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VHS : DivaIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu, Jacques Fabbri directed by: Jean-Jacques Beineix  List Price: $29.98 Price: $6.95 You Save: $23.03 (77%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781572520417 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6304006837 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: April 30, 1996 Running Time: 123 minutes Studio: Fox Lorber Theatrical Release Date: April 23, 1982 Sales Rank: 16042 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) made a catchy debut as a director with this slick, defiantly superficial 1982 movie about a young mail carrier who illegally records a performance by an opera singer, then gets the tape mixed up with evidence that could incriminate gangsters. Wearing flashy commercialism like a badge, Beineix fills the screen with explosions of disposable pop kitsch. Yet he also tells a fairly compelling story in the process, a story that only seems to get more interesting the closer one gets to the end. An unusual experience, Diva should be seen also for the influence it had on the look and feel of movies and music videos in the '80s. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Who Murdered DIVA? The Meridian Collection, That's Who!I'm so glad I still own the 2000 Anchor Bay DVD release of this wonderful film, and now I'll never part with it. I was really looking forward to this 2008 Meridian Collection reissue with its promised new print, new soundtrack, and new extras. Imagine my disappointment--this is the most appallingly amateurish packaging of an important classic of world cinema that I've ever seen. The "new" picture transfer is grainy and indistinct, and the (monaural!) soundtrack is even worse. In this day and age ... Read More Rating:  - An Incredible Film"Diva" An Incredible Film Amos Lassen It is absolutely amazing to see "Diva" and to realize that it was made in 1981. It is stunning to watch and is an exercise in what style is all about. The plot is complex and unique. A young Parisian mail courier is perfectly content with his somewhat offbeat lifestyle, his love of opera and his friends. He especially loves one American diva who will not allow herself to be recorded. In fact, he loves her voice so ... Read More Rating: - Anchor Bay vs LionsgateI know, I know: "Save your technical rants for the discussion boards!" And I usually do (in fact, I was commenter #1 for the review by "Mutantchaos" above). But since I stupidly went ahead and purchased the new Lionsgate edition anyway (after buying into the two comments that followed mine, one allegedly from Lionsgate themselves,spinning like Karl Rove, and the other from a "customer" who I am now convinced is a shill for Lionsgate) I wanted to throw in my "A-B" comparisons-as a public service. ... Read More Rating: - Worst transfer yet of a great film - Should be recalledThe Anchor Bay version from 2001 is currently the best you can do with this title. I had high hopes for the new release, but was suspicious based on the awful cover art. Sure enough, they have a super-low bit rate, are actually zooming on the image in some areas and have problems with no English subtitles on some of the extras (the film is in French). I've shown the Anchor Bay version to friends in the last few years all of whom have been impressed by this clever caper from 1981. But when a company ... Read More Rating: - Review for the abysmal "Meridian Collection" DVD. I gave it a 1 because you can't give a 0.As I said in the title - I gave this DVD 1 star only because you can't give 0 stars. The film is great of course, but this new "remastered" DVD is terrible. To start, the "remastered" picture is cropped and it's mastered very poorly - especially when compared to my disc from Anchor Bay (Diva), which looks much nicer even though it is 7 years old! They even claim that this transfer was approved by the director. Maybe he approved a transfer that was watched in a post production studio, but unless ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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