Shining Through (1992) - 26 July 2018

[James Luckard]

https://www.amazon.de/Licht-dunkler-...dp/B07C5P8QDM/

Shining Through Theatrical Trailer (1992) - YouTube

First BD release for this title anywhere in the world. It's one of my greatest guilty pleasures. I know it swept the Golden Raspberry Awards that year, but I can't fathom how, it's an epic old-fashioned romantic spy thriller, with a gorgeous Michael Kamen score and beautiful period locations in England, Austria and throughout the former East Germany -- the film was shot in the fall of 1990, as the country was in the process of reunifying.

[James Luckard]

My disc arrived today.

The good:
- region-free
- gorgeous recent HD transfer, even for the trailer
- no problematic PAL material

The bad:
- there are English subs available for the entire film, but the burned-in English subs for the scattered German bits were not retained. Honestly though, this isn't a huge issue. There are maybe a dozen minor exchanges and bits of onscreen text in German that had burned-in subs, until one of the final scenes, which is entirely in German. However that scene revolves around Michael Douglas's character not speaking a word of German, so it almost works better without the subs. I suspect anyone seeing it that way will get it completely, you don't need to understand anything that's spoken to follow the scene. That said, I understand German, and have also seen the film 1000x, haha, so it's easier for me.

Still, I can highly recommend this disc, with just the one tiny caveat of the subs.

Bonus features consist of
- final US trailer
- 4 min English-language featurette
- 1 min set interviews with Douglas, Griffith and Seltzer and 30 second set interviews with Neeson, Gielgud and Richardson
- 1 min 30 sec gallery of lobbycards

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[Markgway]

Big improvement.

The critics were sneery at the time, but I remember kinda liking it.

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Originally Posted by Markgway

Big improvement.

The critics were sneery at the time, but I remember kinda liking it.

Same here!

Its a throwback to those spy thrillers that were being made during and after WWII

Its escapsim

Its been probably 20+ years since Ive seen it... want to see it again soon.

I keep thinking this would be a good title for Twilight Time to licence maybe?

Also liked the Michael Kamen score

[albert_m2]

Same here!

Its a throwback to those spy thrillers that were being made during and after WWII

Its escapsim

Totally agree. I love this movie so I ordered the German blu. It arrived the other day. I played the disc just to confirm it worked and see how it looked. It looks nice. I look forward to sitting down and watching it again soon!