05-15-2013, 08:13 PM (Este mensaje fue modificado por última vez en: 06-21-2013, 02:39 PM por gonzalo MX.)
Stop Worrying... Help! is on the Way on Blu-ray!
London – May 15, 2013 – The Beatles’ second feature film, 1965’s Help!, is on the way on Blu-ray. On June 24 (June 25 in North America), Help! makes its eagerly awaited Blu-ray debut in a single-disc package pairing the digitally restored film and 5.1 soundtrack with an hour of extra features, including a 30-minute documentary about the making of the film, memories of the cast and crew, an in-depth look at the restoration process, an outtake scene, and original theatrical trailers and radio spots. An introduction by the film’s director, Richard Lester, and an appreciation by Martin Scorsese are included in the Blu-ray’s booklet.
Help!’s Blu-ray edition follows the 2012 release of The Beatles’ digitally restored Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour feature films on Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes with extensive extras. Help!’s restoration for its 2007 DVD debut wowed viewers, earning five-times platinum sales in the U.S. and praise from a broad range of top media outlets around the world, including USA Today heralding the DVD as “a grand re-release,” The Guardian’s appreciation of the film’s director, Richard Lester, saying “Lester matches The Beatles’ ‘star’ power with smart, colourful visuals and casual surrealism,” The Los Angeles Times’ restoration rave: “With dynamic compression that was standard in the 1960s lifted for the digital age, the full range of the group’s musicality comes through – it’s like several coats of dust have been cleaned off an old master’s painting,” and four-star reviews from Rolling Stone and MOJO with the latter saying, “They really don't make them like this anymore.”
Directed by Richard Lester, who also directed the band’s debut feature film, 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night, Help! follows The Beatles as they become passive recipients of an outside plot that revolves around Ringo's possession of a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, he and his bandmates John, Paul and George are chased from London to the Austrian Alps and the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientist and the London police.
In addition to starring The Beatles, Help! boasts a witty script, a great cast of British character actors, and classic Beatles songs “Help!,” “You're Going To Lose That Girl,” “You've Got To Hide Your Love Away,” “Ticket To Ride,” “I Need You,” “The Night Before,” and “Another Girl.”
Help!’s Blu-ray package pairs the digitally restored original film with these extra features:
• “The Beatles in Help!” – a 30-minute documentary about the making of the film with Richard Lester, the cast and crew, including exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of The Beatles on-set.
• “A Missing Scene” – a film outtake, featuring Wendy Richard
• “The Restoration of Help!” – an in-depth look at the restoration process
• “Memories of Help!” – the cast and crew reminisce
• 1965 Theatrical Trailers – two original U.S. trailers and one original Spanish trailer
• 1965 U.S. Radio Spots (hidden in disc menus)
Las películas nunca serán joyas del
Séptimo Arte, pero sí son importantes documentos históricos y parte del legado artístico de los Beatles.
Yo tengo las 3 que han salido y la verdad es qye estoy muy contento con las adquisiciones. Aunque MMT no tiene una alta calidad de video como YS o ADN sí comparte un increíble audio en HD, y eso es una delicia para cualquier fan de los Beatles, se los puedo asegurar.
Parece que HELP! saldrá con una presentación similar a la de YELLOW SUBMARINE, lo cual es genial, el empaque y los contenidos de este Blu-ray son de primer nivel. Si son fans corran a comprarlo.
Yo mientras muy feliz con este anuncio y a la espera de que pronto tengamos también noticias del documental LET IT BE, para tener la colección completa.
Genial, se lo tendre que dar de regalo a mi esposa....
¿3 Peliculas?, nosotros solo tenemos la de Yellow Submarine... cuales son las otras 2, si se puede saber?
HELP!
Actor: BEATLES
Formato: BLU-RAY
Origen: Nacional
SKU: 602537415861
Precio de Lista: $384.00
Preventa Internet: $345.00
Este producto se distribuirá a partir de: 25/06/2013
Blu-ray review
Movie 3.5
Video 4.0
Audio 4.5
Extras 3.0
Overall 4.0
Cita:Help! Blu-ray Review
The Beatles and the Temple of Doom.
Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, June 22, 2013
Did all those drugs The Beatles were so famously consuming in the mid-sixties somehow allow them to peer into their own futures? Is it mere coincidence that The Beatles' second feature film outing, 1965's Help!, has the band intertwined with an Eastern mystic? After all, The Beatles, especially George Harrison, would soon be regularly celebrated acolytes of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Of course Help! doesn't posit a kindly, altruistic yogi, and as The Beatles themselves averred in the years following the film's release, they sometimes felt like strangers in a strange land throughout much of the filming, so Help!'s strangely prescient, if not perfectly relevant, plot points are no doubt serendipitous. The Beatles' first feature film, 1964's A Hard Day's Night, had been phenomenally successful even as it pushed the limits of what a supposed "narrative" film should be. The Fab Four's rabid fan base obviously couldn't have cared less if their idols had recited the phone book for an hour and a half—the fact that writer Alun Owen and director Richard Lester seemed to so perfectly encapsulate the anarchic spirit of the quartet in film form only added to the ineluctable allure of this outing. The film seems to be largely improvised—another testament to the near perfect writing and direction—but that supposed verité style was perhaps more planned than seems obvious on the surface. A Hard Day's Night's overwhelming critical and popular success meant that United Artists basically gave the group and returning director Lester carte blanche for Help!, not to mention a significantly grander budget. While some might feel that the band experiences something of a filmic analog to the oft-mentioned "second album" Sophomore Slump curse that seems to haunt many recording artists, Help! offers its own manic pleasures along the way. If the film sometimes seems to be trying a bit too hard to recapture the madness of A Hard Day's Night, it's also frequently a fast and funny romp that features some of The Beatles' most memorable songs.
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Help! Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
Help! hasn't aged quite as well as A Hard Day's Night, but it's still hugely enjoyable a lot of the time, especially when The Beatles are playing and singing. The comedy here is hit and miss, but Leo McKern is wonderfully malevolent (while being completely dunderheaded), and the supporting cast has a number of great turns. Ringo turns out to be a rather remarkably affable comedian and anchors the film rather nicely. This Blu-ray offers a significant upgrade from the DVD, though my hunch is this is an older master which has a few issues. The audio is spectacular, and all of the special features from the DVD have been ported over. Highly recommended.
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