La La Land [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD]

**Review: La La Land (2016)** *La La Land* is a romance horror film that seduces you with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, only to slowly reveal the terrifying undercurrent of ambition and sacrifice. The film follows Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) as they chase their dreams in Los Angeles, but their love story quickly becomes a haunting tale of obsession and the high price of success. Beneath its vibrant musical numbers and nostalgic nods to old Hollywood, the film explores the psychological torment of two people trapped by their own aspirations. The dazzling colors and dreamlike sequences take on an eerie quality, making the viewer feel as if they’re watching a nightmare unfold in broad daylight. The romance at the heart of the film is both beautiful and unsettling, as Mia and Sebastian’s connection becomes tainted by their relentless pursuit of their goals. Their final "what could have been" sequence serves as the ultimate horror—showing how close they came to a different, happier life, only to be torn apart by their own choices. *La La Land* is a chilling commentary on the dark side of the American Dream, where love is sacrificed at the altar of ambition, leaving the audience haunted by what might have been.

Very good quality, easy to purchase and a great watch every time.

Just what i wanted good quality and value for money

I don’t really like musicals but this film absolutely had me immersed. 10/ 10 film film, I can’t fault anything about it. Wow.

Rock Hudson ended up being enshrined as an icon of the death bed confession at the Schwulles Museum in Berlin in a bizarre trope of ‘singular masculinity’ which leaves him not only as the man known for rumours that he had an affair with James Dean whilst filming ‘Giant;’ but that he was the most well known actor of the Golden Age of Hollywood to have to turn down parts because he was frightened of being exposed. Ryan Gosling is the one actor who could have made this film. And he did: absolutely make it. And it’s the fact that he didn’t win the Oscar for Best Actor™️ which ‘renders’ the film’s theme of almost dreamy eyed melancholy. He should have won it and it’s a disgrace that he didn’t. He is not the ‘Schwulles-Warden’ - had this film been released in 1957; Rock Hudson could not have given this film the blissful honesty which Gosling gave to it. In an often comedic turn with so many tangents it is the straight down the line honesty which he brings to the film. He makes sense of the nonsensical for you. And he makes the character laugh inside. After watching the film I woke out of a dream a few weeks later where I imagined that Ryan Gosling was actually gay and had his past deleted under Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ and for me to find him married to Eva Mendes with two children. And it was a sad dream because it was true; probably without the conspiracy to delete his past. It still doesn’t matter who Gosling is. He’s brilliant. He’s an enigma. He can play a charlatan who you can only come to love. And he should become one of the greats. Perhaps, if I think for one moment; and this film hadn’t been canned in 1957-1958; perhaps Paramount Pictures (in those days) would have cast someone like James Garner. But I can’t imagine it. Gosling plays the straight man to Emma Stone’s ‘kind of ditzy on the verge of breakdown’ character beautifully. The man’s brain activated like a politician or any group of individuals who compartmentalise their friends; and where their cranium becomes a rumpus room to laugh at others. Gosling makes the character loveable despite all of that. It is true that Ryan Gosling is married to Eva Mendes and he does have two children. And my weird nightmare after watching this film that he was owned by Google who had deleted his previous gay life was obviously a nonsensical and bizarre dream of the proportions which raided the cellars of Morpheus several nights running. But it was a perfect dream to compliment La-La Land. It gave it that Dorothy awakes feeling at the end of the Wizard of Oz. Even though as a gay man myself I can’t for the life of me understand why the Wizard of Oz is a film of gay iconography. Surely, Judy Garland’s Dorothy is the young girl from Kansas who in fact many girls would dream to meet. The beauty of La-La Land is that it leaves each viewer’s dream open to them. And I hope that it isn’t the last great musical.

Beautifully shot, very stylised, engaging performances by both leads but ultimately an unfulfilling movie that for me didn't live up to the hype. Don't get me wrong, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone have a palpable on-screen chemistry, with Ryan turning in a very accomplished performance as a jazz pianist and Emma all too believable as the aspiring actress. I'm not a great fan of film musicals but its not even that which bothers me as the tunes are good, well-performed and don't ruin the flow of the movie. I think my problem is that it's a case of style over substance, that the film lacks, for want of a better term, soul. It did not grip me or engage me and I found myself wondering when, and then if, it was going to stick it's claws into me and pull me into it's universe. Unfortunately I found this an unsatisfying exercise in Hollywood navel-gazing.

Was ok

La La Land is a hymn to LA and the golden years of Hollywood. The lush cinematography paints it in soft pastel hues, a fantasy city like the 1930's Paris of Rene Clair, in which a young girl can walk home alone at night unmolested, through a Montmartre magically transported to Trump's America. It's in Cinemascope, and needs to be seen in the cinema, as I did a few days ago. There was a palpable frisson of excitement when the curtains parted to reveal the wide screen, and the audience was rapt from that moment on. The film is Emma Stone's triumph. She is wonderful as Mia, the aspiring actress, whose story this is, and like Ginger Rogers before her she rightly won the Best Actress Oscar. That said, it should be noted that La La Land has more plot and less dance than the Astaire and Rogers classics, where the story is the flimsiest of vehicles to carry the viewer from one musical number to the next. La La Land, on the other hand, is a genuinely moving drama with musical interludes. I seem to remember that Ginger Rogers won her Oscar not for any of those great dance classics but for a drama, Kitty Foyle. Like her, Emma Stone is a wonderful actress who can also dance a bit. Her co-star, Ryan Gosling, performs his role of faithful foil adequately enough, but his destiny is to be outshone. Ignore the carpers and see this film. I promise that you will be utterly enchanted..

its ok movie

Un dvd che tutti gli amanti del cinema devono avere! Film stupendo. Per chi ha dei pregiudizi visto che si tratta di un musical il consiglio è di superare tali limiti mentali. In realtà non è il classico musical cantato da persone gioiose che cantano e ballano per tutto il tempo ma semplicemente ogni tanto c'è qualche canzone, per il resto è recitato. Inoltre le canzoni sono bellissime e non potrete non innamorarvene, anzi vi resteranno impresse a distanza di mesi. La trama del film è molto interessante, il film è egregiamente interpretato, vedrete una bellissima fotografia per tutto il film e bellissimi costumi. Consiglio di comprare quest'edizione del DVD perchè ne vale molto la pena avere anche il CD con le colonne sonore.

ブルーレイの読みこみに5分くらいかかりますが無事再生できました♪ 日本盤には英語の字幕がなさそうだったのでこちらを購入しました。 映画のシーンの曲の部分だけを集めた特典もとても嬉しいです。

I love this film. When I first saw the trailer for La La Land, I thought it was set in the 50's or the 60's. Then, when I finally watched it, I realized, it's suppose to feel that way. It's an ode to old cinema. The performances are great and the songs are (for the most part) catchy and get stuck in your head; I'm looking at you City of Stars. The direction is fantastic. The opening number alone should make you really appreciate movies, especially the old feeling of classic musicals and the like. The "one-shot" technique that brings us from the amazing "Cinemascope" logo to the arresting number, to Ryan and Emma in their vehicles in this jam. It's just fantastic. So much of this film is packed with so much love you can tell this from just watching. The 4K and HDR? Well, I haven't seen the Bluray version of the film, however, the HDR was vastly superior to when I first saw the film. The colors pop and burst from every number and visually arresting image that passes your set. I watched it with my mother and she, who "can't see a difference" between her mid 2010 low end 1080p DYNEX and my Sony X930D quality, said "the colours are so bright and bold." Yes mum, they are. Super glad this sweeped at the Oscars, and even more so that Moonlight won. Alas, they got the recognition they both deserve.

Film fantastico