Author: Travolta, John
Format: Dolby
Details: Product description
Sound engineer Jack Terry (John Travolta) actually only needs wind noise and a death scream for the production of a horror film. However, during his nighttime recordings, he records more than he bargained for: He witnesses presidential candidate McRyan's fatal accident and becomes entangled in a web of corruption, conspiracy, blackmail, and murder, at the end of which, in a perfidious narrative twist, he even receives his death scream.
Michelangelo Antonioni (BLOW-UP) and Alfred Hitchcock served as inspiration for Brian de Palma's sophisticated and visually striking political thriller, in which John Travolta and Nancy Allen are drawn into a perfidious conspiracy surrounding the death of a presidential candidate. The result is perfect paranoia cinema, with which De Palma once again impressively demonstrated his status as a grand master of the subversive thriller art.
Bonus material:
cinema trailer;
Movieman.de
Movieman's commentary on the DVD: The film has never looked better, especially not in the 1.85:1 TV broadcasts. De Palma's crime thriller, whose title is a nice reference to Antonioni's "Blow Up" and also a gentle hint that De Palma was aware of the idea theft, which legitimizes it. In "Blow Up," it was a photograph that, when enlarged, revealed a murder; in "Blow Out" (a sudden release of air—e.g., from a car tire), it is a randomly recorded audio recording that shows the murder. The elegance of the camerawork skillfully conceals the dramatic and logical flaws of this nevertheless endearing film.
Image: A fairly stable and three-dimensional look. Sharpness is only just good, as faces, for example, appear a bit washed out in medium shots (00:26:55). Camera movements mostly occur without loss of sharpness and with only minimal ground glass effects. Consistent colors lend the anamorphic 2.35:1 scanning another appealing aspect.
Sound: The English surround version enlivens the scenery quite pleasantly, but falls somewhat short of more recent productions in terms of transparency. The voices in the German version are also voluminous and well integrated into the ambient noise (00:36:00, pub). The German mono sound is otherwise noise-free and clear. Overall: decent. --movieman.de
EAN: 4010232010322
Languages: French
Binding: DVD
Item Condition: Used - Very Good
