{"id":14594,"date":"2016-10-27T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14594"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:30:55","slug":"a-tale-of-sad-beautiful-people-bobby-deerfield-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14594","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Sad Beautiful People: Bobby Deerfield (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A critical dud when released in North America, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14587\">Bobby Deerfield<\/a><\/strong> (1977), Sidney Pollack\u2019s film version of Eric Maria Remarque\u2019s novel <strong>Heaven Has No Favorites<\/strong>,\u00a0gets a second chance on Blu via Twilight Time in a special edition that rights a serious wrong committed by label Sony: restoring Pollack\u2019s commentary track that was recorded for the 2008 DVD release but restricted to European and Australian markets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14600\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14600\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14600\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BobbyDeerfield_featured.jpg\" alt=\"BobbyDeerfield_featured\" width=\"550\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BobbyDeerfield_featured.jpg 630w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BobbyDeerfield_featured-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rare co-production between Columbia and Warner Bros., Bobby Deerfield is not a racing film &#8211; something genre fans undoubtedly took personally at the box office.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sony when through a very dumb phase around that time, and it\u2019s strange to note two of <strong>Deerfield<\/strong>\u2019s participants were affected by some of the label&#8217;s\u00a0silliest maneuvers: Pollack\u2019s slow-burning <strong>Castle Keep <\/strong>(1969), also shot by <strong>Deerfield<\/strong>\u2019s Henri Decae, was released fullscreen on DVD in a widescreen-packaged edition that took way too long to replace; and Al Pacino\u2019s <strong>And Justice for All<\/strong> (1979) was initially available in a \u2018flipper\u2019 disc that offered full- and widescreen versions on separate sides, but was reissued fullscreen.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing controversial in Pollack\u2019s commentary, but it seems Sony felt the film\u2019s lackluster domestic box office mandated some kind of tie-in to a potentially hipper production, hence appropriating commentary space to a \u2018sneak peek\u2019 on the DVD at an upcoming Pacino flick, <strong>88 Minutes <\/strong>(2007), which did feature an interesting Pacino performance in a story that unfortunately loses its mind at a specific juncture, and tosses away\u00a0audience sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>TT\u2019s disc sports the Pollack track (which is surprisingly consistent, given the director wasn\u2019t one of the liveliest conversationalists), an isolated score track (the music has thus far never materialized on CD), and a stunning transfer that transcends the film\u2019s melodramatic trappings.<\/p>\n<p>I may have a review of KINO\u2019s Blu-ray edition of one of my favourite films, Jean Negulesco\u2019s<strong> Boy on a Dolphin<\/strong> (1958), shortly. The good: the film\u2019s in stereo, not mono. The bad: KINO\u2019s release is wholly perfunctory, lacking extras that the film deserves. Yes, there will be some bitching in the review.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Sidney Pollack&#8217;s &#8216;European&#8217; drama Bobby Deerfield (1977), new on Blu from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4745,4744,4743,2562,2563,4749,4747],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BobbyDeerfield_featured_2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3No","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14605,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions\/14605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}