The Police - Synchronicity Concert
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Actor: Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Sting, Tessa NilesDirector: Kevin Godley, Lol Creme
Brand: Universal Studios
Producer: Derek Power
Producer: Kim Turner
Producer: Lexi Godfrey
Producer: Miles A. Copeland III
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: A&M
Product features:
- Intro, Synchronicity I, Walking In Your Footsteps, Message In A Bottle, Walking On The Moon , Wrapped Around Your Finger, Hole In my Life, King Of Pain, One World (Not Three), Tea In The Sahara, O My God, De Do Do Do De Da Da Da , Every Breath You Take, Can't Stand Losing You, Spirits In The Material World, So Lonely System Requirements: THE POLICE Synchronicity Concert (20
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Movie Review: Can't Stop Watching The Police's Finest Hour on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The Synchronicity Concert was originally released on video, in both VHS and (gasp!) Betamax. It now arrives on DVD with all the enhancements you'd expect: chapter search, improved sound quality, extras. The disc is NTSC format and is encoded for Regions 2,3,4,5 and 6. It has eighteen chapter stops.
Shot on (presumably NTSC) video before the widescreen era, the transfer is in a ratio of 4:3. The picture quality does show some signs of the material's age, though: while close-ups are generally sharp, wider shots do show some softness, particularly noticeable when the cameras are moving through the audience. Skin tones tend towards the orange, though that may well be an effect of the stage lighting.
There are three soundtrack options, Dolby Digital 2.0 (analogue Dolby Surround) track that presumably replicates the one on the video and 5.1 remixes in Dolby Digital and DTS. Given that the concert was professionally recorded on multitrack equipment, the 5.1 tracks are the ones of choice. I would give the DTS the nod as to me the Dolby Digital 5.1 track has the bass mixed too high.
The extras begin with four extra tracks: "Synchronicity II" (4:50), "Roxanne" (5:59), "Invisible Sun" (4:42) and "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (3:40), with a "play all" option. Each track has a choice of four angles. One is tight on Sting, another on Summers, then there's a wide and long shot of the entire stage, while the fourth is a different angle on the front stage.
The next extra is an interview (6:36) with the band at the final concert of their Synchronicity Tour, in Melbourne in February 1984, announced at the time as the last concert for at least two years. An offscreen interviewer speaks to Copeland, Summers and Sting in turn. Copeland is cagey about some forthcoming solo projects - which presumably included the soundtrack to Rumble Fish. Summers talks of getting away from the monster they'd created and the need for some time off, while Sting mentions a "great movie" he's doing - Dune, by any chance? Finally, there's the trailer for the original video release (3:20).
Sting has continued to record and act, with mixed results. Some of it works, some of it simply demonstrates that the road from Young Turk to Boring Old Fart is a short and well-travelled one. The other two-thirds of the band have faded from the public eye. But like other fine bands before and after them, it's probably fair to say that they were greater than the sum of their parts, and it is this part of their career by which they will finally be judged. Even if they couldn't stand each other any more, at least they called it a day before they went into decline. Despite some obtrusive and rather dated gimmickry, The Synchronicity Concert captures them at their best.
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