Chicago – The Criterion Collection continues their brilliant Blu-Ray release pattern this week in which they induct a new film into the collection (“In the Realm of the Senses,” which will be reviewed separately) and bring one of their most beloved titles on to the next-gen format on the same street date. The classic this week is the amazing and timeless “The Wages of Fear,” better than ever in HD.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0 “The Wages of Fear” is about a group of men caught in a desperate, isolated situation in a small South American town. From all over the world, these people are literally stuck. They can’t afford the plane ticket to leave and don’t really have anywhere to go if they could. They are lost souls.
The Wages of Fear was released on Blu-Ray on April 21st, 2009.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Criterion Collection
On the outskirts of this small town,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0 “The Wages of Fear” is about a group of men caught in a desperate, isolated situation in a small South American town. From all over the world, these people are literally stuck. They can’t afford the plane ticket to leave and don’t really have anywhere to go if they could. They are lost souls.
The Wages of Fear was released on Blu-Ray on April 21st, 2009.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Criterion Collection
On the outskirts of this small town,...
- 4/27/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
I saw Wages of Fear for the first time earlier this year, and approximately three weeks later Criterion announced it for a Blu-ray release and I couldn't have been any more ecstatic. My version of Wages of Fear is the bare bones DVD edition that comes in Criterion's Essential Art House Collection, so on top of now getting the special features from the previously released DVD edition, I was also going to get the film in HD. Hard to complain with that. First off, the film itself sounds incredibly tedious if someone were to describe it to you in short as the majority of the film follows two pair of men as they are transporting two trucks filled with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain and jungle route where even the slightest bump could cause the entire truck to explode. Hearing this you would think it is two-and-a-half hours of slow moving trucks,...
- 4/21/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Just last night I took a regular trip over to the Criterion Collection website and noticed a couple of new Blu-ray release dates had been added as well as a few DVD dates. Most notable of the bunch was that the 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot classic The Wages of Fear was getting a brand new Blu-ray treatment and released on April 21. I actually just watched this film for the first time about three weeks ago and was absolutely floored as I believe it has one of the best film endings I have ever seen. If you think the end of All Quiet on the Western Front is good (which I do) just wait if you have not seen this flick and on Blu-ray it is a must buy. The film takes place in the poor South American oil town of Las Piedras where money is scarce as the American oil company Southern...
- 1/17/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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