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Notorious (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Genre Mystery & Suspense/Film Noir, Mystery & Suspense
Format Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 41 minutes
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Notorious The Criterion Collection

With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding out in South America. Coupling inventive cinematography with brilliantly subtle turns from his mesmerizing leads, Hitchcock orchestrates an anguished romance shot through with deception and moral ambiguity. A thriller of rare perfection, Notorious represents a pinnacle of both its director’s legendary career and classic Hollywood cinema.

Special Features

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Audio commentaries from 1990 and 2001 featuring film historian Rudy Behlmer and Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane
  • New interview with Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto
  • New program about the film’s visual style with cinematographer John Bailey
  • New scene analysis by film scholar David Bordwell

  • New program about Hitchcock’s storyboarding and previsualization process by filmmaker Daniel Raim
  • Newsreel footage from 1948 of actor Ingrid Bergman and Hitchcock
  • Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Notorious from 1948, starring Bergman and Joseph Cotten
  • Trailers and teasers
  • Plus: An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién

Product Description

With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding out in South America. Coupling inventive cinematography with brilliantly subtle turns from his mesmerizing leads, Hitchcock orchestrates an anguished romance shot through with deception and moral ambiguity. A thriller of rare perfection, Notorious represents a pinnacle of both its director’s legendary career and classic Hollywood cinema.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Alfred Hitchcock
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 41 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2019
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07JVF7M7M
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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2019 CRITERION BLU-RAY VERSUS 2012 MGM BLU-RAY + Hitchcock filmography
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2019 CRITERION BLU-RAY VERSUS 2012 MGM BLU-RAY + Hitchcock filmography
PHOTO 1: MGM blu-ray issued in 2012PHOTO 2: Hitchcock’s cameo @ 1:04:47 on the Criterion blu-rayPHOTO 3-5: Life Magazine article from 1946PHOTO 6: Possible Blooper @ 17:09PHOTO 7: Hitchcock worshiped Ingrid BergmanThe new 2019 Criterion Collection blu-ray of ‘Notorious’ comes into direct competition with the 2012 MGM blu-ray:Notorious (hitchcock) [Blu-ray]The Criterion blu-ray has the magical words “4K digital restoration”, giving it a theoretical advantage over MGM’s ten-year-old 2-K (?) digital restoration,but the actual improvement is not dramatic, at least on my 40 inch, five year-old JVC TV.Both blu-rays look quite good.Of course, if you own a state-of-the-art 70 inch 4-K television (or plan to), the choice is obvious.Making the choice easier, the price of the old MGM blu-ray is twice that of the new Criterion blu-ray (apparently the MGM is out-of-print).COMMON TO MGM & CRITERION:--- Uncompressed 2.0 mono soundtrack in English--- English SDH subtitles for the feature film--- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of ‘Notorious’ from 1948, starring Ingrid Bergman, with Joseph Cotton in the Cary Grant role (60 minutes)--- Trailers--- Audio Commentaries - each blu-ray has two separate commentary tracks:------ Criterion has Rudy Behlmer (my favorite, recorded way back in 1990 for Laserdisc) and Marian Keane (recorded in 2001 for DVD)------ MGM has Richard Jewell and Drew Casper (both recorded in 2008 for DVD)Fortunately there has not been that much new Hitchcock scholarship lately (sorry cinéastes), so none of this material is outdated.BONUS MATERIAL UNIQUE TO MGM:--- Isolated music and effects track - unfortunately composer Roy Webb was no Bernard Hermann. Compare to the final 20 minutes on the isolated music track on the blu-ray of ‘North by Northwest’.--- "The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'" (28 minutes)--- "Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster" (13 minutes)--- "The Key to Hitchcock: 1979 American Film Institute Award” (3 minutes)--- Hitchcock audio-only interviews with Peter Bogdanovich and Francois Truffaut (18 minutes)BONUS MATERIAL UNIQUE TO CRITERION:--- “Once Upon a Time ... ‘Notorious’, a 2009 Franco-British TV documentary by David Thompson in English (mostly) and subtitled French (52 minutes)--- Interview with Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto (21 minutes)--- Analysis of the film’s visual style by cinematographer John Bailey (23 minutes)--- Scene analysis by film scholar David Bordwell (30 minutes)--- Analysis of Hitchcock’s storyboarding process by filmmaker Daniel Raim (16 minutes)--- British newsreel footage from 1948 of Ingrid Bergman and Hitchcock arriving at Heathrow Airport (1 minute)--- Booklet essay by critic Angelica Jade BastiénThe quality and quantity of the Criterion bonus material puts MGM in the shade.Most of the Criterion bonus material from their 2001 DVD has been deleted - a lot of text articles on DVD (even the obscure short story that inspired the screenplay) and replaced by ninety minutes of newly filmed blu-ray bonus material, plus an hour-long 2009 TV documentary. Scholarly and entertaining.I plan to sell my MGM blu-ray, but keep my old MGM DVD for the commentaries.The luxury of having four different commentaries appeals to my O.C.D.Old DVDs:2001 Criterion DVD: Notorious (The Criterion Collection) (different bonus material)2008 MGM DVD: Notorious (hitchcock) (same bonus material as MGM blu-ray)Photo 6: POSSIBLE BLOOPER:Alfred Hitchcock was famous for his cameo appearances, and for the artificiality of the rear projection in his films.The rear projections in ‘Notorious’ are especially unrealistic.Either Hitchcock (or the studio technicians) didn’t care - hard to believe - or this was intentional.Hitchcock’s way of telling the audience “Don’t worry. It’s only a movie”.Something really weird happens @ 17:09 on the Criterion blu-ray:Cary Grant and Ingmar Bergman are seated on an airliner.In the window behind them, you can see a rear projection of the clouds going by.Apparently the projectionist loaded the film backwards, because for the next ten seconds the airplane is flying backwards.‘Notorious’ (1946) was the ninth of thirty films directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his American period.Producer David O. Selznick brought him to America in 1939, but Selznick sold the rights for ‘Notorious’ to RKO, where Hitchcock was happy to be his own producer.It was the second of three films Hitchcock made with Ingrid Bergman, the second of four films with Cary Grant, and the only time both appeared together in a film directed by Hitchcock.The new blu-ray of ‘Notorious’ is welcome, but I am still hoping for blu-rays of the only two films from Hitchcock’s American period that have not been released on blu-ray: ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ (1941) and ‘Stage Fright’ (1950).ALFRED HITCHCOCK FILMOGRAPHY:Alfred Hitchcock directed 56 feature films (not counting short subjects).One film, 'The Mountain Eagle' (1927) is lost.'Blackmail' (1929) is counted twice - it was Hitchcock's final silent film, and was also filmed as his first talkie.PART ONE: BRITISH PERIOD, 1925 - 193925 films survive: 11 are on blu-ray (5 of these are on Criterion)PART TWO: HOLLYWOOD PERIOD, 1940 -197630 films: 28 are on blu-ray.For a complete list, along with links to these films on Amazon, see Comment One (click on “Sort by Oldest”).
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5.0 out of 5 stars 2019 CRITERION BLU-RAY VERSUS 2012 MGM BLU-RAY + Hitchcock filmography
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PHOTO 1: MGM blu-ray issued in 2012
PHOTO 2: Hitchcock’s cameo @ 1:04:47 on the Criterion blu-ray
PHOTO 3-5: Life Magazine article from 1946
PHOTO 6: Possible Blooper @ 17:09
PHOTO 7: Hitchcock worshiped Ingrid Bergman

The new 2019 Criterion Collection blu-ray of ‘Notorious’ comes into direct competition with the 2012 MGM blu-ray:
[[ASIN:B0065N6K9Q Notorious (hitchcock) [Blu-ray]]]
The Criterion blu-ray has the magical words “4K digital restoration”, giving it a theoretical advantage over MGM’s ten-year-old 2-K (?) digital restoration,
but the actual improvement is not dramatic, at least on my 40 inch, five year-old JVC TV.
Both blu-rays look quite good.
Of course, if you own a state-of-the-art 70 inch 4-K television (or plan to), the choice is obvious.
Making the choice easier, the price of the old MGM blu-ray is twice that of the new Criterion blu-ray (apparently the MGM is out-of-print).

COMMON TO MGM & CRITERION:
--- Uncompressed 2.0 mono soundtrack in English
--- English SDH subtitles for the feature film
--- Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of ‘Notorious’ from 1948, starring Ingrid Bergman, with Joseph Cotton in the Cary Grant role (60 minutes)
--- Trailers
--- Audio Commentaries - each blu-ray has two separate commentary tracks:
------ Criterion has Rudy Behlmer (my favorite, recorded way back in 1990 for Laserdisc) and Marian Keane (recorded in 2001 for DVD)
------ MGM has Richard Jewell and Drew Casper (both recorded in 2008 for DVD)
Fortunately there has not been that much new Hitchcock scholarship lately (sorry cinéastes), so none of this material is outdated.

BONUS MATERIAL UNIQUE TO MGM:
--- Isolated music and effects track - unfortunately composer Roy Webb was no Bernard Hermann. Compare to the final 20 minutes on the isolated music track on the blu-ray of ‘North by Northwest’.
--- "The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'" (28 minutes)
--- "Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster" (13 minutes)
--- "The Key to Hitchcock: 1979 American Film Institute Award” (3 minutes)
--- Hitchcock audio-only interviews with Peter Bogdanovich and Francois Truffaut (18 minutes)

BONUS MATERIAL UNIQUE TO CRITERION:
--- “Once Upon a Time ... ‘Notorious’, a 2009 Franco-British TV documentary by David Thompson in English (mostly) and subtitled French (52 minutes)
--- Interview with Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto (21 minutes)
--- Analysis of the film’s visual style by cinematographer John Bailey (23 minutes)
--- Scene analysis by film scholar David Bordwell (30 minutes)
--- Analysis of Hitchcock’s storyboarding process by filmmaker Daniel Raim (16 minutes)
--- British newsreel footage from 1948 of Ingrid Bergman and Hitchcock arriving at Heathrow Airport (1 minute)
--- Booklet essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién

The quality and quantity of the Criterion bonus material puts MGM in the shade.
Most of the Criterion bonus material from their 2001 DVD has been deleted - a lot of text articles on DVD (even the obscure short story that inspired the screenplay) and replaced by ninety minutes of newly filmed blu-ray bonus material, plus an hour-long 2009 TV documentary. Scholarly and entertaining.
I plan to sell my MGM blu-ray, but keep my old MGM DVD for the commentaries.
The luxury of having four different commentaries appeals to my O.C.D.
Old DVDs:
2001 Criterion DVD: [[ASIN:B00005O3V9 Notorious (The Criterion Collection)]] (different bonus material)
2008 MGM DVD: [[ASIN:B001D8W7EK Notorious (hitchcock)]] (same bonus material as MGM blu-ray)

Photo 6: POSSIBLE BLOOPER:
Alfred Hitchcock was famous for his cameo appearances, and for the artificiality of the rear projection in his films.
The rear projections in ‘Notorious’ are especially unrealistic.
Either Hitchcock (or the studio technicians) didn’t care - hard to believe - or this was intentional.
Hitchcock’s way of telling the audience “Don’t worry. It’s only a movie”.
Something really weird happens @ 17:09 on the Criterion blu-ray:
Cary Grant and Ingmar Bergman are seated on an airliner.
In the window behind them, you can see a rear projection of the clouds going by.
Apparently the projectionist loaded the film backwards, because for the next ten seconds the airplane is flying backwards.

‘Notorious’ (1946) was the ninth of thirty films directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his American period.
Producer David O. Selznick brought him to America in 1939, but Selznick sold the rights for ‘Notorious’ to RKO, where Hitchcock was happy to be his own producer.
It was the second of three films Hitchcock made with Ingrid Bergman, the second of four films with Cary Grant, and the only time both appeared together in a film directed by Hitchcock.
The new blu-ray of ‘Notorious’ is welcome, but I am still hoping for blu-rays of the only two films from Hitchcock’s American period that have not been released on blu-ray: ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ (1941) and ‘Stage Fright’ (1950).

ALFRED HITCHCOCK FILMOGRAPHY:
Alfred Hitchcock directed 56 feature films (not counting short subjects).
One film, 'The Mountain Eagle' (1927) is lost.
'Blackmail' (1929) is counted twice - it was Hitchcock's final silent film, and was also filmed as his first talkie.

PART ONE: BRITISH PERIOD, 1925 - 1939
25 films survive: 11 are on blu-ray (5 of these are on Criterion)

PART TWO: HOLLYWOOD PERIOD, 1940 -1976
30 films: 28 are on blu-ray.

For a complete list, along with links to these films on Amazon, see Comment One (click on “Sort by Oldest”).
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