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Rhythm 'n' Greens Blu-ray and DVD release!

Postby drakula63 » Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:23 pm

Incredibly, Rhythm 'n' Greens is getting a blu-ray release! But as an extra item with a main feature! But it's got to look and sound great... right?

https://networkonair.com/coming-soon/33 ... g-blu-ray-
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Postby iefje » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:48 am

Interesting to see it being released with another feature film, also featuring Susan Hampshire (another Cliff & The Shadows relation). "Rhythm & Greens" got its first DVD and Blu-Ray release in August or September 2019, together with Cliff's "Summer Holiday". I have the Blu-Ray issue of that release and "Rhythm & Greens" certainly looks and sounds great, even better than the 1989 limited edition VHS issue.
The connection between "Time For Loving" and our heroes' film must certainly be the director Christopher Miles.
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Re: Rhythm 'n' Greens Blu-ray and DVD release!

Postby drakula63 » Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:28 am

Didn't know it had been released before. Yes, all three films on the DVD were directed by Christopher Miles.
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Postby iefje » Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:37 pm

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Postby JimN » Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:56 pm

drakula63 wrote:Didn't know it had been released before. Yes, all three films on the DVD were directed by Christopher Miles.


I too wasn't aware of the previous release of "R&G" c/w "Summer Holiday".
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Re: Rhythm 'n' Greens Blu-ray and DVD release!

Postby iefje » Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:43 pm

We're here to help each other! :)
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Re: Rhythm 'n' Greens Blu-ray and DVD release!

Postby iefje » Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:45 pm

drakula63 wrote:Incredibly, Rhythm 'n' Greens is getting a blu-ray release! But as an extra item with a main feature! But it's got to look and sound great... right?

https://networkonair.com/coming-soon/33 ... g-blu-ray-


I'm interested to know what the main feature is about. Thank you for sharing Chris! :thumbup:
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Postby JimN » Fri Jan 07, 2022 2:01 pm

iefje wrote:I'm interested to know what the main feature is about. Thank you for sharing Chris! :thumbup:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_for_Loving#:~:text=A%20Time%20for%20Loving%20is,Christopher%20Miles%20directing%20in%201970.

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Plot -

At the same time as an English man, Geoff arranges a rendezvous with his first love, Patricia, to recapture their first affair in a Montmartre studio, the son of the concierge persuades his first love Simone to climb up to the same studio bedroom window thinking it would be empty for the night. Meanwhile Geoff finds Patricia has grown bitter over the years, and that the warmth has gone from their relationship, but when they disturb the two young lovers in the bedroom, the evening ends in a humorous and more light-hearted manner, as they are forced to crawl under the concierge’s door in order to leave unseen.

Running late to school the concierge’s son sees a young American girl, who is studying at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly, and who is having an affair with an older doctor. Not only must they keep the affair secret from the concierge, but also from the disapproving general public by having to meet in shady ‘hôtels de passe’. However an escape to the seaside in Normandy brings matters to a head between them, as the second world war begins.

In occupied Paris, Marcel, the managing director of an important cement business, arrives at the studio which he is renting for his mistress Josette, and bumps into a German Oberleutnant on the landing. As it is Christmas eve, old enmities are put aside, but Marcel has to get his other Christmas presents home to his wife Hélioise and also to his mother, who lives the other side of Paris. All of whom offer Marcel the customary Christmas French dish of oysters, which are also given to him by his mistress for her party, along with her music teacher and her student Monsieur Grondin.

The only form of transport in Paris during those war years were velo-taxis, a type of bicycle rickshaws, which are unable to get the overweight Marcel to all of his women in time for their oyster dinners. These he has to consume in a hurry, one after the other, in order to be on time, albeit a bit green around the gills, for a secret meeting with the French Resistance. After the war all three men are reunited in the old studio.

END OF QUOTE

It reads like a non-idiomatic translation from another language.
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Re: Rhythm 'n' Greens Blu-ray and DVD release!

Postby Keith Bateman » Fri Jan 07, 2022 2:31 pm

I should point out that, although R&G is on the Summer Holiday Blu-ray disc, it is only presented in 576/25i resolution and not full 1080/24p.

It would be interesting to know the presentation quality on the A Time for Loving Blu-ray disc.
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