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Meno Film Co.
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant’s debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director’s work.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Documentary, Storyboards, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- New interview with Gus Van Sant
- Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet: a documentary about the author of the book Mala Noche, directed by animator and friend Bill Plympton
- Storyboard gallery
- Original trailer edited by Van Sant
- Booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim
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Producer: Kate Elmore
Artwork: steve chow
Release Notes on Restoration
Mala Noche
Mala Noche is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. The picture has been slightly windowboxed to ensure that the maximum image is Visible on all monitors. Supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant, this new high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit 2K Datacine from a 35 mm interpositive. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using the MTI Digital Restoration System. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of material included.
Under the supervision of Gus Van Sant, the soundtrack was reedited and remixed at 24-bit using the original 14-inch magnetic location sound masters. Tape hiss was left in per the director’s creative discretion. Audio restoration tools were further used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on surround sound systems, but some Viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.
Under the supervision of Gus Van Sant, the soundtrack was reedited and remixed at 24-bit using the original 14-inch magnetic location sound masters. Tape hiss was left in per the director’s creative discretion. Audio restoration tools were further used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on surround sound systems, but some Viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.