![]() What makes this even more annoying is that MK2, the company Universal licensed these films from, has already released both titles with 1080p encodes on Blu-ray in France!Īnd if that wasn’t bad enough, there’s a glitch on Lost Highway that sometimes causes the film to freeze-up around the 80-minute mark.Īudio: The winners here are Eraserhead’s ominous LPCM 2.0 track, plus Dune and Blue Velvet’s more expansive DTS-HD MA 5.1 offerings. The biggest mystery however surrounds Twin Peaks… and Lost Highway, both of which are presented as 1080i50 encodes. Wild at Heart’s AVC 2.40:1 imagery holds up fairly well, particularly in regards to colour saturation, but is a little lacking in the fine detail department. While both clearly improve on earlier UK DVDs, neither quite matches up to their American hi-def counterparts. Slightly less successful are Dune and Blue Velvet’s AVC 2.40:1 1080p encodes. ![]() Picture: Despite suspicions of minor contrast boosting and a hint of digital filtering, the highlight is Eraserhead’s remarkably crisp and detailed AVC 1.85:1 1080p black and white transfer. After all, what self-respecting fan would relish the opportunity to savour almost two-thirds of Lynch’s cinematic output ( Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway) on Blu-ray in one fell swoop?īut little could anyone have suspected the almost Lynchian level of bewildering horror that Universal Pictures was about to unleash… As such, I was thrilled when this six-disc boxset was announced. The surrealist movies of filmmaker David Lynch are an acquired taste, but one that I took to decades ago.
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