{"id":8846,"date":"2014-12-13T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T03:35:13","slug":"review-nightporter-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2014\/12\/review-nightporter-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Porter Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"With The Night Porter<\/em><\/strong>, I might be in the minority, but despite a good premise and set-up, I found this to be utterly dull and boring to the point where I nearly dozed off a time or two. For sure the performances by Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling were fantastic but the pacing was slow and on the whole, I just didn\u2019t find it very engaging.<\/p>\n

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The Night Porter: Criterion Collection<\/span>
\n(1974)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Genre(s): <\/strong>Drama
\nCriterion Collection | NR \u2013 118 min. \u2013 $39.95 | December 9, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n <\/b>MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/span>Directed by: <\/strong>Liliana Cavani
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Liliana Cavani & Barbara Alberti & Amedeo Pagani (story), Liliana Cavani & Italo Moscati (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/strong>Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Isa Miranda<\/p>\n
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DISC INFO:
\n<\/span>Features: <\/strong>Documentary, Interview
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n

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Audio: <\/strong>LPCM (DTS-HD MA 1.0)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 1.85
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>NA
\nCodec: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0Buy <\/strong>THE NIGHT PORTER: CRITERION COLLECTION<\/em> from Amazon.com!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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PLOT SUMMARY<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani (Ripley\u2019s Game<\/em>), a concentration camp survivor (CHARLOTTE RAMPLING) discovers her former torturer and lover (DIRK BOGARDE) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter<\/em><\/strong> deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 3.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Women of the Resistence<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (49:56; HD)<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 This is a 1965 documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy.<\/p>\n

Liliana Cavani (8:33; HD)<\/span><\/strong> is an interview, conducted by Criterion in Rome in 2014, with director Cavani as she talks about the various aspects of making The Night Porter<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Inside is a fold-out booklet<\/strong> with an essay and Q& with Cavani.<\/p>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Night Porter<\/em><\/strong> arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of the Criterion Collection and this 1080p transfer, from the original 1.85 widescreen aspect ratio, looks great providing sharp details and rich, natural-looking, colors. There\u2019s a fair amount of noise but it\u2019s not overabundant and the transfer itself appears free of debris and scratches.<\/p>\n

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AUDIO \u2013 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The LPCM Mono track provided showcases the clear dialogue levels as well as the wonderful score by Daniele Paris. It\u2019s an obvious upgrade over any previous release which, from what I can tell, might only have been VHS or more recently, On Demand.<\/p>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 3.25\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall, with The Night Porter<\/em><\/strong>, I might be in the minority, but despite a good premise and set-up, I found this to be utterly dull and boring to the point where I nearly dozed off a time or two. For sure the performances by Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling were fantastic but the pacing was slow and on the whole, I just didn\u2019t find it very engaging. Criterion\u2019s Blu-ray release at least is amazing between the audio and video transfers while the documentary is well worth a watch.<\/p>\n

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With The Night Porter, I might be in the minority, but despite a good premise and set-up, I found this to be utterly dull and boring to the point where I nearly dozed off a time or two. For sure the performances by Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling were fantastic but the pacing was slow … Continue reading “The Night Porter Blu-ray Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[3480,2592,3479],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-charlotte-rampling","tag-criterion-collection","tag-dirk-bogarde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28054,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/28054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}