{"id":6701,"date":"2009-10-05T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2009-10-05T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:25:21","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-5th-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/10\/05\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-5th-october-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD & Blu-ray Releases: Monday 5th October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katyn<\/a> <\/strong>(Artificial Eye): A drama based on the true story of Polish army officers massacred by the Russia secret police in the Katy\u0144 forest during World War II<\/a>, it was Poland’s nominee for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Andrzej Wajda<\/a>, it stars Artur Zmijewski<\/a>, Andrzej Chyra<\/a> and explores the continuing struggle over the memory of the event as well as the Russian cover up that prevented Poles from commemorating those that had been killed.<\/p>\n

Available on DVD<\/a>, although there hasn’t been a Blu-ray announced yet, the extras include an interview with the director and a making of featurette.\u00a0Unlike some editions of the film Artificial Eye have presented this in the proper aspect ratio of 2:35.<\/p>\n

Beaufort<\/a> <\/strong>(Trinity): Although already out on regular DVD, the Blu-ray release of this 2007 drama is just coming out now.<\/p>\n

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It was Israel’s entry for the 2007 Oscars and is about an IDF<\/a> unit stationed at the Beaufort<\/a> post in Southern Lebanon<\/a> during the South Lebanon conflict<\/a>, and their commander, Liraz Librati, who was the last commander of the Beaufort castle before the Israeli withdrawal in 2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Directed by Joseph Cedar<\/a>, it was co-written by Cedar and Ron Leshem, and based on Leshem’s novel of the same name<\/a>. Ironically filming finished in 2006, just before the Second Lebanon conflict<\/a> broke out that summer.<\/p>\n

The new Blu-ray is playable in all regions and the transfer is presented at 1.85:1 rather than the theatrical 2.35:1 aspect ratio and the audio has both 2.0 and 5.1 DTS HD Audio Master mixes (the DVD release only had a Dolby Digital 2.0 track).<\/p>\n

The extras include:<\/p>\n