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| Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong
Studio: Live / Artisan
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 16977
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 160 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0784012164
UPC: 012236075332
EAN: 9780784012161
ASIN: 0784012164
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1987
Release Date: February 23, 1999
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 The worst DVD movie I ever seen, I mean technically. April 13, 2003
16 out of 27 found this review helpful
I don't know how good the story is as I cannot concentrate on movie. This DVD's video and audio quality is TERRIBLE, I would give it 0 star for its quality. Fortunately I rent it, not buy it. The acadamy winner totally ruined by studio who released it.
Horrible DVD picture quality January 17, 2000
S. Fischer (San Diego, Ca USA)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I was extremely disappointed by the transfer/picture quality of the DVD. It is by far the worst I've seen. If I could I'd return it for a refund. It's all the more a shame since I know the original film was beautiful.
LOUSY DVD November 28, 2003
Dennis Forcier (Atlanta)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a WONDERFUL movie. One of my favorites. But this is a TERRIBLE DVD. There are no special features, although there is a text box on the back of the box supposedly enumerating the "Special Features" (including the "4:3 Widescreen" format). The "widescreen" format is simply a scam! The original (2.35?) aspect ratio of the film has been reduced to 4:3 pan and scan, then "enlarged" for 16:9 by cutting off the top and bottom! The resolution is AWFUL. Worse than over-the-air analog broadcasts. I was so horrified at the quality of the picture I can't speak to the value of the additional footage, or even to the sound quality. I was simply unable to watch such awful treatment of a great cinematographer's work.
Simply Appalling DVD Quality March 14, 2002
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm not a big fan of director's cuts, they tend to be long and plodding. But for a historical biography like that of Pu-Yi, you really need the extra time to covers a man's entire life at an appropriate pace. This is a wonderful story well told.That said, this is simply the worst looking DVD I have ever seen - skies have a grainy, bitmapped quality, images have nasty sawtoothed edges, noticeable even on my low resolution TV set. The reason for this poor quality is simple: they tried to squeeze a 3 hour and 38 minute film, plus a theatrical trailer, onto a single DVD disc, even while similarly long films like Lawrence of Arabia, The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, Godfather II, are routinely spread over two discs precisely to avoid such problems. The folks at Artisan should hide their heads in shame for defacing this masterpeace, which looks worse on DVD than on VHS, and look only a bit better (pun intended) than a video downloaded off the Internet. I had assumed that the February 2002 release date listed meant that other complaints about DVD quality referred to problems on a previous release that had now been corrected. I was sorely mistaken.
excellent film, terrible dvd November 11, 2004
rc (LA)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
what's the point of releasing a marvelous film on DVD if you do such a bad job? the dvd has no subtitles. Compared to the original theatre release, the picture quality on the DVD is terrible, colors and contrast level are all ruined. It's a shame the film makers actually let this happen to a masterpiece. I wouldn't purchase this DVD even if the manufacturer gave me money.
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