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| Tango01 | 28 Mar 2019 10:06 p.m. PST |
…adaptation of War and Peace. Really. "Good critics avoid hyperbole as a rule, and declaring a single film to be the greatest ever made makes a professional sound like an undergrad who just saw Citizen Kane for the first time. And even some voracious readers are guilty of seeing the writings of Leo Tolstoy as an essential chore. Having said all that: In any serious, sober-minded discussion about what could be selected to exemplify the farthest reaches of cinema's capabilities, War and Peace — Sergei Bondarchuk's largely unseen adaptation of Tolstoy's literary classic — would have to be on the table…."
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 deadhead  | 29 Mar 2019 12:04 a.m. PST |
I have the recently released DVD and the image quality is very poor. Faded colours, blurred film print, let alone the classical SB scenes. Remastered may improve the first two.
But we will still get clouds. Lots of clouds. A windstorm out of nowhere. The parade of the icon that lasts ages. Riderless horses en masse, galloping left to right….and right to left. Cavalry charging to no purpose. Very like 1970 and Waterloo….(which was infinitely better filmed however).
Both beat "Quiet Flows the Don" however…..mindnumbing drivel.
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| Old Wolfman | 29 Mar 2019 6:46 a.m. PST |
Probably would be like a multi-episode mini-series. And this week in Classic Peanuts,Snoopy is trying the read the epic ,one word at a time per day. |
| mjkerner | 29 Mar 2019 7:31 a.m. PST |
I saw it over two nights at a local theater in the early '70's when it was released here in the States. deadhead is right on the money. |
| Tango01 | 29 Mar 2019 11:36 a.m. PST |
Many thanks!.
Amicalement
Armand
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| deadhead | 29 Mar 2019 3:38 p.m. PST |
None of you have invested in the DVD of "Quiet Flows the Don". Trust me. W & P is unputdownable by comparison. Let us give thanks and praise that Sergei B was not allowed to cast himself in "Waterloo" |
| Tango01 | 30 Mar 2019 12:16 p.m. PST |
Many thanks my good friend!.
Amicalement
Armand
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paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
