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The Conversation (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, StudioCanal 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, original theatrical stereo, two commentary tracks, and subtitles in thirteen languages.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : When you're into 70s thrillers like I am, it's hard to avoid this one, and since this new 4k remaster just came out, it seemed like a good oppportunity to get into some Coppola. Something of a thematic sequel to Blow-Up, but set in a grittier, much more paranoid decade and location, it's a more straight noir, focused on one very private man whose job it is to pry into the lives of other. Gene Hackman's near-flawless performance anchors it, but it also has a tight script, some nice (if quite grainy) cinematography, interesting editing and sound design by Walter Murch, who also gets his own commentary track, and great supporting performances from everyone from John Cazale and Allen Garfield to Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall. A classic for a reason.
Harry Caul is an intensely introverted, private man who works as a surveillance expert. He's hired by a client who calls himself "The Director", to eavesdrop on a couple in San Francisco's Union Square. Despite problems with the recordings, Caul manages to clean them up, but the conversation's meaning is not clear. When he notices the phrase "He'd kill us if he got the chance", he grows to suspect his client is going to kill his wife and her lover, and grows increasingly paranoid. An attempt at delivering the tapes to the client fails, and after a convention, he hosts several people at his workshop, ends up sleeping with a woman, and wakes up to find his recordings stolen. His client's assistant informs him that they have the tapes, and want the photographs, and for Caul to collect his fee, the same day. Caul's paranoia grows as he's trying to figure out what's really going on, and forces unknown are increasingly trying to discourage him.
This is a pretty good 4k remaster of a film that seems to have been fairly grainy and soft to begin with. Color and contrast are very nice, grain is prevalent, but not distracting, and the image is not particularly sharp, but feels period-appropriate. 5.1 remaster is nice and clear, the original stereo track is also quite good, and both commentary tracks are well worth checking out.
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General : Matroska / 12.9 GiB / 1 h 54 min / 16.2 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@High / 15.0 Mb/s / 1920 x 1036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 13.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 662 kb/s / 6 channels / 5.1 remaster / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 242 kb/s / 1 channel / Original theatrical mono / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 132 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by writer/director Francis Ford Coppola / English
Audio #4 : AAC LC / 130 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by editor/sound mixer Walter Murch / English
Text #1 : SRT / 55.0 b/s / English
Text #2 : SRT / 60.0 b/s / English SDH
Text #3 : SRT / 49.0 b/s / Danish
Text #4 : SRT / 45.0 b/s / Dutch
Text #5 : SRT / 47.0 b/s / Finnish
Text #6 : SRT / 35.0 b/s / French
Text #7 : SRT / 41.0 b/s / German
Text #8 : SRT / 45.0 b/s / Italian
Text #9 : VobSub / 3.8 kb/s / Japanese
Text #10 : SRT / 45.0 b/s / Norwegian
Text #11 : SRT / 51.0 b/s / Brazilian Portuguese
Text #12 : VobSub / 7.2 kb/s / Russian
Text #13 : VobSub / 7.1 kb/s / Castilian Spanish
Text #14 : VobSub / 6.8 kb/s / Latin American Spanish
Text #15 : SRT / 47.0 b/s / Swedish
Text #16 : SRT / 103.0 b/s / English for director's commentary
Text #17 : VobSub / 12.9 kb/s / German for director's commentary
Text #18 : VobSub / 12.4 kb/s / Italian for director's commentary
Text #19 : VobSub / 7.6 kb/s / Japanese for director's commentary
Text #20 : VobSub / 13.6 kb/s / Spanish for director's commentary
Text #21 : SRT / 91.0 b/s / English for editor/sound mixer commentary
Text #22 : VobSub / 10.9 kb/s / German for editor/sound mixer commentary
Text #23 : VobSub / 12.0 kb/s / Italian for editor/sound mixer commentary
Text #24 : VobSub / 6.4 kb/s / Japanese for editor/sound mixer commentary
Text #25 : VobSub / 12.5 kb/s / Spanish for editor/sound mixer commentary
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Not Hurting Anyone
00:09:29.861 : Happy Birthday, Harry
00:14:16.814 : Preeminent in the Field
00:20:28.769 : I Wanna Know You
00:28:48.393 : Don't Get Involved
00:33:34.262 : He'd Kill Us If He Got the Chance
00:42:02.645 : Surveillance Convention
00:52:42.701 : How'd You Do It?
01:11:53.893 : Tricked
01:22:06.296 : The Director
01:30:34.679 : Room 773
01:42:21.052 : We'll Be Listening To You
01:53:16.540 : End Credits
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Encoded from The.Conversation.1974.RM4k.SC.1080p.BluRay.x265.hevc.10bit.AAC.5.1.commentary-HeVK.mkv [36.2 Mb/s]
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