Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 2 Blu-ray delivers great video and audio in this excellent Blu-ray release
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For more about Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 2 and the Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 2 Blu-ray release, see Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 2 Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on November 17, 2020 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5.
Martin Scorsese has been curating the World Cinema Project for well over a decade, and the result has been a veritable cornucopia of
international films that in some cases Scorsese's efforts have helped save from the ravages of time (and vinegar syndrome). As of the writing of this
review, the World Cinema Project is closing in on fifty restorations that they've undertaken, allowing fans to view films that, as even Scorsese himself
states in some of the introductions included in this set, have been woefully underappreciated and rarely seen. This second volume of films aggregates
six interesting
offerings that have at least some subtextual cross connections at times, but which serve as yet another example of what an incredible job the World
Cinema Project does in bringing films of undeniable merit to a wider audience.
Reviews of the films in this set can be accessed by clicking on the following links:
Supplements for each film are detailed in the above linked reviews. Additionally this comes with Criterion's typically well appointed insert booklet
(almost a pamphlet in this case), which contains writing about all the films in this set as well as cast and crew information and technical datapoints.
This second volume of offerings from the World Cinema Project and Martin Scorsese provides another fascinating glimpse into both relatively well
remembered fare as well as cult items that my hunch is few will have any prior experience with. While some of the presentations here are reliant upon
source material that has not survived the ravages of time particularly well, the restorations are by and large formidable and hugely commendable.
Recommended.
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The Criterion Collection will add a number of new titles to its Blu-ray catalog this May. Amongst them are Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, Orson Welles' Othello, and Jacques Audiard's Dheepan.
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