Argo (US - DVD R1 | BD)
Warner has sent over a behind the scenes look at the making of the film...
Title: Argo (IMDb)
Starring: Ben Affleck
Released: 19th February 2013
SRP: $28.98 (DVD)
Further Details:
Warner Home Video has announced DVD ($28.98) and Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($35.99) releases of Argo for February 19th. The only extra material on the DVD release will be a Escape from Tehran: We Were There featurette. The Blu-ray/DVD Combo release will also include an audio commentary, a feature length picture in picture: Eye Witness Account feature, 3 additional featurettes ("Argo: Absolute Authenticity", "ARGO: The CIA & Hollywood Connection", "Escape From Iran: The Hollywood Option"), and an UltraViolet digital copy of the film. We've attached the official package artwork below:
Quote: Based on real events, the dramatic thriller "Argo" chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, focusing on the little-known role that the CIA and Hollywood played—information that was not declassified until many years after the event. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, the Canadian and American governments ask the CIA to intervene. The CIA turns to their top "exfiltration" specialist, Tony Mendez, to come up with a plan to get the six Americans safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.
News by Tom Woodward
Starring: Ben Affleck
Released: 19th February 2013
SRP: $28.98 (DVD)
Further Details:
Warner Home Video has announced DVD ($28.98) and Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($35.99) releases of Argo for February 19th. The only extra material on the DVD release will be a Escape from Tehran: We Were There featurette. The Blu-ray/DVD Combo release will also include an audio commentary, a feature length picture in picture: Eye Witness Account feature, 3 additional featurettes ("Argo: Absolute Authenticity", "ARGO: The CIA & Hollywood Connection", "Escape From Iran: The Hollywood Option"), and an UltraViolet digital copy of the film. We've attached the official package artwork below:
Synopsis
Quote: Based on real events, the dramatic thriller "Argo" chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, focusing on the little-known role that the CIA and Hollywood played—information that was not declassified until many years after the event. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, the Canadian and American governments ask the CIA to intervene. The CIA turns to their top "exfiltration" specialist, Tony Mendez, to come up with a plan to get the six Americans safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.
News by Tom Woodward
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Fantastic film, easily in my top 5 for the year, glad to see the Blu-ray has a good set of extras, definitely looking forward to picking this up.
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They should hold off on the release and make a cover that says "Winner of over x Academy Awards including Best Picture".
A good film. A little conventional, but very exciting and entertaining.
Incredibly overrated, not nearly worthy of the praise its gotten.
I'll say it once, I'll say it again. Best. Movie. Ever! One of the best movies of 2012, straight up. I'm betting on that big Oscar win!
A factually inaccurate, over-rated, well acted and directed film.
It is going to be released on Feb 19 I will have to wait until May to rent it at Netflix
I think Argo is an incredibly well made film, in every conceivable way, as well as tense and thrilling, but there's not much of a plot. I mean; a group of people are hired to go to Iran and rescue another bunch of people, and guess what? They do!
If there's one Oscar that it truly deserves, it's the one for Best Director. However, as Ben Affleck for some weird reason wasn't even nominated in the category, although he's won both a DGA award and a BAFTA recently, I can't see how that will happen.
If there's one Oscar that it truly deserves, it's the one for Best Director. However, as Ben Affleck for some weird reason wasn't even nominated in the category, although he's won both a DGA award and a BAFTA recently, I can't see how that will happen.
Interesting how opinions are divided here. I thought it was interesting how Argo reproduces some questionable ideologies, especially in the opening narration that ignores the US's presence in Iran from decades previously. The prologue makes a shallow gesture towards the CIA's involvement, but purposefully manipulates the facts. Though it does so for simplicity's sake, the violence done to the facts by this reduction speaks to what Zizek points to as ideology dispersed across the surface.
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