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Blu-ray Review: Rope

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Mar 1, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 04/Jun/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 01:20:48 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 24-bit) Alternate Audio: French Mono DTS Audio Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 1.35:1 Bitrate: 32 Mbps Notes: This read more

Blu-ray Review: Foreign Correspondent – The Criterion Collection

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Feb 5, 2014

Spine #969 Available February 18, 2014 Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 18/Feb/2014 Region: Region A Length: 120 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: English Mono LPCM Audio (48 kHz, 1152 Kbps, 24-bit) Subtitles:  English Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 23.98 Mbps Notes: This rel read more

Blu-ray Review: The Trouble with Harry

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 31, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 02/Jul/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 99 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: 2.0 English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (24bit, 48kHz) Alternate Audio: 2.0 French Mono DTS (24bit, 48 kHz) Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Notes: This titl read more

Blu-ray Review: Shadow of a Doubt

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 24, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 04/Jun/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 01:47:49 Video: 1080P (VC-1, 23.976fps) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (24bit, 48 kHz) Alternate Audio: 2.0 French Mono DTS (24bit, 48 kHz, 768 Kbps) Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 1.33:1 (14 read more

Blu-ray Review: The Lady Vanishes – The Criterion Collection

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 17, 2014

(Spine #3) Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 06/Dec/2011 Region: Region A Length: 01:20:59 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 23.976fps, 26.4GB) Main Audio: English Mono (PCM 1.0, 48kHz, 1152kbps) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.34:1 Bitrate: 35Mbps Notes: This release is also available in read more

Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 10, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 06/Aug/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 02:00:18 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 23.976fps) Main Audio: 2.0 English DTS-HD (24bit, 48 kHz) Alternate Audio: 2.0 French DTS (24bit, 48 kHz, 448 Kbps) Subtitles: English & Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Bitrate: 32 Mb read more

Blu-ray Review: Spellbound

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 3, 2014

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment / 20th Century Fox Release Date: 24/Jan/2012 Region: Region Free Length: 118 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 37.87 Mbps) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (48kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 37.87 Mbps Notes: This title is also a read more

Blu-ray Review: Rebecca

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Dec 19, 2013

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment / 20th Century Fox Release Date: 24/Jan/2012 Region: Region Free Length: 131 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 37.39 Mbps) Main Audio: 2.0 English DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English SDH Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 37.39 Mbps Notes: This title is als read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Hitchcock

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 22, 2013

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: 12/March/2013 Region: A Length: 01:38:20 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 32 Mbps) Main Audio: 5.1 English DTS-HD Master Audio Alternate Audio: 5.1 French Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish Dolby Digital Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 2.40:1 Notes: Includes a DV read more

Blu-ray Review: Strangers on a Train

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 16, 2013

Distributor: Warner Brothers Release Date: 09/Oct/2012 Region: Region Free Length: 01:40:49 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 29.91 Mpbs) Main Audio: 1.0 English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 768 Kbps, 24-bit) Alternate Audio: French Dolby Digital Mono German Dolby Digital Mono Italian Dolby Digital M read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Taxi Driver

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 14, 2013

“We looked at Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man for the moves when Henry Fonda goes into the insurance office and the shifting points of view of the people behind the counter. That was the kind of paranoia that I wanted to employ.” -Martin Scorsese Alfred Hitchcock’s influence is qui read more

DVD Review: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 8, 2013

Distributor: Milestone Films Release Date: 18/May/2010 Region:1 Length: 57 min Video: NTSC, SD Main Audio: French Subtitles: English (hard coded) Ratio: 1.33:1 Notes: These shorts are not currently released on Blu-ray in North America. They are currently only available on DVD and this disc is the o read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 3, 2013

“I guess the original slasher film was Psycho. That was the film that all of these things are kind of based on… Psycho was the big daddy of them all. And it had a literal slashing scene in it! The famous shower scene…” -John Carpenter It is evident from watching Halloween tha read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition (3 Disk Set)

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 1, 2013

“The director that influenced me and almost everyone else is Alfred Hitchcock because he basically invented suspense for the cinema.” -William Friedkin “There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.” -Alfred Hitchcock In 1965, Friedkin directed an episode of T read more

Blu-ray Review: Psycho – 50th Anniversary Edition

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 24, 2013

Distributor: Universal Release Date: 19/Oct/2010, 29/Oct/2012 (‘The Masterpiece Collection’) Region: Region Free Length: (01:48:59) Video: 1080P (AVC Advanced Video, 23.976fps) Main Audio: 5.1 English Master Audio (DTS-HD 6 channels, 24bit, 48kHz) English Mono (DTS 2.0, 24-bit, 48kHz, read more

Blu-ray Review: North by Northwest

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 16, 2013

Distributor: Warner Brothers Release Date: 03/Nov/2009 Region: Region Free Length: 02:16:26 Video: 1080P (VC-1 Advanced, 23.976fps, 32.0GB) Main Audio: English Surround (TrueHD 5.1, 48kHz, 640kbps) Alternate Audio Options: French Mono (AC3 1.0, 192kbps) German Mono (AC3 1.0, 192kbps) Italian Mono ( read more

Blu-ray Review: Notorious

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 15, 2013

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment Release Date: 24/Jan/2012 Region: Region A Length: (1:41:40.803) Video: 1080P (MPEG-4 AVC Video, 38,521,567,097 Bytes) Main Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English, Spanish, and French Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 37.39 Mbps Notes: This titl read more

Blu-ray Availability for Hitchcock’s Films in North America

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2013

Films that are written in red have received a North American Blu-ray release. Titles that are written in Blue have been released, but only as a part of a boxed set and not as an individual release. Certain films might have a Blu-ray release in other territories. The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mou read more

DVD Availability for Hitchcock’s Films

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2013

Films that are written in red have received a North American DVD release (if one takes into account public domain releases of the British films). Those that have not received a North American release have been released in other territories. The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Th read more

Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much – The Criterion Collection

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2013

(Spine #643) Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date:  15/Jan/2013 Region: A Length: 76 minutes Video: 1080P (AVC High@L4.1, 23.976fps, 19.4GB) Audio: English Mono (LPCM 1,152kbps, 48kHz, 24bit) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.33:1 (1440×1080 matted to 1920×1080) Bitrate: Approx read more
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