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This is a decent and informative commentary track, but there's nothing truly standout or worthwhile about it as well. He infuses the film with the same artistic brilliance and mastery displayed in ' Dog Day Afternoon,' 'The Verdict' and '12 Angry Men. I did some direct comparisons with my disc and the basic characteristics of the two releases are virtually identical.

Behind the Story (SD; 1:25:28) is an engrossing feature length documentary split into several separately playable chapters. In the most brightly and naturally lit scenes, fine detail is quite good; in the main scene with Holden and Straight, with some lingering close-ups, it's exceptional. He obviously is ensnared in it himself, chiefly through his romantic dalliance with entertainment producer Diana Christensen (Dunaway in her Academy Award winning performance), but the film's real emotional resonance comes from Max's step back from the brink, something which affects not just his professional life, but perhaps more importantly, his personal one with his wife (Beatrice Straight in her Academy Award winning performance, the shortest screen time ever to win a supporting Oscar). But if you’re looking for a single REGION FREE Blu-ray set that contains the largest number (and overwhelming majority) of special features, along with beautifully-remastered HD video, and the correct 5.Audio Commentary — Director Sidney Lumet rides solo for this average but detailed conversation about the film and the production. This being said, light is captured in a variety of different ways -- specific descriptions can be found in the reprinted interview with cinematographer Owen Roizman that is included in the booklet -- and shadow definition as well as image depth are most certainly impacted by natural fluctuations. Just as with smart TVs and standalone or plug-in media streamers, you are tied into what services the Blu-ray player brand is associated with. Then again, that is a fair presentation of creativity, something personal and internal rather than a recognisable or imitable set of practices.

What no one seems to realize (or at least care about) is that Beale is indeed becoming mentally unhinged, soon believing he's receiving personal messages from God. It was made nearly forty years ago, but its dissection of corporate media could not be any more accurate.Chayefsky's scripts are often populated with world class cynics who are not just frighteningly articulate, they seem to embody the "best" aspects of world-weariness that many of us experience but aren't able to properly put into words.