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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This copy is cut and doesn't include key scenes!
Go to Amazon.com and buy the VTI copy being sold which is full and uncut... make sure you have a multi-region dvd player of course
With the pound being so strong against the dollar now is a great time to buy!
I advise you are really careful about all Argento DVD's you buy and make sure your getting the full uncut versions! Anchor Bay do most of his films and are a safe bet for full uncut versions with lots more extras.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is not particularly gory, but it does establish a blueprint for most of Dario Argento's later work, with the crucial misunderstood attempted murder both referencing Antonioni's Blow-Up and prefiguring the killer-in-plain-sight twist of Deep Red. Best of all is Argento's mastery of vivid color and the Scope frame (the gallery window is even designed at an exact 2.35:1 to match the screen ratio). It still lacks the bravura and panache that would distinguish Deep Red, Suspiria and Inferno, and the best that can be said of the performances is that they don't get in the way: Tony Musante's hero and Mario Adorf's cameo as a cat-eating artist pass muster, as does Enrico Maria Salerno, the Italian voice of Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's westerns (the perverse side of my nature thought Eastwood could at least have returned the compliment by dubbing him into English), but Suzy Kendall definitely looks better than she acts and some of the supporting cast pull out most of the stops. Still how can you not love a film with lines like "How many times do I have to tell you, Ursula Andress belongs with the transvestites, not the perverts!"
Blue Underground's new Region 1 NTSC DVD is some 30 seconds longer than the previous VCI issue and boasts superb picture quality and a choice of English or Italian tracks (it was shot in English, as per all of Argento's films). The extras aren't plentiful enough to justify a second disc - some 47 minutes of interviews, including an inadvertently revealing one by Eva Renzi pretty much badmouthing anyone who ever offered her a part for destroying her career - but if you don't have the film it's worth picking up for the remastering alone.
Blue Underground's new Region 1 NTSC DVD is some 30 seconds longer than the previous VCI issue and boasts superb picture quality and a choice of English or Italian tracks (it was shot in English, as per all of Argento's films). The extras aren't plentiful enough to justify a second disc - some 47 minutes of interviews, including an inadvertently revealing one by Eva Renzi pretty much badmouthing anyone who ever offered her a part for destroying her career - but if you don't have the film it's worth picking up for the remastering alone.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is the first Dario Argento film I have seen and chose to see it first because it is his directorial debut. Unlike the films he is best known for, namely horror, this film is more of a suspense thriller. The plot surrounds the murders of three women in Rome and an attempted murder of another women. The attempted murder is witnessed by an American tourist who then becomes involved in the police investigation when they confiscate his passport. The direction is excellent and right up until the final scenes you have no idea who the killer really is. This film may look a bit dated now compared to some of the polished, modern hollywood productions. However the film is still excellently put togehter and well worth seeing before you see other films by Dario Argento.
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I no speak Italiano
Firstly the one star review as not for the actual film itself (the film is Very Good Indeed )but for the fact that this was listed as English language as was the version I recently... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Martin Nitram Wad
remember when
I recall seeing this movie in the cinema when it was first issued. Broad sets and a thrill every so often. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Peter Francis
great debut
This is the first film I have seen by Dario Argento and have to say it's extremely enjoyable. I have ordered some of his others and hope they live up to this one. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Josey Wales
This is the one to get as it's correctly presented....
Unlike the U.K. Arrow disc which is 2.1:1 instead of the correctly framed 2.35:1.
Blue-Underground have done a stellar job here, A beautiful print with nice crisp vivid... Read more
Blue-Underground have done a stellar job here, A beautiful print with nice crisp vivid... Read more
Published 13 months ago by A. Waite
Great looking, tense fun
Beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro, this is a stylish and fun Hitchcock-like thriller. (To me it feels more Hitchcock than gaillo). Read more
Published 14 months ago by K. Gordon
EXCELLENT GIALLO
Maybe it's just me, but suspense and plot wise, I found this film more entertaining than Deep Red and Suspiria. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Gorehound
Bird with the Crystal Plumage
This was Dario Argento's directorial debut and it has to be the best Giallo movie of all time. It may not be over the top violent but who needs exsesive gore to enjoy this kind of... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2009 by A. J. Harrison
Cult classic arrives on Blu Ray
Finally Dario Argento's classic arrives on US Blu Ray and what's more plays on my PS3 with no problems. Read more
Published on 4 May 2009 by cocteautwin
Excellent early-Argento slasher/mystery.
As other have noted, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage was Argento's first stab (no pun) at the horror genre, and it's surprising to see how quickly his trademark style and key... Read more
Published on 24 July 2005 by Jonathan James Romley
DONT BUY THE UK VERSION
This film is great it deserves the 4 stars I gave it. It is a wonderful debut from a brilliant film directer. But this UK version is cut. Why? Read more
Published on 22 May 2005 by "chainsawkiller"
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