Inglourious Basterds [4K Ultra-HD] [2009] [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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I have one issue with the HDR however, I can see minor bit-depth errors on the 4K that are not present on the Blu-ray. This is a HDR display (TV/Projector) issue, that Dolby Vision would have removed as Dolby has a better gradient for colors right now. Hopefully this gets fixed in TV's and Projectors soon. Our friends at The Criterion Collection have finally announced that their first titles on the physical 4K Ultra HD format will include David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, Jane Campion’s The Piano, Allen and Albert Hughes’s Menace II Society, Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell’s The Red Shoes, and Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night! The first of these is expected to arrive in November (we believe it will be Mulholland Dr.) and will be officially detailed next week when Criterion announces its full November slate. The rest will follow in subsequent months (starting—we believe—with Citizen Kane in December, given that 2021 is the film’s 80th anniversary). Per Criterion, each of their 4K titles will include the film on both 4K and Blu-ray (with most extras on the Blu-ray, allowing the 4K disc to have maximum room for video and audio data). Select films will also feature Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound. Now that Universal Studios is giving Inglourious Basterds a promotion to 4K, it’s a good reason to revisit it! Now, the only thing this set has to offer is a greatly enhanced viewing experience. The 1080p Blu-ray was reference quality in its day, but I found this new 2160p HDR10 and HDR10+ presentation to be simply beautiful - and well worth the upgrade for. However, I can see folks hoping for a more aggressive object-based audio mix and/or a new selection of bonus features being a bit deflated with this release. To that point, I’ll simply argue that the price point to upgrade for image quality only isn’t too severe. And if you've never owned this film, well that just makes the decision a little easier. I’m safely calling this one Highly Recommended. Roundtable Discussion with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and Elvis Mitchell– Elvis Mitchell interviews Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino about the film as they share some on the set anecdotes, the script and the subject matter. Running at 30 minutes, it’s a nice segment to have. We in the killin’ Nazi bizness. An’ cousin, bizness is boomin’!” Brad Pitt scalps his enemies, Mélanie Laurent serves up a killer double bill for the Führer, Michael Fassbender is a movie critic turned secret agent, and the amazing Christophe Waltz makes all previous movie villains seem lightweight. Now on 4K Ultra HD, Quentin Tarantino’s brutal-but-funny war movie is really a critique of Hollywood escapism. It’s the ultimate wish fulfillment fantasy for every trigger-happy Audie Murphy Jr. who ever attended a matinee. I thought the movie would be tarred and feathered by America’s guardians of war nostalgia; instead it took eight Oscar noms plus a win for actor Waltz: “That’s a Bingo!”

Universal’s new 4K Ultra-HD edition gives us an opportunity to reassess I B. It still holds up. It digs deep into the appeal of combat movies that treat war as a sports competition, where Our Side would never do the terrible things that the Other Side does. In the process, Tarantino juggles film grammar almost as might Jean-Luc Godard. Extended & Alternate Scenes– These are mostly extended versions of scenes in the film. They run 12 minutes and really didn’t add much to the movie, but at 153 minutes why not keep them in? It’s not like another dozen minutes would have killed anyone.Inglourious Basterds, a World War II-set revenge fantasy about the secret and sometimes not-so-secret maneuverings of a group of gung-ho Jewish-American Nazi hunters known as the Basterds, is no less meticulously engineered than Tarantino’s other pulp fictions. Except this one is more linear and humane than most, lush with dialogue that rings weighty even at its smuggest, and featuring women that actually sound and feel like real women—not just men (or, more accurately, Tarantino) in drag. The film sees Tarantino moving beyond just flaunting his attention-mongering cine-geekitude, as he actually seems to be scrutinizing his obsession with the cinema by cleverly placing it into an apt historical context.

Unfortunately, not a lot of technical information was included in the press release. So we don't know if this is getting a Dolby Vision pass, or an Atmos upgrade or anything of the like. We've reached out for clarification so as soon as we know we'll pass that info along. Deprived of homegrown cinematic entertainment during the war, their acts of violence are ways for them to stage their own movies. Would that they did it more in a style familiar from the cinema of the ’40s (their mode of expression is more Eli Roth than Jacques Tourneur), but this gripe almost becomes moot the second that Eli Roth himself walks on screen holding a bat with which he busts open Nazi heads. One walks into Inglourious Basterds expecting anachronism, but one doesn’t anticipate Tarantino’s frank confession that cinema, like killing Nazis for the Basterds, is a way to live out his male wish-fulfillment fantasies.This is a presentation that looks wholesale better than ever before, but does so in a very nuanced, considered way There's been a lot of discussion about the fact that the new 4K release of Inglourious Basterds is sourced from its 2K digital intermediate, and is not a full 4K rescan of the original 35mm negative. This fact is being parroted mostly be idiot YouTubers as evidence that this is indicative of it being a poor release, but this is nonsense. The use of surround sound is not the focus of this movie. It's light and is there just for flavor, IMO. Everything is an allusion, a pose, in the films of Quentin Tarantino, right down to the font and colors that he uses for his title sequences—even the name of his production company, A Band Apart, which arrogantly asks us to think of him as our generation’s Godard. And how willingly we indulge him says plenty. Tarantino is as much creator as curator, and his overbearing cinephilia appeals to audiences who not only lost it at the movies but can’t seem to live without them: From Reservoir Dogs to his Kill Bill diptych, his films are solipsistic totems to his favorite things, and their effect is often suffocating.

Nation’s Pride – Original Short– The 6 minute “film within a film” was directed by star Eli Roth and is presented here in its entirety. A Conversation with Rod Taylor– Taylor, who played Winston Churchill in the film, raves about Tarantino and the film as a whole. The biggest issue with 2K material is the fact that you need to upscale the image. When you upscale, you introduce artifacts like ringing. You may also have to over sharpen because of softness. This looks like halos around objects. You can see this sometimes even before scaling, some cameras introduce this also. I cannot stand it personally, it's really off-putting to me. Inglourious Basterds 4K has an obnoxious amount of ringing. It's obvious and distracting. I'm very unhappy with how this looks. it's not surprising that Tarantino would once again find an imaginative way to use language as a weaponFilms are an experience. And because you might not experience a film the same way twice, I try to do my best to give the less-than-favorites I encounter another shot. Some rise in my esteem, others fall farther. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is one of those films that got better with each viewing. Not enough to call it my favorite of his catalog, but enough to say I really enjoy it now and look forward to revisiting it. Supplements: Extended & Alternate Scenes, Roundtable Discussion with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt And Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times Talks, Nation’s Pride– Full Feature, The Making of Nation’s Pride, A Conversation with Rod Taylor, Rod Taylor On Victoria Bitter, The Original Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino’s Camera Angel, “Hi Sallys,” Film Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitchell, Inglourious Basterds Poster Gallery, Trailers, “Killin’ Nazis Trivia Challenge.”

Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist World War II revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds makes the leap to 4K Ultra HD with a new home video release from Universal. Boasting a cast that includes Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender, the film — about a grizzled squad of American soldiers feared by the enemy for their savage tactics and predilection for collecting scalps from their fallen foes — remains every bit as entertaining and hilarious as when it first hit theater screens more than a decade ago. The Making of Nation’s Pride– Another 4 minutes are dedicated to the making of this film with several interviews done in character. Can 2KDI's look as good as 4KDI's? Does it really make a difference? This question will stir up many opinions and feelings about the whole thing, I understand. I'll let you know right now, I like native content. If it's 4K, then I want native 4K material. If it's Blu-ray, I want 4K material downscaled to native 2K. In a similar vein, I like CDs at 16 bit / 44.1, and I don't think music that has been upscaled to 24 bit / 96 offers anything of value. The source is the most important thing in both video and audio. Both can sound and look good if the source is good. Anyway, that's enough of this. How does Inglourious Basterds on 4K? The Nazis have occupied all of France putting the country in a death grip of oppression. “The Jew Hunter” Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) scours the countryside searching for Jews in hiding. While in hiding in Paris, one of Landa’s missed targets Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) runs a cinema that is set to premiere the latest German propaganda war film about a young soldier for Hitler himself. And then, arriving in France ahead of the invasion to liberate Europe of the Nazi scourge are the Basterds. Led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a band of Jewish soldiers terrorizes Nazi divisions brutally maiming, killing, and scalping their targets. Now the Basterds have a chance to take out the big man himself and that’s an opportunity too juicy to pass up. Hellstrom’s entrance was perhaps inspired by the SS menace played by Derren Nesbitt in 1968’s Where Eagles Dare, another key escapist war fantasy involving an absurd commando mission. The scene that Nesbitt interrupts, with spies Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, is a fine set piece of the kind that Quentin Tarantino specializes in. It used to get applause in theaters, if only because the audience for Where Eagles Dare didn’t expect anything so sophisticated.Inglourious Basterds. As war rages in Europe, a Nazi-scalping squad of American soldiers, known to their enemy as "The Basterds," is on a daring mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Tarantino’s dialogue throughout is more than just witty, as it also exudes feeling, dread, and risk. How and why people speak to each other, or how and why they chose not to, becomes a panic far more chilling than any display of violence in Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino’s words pop, but no longer do they exist entirely to flatter his audience’s pop know-how, but to illuminate the politics of communication and survival during WWII. Image/Sound