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Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Taxi Driver
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 14, 2013
“We looked at Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man for the moves when Henry Fonda goes into the insurance office and the shifting points of view of the people behind the counter. That was the kind of paranoia that I wanted to employ.” -Martin Scorsese Alfred Hitchcock’s influence is qui read more
DVD Review: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 8, 2013
Distributor: Milestone Films Release Date: 18/May/2010 Region:1 Length: 57 min Video: NTSC, SD Main Audio: French Subtitles: English (hard coded) Ratio: 1.33:1 Notes: These shorts are not currently released on Blu-ray in North America. They are currently only available on DVD and this disc is the o read more
Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 3, 2013
“I guess the original slasher film was Psycho. That was the film that all of these things are kind of based on… Psycho was the big daddy of them all. And it had a literal slashing scene in it! The famous shower scene…” -John Carpenter It is evident from watching Halloween tha read more
Offbeat Blu-ray Review: The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition (3 Disk Set)
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 1, 2013
“The director that influenced me and almost everyone else is Alfred Hitchcock because he basically invented suspense for the cinema.” -William Friedkin “There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.” -Alfred Hitchcock In 1965, Friedkin directed an episode of T read more
Blu-ray Review: Psycho – 50th Anniversary Edition
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 24, 2013
Distributor: Universal Release Date: 19/Oct/2010, 29/Oct/2012 (‘The Masterpiece Collection’) Region: Region Free Length: (01:48:59) Video: 1080P (AVC Advanced Video, 23.976fps) Main Audio: 5.1 English Master Audio (DTS-HD 6 channels, 24bit, 48kHz) English Mono (DTS 2.0, 24-bit, 48kHz, read more
Blu-ray Review: North by Northwest
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 16, 2013
Distributor: Warner Brothers Release Date: 03/Nov/2009 Region: Region Free Length: 02:16:26 Video: 1080P (VC-1 Advanced, 23.976fps, 32.0GB) Main Audio: English Surround (TrueHD 5.1, 48kHz, 640kbps) Alternate Audio Options: French Mono (AC3 1.0, 192kbps) German Mono (AC3 1.0, 192kbps) Italian Mono ( read more
Blu-ray Review: Notorious
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 15, 2013
Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment Release Date: 24/Jan/2012 Region: Region A Length: (1:41:40.803) Video: 1080P (MPEG-4 AVC Video, 38,521,567,097 Bytes) Main Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English, Spanish, and French Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 37.39 Mbps Notes: This titl read more
Blu-ray Availability for Hitchcock’s Films in North America
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2013
Films that are written in red have received a North American Blu-ray release. Titles that are written in Blue have been released, but only as a part of a boxed set and not as an individual release. Certain films might have a Blu-ray release in other territories. The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mou read more
DVD Availability for Hitchcock’s Films
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2013
Films that are written in red have received a North American DVD release (if one takes into account public domain releases of the British films). Those that have not received a North American release have been released in other territories. The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Th read more
Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much – The Criterion Collection
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2013
(Spine #643) Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 15/Jan/2013 Region: A Length: 76 minutes Video: 1080P (AVC High@L4.1, 23.976fps, 19.4GB) Audio: English Mono (LPCM 1,152kbps, 48kHz, 24bit) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.33:1 (1440×1080 matted to 1920×1080) Bitrate: Approx read more