{"id":17499,"date":"2018-02-13T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17499"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:12:46","slug":"in-with-the-new-my-cousin-rachel-1952-admiral-2015-on-blu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=17499","title":{"rendered":"In With the New: My Cousin Rachel (1952) + Admiral (2015) on Blu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while it seems the HD Gods hear one&#8217;s pleas (or mine), and the reward comes in a Blu-ray edition of a film that should&#8217;ve gotten one in tandem with its DVD release. Such is the case with <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13663\"><strong>Admiral<\/strong> \/ <strong>Michiel de Ruyter<\/strong><\/a> (2015), the excellent Dutch bio-drama on the brilliant 1600s navy strategist.<\/p>\n<p>Mongrel&#8217;s DVD was okay, but this epic that never got a proper theatrical in North America (and should&#8217;ve, dammit) finally made its debut on Blu in 2017, so I&#8217;ve snapped up the U.S. import and updated the original review to reflect this fine HD transfer in a bare bones MOD release.<\/p>\n<p>Also updated is the 1952 version of Daphne du Maurier&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3614\"><strong>My Cousin Rachel<\/strong><\/a>, which I really like, but still feel it falls a bit short of being fully satisfying because the melodramatic behavior of the characters almost drown the final act.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17508\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FrenchmansCreek1944_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FrenchmansCreek1944_poster.jpg 220w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FrenchmansCreek1944_poster-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>Richard Burton&#8217;s American debut is strong, and Olivia de Havilland&#8217;s return to film after a period on stage is fine, but maybe it&#8217;s a story that needs more detail. I&#8217;ll eventually catch up with the later editions &#8211; the 2017 version, and a 1983 4 episode mini-series. It seems the British networks always had a thing for du Maurier&#8217;s novels, re-filming <strong>Jamaica Inn<\/strong> in 1983 and 2014, Rebecca in 1997, and <strong>Frenchman&#8217;s Creek<\/strong> in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>I would <em>love<\/em> to see Mitchell Leisen&#8217;s 1944 version of <strong>Frenchman&#8217;s Creek<\/strong> get a proper Blu-ray release. Joan Fontaine (Olivia&#8217;s sis), Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, and the wonderful Arturo de Cordova star in this sumptuous Technicolor production shot by George Barnes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/p2r\/1735_RebeccaCrit.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rebecca<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Jane Eyre<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/g\/3291_GSOE1952.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Greatest Show on Earth<\/strong><\/a>), and released by Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Olive? KINO? Anyone listening?<\/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>Making their debut on Blu on this side of the pond are the Dutch marine classic Admiral \/ Michiel de Ruyter (2015) from XLrator, and Richard Burton&#8217;s U.S. debut with Olivia de Havilland in My Cousin Rachel (1952) via Twilight Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5545,2562,5544,2563,4454,778],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/MyCousinRachel-1952_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-4yf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499"}],"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=17499"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17518,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions\/17518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}