Friday, July 26, 2019

Concorde Blu-ray Brown-arama

Does anyone like or otherwise appreciate the uniform, brown hue of the latest Blu-ray (from Concorde) of Dogville? Here's a typical frame from the dvd:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276919/mediaviewer/rm1898995200
I didn't see Dogville on release at a movie theater, but the blinding white of backdrops & the silvery, shot-on-digital-video look of the dvd image always seemed right to me & to correspond to the very Brechtian, stage-set strategy of the film.
Now compare the dipped-in-brown, Concorde Blu-ray version of the same frame:

I find this strange and, finally, unendurable: for me Dogville isn't worth watching when it's color-mangled like this. What does everyone else think?

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