LADYBUG LADYBUG 1963
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- A Damn Fine Cold War Drama Review by Jake
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Music Attitude Fun
I've been researching Cold War cinema for a while now. I chiefly am focusing on 80s films, but Ladybug Ladybug serves as an ingenious prelude to the humanity and insight of the films to come. Another knockout from the husband-wife team of Frank and Eleanor Perry, the duo behind 1962's Lisa and David. It is a phenomenally shot story about the children of a rural elementary school contending with the results of a nuclear warning system going off, indicating there will be a strike within an hour. Bonus points for the voice of KITT himself, William Daniels, debuting here, and for the haunting score being provided by Dark Shadows composer Bob Cobert.
Love the geometric style of the disc art. Menus are peculiar, but function. Disc plays fine. Aspect ratio is very strange, but zooming in fixes that. The actual case came quite cracked, but so long as you have a way to store the disc at all, shouldn't be the end-all be-all. Overall, I'm glad there is somewhere to get this gem of independent cinema. Consider me a patron.
[Reply from Video Beat:]
Thank you for your review. We’re sorry the case arrived broken, you should have told us and it would have been replaced. Regarding the small picture dimensions, it’s mentioned in the title description and was only remastered this way as to not lose picture quantity. The source material is less than 720x480. Too bad, but it’s a very rare film, and it’s so worth seeing we felt it should be in our catalog regardless of screen size. (Posted on 12/16/18)
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