10 (1979)

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General		Extras
Category	Comedy	None
Rating
Year Of Production	1979
Running Time	117:19
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Programme
Region Coding	2,4	Directed By	Blake Edwards
Studio Distributor	Warner Home Video	Starring	Dudley Moore Julie Andrews Bo Derek Robert Webber
Case	Amaray-Transparent
RPI	$29.95	Music	Henry Mancini

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 1.0 (192Kb/s) French Dolby Digital 1.0 (192Kb/s) Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 (192Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	2.35:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	2.35:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	English French Italian Dutch Arabic Spanish Portuguese English for the Hearing Impaired Italian for the Hearing Impaired	Smoking	Yes
		Annoying Product Placement	Yes, just slightly
		Action In or After Credits	No

    George is 42, a composer, and he has reached a crisis in his life. One day, he drives past a wedding car and spots Jenny on the way to her wedding. He is immediately smitten with her, and thus begins an obsessive chase after her. As George finds out, however, fantasy does not often equate with reality.

    This movie is very typically Blake Edwards, who wrote and directed. Gently paced, with dashes of wit and loads of pathos, we wallow in George's wretchedness throughout the course of the movie. There are no belly laughs here, but there are plenty of wry chuckles and subtle digs. The movie would have been better trimmed a little leaner, but all-in-all it was a pleasant enough way to while away 2 hours.

Video

    This transfer is sharp in places and soft in other places. Generally, the well-lit scenes are presented very well, but the sharpness falls off during the darker scenes. Shadow detail is poor, with large portions of the detail in darker scenes being crushed into black. Low level noise rarely intrudes, but it can be seen at times.

    The colours were variably rendered, in the typical fashion of movies of this era. Daylight scenes were vibrant and strongly coloured. Dark scenes were oversaturated with extremely strong reds and oranges. It may pay to back off a little on the colour saturation level whilst watching this DVD.

    MPEG artefacts were rarely seen in some of the darker backgrounds, mainly consisting of very slight macro-blocking, but you really had to be looking hard to see these. Film to video artefacts consisted of quite considerable aliasing during camera pans, particularly in scenes involving grass, cars or trees. This was occasionally distracting. Film artefacts were variably present, and frequently came in quite considerable bursts which would then settle down for a time. They consisted mainly of quite visible white flecks, though there were several blue scratches briefly seen during the movie.

Audio

    The soundtrack is the typical compressed mono soundtrack of movies of this era - no restoration appears to have been done to this soundtrack.

    Dialogue was easy enough to understand despite the limited high-frequency response of the soundtrack.

    There were no audio sync problems. Of particular note is that fact that it appeared as if Dudley Moore did all his own piano playing, since this aspect of the movie is flawless.

    The score by Henry Mancini suits the overall mood of the movie nicely - "elevator music" as it is referred to in the movie.

    No use was made of the surround channels or the subwoofer.

Menu

• Pan & Scan version
• Cast Biographies
• Theatrical Trailer
• Making-Of Featurette

    The video quality is passable for the age of the movie, though oversaturation and film artefacts are problematic at times.

    The audio quality is unremarkable.

    The extras are non-existent.

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