It's a very good film and
an excellent anamorphic transfer, and features scene specific commentary by director Claude Chabrol and interviews with producer Marin Karmitz and writer Francis Szpiner among the supplements.
Not exact matches
is showcased in an
excellent 1.78:1
anamorphic widescreen
transfer so fine in its shadow detail that every pock on Burton's face is like a cave in a lunar landscape.
While I no doubt have been spoiled by regular exposure to
excellent Blu - ray
transfers, the 1.85:1
anamorphic widescreen presentation of Swimming to Cambodia seems a tad disappointing even for a standard definition release of a low - budget 25 - year - old experimental film.
Unsurprisingly for modern stop - motion animation, picture quality is
excellent on the DVD's 2.35:1
anamorphic widescreen
transfer.
Black Sunday finds itself in an
excellent 2.35:1
anamorphic video
transfer that preserves the particular filmic quality of a seventies production, distracting often enough from the fact that the black levels are spot on and that there's a minimum of edge enhancement.
The film itself receives a welcome (though short of
excellent)
anamorphic transfer and a solid (but not the most dynamic) audio presentation.
The video
transfer is in crisp 1.85:1
anamorphic widescreen while audio is provided in an
excellent and immersive Dolby 5.1 English dub (and here my qualification of a «general» lack of a western bias comes into play) that is, nonetheless, inferior to the Japanese - language 2.0 surround track, which features the original vocal talent who have, not including this film, logged over twenty - six hours of finished time voicing these characters.
The
excellent 1.85:1
anamorphic widescreen
transfer presents the darks with pleasing contrast and all those volumes of neon with clarity and the intended bleed.