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(aka "Before I Die")
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
USA 1968
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave. *** Karloff in effect plays himself as Byron Orlok, a horror star on the point of retiring, who suddenly confronts the reality of contemporary American horror in the form of a psychopathic sniper (O'Kelly) picking off anyone he can see with a vast artillery of weapons. Bogdanovich was given the money to make the film by Roger Corman, who also allowed him to use extensive footage from Corman's Poe movie 'The Terror' in the sequences at the drive-in cinema where the confrontation takes place. The result is a fascinatingly complex commentary on American mythology, exploring the relationship between the inner world of the imagination and the outer world of violence and paranoia, both of which were relevant to contemporary American traumas. Excerpt from TimeOut located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: June 1968 (Pesaro Film Festival)
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Review: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Criterion Spine #1179 - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:30:16.994 | |
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1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 42,839,884,064 bytesFeature: 27,199,186,944 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.78 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 (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Criterion
1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 42,839,884,064 bytesFeature: 27,199,186,944 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.78 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details:
• Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters 13 |
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Blu-ray
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On their
Blu-ray,
Criterion use a linear PCM mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Targets
has few plenty of gunshots - hand gun and mostly rifle fire. It is flat
with modest depth. There is some radio music courtesy of Charles Greene
and Brian Stone and as we watch pieces of 'The
Terror' we can hear AIP-regular Ronald Stein's
(Day
the World Ended,
Attack
of the Crab Monsters, Dinosaurus,
Journey
to the Seventh Planet,
Queen
of Blood, She
Creature,
It Conquered the World,
Not of This Earth,
Dementai 13,
Spider Baby
etc.) score. Dialogue didn't
fluctuate as I found with the lossy Dolby DVD. Criterion offer optional English
(SDH)
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Criterion
Blu-ray
Peter Bogdanovich's powerful film Targets
is an
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