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Directed by Dee Rees
USA 2017
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families—one of white landholders, one of Black tenant farmers—are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with cowriter Virgil Williams, crafts a uniquely American tragedy, imbuing bitter historical realities with a timeless weight. Featuring bone-deep performances from Rees’s ensemble cast—including Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, and Jonathan Banks—and backed by Rachel Morrison’s darkly burnished cinematography, Mudbound is a searing humanist study of inheritance, based upon Hillary Jordan’s novel. *** In the post World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad. |
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Theatrical Release: January 21st, 2017 (Sundance Film Festival)
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Review: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Criterion Spine #1205 - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 2:14:53.960 | |
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2.39:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 48,230,946,848 bytes Feature: 40,197,826,560 bytesVideo Bitrate: 31. 66 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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Dolby TrueHD/Atmos
Audio English 4725 kbps 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4085 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1
/ 48 kHz / 640 kbps / DN -29dB) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / DN -31dB Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English (SDH), None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Criterion
2.39:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray Disc Size: 48,230,946,848 bytesFeature: 40,197,826,560 bytesVideo Bitrate: 31. 66 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • New audio commentary featuring Rees• New documentary featuring Rees, composer Tamar-kali, editor Mako Kamitsuna, and makeup artist Angie Wells (15:54) • New documentary made on set, featuring members of the cast and crew (23:38) Interview with Morrison (28:35) • New interview with production designer David J. Bomba (17:05) • Trailer and teaser (2:02 / 2:07) PLUS: An essay by critic Danielle Amir Jackson
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On their
Blu-ray,
Criterion use a robust Atmos surround track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Mudbound
has beautiful resonating music; One Morning Soon + Don't You
See How They Done My Lord performed by Dr. C.J. Johnson plus songs
by Blind Willie Johnson, Lawrence Sieberth, Don Vappie, Charlie Halloran,
Dave Boswell, Doug Belote and Ray Moore etc. (notable Mighty River
performed by Mary J. Blige who plays 'Florence Jackson' in Mudbound,
Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson) and a score by Tamar-kali (born Tamara
Colletta Brown) who composed for Dees Rees'
Pariah. There is rain etc. violence; gunfire and more that carry
imposing depth through the track. The audio is dynamic with consistent dialogue. Criterion offer
an optional 'Descriptive audio track' and English (SDH)
subtitles on their Region 'A'-locked
Blu-ray.
NOTE:
For Atmos - many non-compliant systems will recognizes it as TrueHD 7.1,
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."
The Criterion
Blu-ray
I was blown away by Dee Rees' Mudbound.
The screenplay was based on the 2008
debut novel,
and international bestseller, by Hillary Jordan. Two young men return
from the war to work the land in the Mississippi Delta. The black
ex-soldier deals with abject racism and his white neighbor with PTSD and
jarring memories of combat. Their worlds intersect both subtly and
brutally producing sympathy, anger and tragedy in the backdrop of both
family's struggle to survive farming in the elements. Mudbound is a
masterfully realized film. The production - from design, costumes and
cinematography and brilliantly matched by the impressive performances. I
consider this a must-own Blu-ray. Criterion
have loaded it with director commentary, interviews, documentaries and
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