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All three of these volumes claim to contain versions of their respective movies that are "Enhanced for 16x9 televisions" yet upon closer examination, each of the volumes contains at least one (and in the case of Volume III, TWO) movies that are in the same crappy matted widescreen format that Miramax has been pushing for the last several years. The culprit in the this volume is Life is Beautiful. I have nothing against widescreen - just let the DVD player insert the matting and use the full resolution of the DVD for useful picture information. I suspect these box sets are a way for Miramax to dump the older (non anamorphic widescreen) versions of these movies on unsuspecting… Lire la suite
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I purchased both this volume and Volume I from a local bricks and mortar store after I saw the labels indicating that the packaged DVDs contained widescreen anamorphic (a.k.a. "Enhanced for 16x9 televisions") and Dolby Digital 5.1 versions of The English Patient, Il Postino, and Shakespeare in Love. Sadly, 'tis not true. I don't know whether the false labeling on the packaging was accidental or intentional but it appears that Miramax has simply packaged the same crappy widescreen (non anamorphic) DVD versions of these movies that I've been refusing to buy for several years now. Needless to say, all of the movies are going back tomorrow. As far as I know, Il Postino and The… Lire la suite
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While it's not necessarily a bad book, it doesn't even begin to live up to the hype surrounding it. Book magazine had a small and glowing review of the book as did the Book Sense 76 list for September and October. Several independent bookstores are giving it prominent shelf position - often with staff recommendations. I generally put a lot of stock in the reviews of these two publications, but I was very disappointed this time. The plot itself had a lot of promise, but none of the possibilities touched upon were ever fully fleshed out. The story was begging for a book three times as long with three times the detail. If some of the other reviewers are correct in their assertions that… Lire la suite
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