DTS-HD Master Audio English 2024 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2024 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
DUB:

DTS-HD Master Audio French 1803 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1803 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

• "Sound (And Vision) - Part 2": David Bowie by Christophe Conte (9:49)
• Tribute to David Bowie by Jean-Pierre Dionnet (2:07)
• Trailer (1:46 4:3 with burned in French subtitles), Cat People trailer (2:34)
• Booklet "David Bowie and the 80s, the passion of metamorphosis" by Stéphane du Mesnildot of the Cahiers du Cinéma (24 pages)
• DVD of the movie

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Description: Besides Ron Koslow’s deceptively brilliant script, the two lead performances are outstanding. Goldblum’s regular guy insomniac is fantastic. He’s so good, it’s hard to believe Michelle Pfeiffer is even better as the sort of mystery woman who takes over his life. Koslow never gives pay-off scenes showing how Goldblum’s life has changed because of the encounter because there’s just no time for it. A pay-off scene would break the realism of the timeline Koslow and Landis create. Into the Night’s not real time and doesn’t attempt it.

 

 

The Film:

Excerpt from Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader located HERE

Image :    NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

Into the Night appears true to the source on Blu-ray from Elephant Films in France. It's single-layered with a low-ish bitrate for the, almost, 2-hour film. Colors aren't especially rich in 1080P but contrast seems adept exporting some, occasional, impressive depth. The visuals are 'light' but this may be accurate. In-motion, I thought it looked fine - very clean, reasonable detail in close-ups and in the accurate 1.85:1 aspect ratio. This Blu-ray has a nice realistic feel with a reasonable film-like sense to it. Visually this gets a definite passing grade.

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Elephant Films offer a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel stereo track at 2024 kbps (24-bit) with pleasing depth but the film doesn't require an abundance of floor rattling. The score is by Ira Newborn (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) plus a lot of B.B. King, Marvin Gaye and The Four Tops  and adds a lighter touch here and there. There is a lossless French DUB and are optional French subtitles. My Oppo has identified it as being a region FREE.

Extras :

There are David Bowie-related supplements but unfortunately all in French - "Sound (And Vision) - Part 2" - David Bowie by Christophe Conte runs shy of 10-minutes, plus there is a short tribute to David Bowie by Jean-Pierre Dionnet as well as trailers for Into the Night and Cat People (both 4:3 with burned in French subtitles). The package has a 24-page booklet, also in French, "David Bowie and the 80s, the passion of metamorphosis" by Stéphane du Mesnildot of the Cahiers du Cinéma. There is a second disc - a, PAL, DVD of the film.

 

 

BOTTOM LINE:
Into the Night is highly reminiscent of, a favorite film of mine, Martin Scorsese's After Hours - made in the same year - and yet to be released on Blu-ray. Into the Night also has an everyman - bored at his job - breaking free from normalcy over the course of one, long, evening. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this. There is more to the story than I recall including some humor thrown in with Goldblum on the TV production set - kind of Jacques Tati-like. Both lead performances are superb and they have a unique chemistry and the adventure is well paced although perhaps ham-fistedly realized at times.  Yes, we can easily recommend this - it's an enjoyable film and looks and sounds strong on Blu-ray. 

Gary Tooze

March 19th, 2017

 

Released in the UK by 101 Films on Blu-ray in August, 2017: