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Hannah and Her Sisters [Blu-ray]
(Woody Allen, 1986)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Orion Pictures / A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production Video: Ar row Academy
Disc: Region: 'B' (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:47:00.080 Disc Size: 33,952,999,565 bytes Feature Size: 33,336,598,272 bytes Video Bitrate: 37.33 Mbps Chapters: 9 Case: Transparent Standard Blu-ray case Release date: February 20th, 2017
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: LPCM Audio English 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English (SDH), none
Extras: • Trailer (1:37)
Bitrate:
Description: One of Woody Allen's best-loved films, this won
three richly deserved Oscars* (for Michael Caine, Dianne
Wiest and the screenplay), and is a joy from start to
perfectly judged finish.
The Film: Three successive family Thanksgiving dinners mark time for Hannah (Mia Farrow), her younger sisters Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest) and the men in their lives. Lee is having an affair with Hannah's husband, Elliot (Michael Caine), and trying to end her Svengali-like romance with artist Frederick (Max von Sydow). Holly is frustrated by her lack of career fulfillment and her increasing dependence on Hannah's largesse, while being courted by the hypochondriac Mickey (Woody Allen). Excerpt from MRQE located HERE
This 1986 film won Oscars for Woody Allen for writing and Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest for supporting roles. Allen is Mickey, a hypochondriac on the edge of a family of three New York sisters, one of whom, Hannah (Mia Farrow), used to be his wife. Hannah is now with Elliot (Caine), an accountant with arty urges, who is wooing another sister, Lee (Barbara Hershey), behind the back of her tortured artist partner (Max von Sydow – keeping Allen close to Bergman). The other sister is Holly (Wiest), a troubled spirit adrift as she enters middle age. The script is full of great one-liners (‘Could you have ruined yourself…? Excessive masturbation?’ asks Farrow of Allen, after a visit to a fertility doctor. Allen: ‘Are you gonna starting knocking my hobbies?’). But the sharp wit sits well against a tender exploration of life’s messiness and a joie de vivre that marks this as one of Allen’s warmest pictures. Excerpt from Timeout located HERE
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Arrow's Hannah and Her Sisters gets an impressive transfer to Blu-ray. It is dual-layered with a max'ed-out bitrate for the 1 3/4 hour feature. Colors are authentically passive but the contrast is exquisite with pleasing layers. The 1080P supports a beautiful, grainy, film-like, presentation in the original 1.85:1 frame. No noise, speckles or damage of any sort. This Blu-ray looks excellent in-motion but I'd say the texture is the most appealing attribute. I doubt it can look much better.
CLICK EACH BLU-RAY CAPTURE TO SEE ALL IMAGES IN FULL 1920X1080 RESOLUTION
Audio :Arrow utilize a linear PCM mono track at 2304 kbps (24-bit). No effects of note, but Hannah and Her Sisters has so much beautiful music in it - perhaps more than any other Woody Allen film (and that is saying a mouthful) from Puccini's Sola, perduta abbandonata to Harry James, Dick Hyman, J.S. Bach's Concerto For Two Violins & Orchestra, from Dave Brubeck to Madama Butterfly, from Rodgers & Hart's Isn't It Romantic to Cole Porter's I'm in Love Again, numbers by Carrie Fisher and Dianne Wiest - it's a brilliant mélange and sounds fabulous in the lossless. I find the music a huge part of the Hannah and Her Sisters film experience. There are optional English (SDH) subtitles and my Oppo has identified it as being a region 'B'-locked.
Extras : Only a trailer - although I presume the Seven Films package will, again, include a booklet.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze January 25th, 2017
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