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This trend-setting thriller put its director, Dario Argento, on the international map and began a flood of imitative mystery-horror hybrids which dominated Italian genre output in the early 1970s.
Tony Musante, best known for the television series Toma, portrays an American who witnesses the murder of a woman at a trendy Rome art gallery. Before long, Musante finds himself targeted by a mysterious killer.
Special Features:
- Brand new High Definition restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Director of Photography, Vittorio Storaro s original 2:1 Univisium aspect ratio
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Two-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by Alan Jones, author of Profondo Argento
- Brand new HD restoration of the film presented in 1080p
- A Crystal Classic: Luigi Cozzi Remembers Dario s Bloody Bird (1080p)
- Sergio Martino: The Genesis of the Giallo (1080p)
- The Italian Hitchcock: Dario Argento Remembers The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1080p)
Review
Now king of the spaghetti slasher, Argento made his directorial debut with this tightly constructed thriller. --Geoff Andrew, Time Out
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
[It] has the energy to support its elaborateness and the decency to display its devices with style. Something from each of its better models has stuck, and it is pleasant to rediscover old horrors in such handsome new décor. --New York Times
Argentos most Hitchcockian venture --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
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. 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!"
Unlike Blue Underground's Region 1 NTSC DVD and now deleted Bluray, Arrow have opted for a new transfer supervised by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, and true to form he's decided to crop the image from 2.35:1 to 2:1 (something he previously did to howls of outrage on Criterion's edition of The Last Emperor and the Complete Dossier release of Apocalypse Now). What makes it such a misguided bit of revisionism is that, in its original ratio, this showed Argento's mastery of vivid color and the Scope frame at its best - the gallery window the murder is seen through is even designed at an exact 2.35:1 to match the original screen ratio, an effect lost in Arrow's cropped transfer. Nor does the extras package compare to the impressive array of interviews on Blue Underground's US release. As such, good as the film is, it's hard to recommend this Blu-ray.
Unlike Blue Underground's Region 1 NTSC DVD and now deleted Bluray, Arrow have opted for a new transfer supervised by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, and true to form he's decided to crop the image from 2.35:1 to 2:1 (something he previously did to howls of outrage on Criterion's edition of The Last Emperor and the Complete Dossier release of Apocalypse Now). What makes it such a misguided bit of revisionism is that, in its original ratio, this showed Argento's mastery of vivid color and the Scope frame at its best - the gallery window the murder is seen through is even designed at an exact 2.35:1 to match the original screen ratio, an effect lost in Arrow's cropped transfer. Nor does the extras package compare to the impressive array of interviews on Blue Underground's US release. As such, good as the film is, it's hard to recommend this Blu-ray.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
"Brand new High Definition restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Director of Photography, Vittorio Storaro s original 2:1 Univisium aspect ratio"
This is not correct, the proper ratio should be 2:35.1, not 2:1. This proves that Storaro is more concerned with HIS vision than the director's.
The colours are also muted and the camera view finder scenes are horribly cropped to the left of frame and in B&W instead of colour.
This is not correct, the proper ratio should be 2:35.1, not 2:1. This proves that Storaro is more concerned with HIS vision than the director's.
The colours are also muted and the camera view finder scenes are horribly cropped to the left of frame and in B&W instead of colour.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Just to warn anyone expecting this release to be in its full width 2:35.1 aspect ration, be warned its been horribly cropped at the sides and is now 2.1. With an Argento movie, this is very important. A terrible shame but you're better off with the Blue Underground version.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Solid transfer if you can't spend big bucks for the original aspect...
Much has been said about this film's director of photography choosing to crop the original aspect ratio to fit in with his attempt at a midpoint between widescreen and 4:3 that he... Read more
Published 2 months ago by K. Clark
save up your money
get the blue underground version. I had to pay $70 us but at least i will be able to enjoy this classic the right way. Read more
Published 9 months ago by argentoisgod
not to bad actually!
i have just finished watching arrow films blu ray of bird with the crystal plumage.i found the blu ray transfer acceptable. Read more
Published 11 months ago by MICHAELM
The Argento masterpiece as it should be shown
Forget all the scaremongering about the aspect ratio, I've seen comparison images with the Blue Underground solid release. Read more
Published 11 months ago by HorrorHarry100
A Different Version
If you don't care about the different OAR & colour correction than the one shown on original release, this will be a great Bluray package. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Norbie
Bye Bye Arrow ?
I'd say, after all these problems with earlier realeases and then the complete pigs ear that they made of "The Beyond" ( the messed up versions are still being sold rather than the... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Thomas B. Walters
DISASTER: Classic Giallo presented in the wrong aspect ratio!
This is a fantastic film but unfortunately this is going to be a shoddy release. The all region Blue-Underground blu ray is a beautiful print and is correctly presented in all it's... Read more
Published 13 months ago by A. Waite
Great film. Dreadful cover.
Yep, another Arrow dvd that comes in one of those childish, god awful new sleeves. A shame really as these Blu Rays look fantastic and I love the films.
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Published 13 months ago by Stoker
"Bird With The Crystal Plumage" (DVD, Arrowdrome, Jan. 2012)
COVER INFO:
REF FCD460 VFD53002
"THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE"
REGION 0 (PAL)
(15) 'Contains one scene of sexualised violence and horror'... Read more
REF FCD460 VFD53002
"THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE"
REGION 0 (PAL)
(15) 'Contains one scene of sexualised violence and horror'... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. MM Dance
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