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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Suspicion... in the medias



Thus far, I've watched Suspicion on our French Collector DVD EAN 3346030013779, released in 2005  & proposing the movie in 
English & French, either in mono 1.0 or in 5.1, all in Dolby Digital. 
Image original black & white, aspect ratio 1.33:1 (original was 1.37:1 it's close, I believe)  Subtitles: French 

Transfer quality is decent but not great - I hope this has been fixed in the BD. 

Direct access to scenes and to the bonuses through the main menu. 


Bonus material :

  • Interview with Patricia Hitchcock (Alfred's daughter, in English with French subtitles  - 6      minutes) 
  • 2 interviews with Richard Krohn Une Bovary Anglaise, analyses the movie (in French- 24 minutes), 
  • in the other he analyses the ending - be warned, it probably spoils the novel, so make sure to read it, and watch the movie, before watching this interview (9 minutes in English)
The dvd is limited to zone 2, house in a digipack case. 

A few months ago, blurays have been released. 
it seems the spanish all-region edition has many issues, not the least some legal ones as well as bad quality (from what I can gather reading on amazon.es).




 Furthermore, thus far ALL Hitchcock bluray I wanted to get appeared to have bad image transfers and sound problems, especially in the dubbed Castilian.
I therefore  suggest to stay away from this edition.

France, the UK, Germany and Italy - my other sources at times, don't have any BD edition for this movie, yet. 

However, lucky for all of us, the USA Warner Archive Collection released it, region free! 


Resolution Full 1080p HD, image ratio 1.36:1 (very close to original 1.37:1)
Sound in DTS-HD mono 2.0 (which tends to be very clear on other BD remasters) for English, French & Spanish.
Subtitles English SDH, French, Spanish, Czech, Polish (Note: Spanish=Latin & Castillian) 

I have no information regarding bonus material yet. I'll continue searching - unless I see a good price and just get it because I do enjoy this movie quite a bit, even if no bonus is offered, blu-ray.com announces superb image and sound quality. 

To be continued!
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