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Directed by Norman Jewison
USA 1965

 

From Norman Jewison, the legendary director of The Thrill of It All, The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof, Rollerball and Moonstruck, comes this hilarious comedy starring James Garner (Support Your Local Sheriff), Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins), Elke Sommer (A Shot in the Dark), Angie Dickinson (Rio Bravo), Ethel Merman (Call Me Madam) and Carl Reiner (Ocean’s Eleven). Having failed to establish himself as a painter in Paris, Paul Sloane (Van Dyke) decides to return home to his wealthy girlfriend, Laurie Gibson (Dickinson). His roommate, Casey Barnett (Garner), argues that Paul should fake his own suicide, which will make his paintings much more popular. With Paul presumably dead, demand for his work soars. When Casey grows wealthy selling it off and begins courting Laurie, an angry Paul frames his deceitful friend for his murder. Beautifully shot in Technicolor by the great Russell Metty (Spartacus, Touch of Evil) with a wonderful screenplay by Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid), based on a story by Richard Alan Simmons (Juggernaut) and William Sackheim (First Blood).

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Painter Paul Sloan feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett, plans to fake his own suicide. However, it starts looking like Casey has murdered Paul and when Casey starts making a move for Paul's fiancée, he decides to get revenge. However, Paul falls in love with Nikki, who has also tried to commit suicide.

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Theatrical Release: June 30th, 1965

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Runtime 1:39:21.580        
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1.85:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

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Feature: 31,142,916,096 bytes

Video Bitrate: 37.92 Mbps

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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1555 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1555 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
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Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Subtitles English, None
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Studio: Kino

 

1.85:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 34,364,244,839 bytes

Feature: 31,142,916,096 bytes

Video Bitrate: 37.92 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

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• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian and Critic Peter Tonguette
 • Theatrical Trailer (2:47)


 Blu-ray Release Date: September 22nd, 2020
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Chapters 9

 

 

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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (September 2020): Kino have transferred Norman Jewison's The Art of Love to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "Brand New 2K Master". The image quality is quite strong on a dual-layered disc with a max'ed out bitrate. Colors are bright, some nice textures - the print may be a bit dirty but the 1080P presentation in-motion is quite pleasing. There are minor speckles but overall not a detraction to the visuals.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (16-bit) in the original English language. It has few effects and a light score by Cy Coleman (Father Goose, Sweet Charity), sounding brisk and fun. Also Ethel Merman does perform "M'sieur" with the dancing gals. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers a new commentary by Peter Tonguette (author of Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews With His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers And Magicians.) He provides a calm, informative analysis of the The Art of Love. He talks about the production, performers (finding a lot of the Ethel Merman material expendable), director Jewison (who felt this was the studio's movie - not his), writer Carl Reiner (look for him in the film) etc.. It's informative and there are also trailers - including one for the film.  

Norman Jewison's The Art of Love is pretty fun. The strengths are the director's storytelling and the fabulous cast of James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickinson. It's a well-paced, romantic, adventure-esque comedy. Van Dyke is always great and Elke hypnotic. I loved Angie Dickinson in that gold dress, and Garner has some decent comedic timing. It works. The Kino Blu-ray is worth seeing for fans of this era, stars and Norman Jewison's incredible body of work.

Gary Tooze

 

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