Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Would love to watch Dr Phibes or Masque Of The Red Death on BluRay then!
I do know how to tune the telly. For example, No Time to Die and (oddly) Ghostbusters looked fantastic and actually justified splurging on a high end OLED set.You keep complaining about this with films where I had no problems seeing anything. There isn't a trend for films being dark more than at other times, check out the films shot by Gordon Willis in the 70s (The Godfather, Klute, All the President's Men), he was known as The Prince if Darkness.
Pretty sure it must be your tv settings:
Why HDR Looks Too Dark on Your TV, and How to Fix It
Wait, isn’t that fancy new TV supposed to deliver bright, beautiful images? If yours is a little dimmer than expected, we can help.www.wired.com
I do know how to tune the telly. For example, No Time to Die and (oddly) Ghostbusters looked fantastic and actually justified splurging on a high end OLED set.
Whereas people left the theatres complaining about Dune being dark. I think the fact that it's intentionally super desaturated really works against it there, even if it is Villeneuve's "vision". I'm hardly alone there. I've only complained in particular about two films (The Green Knight and Dune) and a casual google will tell you it's not a novel complaint.
I will admit that I have a thing about too dark films in general though. What seems new is that it seems every other film I watch has a scene or two that are too dark for no reason. Used to be a rare thing. What bugs me is this - HDR was supposed to make it better, but the way they've tuned a lot transfers seems to make it worse instead. The SDR versions of the films have godawful blowouts instead and I'm not sure which is worse. I think the whole issue is that HDR has been designed around watching in a true Home Cinema environment, and a lot of it just doesn't work in a standard living room with ambient light.
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Watched it and really enjoyed it, though afterwards I had to google the ending because I didn’t know if it was a case of ‘left open to interpretation’, or ‘I must be missing something here or might be too thick to get this kind of film’.Personal Shopper. Really very good, chilly, emotional, understated and Kristin Stewart was excellent.
The French Connection is on Talking Pictures Tv this evening at 9.05….Hardly new but I have the loan of a Disney + login so enjoyed watching The French Connection (and the sequel) for the first time over the weekend.
Particularly enjoyed the cat and mouse stalking on the streets of New York and down in the subway.
One benefit of these older films is the directors were happy to get them done in about 1:45, modern films go on far too long!
Think I’ll see what else is on that platform that’s of interest.
I've now watched Part 2: Road to EternityThe Human Condition Part 1: No Greater Love
1959 brutal and relentlessly bleak wartime drama set during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Kaji, acted with total conviction by Tatsuya Nakadai, is a pacifist employee of a steel company (I think it was) who is given the chance to avoid being conscripted into the army by accepting a position overseeing a section of a labour camp in order to implement the liberal managerialist techniques he has been advocating for. He sees an opportunity to improve and rationalise the treatment of the Chinese forced labour, and thereby improve efficiency. His self-assuredness soon crumbles when faced with the sadism of the Japanese civilian and military administration and with the enslaved Chinese for whom escape is unaccountably more attractive than 'humane' captivity and he finds his professed humanism hopelessly compromised by the role has has taken.
A despairing, angry film, it's immensely well composed and powerful although at 3 hours or so running time for just this first part it's an exhausting watch.
I know it's not actually related in anything other than name, but I really really really wish Disney + would stick on 'the London connection'.Hardly new but I have the loan of a Disney + login so enjoyed watching The French Connection (and the sequel) for the first time over the weekend.
Particularly enjoyed the cat and mouse stalking on the streets of New York and down in the subway.
One benefit of these older films is the directors were happy to get them done in about 1:45, modern films go on far too long!
Think I’ll see what else is on that platform that’s of interest.
Snap. Its Gregg Araki doing his thing and certainly passes 90 minutes relatively entertainingly. Though I personally prefer Splendor.Kaboom - Mubi. Frankly bizarre film about a student who eats a biscuit at a party and gets wrapped up in supernatural happenings. Did it really happen or was he tripping all along? An entertaining enough watch but I probably wouldn't bother again unless I myself had been indulging.