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(aka "Erbarmungslos" or "De nådesløse" or "The William Munny Killings (working title)" or "The Cut Whore Killings (original script title)" )
directed
by Clint Eastwood
USA 1992
As the most American of genres, it is interesting to look
back on the last 25 years and to see, that in that period only three great
Westerns were made: Walter Hill’s ”The Long Riders” (1980), Kevin Costner’s
”Dances with Wolves” (1990) and Clint Eastwood’s ”Unforgiven” from 1992. All
three revisionist approaches to the genre, all three key works of the genre.
As the action and adventurous side of the genre has been overtaken by other
genres in today’s cinema, the “thinking man’s” side still is left, but is
rarely used, as stories who can carry the setting are rare. |
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Theatrical Release: August 3, 1992 (Los Angeles)
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Runtime | 2:10:32 | 2:10:40.624 |
Video |
2.28:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
Disc Size: 29,392,632,726 bytes Feature Size: 17,973,215,232 bytes Total Bitrate: 15.94 MbpsDual-layered Blu-ray VC-1 |
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Audio | 5.1 Dolby Digital English, 5.1 Dolby Digital French (dub) |
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48
kHz / 640 kbps / DN -4dB Dolby Digital Audio French 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB /
Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -4dB / Dolby Surround |
Subtitles | English, French, Spanish, None | English (SDH), French, Spanish, None |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Warner Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details:
Chapters 33 |
Release Information: Studio: Warner Archive
Disc Size: 29,392,632,726 bytes Feature Size: 17,973,215,232 bytes Total Bitrate: 15.94 MbpsDual-layered Blu-ray VC-1
Edition Details:
Blu-ray
Release Date:
January 3rd, 2012 Chapters 33 |
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ADDITION: Warner - Region FREE -
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March 15':
An early
Blu-ray
that requires revisiting by Warner. Despite a modest bitrate, on the VC-1
transfer, it still looks impressive although it would probably look notably
better done to the 9's. There could also be a tad of horizontal stretching (or
vertical stretching on the SD.) Anyway, the film is filled with many majestic
and grand landscapes and while this 1080P image is certainly superior to the
flatter 2002 DVD - we suggest that it could look even better with a more robust
rendering. Unfortunately, only lossy Dolby in a decent 5.1 but surely the film deserves an uncompressed soundtrack. There are two foreign-language DUBs (also in standard Dolby.) There is nothing earth-shaking about the soundtrack. Often, it's a quiet guitar. The music, mostly by Lennie Niehaus - known for his work on Tightrope, Pale Rider, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River etc. - and one piece by Eastwood himself, is subtle, poetic, and descriptive of the emotional states of the characters. There are optional subtitles on the region FREE Blu-ray disc.Lots of supplementary materials here, all drawn from the 2-disc Special Edition SD. No new extras unique to the hi-def medium. The two best are the work of Time Magazine film critic and Eastwood biographer, Richard Schickel, who provides a running commentary. He was on the set often and so his comments have a perspective other commentators might not. It's an informative essay, if not somewhat lazily told. Schickel also produced the 108 minute, Eastwood on Eastwood, which, unusually for such a TV documentary, eschews the usual panoply of featured actors and friends in favor of a one-on-one interview between the two men, with pertinent footage dramatizing the appropriate moments. An early-ish Blu-ray and a transfer that requires an update - in both encode (AVC is preferable to, the present VC-1), bitrate and lossless audio - now the norm. Another fabulous film from Eastwood and an essential for many digital libraries. Gary Tooze and Leonard Norwitz Of LensView located HERE *** ON THE DVD:
Simply an
incredible beautiful DVD. Colours are perfectly balanced to give the film
its murky faded dark look and with the exception of minute halos, it is
basically flawless. |
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