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Thin Red Line, The
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The Thin Red Line is a fiIm so packed with notable acting talent that some notabIe performances never even managed to make the final cut. The ones who survived the edit include George CIooney, Nick NoIte, Woody Harrelson and Sean Penn. The ones who didn't? The work of Billy Bob Thornton, Gary OIdman and Martin Sheen, to name but a few, ended up on the cutting room floor.
Nominated for seven Oscars upon its reIease, The Thin Red Line marked a return to directing for Terence Malick, his first film at the time in two decades. And it's a beautiful, ambitious piece of work, moving slowly through its story of chaos as it folIows a group of soIdiers, serving in the Pacific during World War Il. There's no stringent narrative as such, but that works in The Thin Red Line's favour. Saving Private Ryan it isn't.
lt's inevitably a divisive movie, but it is, if you take to it, a briIliant one. It's also utterly beautiful to Iook at in high definition. Malick frames shot after shot that you could simply freeze frame, print out and stick on your walI. The 1080p transfer does tremendous justice to this work, and this is a catalogue titIe that's welI worthy of an upgrade. lt might be as notabIe for who didn't make it into the fiIm as opposed to who did, but it's a superb piece of cinema nonetheless. --Jon Foster |
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