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The Last Emperor [DVD]
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Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning epic about the last imperial ruler of China. In 1908 the three-year-old Pu Yi is made Lord of Ten Thousand Years, but is soon forced to abdicate. He is, however, kept on as a symbolic figure and educated by an English tutor (Peter O'Toole) until he is thrown out by the new government. Now in his late twenties, Pu Yi takes his two wives to Tientsin and lives the life of a playboy.
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Bernardo Bertolucci does the nearly impossible with this sweeping, grand epic that tells a very personal tale. The story is a dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the emperors of China. It follows his life from its elite beginnings in the Forbidden City, where he was crowned at age three and worshipped by half a billion people. He was later forced to abdicate and, unable to fend for himself in the outside world, became a dissolute and exploited shell of a man. He died in obscurity, living as a peasant in the People's Republic. We never really warm up to John Lone in the title role, but The Last Emperor focuses more on visuals than characterisation anyway. Filmed in the Forbidden City, it is spectacularly beautiful, filling the screen with saturated colours and exquisite detail. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. --Rochelle O'Gorman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Julian Hughes
on 11 Jan. 2011
Format: DVD
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I bought the Optimum Home Entertainment Double Disc Special Edition, released in 2004. The theatrical version (DVD 1 of 2) in this set is first class. It displays with 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Other releases, including Blu-Ray, offered a cropped 2:1 ratio. The movie screened in theatres at 2.35:1 though Bertolucci later said he had intended it to be seen at 2.2:1 or 2.0:1. Personally I prefer to see it as it was shown in the cinemas, so I like this latest release (I have a 2.0:1 version as well). The earlier PAL DVD release had really horrible picture quality. This one has been remastered and the transfer to DVD is excellent. The picture quality is *flawless*. The audio is stereo AC-3.
Some drawbacks: The audio on the director's commentary is out of sync, though it doesn't really matter as the voices of the Bertolucci, Jeremy Thomas and Ryuichi Sakomoto dominate.
The "Director's Cut" on DVD 2 is no such thing. It is an extended version which was cobbled together for TV. There were reasons why that extra hour of footage didn't make it into the cinema version..... Now Bertolucci approving it being issued on DVD has led to marketing monkeys making the bogus claim that it's a director's cut. The picture quality of this extended version is lamentable, being soft, dark and extremely grainy. It would look bad under any circumstances but releasing it alongside this pristine theatrical version is inviting criticism.
This is definitely a UK PAL release, not a Europe PAL release; there are no foreign language subtitles. In fact there aren't even English subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Despite the lame second DVD and the lack of subtitles I've rated it 5 stars because the picture quality of the theatrical version in this set is as excellent as such a film deserves, which is what matters most in my opinion, and the double DVD edition didn't cost any more than a budget single disc.
Some drawbacks: The audio on the director's commentary is out of sync, though it doesn't really matter as the voices of the Bertolucci, Jeremy Thomas and Ryuichi Sakomoto dominate.
The "Director's Cut" on DVD 2 is no such thing. It is an extended version which was cobbled together for TV. There were reasons why that extra hour of footage didn't make it into the cinema version..... Now Bertolucci approving it being issued on DVD has led to marketing monkeys making the bogus claim that it's a director's cut. The picture quality of this extended version is lamentable, being soft, dark and extremely grainy. It would look bad under any circumstances but releasing it alongside this pristine theatrical version is inviting criticism.
This is definitely a UK PAL release, not a Europe PAL release; there are no foreign language subtitles. In fact there aren't even English subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Despite the lame second DVD and the lack of subtitles I've rated it 5 stars because the picture quality of the theatrical version in this set is as excellent as such a film deserves, which is what matters most in my opinion, and the double DVD edition didn't cost any more than a budget single disc.
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