A Ghost Story (2017) A Ghost Story Blu-ray delivers great video and audio in this enjoyable Blu-ray release In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try and reconnect with his bereft wife. For more about A Ghost Story and the A Ghost Story Blu-ray release, see published by Jeffrey Kauffman on September 30, 2017 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.0 out of 5. Director: Writer: Starring:,,,,, ». A Ghost Story is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Lionsgate Films and A24 with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.33:1 (and note the old school rounded edges of the frame as well). The deliberately retro Academy ratio enforces the confined nature of the film, and it also helps support detail levels in close-ups, in a film which can otherwise be a bit on the drab side, with undercooked contrast and a kind of monochromatic looking palette. There's some appropriately cool grading going on, even in scenes that might seem to be not suited for it, as in some sunny outdoor material. Occasional special effects aren't especially great looking, but don't seriously distract. With A GHOST STORY, acclaimed director David Lowery (AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS, PETE'S DRAGON) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential. A Ghost Story is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed by David Lowery. It stars Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham. A lot of the film is intentionally gauzy, as if the focal ghost is drifting through a half remembered dream, and as such fine detail levels can be a bit on the anemic side. That said, even close-ups of what I'm sure will be an iconic bedsheet offer really good fine detail levels on the weave of the fabric. Even the threads at the edges of the black eyes are often individually discernable. A Ghost Story has a subtly immersive DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track, one that gets occasional jolts from things that go bump in the night to more soothing sounds of Daniel Hart's appropriately elegiac score. The film's long (some might feel interminable) sequences involving the ghost watching untold months and years drift by have an intentional spareness in sound design, and as such surround activity can be on the sporadic side. The film also doesn't have a lot in a traditional dialogue sense, leaving quite a bit of the soundtrack to score and ambient environmental effects. • Audio Commentary with Director David Lowery, Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo, Production Designer Jade Healy, and Composer Daniel Hart • A Ghost Story and the Inevitable Passing of Time (1080p; 30:20) is a little 'arty' for my tastes, set up as a roundtable slash campfire ghost story swap, but there are some interesting comments by the cast and crew. • A Composer's Story (1080p; 4:37) focuses on Daniel Hart. • Deleted Scene (1080p; 5:56) comes with a disclaimer that it hasn't been color corrected or had its sound mixed. Here's the thing with A Ghost Story for me: Lowery already provides a really cool visual referent for a spirit in the film's very opening scene, when C glimpses the spectral rainbow climbing up the wall. For me, anyway, the film would have been so much more effective if he had continued to use that glyph as the symbol for the ghost, which could have artfully been woven with point of view shots to clearly depict what was going on. Having someone stumbling around in a sheet is almost unavoidably funny, at least to jaded folks like me, and it instantly distanced me from the film's underlying melancholy. Those more tolerant of the film's central visual conceit may well find this a thought provoking exercise that doesn't have the comedic baggage it might for others, though even those folks may have occasional questions about Lowery's more 'arty' proclivities. Technical merits are generally strong, and with caveats duly noted, A Ghost Story comes Recommended.
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