Flatliners

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In the end, Flatliners is a film with a solid cast and a great premise, but it never fully delivers on the promise of its high concept. However, it has become somewhat of a cult film, so if you’re one of those folks who enjoy it, you’ll likely want this new 4K Ultra HD release from Arrow Video, which continues to do for minor classics what Criterion has done for major ones. While Arrow continues to release its 1080 and 2160 versions of any given films separately, they have commendably tended to offer the same set of

there is still appealing immersion and both clear panning effects and discrete placement of individual effects in some of the "visionary" moments inRestoration (2022, 11 minutes) catches up with production designer Eugenio Zanetti and art director Larry Lundy as they share their inspirations from Greek myths. As they discuss the Chicago shoot, scenes of the locations today are intercut with shots from the film. There is also discussion of working the theme of redemption into the sets using objects wrapped in plastic sheeting as a sign of things being a work in progress.

transfer doesn't equate to visual bliss; it's certainly not one of Sony's better efforts, but it's still a the like. There may be some who don't like a perceived minimizing of shadow detail since this is so much darker than the original Sony release, but I Restoration - a new video interview with production designer Eugenio Zanetti and art director Larry Lundy (10 mins) subtitles on that release, which suggest Sony may have had delusions of world domination with Flatliners, at least as evidenced by the I hadn’t seen the film in at least a couple of decades so I was having a hard time recalling the look of the film outside of foggy other-side scenes and the darkened “lab” where a lot of the film takes place, but I was very surprised in being reminded at how dynamic the film ends up looking. Yes, it’s dark and there are a lot of shadows, but in what is kind of a precursor to Schumacher’s Batman films there is a wide spectrum of colors on display and even during the film’s darkest moments those vivid colours effortlessly leap from the screen.

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There is a surprisingly small photo gallery (13 images) consisting of publicity shots and production stills.