock group Rita Mitsouko, a good many gags (some involving golf and travel), and a lot of cameos from well-known French actors, including Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, and Jacques Villeret. The biggest surprise here though is Godard's modification of his own persona: in contrast to the grumpy, would-be sages of First Name: Carmen and King Lear, his benign and ethereal character is positively Keatonian, with echoes of Tati's Monsieur Hulot as well. (Early in the film, he executes a surprisingly deft Keaton-like gag of diving through a car window.) The main comic inspiration, by Godard's own admission, is Jerry Lewis--specifically the airplane sequence in Cracking Up, though what Godard does with it seems even more quizzically eccentric than the model. Godard is also seen grasping a copy of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, which may provide some clues about what he's up to. This isn't one of Godard's best features, though it certainly has its moments, and I much prefer it to his more recent For Ever Mozart."

excerpt from Jonathan Rosenbaum's review at the Chicago Reader found HERE

Theatrical Release: Sept. 19, 1987 - Toronto Film Festival

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Comparison:

Facets - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Olive Film - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

Big thanks to Adam Lemke for the DVD Review!

1) Facets - Region 1 - NTSC - LEFT

2) Olive- Region 'A' - Blu-ray RIGHT

Box Cover
Distribution	Facets Region 1 - NTSC	Olive Films Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime	1.21.24	1:25:42.595
Video	1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate:6.1 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s	1080P Single-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 18,871,809,558 bytes Feature: 18,795,737,088 bytes Video Bitrate: 26.98 Mbps Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate
Bitrate Blu-ray
Audio	mono	DTS-HD Master Audio French 831 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 831 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 16-bit)
Subtitles	English forced	English (burned-in)
Features	Release Information: Studio: Facets Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen - 1.33:1 Edition Details: • director filmography DVD Release Date: May 14th, 2002 Keep Case Chapters 16	Release Information: Studio: Olive Aspect Ratio: Original aspect Ratio 1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 18,871,809,558 bytes Feature: 18,795,737,088 bytes Video Bitrate: 26.98 Mbps Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Edition Details: • None Blu-ray Release Date: June 25th, 2013 Standard Blu-ray Case Chapters 9

Comments

NOTE: These Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Olive - Region 'A' - Blu-ray (June 2013): Not much parity between these two images. Facets looks like 2nd generation video beside the Olive 1080P. The captures tell more than my words can. Lossless audio, burned-in subs and bare-bones but it still gets the nod over the terminally weak SD. Godard fans can look at the glass half-empty and complain about no extras or burned-in subs or they can be pleased with the dramatic improvement of the video quality.

Gary Tooze

***

ON THE DVD: This is a very early DVD release from Facets, a company that certainly has a penchant for disappointing those with a discerning eye for image quality. It actually turns out to be one of the better discs that I’ve come across from them. Sure there are burned-in subtitles that are hard to read at times, and the single-layer disc is ripe with combing, but for once they have put out a disc that seems superior to a VHS tape. The colors are bright, and the image is far from hazy. It’s nice to see this film, which is minor but enjoyable Godard, get a release, even if it’s not in the finest of editions. out of