Evita [DVD] [1997]

Product Details

• Actors: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus
• Directors: Alan Parker
• Writers: Alan Parker, Oliver Stone, Tim Rice
• Producers: Alan Parker, Andrew G. Vajna, David Wimbury, Lisa Moran
• Format: PAL
• Language English
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: PG
• Studio: Eiv
• DVD Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
• Run Time: 135 minutes
  

By : Madonna (Actor), Jonathan Pryce (Actor), Alan Parker (Director)|Rated:Parental Guidance|Format: DVD
Price : £3.39

Customer Reviews

The big screen version of Evita has everything one expects from a film musical - great singing, great orchestra, a huge sense of scale... However, this DVD was released at the start of the DVD era, and lacks a Dolby Digital 5.1 track or an anamorphic transfer, so the image is soft and lacking in detail and the sound only in Dolby Pro-Logic. Your best bet is to purchase the French or Australian versions of the DVD, both of which have anamorphic transfers with excellent image quality and the full Dolby Digital 5.1 track, aswell as interviews, trailers and featurettes from the electronic press kit made at the time.

I don’t wish to criticise this film. It’s actually rather good (and much better than you might expect).
My issue is that the DVD itself is rather poor. The non-anamorphic transfer is poor and when blown up to 16:9 is very grainy. The soundtrack seems to be rather low quality – just a poor quality stereo transfer. The region 1 DVD is in 5.1 and much better quality, although that too is in letterbox format.
Let’s see some justice done to this film. It deserves better than this. (But I’ve no doubt that a ‘Special Edition’ will appear one day, so we can all buy this film twice!)

 

Evita [DVD] [1997]