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La La Land [Blu-ray]
(Damien Chazelle, 2016)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Summit Entertainment Video: Lionsgate
Disc: Region: 'A' (as verified by the Oppo Blu-ray player) Runtime: 2:08:48.178 Disc Size: 49,391,065,371 bytes Feature Size: 35,563,689,984 bytes Video Bitrate: 27.73 Mbps Chapters: 16 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: April 25th, 2017
Video: Aspect ratio: 2.55 : 1 (Cinemascope) Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: Dolby TrueHD Audio (Dolby ATMOS) English 4291 kbps 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4291 kbps / 24-bit DUBS:
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround Descriptive Audio: Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Englsih (SDH), French, Spanish, none
Extras: • Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Damien Chazelle and Composer Justin Hurwitz Featurettes: • Another Day of Sun: They Closed Down A Freeway • LA LA LAND's Great Party • Ryan Gosling: Piano Student • Before Whiplash: Damien Chazelle's Passion Project (total - 1:19:58))
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The Music of LA LA LAND
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Description: Winner of 6 Academy Awards® including Best Director for writer/director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record-breaking 7 Golden Globe® Awards, LA LA LAND is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year - it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again and again. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as Mia and Sebastian, an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams - and finding each other - in a vibrant celebration of hope, dreams, and love.
The Film:
Mia and Seb are throwbacks — if not quite to Ginger and Fred then surely
to Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney or Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly — but
they are also citizens of the present. They are better at acting than
the other stuff, able to express emotion in nonmusical scenes with
candor and conviction, but a little stiff-limbed and wobbly-voiced when
the moment arrives for hoofing and chirping. In this, they’re pretty
much the opposite of those earlier performers, who were vaudevillian
troupers before they were thespians.
People say the movie musical is dead. Tell that that to your tapping
toes while watching the enchantment of La La Land, one of the
year’s best films.
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. La La Land, from Lionsgate, is such a joy and looks as pristine as you might expect on modern-film-to-Blu-ray. It is such a beautiful film with the excellent art direction and vibrant, lush, colors. This is dual-layered with a healthy bitrate for the 2-hour+ film. Certain colors are bolder and detail is pleasing in the massively desirable widescreen 2.55:1. It looks all-encompassing in-motion. Contrast is at the higher end with the vibrant cinematography of Linus Sandgren. I could watch this image all day... luscious and gorgeous - a shade of, unobtrusive, teal leaning. Magnificent - it's a reason to get a 4K TV and UHD BD player.
CLICK EACH BLU-RAY CAPTURE TO SEE ALL IMAGES IN FULL 1920X1080 RESOLUTION
Audio :Dolby ATMOS. Extremely robust, 7.1 and the apex of current audio. It's as pristine as the video - maybe more so. Justin Hurwitz (Whiplash, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) is credited with the score which includes Mia & Sebastian’s Theme, Herman’s Habit, Planetarium, Summer Montage / Madeline, Engagement Party, City Of Stars etc. but we also have Someone In The Crowd, A Lovely Night and the Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone 'City Of Stars' version with more exquisite musical numbers. There are DUBS and optional subtitles on the region 'A' Blu-ray disc, the 4K - UHDs are always region FREE.
NOTE: This is Atmos. My software recognizes this as TrueHD, but from Wikipedia: "Because of limited bandwidth and lack of processing power, Atmos in home theaters is not a real-time mix rendered the same way as in cinemas. The substream is added to Dolby TrueHD or Dolby Digital Plus. This substream only represents a losslessly encoded fully object-based mix. This substream does not include all 128 objects separated. This is not a matrix-encoded channel, but a spatially-encoded digital channel. Atmos in home theaters can support 24.1.10 channel, but it is not an object-based real-time rendering. Filmmakers need to remix and render the TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks with Dolby Media Producer."
Extras : I haven't had the opportunity to indulge in all the extensive extras (over 13 GIG worth!) but it comes out, this, Tuesday. We get an audio commentary with writer/director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz and it's very educational on the minute details adhered to in creating this masterpiece. There are over 1 hour 20-minutes worth of featurettes including Another Day of Sun: They Closed Down A Freeway, LA LA LAND's Great Party, Ryan Gosling: Piano Student, Before Whiplash: Damien Chazelle's Passion Project etc. - and they are detailed. There is so much more including three song selections and I look forward to wading through them when I have time. Suffice to say they are extensive.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze April 22nd, 2017
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About the Reviewer: Hello, fellow Beavers! I have been interested in film since I viewed a Chaplin festival on PBS when I was around 9 years old. I credit DVD with expanding my horizons to fill an almost ravenous desire to seek out new film experiences. I currently own approximately 9500 DVDs and have reviewed over 5000 myself. I appreciate my discussion Listserv for furthering my film education and inspiring me to continue running DVDBeaver. Plus a healthy thanks to those who donate and use our Amazon links.
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