Babel: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (DVD-Video)

 

Picture: B-     Sound: B-     Extras: C+     Film: B

 

 

After releasing Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s Babel in basic edition in all three existing formats (DVD-Video, HD-DVD and Blu-ray), Paramount is discontinuing the Blu-ray edition (along with their entire catalog of such releases) you can read our review on the film and all three versions at this link:

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5066/Babel+(2006;+DVD-Video/HD-DVD/Blu

 

 

Now with the Blu-ray likely on its way to becoming a collector’s item, here is a low-def DVD set calling itself a “collector’s edition” and it is of a single bonus DVD with the feature length documentary Common Ground – Under Construction Notes.  Running 86 minutes, the letterboxed 1.78 X 1 videotaped is decent, co-directed by Carlos Armella and Pedro Gonzales-Rubio.  It is worth seeing, but only after you have seen the film, or you might think the director is being grandiose about the film he made.  This will hopefully give a decent film a new shot in the arm.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo