1/8/2024 0 Comments Autumn sonata![]() He talks about the use of colour, the framing and camerawork, the story’s central themes, the relationship between the characters, and more. Cowie covers the film’s production from Bergman’s initial writing to how both Bergmans worked together on set, to the film’s release. It’s a well put together track yet a pretty standard scholarly affair. In the end we get a solid digital presentation with clearly defined edges, clean looking film grain, sharp details, and no artifacts of note, giving a far cleaner and more natural image in comparison to the old DVD.Ĭriterion offers a substantial upgrade over their previous DVD edition, which only had one notable feature that has been carried over to this edition: an audio commentary featuring film scholar Peter Cowie. ![]() There is a lot packed on this disc (one of the supplements is 206-minutes) so I was somewhat concerned this could harm the main feature but thankfully this doesn’t seem to be the case, more than likely because the features have been heavily compressed, allowing the film more room on the disc. The print has also been cleaned up substantially and I don’t recall many blemishes if any. Black levels are also strong with only some minor crushing in the film’s latter darker scenes. That reddish hue is now gone and the image delivers far more natural looking colours, all of which look absolutely stunning here. The film has a drastically different look in comparison to the original DVD edition (which was previous to this the only way I had seen the film.) The DVD had a reddish tone to it that I always figured was purposely done since the film went for an autumn colour scheme. The film has been given a new 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer. ![]() Criterion upgrades their DVD edition of Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata to Blu-ray, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 on this dual-layer disc. ![]()
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