A slew of visual galleries finish up, but one of them includes the original costume notes, which is a fantastic look behind-the-scenes.įull disclosure: This Blu-ray was provided to us for review. Then comes historian Jo Botting (16-minutes), and in separate pieces, critics Matthew Sweet (21-minutes) and Kim Newman (17-minutes).
A new interview with clapper operator Mike Fox lasts 25-minutes. That’s followed by an older making of, but it runs an hour. ExtrasĪuthor Bruce Hallenbck hosts the disc’s commentary. Preservation efforts in 2.0 mono keep A Night to Remember faultless, and it’s a shame the same effort wasn’t applied to the video. There’s no fidelity loss at high frequencies, and dialog is pristine in clarity. Gorgeous audio detail sustains high quality vintage sound, superlatively crisp for its age, and a premium example of how great classics can perform on this format. Contrast can clip in places, further muddying things, if losing no substantial dimensionality. Variance in gray scale, when not hampered by filtering, creates needed depth. The print used is dinged by scratches and dirt, generally fine considering age (and ignoring the stock footage).
Severity can change scene-to-scene, the ugliest more akin to a DVD due to the chunky artifacts, the best enough to suggest a great presentation. Smearing joins waxy faces on the regular, becoming worse with distance. Sloppily resolved grain causes mosquito noise aplenty. Harsh gradients in gray tones create banding. Detail can flourish in this situation, capturing stitches on costumes or the luxurious furs worn by passengers.Īnd yet, this master is too often a mess. Imprint shows what’s a clearly new scan based on the impressive resolution and resulting sharpness. James Cameron’s glossy take borrowed liberally from A Night to Remember because this British offering is nigh perfect in projecting the tragic drama embedded in this real world seafaring wreck. Keeping a story like this visible for each generation serves as a reminder. Mistakes made on the Titanic were rectified, and the end credits suggest as much. Movies like this exist with hindsight, of course. And still, this helps elaborate as those in position to help believe the “unsinkable” marketing more than the truth delivered via Morse code. If there’s a fault in A Night to Remember’s structure, it’s the inability to settle down, develop locations and ships, creating confusion as edits bounce between captains. The louder they are, the worse the situation is.Ī Night to Remember spends time on other nearby ships too, elevating the frustration as mistakes and judgmental errors compound this catastrophe. A Night to Remember employs minimal orchestration, choosing instead to let screams be a dramatic guide point. The melting pot atmosphere onboard means panic sets in due to language barriers, and those commanded to maintain control no longer can. There are few central heroes in this depiction some faces show up more than others, but A Night to Remember takes snippets, brief occurrences to show the wide reaching tragedy. A Night to Remember does this better than most
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