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Piano Blues: A Film By Clint Eastwood
Description by Mark Deming

Since Clint Eastwood is a director whose style could be described with the phrase "less is more," it seems appropriate that Eastwood's contribution to the documentary series The Blues is the shortest film of the series and receives the most modest presentation on DVD. Unlike most of the other films in the series, Piano Blues features no interview with the filmmaker or commentary track (though Eastwood's presence as onscreen narrator and interviewer would probably have made them redundant), and no bonus performances have been included. The images have been transferred to disc in letterboxed format at the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1, and the camera work looks clean and well-detailed on this disc. The performances and interviews are in English, with no multiple language options, and the crisp audio appears in two mixes: a surround version in Dolby Digital 5.1 and a two-track mix in uncompressed PCM stereo. The only bonus materials are a text biography and filmography for Eastwood and a trailer for The Blues, though for many music fans, the warm and engaging quality of this film and the artists it profiles will be more than enough reason to pick up the disc.

Features
  • Director biography and filmography
  • 5.1 and stereo mixes
  • The Blues trailer
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