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S E A R C H D V D B e a v e r |
(aka '24 - jikan no joji')
directed by Alain Resnais
French 1959
A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated® screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork. |
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Theatrical Release: June 10th, 1959 - France
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Distribution | Criterion Collection Spine # 196 Region 1 - NTSC | Criterion Collection - Spine #196 - Region 'A' Blu-ray |
Runtime | 1:30:06 | 1:30:29.465 |
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1.31:1.00
Letterboxed WideScreen / anamorphic Average Bitrate: 7.55 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
1080P / 23.976 fps Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 45,974,841,402 bytes Feature: 26,679,595,008 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Audio | Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) |
LPCM Audio French 1152 kbps 1.0
/ 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
Subtitles | English, None | English, None |
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Release Information: Aspect Ratio: 1:31:1 Edition Details:
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Release Information: 1080P / 23.976 fps Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 45,974,841,402 bytes Feature: 26,679,595,008 bytesVideo Bitrate: 34.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video Edition Details:
• Audio commentary by film
historian Peter Cowie Chapters: 15 |
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The audio is via a linear PCM mono track at 1152 kbps. The score has contributions by Georges Delerue (Jules et Jim, The Woman Next Door, The Last Metro, Day For Night) and Giovanni Fusco (L'Avventura, The Red Desert, L'Eclisse, Il Grido) and subtly portrays the film's shifting moods throughout the feature. It sounds clean and clear. There are optional English subtitles on the region 'A'-locked Blu-ray disc.Criterion include the 2002 audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie as found on there original DVD - as well as the dual-interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980 (5:43 +10:52) and actress Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003 (5:42 + 19:20). We appear to lose the 8-minutes of excerpts from Duras’ annotations to the screenplay and the isolated music and effects track - as found on the Criterion's 2003 SD release. What we do get are some new (2015) interviews. In Memory and Meaning, we hear music scholar Tim Page about the film’s score and contributions of Georges Delerue and Giovanni Fusco to Hiroshima Mon Amour plus a 26-minute interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L’atelier d’Alain Resnais. Revoir Hiroshima . . . , is a 11-minute 2013 program about the film’s restoration. Argos Films, the Technicolor Foundation, the Groupama Gan Foundation, and the Cineteca di Bologna collaborated on a 4K digital restoration of Hiroshima Mon Amour. The work performed at L'Immagine Ritrovata, the Cineteca's restoration lab, whose director Davide Pozzi, oversaw a delicate process of scanning the original camera negative. In the included program from that year, Pozzi talks about the film's restoration with cinematographer Renato Berta, a special consultant on the project. The package contains a liner notes booklet with an essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film. Total masterpiece film and a must own! *** ON THE DVD: What can you say; Criterion does it again. Although there are still some scratches on the archival footage, it has been cleaned up very well. The "film" footage is marvelous with superb contrast and sharpness. The Extras speak for themselves. This is another stellar job by Criterion. Bravo!out ofGary W. Tooze |
Recommended Reading in French Cinema (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
The Films in My Life |
French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie, Keith Reader |
Agnes Varda by Alison Smith | Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard | Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson |
Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No.
2) by James Quandt |
The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau |
French New Wave
by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno |
French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present by Remi Fournier Lanzoni |
Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana |
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