![]() ![]() Caligari.”Ī few memorable moments sporting the 4K’s clarity and vivid saturations include a glowing green light washing over David’s face as he sleeps, a doctor wearing a bright white dress with a red handkerchief and a scientist mixing chemicals in a nearly endless hallway lined with tabled lab equipment.īest extras: Ignite Films delivers a very welcomed and well-rounded collection of four informative featurettes all packed on the 4K disc.įirst, viewers get a 16-minute look at the director and film from James Curtis, author of “William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Things to Come.” The segment includes a brief appearance by Menzies’ granddaughter, Pamela Lauesen, who offers memories of her grandfather. Seitz, who offered a dose of German expressionism visuals one might find in “The Cabinet of Dr. Viewers will find a new appreciation for the candy-coated colors highlighted throughout and the chance to examine the angular and shadowy negative space cinematography of John F. Still, “Invaders from Mars” made a mark for its time by terrifying Americans consumed by paranoid thoughts of being attacked by Russia and nuclear proliferation.ĤK in action: The painful and meticulous restoration process required using an incomplete camera negative with four archival prints of the film and was spearheaded by film preservationist Scott MacQueen, former Head of Preservation at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. The sucker-punch ending is a head-scratcher and nearly ruins the previous 75 minutes of suspense, so much so that the European ending of the film was changed to make for a more commercial conclusion. Cinephiles may most remember the visually eye-popping SuperCinecolor film format or a very strange, legless, bronze alien leader (the Supreme Intelligence) in a glass globe with tentacles sprouting from his back and sporting a bulbous cranium.
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