Red Wolf [Dutch SE 2-Disc Set]: Technical Notes

Technical Notes Technical Notes:
Red Wolf [Dutch SE 2-Disc Set]
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For DVD, Red Wolf receives Special Platinum edition status, with a two-disc package. The main film has been digitally restored and re-mastered for anamorphic transfer, enhanced for 16:9 TV, with Dolby digital 5.1 sound in English-dubbed or original Cantonese versions, plus English or Dutch subtitle options, and scenes indexed in 28 chapters. The lively audio commentary has genre expert Bey Logan and leading lady Christy Chung. Hidden extra: promo trailers for other Hong Kong movies.

The second disc has nearly four hours of extras with nifty menu designs tagged as sections of the cruise ship, opening to director's biography showcase - Genius On The Move (10 minutes), four filmed interviews - with the adorable Christy Chung (in Love On Delivery, 18 minutes), the totally charming Elaine Lui (in Lights, Camera, Action, 18 minutes), plus two supporting players. Bobby Samuels (Black American actor and stuntman) talks about the short-lived G7 stunt crew of westerners in Red Wolf Revisited (19 minutes) and much else besides in Gentleman And Warrior (14 minutes), while UK actor/stuntman Steve Brettingham laments the general lack of preparation in Hong Kong movies in When Opportunity Knocks... (16 minutes). He certainty wasn't ready for his seduction scene with Elaine Lui!

There's also a stunt-choreography workshop with Ngai Sing (37 minutes, with English subtitles), another Elaine Lui interview about Sammo Hung's American TV series Martial Law (17 minutes), an illustrated text-biography of Christy Chung, a glamour pix gallery of Elaine Lui in Angel On Fire, some behind-the-scenes photos in Candid Camera and a couple of trailers, but the highlight of this disc is excellent featurette Heromakers (62 minutes), which has interviews with many of Hong Kong's cadre of stuntmen (plus contributions from Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung), and boasts lots of clips and behind-the-scenes footage. This last is essential viewing if you are into Hong Kong cinema.

-Rob Marshall
http://www.videovista.net/



TECH NOTES:
Chapters: 28

Picture: Letterboxed at 1.77:1. On the whole this print is up to HKL's usual high standards with strong colours, a clean print and high detail levels but it is let down by some very noticeable graining during the freezer scene and final fight. This must be due to irreparable damage to these sectors of the master print as it is very unlike them to let such obvious defects slip through the net.

Sound: DD 5.1 Cantonese or English soundtracks with removable English and Dutch subtitles.

Trailers: UK promos for 'Once Upon A Time In China 3', 'Hong Kong 1941', 'Police Assassins', 'Naked Killer', 'Ninja In The Dragon's Den', 'Police Story 2', 'Iron Monkey', 'Game Of Death' and 'Beast Cops'.

Extras: Obviously this film was chosen as a Platinum release due to the plethora of material available for HKL to use for a second disc. We are treated to an audio commentary with Bey Logan and Christy Chung, several interviews (including conversations with Christy Chung, Elaine Lui, Bobby Samuels and Steve Brettingham), a stunt workshop with Ngai Sing, a look at the television series 'Martial Law' from Elaine Lui, a behind-the-scenes documentary on Hong Kong stuntmen and a photo archive.

-Dragon's Den UK (see my profile)
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