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De Palma & De Niro: The Early Films - Arrow Video Blu-ray Box Set OOP RARE. I bought used and watched once. This comes from a smoke free home with cats.From a Mondo Digital web site review...\" Thoughbest known today for his suspense and action films, Brian De Palmahas always had a subversive, playful, and experimental streak runningthrough his work dating all the way back to his early short films. [… Before his big breakthrough, Sisters,] he was known primarily for his freewheeling comedy Greetings, whichearned its place in the history books as the first film given an Xrating by the MPAA. (Bear in mind that\'s a 1968 X rating, a laMidnightCowboy,so it\'s quite tame by today\'s standards.) De Palma\'s first feature tobe filmed, TheWedding Party,was shot in 1963 and marked the first of his collaborations withRobert De NIro, a figurehead of sorts for his early comedies andlater to return to play Al Capone in De Palma\'s TheUntouchables.However, TheWedding Partydidn\'t finish post-production until three years later and wouldn\'tget a release until 1969, hot on the heels of Greetings.Of course, the success of that latter film led to a direct sequel in1970, Hi,Mom! [...]All three of the early De Palma / De Niro ventures have been aroundon home video in separate editions of varying degrees of quality overthe years, but they finally joined together in 2018 as a welcomeboxed set from Arrow Video, DeNiro & De Palma: The Early Films.

[…] Whenthe rights to Greetingsand Hi,Mom!reverted back to producer Charles Hirsch (who also co-wrote thefilms), the coast was clear for the Arrow box featuring new 2K scansof all three films.The Wedding Partyis from the original film negative and looks exponentially betterthan it ever has before; the open aperture presentation (which wouldprobably work fine cropped to 1.85:1 based on the soft matting in thetitles) is very detailed and impressive which makes it far easier tocatch nuances in the performances (mostly captured in medium or wideshots) than ever before. The other two films are simply cited asbeing from \"original film materials,\" but they also lookgreat and improve on the older DVD editions with plenty of naturalfilm grain and vivid colors. All three feature LPCM English monoaudio tracks in good shape with optional English SDH subtitlesprovided.A new audio commentary for Greetingsby Glenn Kenny offers some great context for the film including itsindebtedness to Lenny Bruce, the use of volatile terms that woulddrive P.C. viewers insane today, the scrappy means used to raise the$43,000 budget, the origins of the voyeurism aspect, the stylisticinfluence of Richard Lester and Jean-Luc Godard, and the futurecareer paths (or lack thereof) for the key players. \"De Palma:Early Years\" (11m41s) features filmmaker and Destructible Manco-founder Howard S. Berger charting the evolution of De Niro\'s Rubincharacter through the two films and its ties to related presencemedia including books and television that reflect the zeitgeist ofthe era. He also touches on TheWedding Party inthe final stretch, noting how its island presence prefigures Sistersand ties in to De Palma\'s portrayals of New York. Both discs featurerelevant interviews with Charles Hirsch, divided between his work onGreetings(11m47s) and Hi,Mom! (9m38s)as he chats about meeting De Palma for the first time, the impact ofGodard\'s MasculinFeminin,their fixations on voyeurism and the Kennedy assassination, themechanics of putting together all of the complex apartment shootingand the logical decision to radicalize De Niro\'s character for thesequel. The theatrical trailer for Hi,Mom! anda Greetingspress book are also included. (Interviews with Graham and actor PeterMaloney were originally announced but did not materialize on thefinal release.) The limited edition also contains a booklet featuringnew essays by Brad Stevens, Chris Dumas and Christina Newland as wellas an archive De Palma and Hirsch interview. \"