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(aka "Color Me Bad" or "Hurricane")
Directed by Carl Franklin
USA 1992
A small-town police chief (Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (coscreenwriter Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman (Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-burn tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America’s most fraught divisions—urban and rural, Black and white—while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth. *** Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face. |
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Theatrical Release: January 1992 (Palm Springs International Film Festival)
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Review: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Criterion Spine #1187 - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:45:47.007 | |
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1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 40,092,155,943 bytesFeature: 31,816,660,992 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.85 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1990 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1990 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1509 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: 40,092,155,943 bytesFeature: 31,816,660,992 bytes Video Bitrate: 35.85 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Franklin• New conversation between Franklin and cowriter-actor Billy Bob Thornton (27:27) • Trailer (1:28) PLUS: An essay by author William Boyle
Transparent Blu-ray Case Chapters 13 |
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On their
Blu-ray,
Criterion use a DTS-HD Master stereo track (24-bit) in the
original English language. One False Move
has plenty of violence - beatings, gunfire etc.. aggressive moments that come through with modest depth
and score by Matthew Ender, Peter Haycock (single guitar theme - later
orchestrated throughout the film), Derek Holt and (uncredited) Paul Di
Franco, including Brenda Sutton's Don't Walk Away from Love,
Michael Sutton's Show You Right, Reverend Julian Turner
performing Jesus Is Leading Me. It sounds buoyant and clean in
the lossless. Criterion offer optional English
(SDH)
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray
and their Region FREE 4K UHD disc.
The Criterion
Blu-ray
One False Move
was
Carl Franklin's feature debut, and was voted by critic Gene Siskel as
his favorite film of 1992. One False Move was low-budget ($2.5
million), co-written by Billy Bob Thornton, and almost went straight to
home video after completion, but as critical exposure traveled in
festivals about the film's adept realization and complex themes (race as
a corollary to urban/city existence - "Color Me Bad" was an
original title) it garnered a deserved theatrical
release. The late Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Thornton (who married
Williams after the film was made) and Michael Beach are all excellent. I've always loved Franklin's
neo-noir work especially
Devil in a Blue Dress,
High Crimes, and
Out of Time that I all find superior.
Criterion produce a fine Blu-ray
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