Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations [Blu-ray] [2020] [NTSC]

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Grouped with solid direction and inventive writing (largely the work of Stan himself), along with creative editing and that damned theme tune (“Dance of the Cuckoos” which is both an earworm and a bit of an addition to the creepy vibe I got as a child) really made the art of escalating bad circumstances into pure comic science. Zavvi presents the classic comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy, bringing you all the best content from an expansive assortment of iconic moments in the pair’s long and successful history. The Music Box features crushed blacks, a bit of flicker, and mild speckling, but is otherwise clean and clear. And it’s during Hardy’s perpetual fourth-wall-breaking glances and gestures that we get a sense of his perpetually escalating frustrations not only with Laurel’s bumbling, but also with the absurdity of the action that the audience bears witness to alongside him. Deadend45 True, but Flicker Alley has shown they have better standards than most of the companies who released Laurel and Hardy content to Blu-Ray so far.

Internal List of Criterion Titles List of Licensors Calendar Blu-ray and DVD Region Map External Fan Sites The Criterion Cast Criterion Contraption Specialty Labels The Criterion Collection Arrow (UK) Arrow (US) Indicator Masters of Cinema British Film Institute (BFI) Second Run Anti-Worlds Shout Factory! The set is rounded out with a very brief interview with Oliver Hardy from 1950 and a huge collection of rare photos, stills, posters, and scripts. Not necessarily top tier Laurel and Hardy (the full-length films never were), but it features perhaps their most charming and endearing moment – the soft shoe dance routine to the tune of “At the Ball, That’s All” manages to be both life-affirming and hilarious at the same time.It’s in these shots where Laurel’s expressive eyebrows and his signature ambiguous smile conveyed the amiable naïveté and sensitivity that quickly came to define him.

They were each other’s contradiction in many ways – besides the obvious physical aspect of their size difference, they also combined Stan’s gentle and graceful British rascal with the mostly jovial, but generally short-fused southern drawl of the Georgia native Ollie.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In Way Out West, they make their way to a small town to inform a young woman of an inheritance, but run into greedy locals who want to cash in. His main focus and interest was in those showing the making of the films rather than stills from the films. Any drop-off with the first half, which is in sepia tone, is hardly noticeable, and a still-missing sequence at the end of the first reel is compensated for with stills and title cards.

There are so many of their 'full length films', as well as their many shorts, which are wonderful, it becomes impossible to say-One of Their Best', just because there are so many I can say that of.BONUS EXTRAS: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Alcune comiche di culto che non si trovavano da anni come "La battaglia del secolo" ed altri classici visibili con ottime immagini.

If you’re looking at this product you almost certainly don’t need telling how good the boys are, how they’re the funniest people ever to walk the planet etc. My gripe is that when accessing the commentaries, the sound of the film in the background is off, rather than the norm of it being there but at a variable or even low volume. I don't think this phenomena is limited to the boy's films, I'm amazed when there is an obvious out of focus shot that's made it into a feature, and not just a poverty row production where every frame counts. Each touch on Laurel’s kindness, his ghost-directing nearly every film he appeared in with Hardy, and the joys of working on the Hal Roach lot. The cancellation was also my fault as I'd used a VCC for the purchase and failed to notice the temp charge had fallen off of my CC.We previously used to have some sections where we listed movies by the year they were released, which you can still look through: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011-14, 2006-10, before 2006.