Il Gattopardo 1963 Blu-ray 720p x264-CiNEFiLE

Arguably Luchino Visconti's best film and certainly the most personal of his historical epics, The Leopard chronicles the fortunes of Prince Fabrizio Salina and his family during the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published posthumously in 1958 and subsequently translated into all European languages, the picture opens as Salina (Burt Lancaster) learns that Garibaldi's troops have embarked in Sicily. While the Prince sees the event as an obvious threat to his current social status, his opportunistic nephew Tancredi (Alain Delon) becomes an officer in Garibaldi's army and returns home a war hero. Tancredi starts courting the beautiful Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), a daughter of the town's newly appointed Mayor, Don Calogero Sedara (Paolo Stoppa). Though the Prince despises Don Calogero as an upstart who made a fortune on land speculation during the recent social upheaval, he reluctantly agrees to his nephew's marriage, understanding how much this alliance would mean for the impecunious Tancredi. Painfully realizing the aristocracy's obsolescence in the wake of the new class of bourgeoisie, the Prince later declines an offer from a governmental emissary to become a senator in the new Parliament in Turin. The closing section, an almost hour-long ball, is often cited as one of the most spectacular sequences in film history. Burt Lancaster is magnificent in the first of his patriarchal roles, and the rest of the cast, especially Delon and Cardinale, become almost perfect incarnations of the novel's characters. Filmed in glorious Techniscope and rich in period detail, the film is a remarkable cinematic achievement in all departments. The version that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival ran 205 minutes. Inexplicably, the picture was subsequently distributed by 20th Century Fox in a poorly dubbed, 165-min. English-language version, using inferior color process. The restored Italian-language version, supervised by cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, appeared in 1990, though the longest print still ran only 187 minutes. General Complete name : Il Gattopardo 1963 Blu-ray 720p x264-CiNEFiLE.mkv Format : Matroska File size : 6.56 GiB Duration : 3h 5mn Overall bit rate : 5 061 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2009-11-21 08:40:32 Writing application : mkvmerge v2.9.8 ('C'est le bon') built on Aug 13 2009 12:49:06 Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1 Video #1 ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : [email protected] /* */ Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames Muxing mode : Container profile=[email protected] /* */ Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 3h 5mn Bit rate : 4 705 Kbps Nominal bit rate : 4 804 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 584 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.2:1 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.263 Stream size : 6.09 GiB (93%) Writing library : x264 core 79 r1342 e8501ef Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4804 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Audio #2 ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 3h 5mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 256 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Stream size : 340 MiB (5%) Language : Italian Text #3 ID : 3 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Language : English IMDB: tt0057091 Italian audio; Czech, English, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish subtitles

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redjadevideo (2010-01-20)

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stevenone (2013-05-27)

NO AUDIO for me. For some reason, cannot get any audio. Is there a specific setting for OSX (ps: I'm using Perian to read mkv).