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The Last Emperor - Criterion Collection
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	List Price: $59.95 Our Price: $34.99 You Save: $24.96 *Features* • AC-3 • Anamorphic • Box set • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • HiFi Sound • Restored • Surround Sound • THX • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1987 DVD Release : 26 February, 2008
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The Last Emperor - Criterion Collection description
Bernardo Bertolucci does the nearly impossible with this sweeping, grand epic that tells a very personal tale. The story is a dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the emperors of China. It follows his life from its elite beginnings in the Forbidden City, where he was crowned at age three and worshipped by half a billion people. He was later forced to abdicate and, unable to fend for himself in the outside world, became a dissolute and exploited shell of a man. He died in obscurity, living as a peasant in the People's Republic. We never really warm up to John Lone in the title role, but this movie focuses more on visuals than characterization anyway. Filmed in the Forbidden City, it is spectacularly beautiful, filling the screen with saturated colors and exquisite detail. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. --Rochelle O'Gorman

The Last Emperor - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews

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A majestic film butchered at the hands of Vittorio Storaro

Let's set aside the ample supplements, the quality filmmaking, and many other superior aspects of this film. I'd like to talk about the cinematography. It is a beautiful widescreen composition, at 2.35:1 to be precise. But you won't see that here. No, instead you will have the unfortunate experience of watching it CROPPED. As revered a cinematographer as Storaro is, I can't help but think he's in the throes of senility because he is under the impression that this film is better served by zooming in the original, rectangular framing to a "friendlier" visual of 2.00:1. This would have some negligible reasoning if 16x9 televisions didn't exist, but as they are becoming prevalent, it is absolutely ridiculous and backward to issue this deluxe version in this aesthetically damaging release. And this isn't the first time Storaro did this to a film he lensed. It happened with the dvd iterations of "Apocalpyse Now" as well, to godawful results.
I really wanted to purchase this, and maybe I still will but for the supplements. I cannot however watch the film itself in this Criterion presentation. It's ironic that for the longest time, Criterion's badge of honor (at one time labeled as such on laserdisc jackets) was that films issued by them were always in the Original Aspect Ratio. No longer.

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