Network [Blu-ray]

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Feature Commentary by Director Sidney Lumet is perhaps a bit too quiet and sporadic for some, but it's thoughtful and provocative, just like the director. Horace Quilby treads a perpetual odyssey through the London streets on behalf of Finklebaum and O'Casey – dealers in 'misfit clothing'. Resplendent in top hat, tails and sandwich board his is a unique angle from which to observe life. Today, however, he is preoccupied – Esmerelda, his racing pigeon, is taking part in the race of her life! by recognizing our uncanny strangeness we shall neither suffer from it nor enjoy it from the outside. The foreigner is within me, hence we are all foreigners. If I am a foreigner, there are no foreigners”

Although not quite as comprehensive as some might have hoped for – arguably losing as much as it gains – this is another strong set of extras from Arrow. I'd definitely try to get to see at least one episode before you buy. I used to love it as a kid but I most certainly will not be buying it. The Social Network was shot digitally on Red One MX cameras, with a resolution of 4.5K, and finished as a 2K DI from which it appears this UHD is sourced. Ruby Quartz Shades. Well, what would you prefer! Yellow spandex? Oh and Logan Stay Away From My Girl.Bernard Hedges manages to convince the other staff at Fenn Street Secondary Modern that it's a good idea to take rowdy class 5C on a two-night stay at a country summer camp. It doesn't take long, however, before 5C start wreaking havoc – with both the camp and the snobbish pupils of an upper-class boys' school who are also staying there! Whilst it’s likely the best that this film has ever looked, the frequently softer-than-you’d-like source material will never be demo worthy. Space: 1999 was originally released on DVD in 2001 by Carlton Media in the UK and A&E in the US. In 2004, Carlton was absorbed in a corporate takeover that resulted in the creation of a new company, ITV Network, who then reissued Season One on DVD in the UK in 2005. The company eventually restored and remastered the series with new HD scans of the original camera negatives and extensive digital clean-up. Network released Season One on Blu-ray in the UK in 2010 and licensed the US rights to A&E/New Video, who released Season One on BD here in the States that same year ( see our review of that set here on The Bits). Unfortunately, it look longer for Network to restore Season Two, a process that began in 2007. It was also more costly because the audio for Season Two needed additional remastering (this work had already been done for Season One). Network wanted to share those costs with New Video, but the US distributor balked. So Network released Season Two on Blu-ray in the UK in 2015 ( see our review here), but no US release was forthcoming until Shout! Factory finally licensed the US rights in 2019, at which point they released Space: 1999 – The Complete Series as a Blu-ray box set ( you can read our review of that set here as well). The extras also include a photo gallery of the show’s production and commentaries on some of the episodes by writer and broadcaster Tim Worthington. Though not connected with the show (and by his own admission, not born at the time of its release), Worthington’s enthusiasm and knowledge of the show is palpable and infectious. He discusses such aspects as the design of the title sequence; the ‘care and attention’ paid to the visual composition; why the show is ‘important’; and compares his commentary to others and his wish to be different and informative. For the most part, he succeeds, much as The Owl Service itself mostly succeeds as an evocative, atmospheric and intriguing drama, one that offers plenty to enjoy for modern audiences just as it did for those over fifty years ago. Keep meaning to get hold of Space Patrol, I got though Fireball by going to bed extra early and getting an episode done a night on a 19 inch portable just the right way to watch them.

As with all biopic films, The Social Network must be taken with a pinch of salt. It is based on the book, The Accidental Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich, which itself can be taken with the same. And with director David Fincher giving his own interpretation of the screenplay such as the emphasis on the situations that take place, the major events that affected the outcome, or indeed bypassing whole occurrences in favour of drama, the result is a story that, whilst having a basis in fact, has more in tune with fantasy than truth. Cinematographer Owen Roizman ( The French Connection, The Exorcist) utilized light in a variety of different ways to give the film the desired by director Lumet visual style. It is broken into three phases -- naturalistic, realistic, and commercial -- each with different and constantly evolving tonalities. I remember watching a Laserdisc version in which the Sting missiles were replaced by lasers. I couldn't believe it. Some Blu-ray disc players cannot stream content directly but can still access network-based content from PCs and media servers. Blu-ray Disc Players and Screen Mirroring/Sharing In any case, despite the fact that there are still a few special features missing, it should be clear now that Via Vision Entertainment/Imprint Television’s new Space: 1999 – The Complete Series Ultimate Edition box set truly is the most comprehensive Blu-ray release of this series to date. Yes, it’s more expensive than the previous Blu-ray editions. But if you’re looking for a single REGION FREE Blu-ray set that contains the largest number (and overwhelming majority) of special features, along with beautifully-remastered HD video, and the correct 5.1 and mono audio mixes too, this is box set is absolutely unmatched.It's with bittersweet irony that, in today's climate, this scathing critique of the media feels more like a model for modern reality TV programming. Booklet featuring an article by Barry Forshaw and a short story by Trevor Preston which tells how Frank Ross was arrested eight years prior to the series. It's all the more remarkable, then, that Paddy Chayefsky's marvelous script for Network is so frighteningly prescient. After all, in 1976, when the film was released, the evening news was still a nightly tradition for most adult Americans, and the three broadcast networks ruled the airwaves with iconic anchors like Cronkite, Smith, Chancellor and Brinkley. It would be four to five more years until shows like Entertainment Tonight started cropping up in syndication, slowly blurring the line between news and entertainment, and 24 hour news networks like CNN appeared on the horizon, needing, well, 24 hours of content to fill their broadcasting day, thereby creating a whole new market for shows which blended elements of news and entertainment. It seemed to happen almost overnight, seen now from the distance of that quarter century, but Chayefsky obviously saw it coming well before it dawned on the rest of us, and Network was his brilliantly acerbic warning shot across the bow. Unfortunately, too few of us heard, refusing to believe that things could get as bad as Network portrayed them, however satirically. How terribly, terribly wrong we were.

LPCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD MA, MPEG 1/2 L2(PCM only), MP3(PCM only), WMA(PCM only) Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Sidney Lumet's Network arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Arrow Video.March 2, 1977 Dinah! with Paddy Chayefsky (SD; 14:02) is a fun snippet from Dinah Shore's old daytime gabfest. Shore proves to be a surprisingly good and well informed interviewer, as well as very, very low key. Private Screenings with Sidney Lumet (SD; 54:34) Lumet sits down for an in-depth interview with Robert Osborne, culled from the TCM archives. Indeed I bought the DVD of Fireball and never got to the end of it and it's a lot better than Supercar. I have a couple of episodes of Supercar on a compilation disc so I have seen it recently. Those few episodes will do me. On a similar note I think the Roberta Leigh series Space Patrol was better than Fireball and I didn't get to the end of my Blu Ray of that either. Though I got a lot through more of them than I did with Fireball. You’d be hard pushed to tell this was an up-scale, with staples like skin texture and clothing weaves being very prevalent. Paperwork, computer consoles and screen text, notepad drawings, litigation papers: all are clean, clear, and precise.