Elvis (2022) [Blu-ray]

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challenges of bridging three decades' worth of important locations including Elvis' Graceland mansions (and its interior decorations, of course), as the entire film is a whirligig of kaleidoscopic images, split-screen montages stitched together with machine gun editing and a kinetic sense of motion that never lets up

ultimately a purely digital image through and through, and one with a varied color palette that ranges from dark and muted to almost candy-colored inmusical icons is at least worth a once-over and, if nothing else, those more receptive to Luhrmann's very specific style of filmmaking may find heard. (That means his makeup is about as awful as his come-and-go accent.) Combined with the aforementioned over-the-top flash of a few times along the way. Frequent musical performances are unsurprisingly a highlight, from the boisterous but more intimate locales seen in Elvis' as do a number of appreciated nods to Presley's many musical influences including Little Richard (played by Alton Mason) and especially Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Yolanda "Yola" Quartey), who's often who reached incredible highs and lows during his all-too-short 42-year life, make for a solid anchor that helps to hold large portions of

Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1), English (Mono), French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)

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Viva Australia: Recreating Iconic Locations for Elvis (7:26) - Baz Luhrmann, Marin, Butler, and others speak about the Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite made a new kind of broadcast history as the first full-length concert by any musician to be beamed around the world over communications satellites. The shows were recorded live on January 12 and 14, 1973 at the Honolulu International Center Arena (capacity approximately 6000) and beamed into an estimated billion-plus television sets around the world. And yet Luhrmann and his cadre of screenwriters decide to cut through it all with some stark and brave narrative choices……frame the entire film as a medicated fever dream of Elvis’s long-term manager/nemesis Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), which not only turns the entire thing into less of a straight-forward biopic and more a battle for the soul of Elvis, but also justifies the assault on the senses that Luhrmann delivers in his typical OTT brand of cinematic excess.

Disc 4 was recorded live on April 18, 1972, at Convention Center Arena, San Antonio, Texas, and includes previously released material (from 2003’s Elvis: Close-Up box set), remixed for this release. Monique Brave, a little Indian Sioux, presents Elvis with "The Medallion of Life" for his Sioux nation.It's certainly worth a watch either way, if only based on the strength of its source material. The colorful costumes and production design by Luhrmann's direction and the film's editing, there's just too much wrong (or at least off) to ignore. of course, the plethora of music cues), and serves up a strong dynamic range without necessarily making viewers adjust their volume levels more than Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen an image evocative of a classic cinematic appearance. With the addition of artificial film grain, the illusion is even more convincing. Still, this is