Gone with the Wind [DVD] [1939]

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They also touch on how this approach reveals more detail than has ever been visible before as well as the restoration of the audio. Behlmar is somewhat quiet throughout the final half hour, but this last stretch still offers some terrific comments, reflecting on the Southern accents that are and aren't present throughout the film and the abysmal alternate ending that had been unsuccessfully pitched to Selznick.

This is precisely what a remix of a classic film ought to be: accentuating the strengths of the original audio without heavyhandedly forcing more modern sensibilities onto it. This is predominantly a visual piece, and its captions are too brief to distract from the glossy, gorgeous photography and artwork waiting within.

Of course, we all know how this story ends, and the documentary comes to a close with the film's gala premiere in Atlanta, its incomparable success at the box office, and the armful of statuettes it would go on to take home at the Academy Awards the following year. The most intriguing of these is a five page letter from 1937 in which Selznick debates at length the pros and cons of hiring George Cukor as well as a slew of other potential directors for Gone with the Wind, complete with their salaries and availability. I was desperate to watch it as I my interest in Old Hollywood films and movie stars had already begun. Selznick’s epic Academy Award-winning masterpiece swept away audiences and defined what a Hollywood blockbuster should be: fearless filmmaking with a grand scope, intimate drama and enduring romance… all in stunning Technicolor.

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war.There are no discernible flaws at all: no speckling or wear, no excessive filtering or digital noise reduction, no hint of edge haloes, and no stutters in the compression to speak of. Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) often uses men to get what she wants, but is unable to get the one man she truly desires, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). I have enjoyed this film for the pure story of its but it did spur me on to read American history of that time.

Its dialogue may also be the most eminently quotable of any single film released before Casablanca, and Gone with the Wind is, of course, flawlessly cast. Warner's digital team delves into the background of the Technicolor process as well as how it both helps and hinders the remastering process. Teenaged Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) doesn't have a care in the world, and she can afford not to; her father (Thomas Mitchell) is an Irish immigrant with a profound love for the land, and he's parlayed that passion into a fortune. even though that success was carried on the back of slave labor, prompting opposition from both the North and the British. As adept with intimate drama as it is with the sprawlingly epic scope of the death of the Old South, few films have endured as Gone with the Wind has over the past seventy years.One of the best features of this entire box-set is Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland. As I had recently re-watched GWTW on my other DVD and then watched most of it again on Tur ner Classic Movies last week, I haven't watched it again with the commentary. El sonido está mejorado al máximo, pero es menos mejorable que la imagen, desgraciadamente, pero esta bastante bien. But these are really backdrops to the story about the relationships of the main characters and their families.