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Directed by Rudolph Cartier
UK 1954
George Orwell’s enduring dystopian masterpiece is brought vividly to life in this celebrated BBC production.
*** George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. |
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Theatrical Release: December 12th 1954
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Review: BFI - Region 'B' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | BFI - Region 'B' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:53:23.400 | |
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1. 33:1 1080i Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,052,307,272 bytesFeature: 32,583,353,472 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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LPCM Audio English
1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: BFI
1. 33:1 1080i Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 48,052,307,272 bytesFeature: 32,583,353,472 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.00 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
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• Newly recorded audio commentary on Nineteen Eighty-Four by television
historian Jon Dear, host of Nigel Kneale podcast Bergcast with Toby
Hadoke and Andy Murray
Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters 13 |
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On their
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BFI use a linear PCM mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Nineteen Eighty-Four
has limited aggression effects and hence modest depth throughout. There
isn't much music but a score credited to John Hotchkis (Crucible
of Horror but predominantly worked in TV), sounding clean with
the TeleCine sequences having a slight sync issue which, as I
understand, was a function of that production feature. BFI offer optional English
(SDH) subtitles on their
Region 'B'-locked
Blu-ray.
The BFI
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I really liked Rudolph Cartier's 1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Initial complaints about the "horrific" content would not be
addressed by today's audiences. Predictably the Michael Radford version,
Nineteen Eighty-Four with John Hurt, in regards to Room 101 is
far more graphic although, I understand, this BFI Blu-ray
is the second performance. The first, made 4 days before, was not
recorded and the source of much of the controversy. The irony of
censoring this drama was probably lost on the BBC. In a BFI 2000 poll of
the '100 Greatest British Television Programs' Nineteen Eighty-Four
was ranked 73rd. Performances of Cushing, Mitchell and Morell are highly
effective as is the sterile atmosphere. Despairingly a number of the
inhuman practices depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four are already in
full force under totalitarian-leaning régimes, sadly without abatement.
It had seven million viewers and was the largest television audience in
the UK since the Coronation the previous year. It wasn't until, 1977,
twenty-three years later, that it received a repeat broadcast. I really
enjoyed this BFI Blu-ray
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