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Blood Simple (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Mystery & Suspense |
Format | Blu-ray |
Contributor | M. Emmet Walsh, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Frances McDormand |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 36 minutes |
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Product Description
The career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America of Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis) began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner sets off a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh (Blade Runner) looms over the proceedings as the slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand (Fargo) gives a cunning debut performance that set her on the road to stardom. The tight scripting and inventive camera work that have marked the Coens work for decades is all here, as cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld (Raising Arizona) trades black-and-white chiaroscuro for neon signs and jukebox colors that combine with a haunting score by Carter Burwell (Barton Fink) to lurid and thrilling effect. Blending elements from pulp fiction and low-budget horror flicks, Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, and marked the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would help to transform the American independent cinema scene in the 1980s.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New conversation between Sonnenfeld and the Coens about the film s look, featuring Telestrator video illustrations
- New conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coens about the film s production, from inception to release
- New interviews with composer Carter Burwell, sound mixer Skip Lievsay, and actors Frances McDormand and M. Emmet Walsh
- Trailers
- PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 35733889
- Director : Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 1 hour and 36 minutes
- Release date : September 20, 2016
- Actors : Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B01H66WATO
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,932 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #628 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #2,100 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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I frequently get the impression this duo take characters out of Flannery O'Connor short stories as inspiration, then flesh them in regional noir dramas to great effect. Here, were in Texas, Fargo of course, exploiting the Upper Midwest. To my taste the northern vernacular makes for better embellishment, southern drawl being overdone, but that's not to disparage here, merely note I suspect the Coen's may have picked up on that themselves, and moved the Fargo setting up north for similar reasons.
Here, we've got southern cultivated fields as effective venue for dramatic doings, but the vast winter landscapes of Fargo were a subtle improvement to cinematic maturity.
This film is terrific, the characters wonderfully loathsome, and violence inspired filmmaking. It rates 4 stars only because we're privileged to 5 star options as the Coen brothers progressed, but anyone would be proud to take credit for this film, and audiences should love it.
The Criterion BLOOD SIMPLE has a fantastic 4K restoration of the film, an hour of telecined discussion about shot choices, lighting and visual storytelling with Barry Sonnenfeld and the Coen Brothers, a 45-minute discussion between the brothers and David Eggers and interviews with some of the cast. Hell, even Carter Burwell shows up to talk about how he composed his first film score!
I purchased this DVD for a Buddy for Christmas.
He loved it, which is no surprise.
IMHO, this is one of the very best Coen Brothers films, period.
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Blood Simple marcó el debut cinematográfico de los hermanos Coen, famosos por películas como Sin Lugar Para los Débiles o Fargo.
Película ambientada en los años 80’s en el desierto de Texas, narra una historia de traiciones, engaños y asesinatos y muchas intrigas y sospechas que se van concatenando para un brutal final. Fiel al estilo del cine Noir de los 50’s. Ésta película también fue el debut actoral de la magnífica Frances Mcdormand en la cual está en un papel correcto. La película cuenta con una fotografía fría, intrigante, repleta de luces de neón y desolación total. La trama si bien no es espectacular, resulta interesante porque Blood Simple (que en español significaría asesinar de manera descontrolada a varias personas a la vez) marcaría la pauta, y el estilo que los Coen cimentarían después en su carrera. Cuenta también con la actuación de Emmet Walsh, uno de los grandes secundarios eternos del cine junto con el gran Harry Dean Stanton (Paris, Texas)
Sobre la edición de Criterion, insuperable, como todas las películas que restauran, hacen que las imágenes se sientan y se vivan como si estuvieras en el cine viendo la película. El único contra de las ediciones Criterion es que nunca van a tener subtítulos en español, únicamente en inglés.
Ampliamente recomiendo la película a todos los que quieran ver de primera mano el debut cinematográfico de unos de los hermanos más importantes de la industria cinematográfica contemporánea, si el inglés no es un problema, la edición de Criterion vale muchísima la pena.
Lo mejor: la tensión y el misterio que genera. La increíble escena en la carretera por la noche y la secuencia final con Frances Mcdormand y Emmett Walsh en el departamento de ella.
Lo peor: puede ser una película que no tenga un ritmo rápido y movido. Y en ocasiones con algunas interrogantes en el guión, con una falta de profundidad en el desarrollo de los personajes.
7/10
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2024