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Kozintsev’s King Lear

July 15th, 2004 by Doug Cummings · Comments Off

Grigori Kozintsev (1905-1973) is a filmmaker whose work I’ve long wanted to see, and thankfully, RusCiCo’s new 2-disc DVD set of his King Lear (1969) finally offers the opportunity. Although its NTSC version is PAL-sourced and therefore exhibits subtle ghosting, its solid widescreen transfer and original mono soundtrack (something RusCiCo has been previously known to [...]

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