Close To You: Remembering The 
Carpenters

Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters

DVD Rating: **1/2

Reviewed by: Andrea Mullaney

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here are 35 minutes of extras, though a good chunk of this is simply a slideshow of photos. Encore features performances of Hideaway and Ave Maria - the latter is quite stunning - as well as some adverts that the band made which see Karen emoting soulfully about "a whole new bag, so crisp, potato chips from Morton's - the really fresh ones". A couple of Lost In Translation-style Japanese commercials for chocolate and fizzy drinks pile on the irony, given Karen's food issues.

The Carpenters At The White House show them performing for and meeting Richard Nixon, pre-Watergate.

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The picture quality on the DVD is decent and the sound clean, allowing those lovely vocals to ring clear as a bell.

Reviewed on: 15 May 2005
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Documentary about the musical brother and sister.
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Product Code: 2NDVD3002

Region: 2

Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Extras: The Carpenters At The White House; TV commercials; photo gallery


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