Gigi [Blu-ray]
by Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Eva Gabor, Hermione Gingold, Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice ChevalierDirector: Vincente Minnelli
Brand: Warner
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
Cinematographer: Ray June
Editor: Adrienne Fazan
Producer: Arthur Freed
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
Writer: Colette
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-02-02
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Blu-ray Reviews of Gigi [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Against The Grain: Poor Gigi
Summary: 2 Stars
In spite of a spectacular fine-grain GIGI Hi-Def source now showing on HDTV channels, this blu-ray's grainy image is so very disappointing and aggravating! (Colors are still spectacular. The film of course is brilliant.) This blu-ray is unacceptable--and no significant improvement over your standard format version viewed on your blu-ray player or PS3.
A friend asked me, "So what deal with the devil does Warner Brothers have with their MGM blu-rays? Why are they so **** grainy" And she's right to ask.
I said, "I guess people will buy anything; they'll even trumpet the beauty of an inferior disc; let's call this The Emperor's New Blu-Ray Syndrome. Besides, when WB finally lets loose with proper fine-grained pressings, we'll buy them all AGAIN! And frankly, then who's stupid here?
Who is responsible for introducing the grain between the source and the blu-ray consumer? Is this incompetence, or savvy marketing?
To be fair, WB MGM Blu-Rays CAN look GREAT; look at "An American In Paris." WOW! But, then look at all the grain in their "The Wizard of Oz"--the major disappointment of 2009.
So, I'm returning my GIGI today, and renting and previewing all future WB MGM blu-ray discs before I buy. I just hope they don't end up killing the format. They're certainly doing it no favors.
Caveat emptor, WB, let the buyers beware.
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Description of Gigi [Blu-ray]
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/02/2010 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: GAlan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1958 direct-to-screen follow-up to their My Fair Lady was--miraculously--every bit as memorable as that stage smash. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris and based on a Colette story, Gigi also is about a girl (Leslie Caron) on a lower rung of society who blossoms into Cinderellahood before our eyes and ears. Thank heaven for Hermione Gingold and Maurice Chevalier as her mentors, and Louis Jourdan as her prince. The screenplay writer and lyricist Lerner always said that Gigi's title song was his favorite of all he'd written, and it's easy to see why--"Gigi" is a transcendent anthem to being transformed by love from an unexpected source. The entire score, including "Say a Prayer" (which had been cut from My Fair Lady), "I Remember It Well," "The Night They Invented Champagne," and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," comprise a sparkling, rare soundtrack recording that stands alone and can be enjoyed and understood by those who have not yet seen the movie, deprived souls that they are. The winner of nine Academy Awards (plus a special Oscar for Chevalier), including Best Picture, Gigi was the last great MGM movie musical and one of the best. --Robert Windeler
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