Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977) Richard Gere (Tvrip Widescreen)_Ku

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076327/

This film has gained historic value, being one of Richard Gere's very first in a major part as a bipolar, crazy sex-athlete - two years before 'American Gigolo'. But it is really Diane Keaton's film. Based on the novel from 1975 by Judith Rossner, which provoked much discussion, because a woman back then was not supposed to lead a double life as a precious school teacher during the day and a bar-cruiser at night.

Also noteworthy for being one of the very first films with Tom Berenger, here as a naked gay transvestite, perhaps regretted later in his career of action films.

WARNING: Much nudity and sex, and the plot starts off with harsh social realism until Gere's interesting character enters after 44 minutes.
Amazon has promised a proper DVD edition for a long time. Until then, we have so far had only bad VHS fullscreen rips, but I found this old TV rip in my collection and tried to doctor it a little. Much better than VHS, but still not full DVD quality. Colors are a little faded, and sound level a little low.

Widescreen TV-rip XviD 2-pass 672x368, original mono sound AC3.
Runs well in both my standalone DivX players.

MediaInfo analysis:
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 2h 10mn
Overal bit rate : 750 Kbps

Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Streaming Video@L1
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Muxing mode : Packet Bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 2h 10mn
Bit rate : 612 Kbps
Width : 672 pixels
Height : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.099
Stream size : 571 MiB
Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 2h 10mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Minimum bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 119 MiB
Writing library : LAME3.97
Encoding settings : CBR

P.S.: Richard Gere said in an interview that his personal life at this time was very far from the sex-athlete characters he plays in this film and 'American Gigolo'. He played a character with bipolar disorder again in 'Mr. Jones' (1993).