7.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
Starring: Andy GoldsworthyDocumentary | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
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Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region B (locked)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 3.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Winner of German Film Awards for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography, Thomas Riedelsheimer's "Rivers and Tides" (2001) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Curzon Artificial Eye. The supplemental features on the disc include multiple featurettes with information about Andy Goldsworthy's work. In English, without optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-B "locked".
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Thomas Riedelsheimer's Rivers and Tides arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye.
The release is sourced from an older master that was probably prepared towards the end of the DVD era. The bulk of the film looks rather soft and often it is quite easy to tell that clarity isn't optimal. Also, some light degraining was performed and as a a result depth is never as pleasing as it should be. Colors are stable, but saturation should be better. A fresh master should reveal a wider and proper range of nuances. The good news here is that there are no traces of sharpening adjustments, so even though the film can look soft, you will never see the type of distracting anomalies that digital sharpening introduces. Image stability is very good. (Note: This is a Region-B "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-B or Region-Free payer in order to access its content).
There are two standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are not provided for the main feature.
I viewed the film with the 5.1 track and thought that it handled the various organic sounds and noises as well as Fred Frith's score really well. Rather predictably for a documentary feature, however, the original sound design does not offer any opportunities where the surround speakers can shine. The dialog is clean and stable.
A lot of people conveniently profile Andy Goldsworthy only as an unconventional artist, but I think that such a description is quite misleading. My impression is that Goldsworthy can actually understand (a more accurate term would be decode) nature and the complex processes that define it perhaps as well as a lot of scientists do, but he does it through his art, which reveals in different ways the strength of his intimate bond with it. If you have been curious about Goldsworthy and his art, Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary Rivers and Tides should provide a lot of meaningful answers and quite possibly even inspire you to further research the man and his work. RECOMMENDED.
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