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Movie Reviews of Burn!
Movie Review: the ugly englishman
Summary: 3 Stars
the decade before "the godfather" was a long period of fallowness for marlon brando, but a viewing of this legendary flop might lead one to try to re-assess the period. in this at times too stridently obvious parallel to our then imperialist foreign policy (thank god we dont get involved in stuff like that any more ...) brando plays a politician / businessman / pirate who serves as both liberator and enslavor of a poor country. while the production values vary greatly, it is still worth checking out for anyone interested in how stanley kowalski morphed into colonel kurtz.Movie Review: Poor Quality and Edited!
Summary: 2 Stars
Three complaints about this DVD sum up my review:
First, we've got the short, 112 minute version as opposed to the uncut original 132 minute version.
Second, the negative is in terrible shape. If you've seen any of those public domain DVDs of spaghetti westerns and such, you know exactly what I am talking about. Washed out colors, grain, scratches, the whole deal. Yuck.
Third, and least important, there are no special features on this disc - not even a trailer.
SHAME ON YOU MGM!!!
Movie Review: poor transfer,paging criterion
Summary: 2 Stars
Since we know there is another version of "Burn" out there,i would suggest you wait for it and check rotten tomatoes.com and get an idea of its quality.You can not judge the quality of this film by the pan and scan,poorly coordinated color transfer that sony has issued.Brando told larry king it was his favorite film;not if he saw this package.Movie Review: Don't buy, wait for Criterion version
Summary: 1 Stars
[star rating above is for DVD only; movie itself = *****] director Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle Of Algiers' has already been released by The Criterion Collection in an exemplary 3-disc edition - as mentioned by another reviewer, 'Queimada' (Burn!) [...] was also previously released as a Criterion laserdisc.
Given that the transfer here is non-anamorphic 1.66:1, and that the film presented is English-language 112-minute version - not the 132-minute Italian-language director's cut which was screened selectively in the U.S. last year - let's all wait for BOTH the English and original Italian versions to be released as a Criterion edition (as they did with Visconti's Il Gattopardo - The Leopard, on 3 discs).
Please send Sony/Columbia/Tristar/MGM (whoever the ^@~& they are this week) a clear message by not purchasing this disc.
Movie Review: Ditto -- full version or nothing
Summary: 1 Stars
The full, restored version of this film, which I saw theatrically last year, is a brilliant piece of political filmmaking and very, very exciting -- one of the very few films Pontecorvo directed, and probably the biggest in scope (THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS and THE WIDE BLUE ROAD are two others, and also worth seeing). The film deals with colonialism -- it could have been written by Fanon, for how radical it is. It's also presented in Italian, with Brando's part dubbed (but not as badly as you would expect) into that language. If this version were released on DVD, I would buy it promptly. A truncated, dubbed, pan and scan version? What the hell do these people think DVD buffs are ABOUT, anyhow? MGM can go shove, until they get serious.