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Title: The Fountain (IMDb)
Starring: Hugh Jackman
Released: 15th May 2007
SRP: $27.95

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Further Details:
Warner Home Video has officially announced The Fountain which stars Hugh Jackman, and Rachel Weisz. This Darren Aronofsky directed film will be available to own from the 15th May, and should retail at around $27.95. The film itself will be presented in 1.77:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. As far as we know, the only extra material will be a six part Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth feature exploring the movie's various periods and settings. English, French and Spanish subtitles will also be provided. HD DVD/Combo and Blu-ray releases will also be available seperately for $39.99, and $34.99 respectively.

Normally I haven't been too concerned about the improved resolution and whatnot offered by HD-DVD and Bluray, but The Fountain is one film where I reckon the limitations of regular dvd might be a bit too distracting. The ending is just visually so impressive and detailed, I can easily imagine how good it'd look on these new formats...maybe it's time to invest in the X360 HD-DVD player at some point.

I wasn't terribly impressed by the film (even though I did like it) when I saw it at this year's Night Visions-festival in Helsinki (where it was really the only good film), but afterwards it has stayed with me, and I think it might work alot better on the second viewing. Certainly one of the most interesting films I've seen this year.

I refuse to buy this because of the DISGUSTING cover art.

What a shame, one of the year's best films.

...you saw the new cover, right

Is it supposed to be any better?

Marginally perhaps, but still awful.

Same story as History Of Violence, it frustrates me that distributors don't use the fantastic poster art for these films.

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revised artwork

soma wrote:Is it supposed to be any better?

Marginally perhaps, but still awful.

You call this marginally better? It's a fucking Picasso compared to the earlier version!

a.khan wrote:You call this marginally better? It's a fucking Picasso compared to the earlier version!

Yeah, a bad Picasso.

is there any other kind?

Barmy wrote:is there any other kind?

Sure -- his early stuff was great, until he became "Picasso."

tavernier wrote:

Barmy wrote:is there any other kind?

Sure -- his early stuff was great, until he became "Picasso."

Oh, you mean Georges Braque?

Where is Clement Greenberg when we need him?

Neither Braque nor Picasso set himself this program in advance. It emerged, rather, as something implicit and inevitable in the course of their joint effort to fill out that vision of a "purer" pictorial art which they had glimpsed in Cézanne, from whom they also took their means. These means, as well as the vision, imposed their logic; and the direction of that logic became completely clear in 1911, the fourth year of Picasso's and Braque's Cubism, along with certain contradictions latent in the Cézannian vision itself.

Now, back to The Fountain...

kinjitsu wrote:Where is Clement Greenberg when we need him?

Now, back to The Fountain...

I was just making a joke... in that Braque (despite never really getting much credit from non-art-historians) was one of two founders of cubism... and that Picasso overshadowed Braque (or at least his ego did) and Braque seemed to get brushed aside... interestingly enough, early braque and picasso works are often very difficult to distingiush from one another (so "talent" can be subtracted from list of reasons why one went on to super-stardom and the other left at ground level, so to speak)... It really has everything to do with showmanship...

and yes, back to the Fountain

Braque is to Picasso as Michelangelo Antonioni is to Michael Bay.