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#1 Post by devlinnn » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:29 pm

From Image, 25th of Jan.

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#2 Post by Keaton » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:13 am

Hi,

I try again: Did anyone own The Cyclist (M. Makhmalbaf) or can tell where I can find a review?

Thanks,

Dennis :)

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#3 Post by Jeff » Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:35 am

Is the first "Treasures of the American Film Archives" set OOP? It's no longer listed on Image's site and I'm having trouble finding it. I'm planning on picking up "More Treasures...," but the completist in me wants 'em both.

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#4 Post by Subbuteo » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:29 pm

More Treasures from American Film Archives 1894-1931

Help!
Has anyone bought this in the UK. I want to order it but wish to avoid custom charges if possible. I'm wondering whether I can get away with it by ordering through Amazon.Com!

Any suggestions?

Cheers

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#5 Post by peerpee » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:07 pm

It's almost impossible to avoid customs charges on something this heavy from amazon.com.

I bought it from deepdiscountdvd.com and was charged about 9 or 10 quid import duty and it still worked out cheaper than amazon.com's price.

Places like movietyme.com and cd-wow.com are best for avoiding customs charges in the UK (I think they even guarantee it) - but neither has the MORE TREASURES set. You could ask Movietyme to get it in for you I suppose, they're very good like that.

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#6 Post by Subbuteo » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:57 pm

Nick

Many thanks for info

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#7 Post by Ashirg » Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:46 pm

More silent goodies from Image in April -
Leaves From Satan's Book - 4/5

and from Milestone -
Through the Back Door - 4/5
Hindle Wakes - 4/12
Olive Thomas Collection: The Flapper/ Olive Thomas: Everybody's Sweetheart - 4/26

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#8 Post by What A Disgrace » Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:50 am

Ashirg wrote:More silent goodies from Image in April -
Leaves From Satan's Book - 4/5
Finally.

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#9 Post by ola t » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:34 pm

Ashirg wrote:Leaves From Satan's Book - 4/5
Ah, very nice. With music by Neal Kurz, perhaps?

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#10 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:17 am

Subbuteo wrote: Help!
Has anyone bought this in the UK. I want to order it but wish to avoid custom charges if possible. I'm wondering whether I can get away with it by ordering through Amazon.Com!

Any suggestions?

Cheers
I didn't have to pay customs charges when I imported my copy through EnterprisesDVD, there was no extra customs or postage payable, although I'm not sure whether £49.99 was expensive for the set.

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#11 Post by unclehulot » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:15 am

ola t wrote:
Ashirg wrote:Leaves From Satan's Book - 4/5
Ah, very nice. With music by Neal Kurz, perhaps?
Not this time. I saw part of it on TCM and can't remember who did the score for it.
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#12 Post by Tribe » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:10 am

Is Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes out of print? Any info on whether any other company might re-release it in R1? And, assuming the above answers are yes and no respectively, is this Image version so dark (as reported at DVDBeaver) that it's hardly worth purchasing on eBay?

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#13 Post by Narshty » Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:23 am

From our own Forthcoming List:
WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964, Teshigahara) Milestone are saying that Criterion will release it in the next year (Dec 2003)
Just call me "Fairy Godmother".

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#14 Post by drpauligari » Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:50 am

Tribe wrote:Is Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes out of print? Any info on whether any other company might re-release it in R1? And, assuming the above answers are yes and no respectively, is this Image version so dark (as reported at DVDBeaver) that it's hardly worth purchasing on eBay?

Tribe
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AEBD-10103

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#15 Post by Tribe » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:07 pm

Regarding Woman in the Dunes, Narshty sed:
From our own Forthcoming List
Who pays attention to that stuff! :oops:

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#16 Post by Gregory » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:16 pm

The Image release was indeed very dark. I sold my copy a couple of years ago, hoping for a Criterion release. If that doesn't happen after awhile longer I've been planning to order the Japanese Asmik release, but that link above is not very enticing: $46 and 3-4 weeks?

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#17 Post by drpauligari » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:30 pm

Gregory wrote:The Image release was indeed very dark. I sold my copy a couple of years ago, hoping for a Criterion release. If that doesn't happen after awhile longer I've been planning to order the Japanese Asmik release, but that link above is not very enticing: $46 and 3-4 weeks?
Agreed, but I must say that the film and the quality of the transfer (I believe there are screenshots at dvdbeaver) has convinced me that my money was well spent. And Amazon.co.jp ships in 4 days:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 50-2289811

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#18 Post by Tribe » Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:14 pm

Image apparently will be releasing a 1921 Dreyer film called Leaves From Satan's Book in April of this year. Never heard of this one...anyone familiar with it?

Sure I could look it up, but I'm always interested in what the posters here think about different movies.

Tribe

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#19 Post by FilmFanSea » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:12 pm

Tribe wrote:Image apparently will be releasing a 1921 Dreyer film called Leaves From Satan's Book in April of this year. Never heard of this one...anyone familiar with it?
Acquarello's take is here.

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#20 Post by peerpee » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:34 pm

I've viewed, briefly, screeners from Nordisk and Image - both different transfers, of different prints - and the Nordisk was about 30 minutes longer. I have a feeling that they were running at different speeds but I need to sit down and do a dual-screen comparison and see what's going on with them.

Nordisk are the original production company of the film and they are the owners of the original materials. Their screener was extremely good quality.

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#21 Post by htdm » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:50 pm

Thanks for this Peerpee, I wasn't aware that Nordisk released a DVD version of this. Where can I find out more about this?

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#22 Post by ola t » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:26 am

I don't think Nordisk have released or even announced their disc yet... Please tell us more, Nick!

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#23 Post by Tribe » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:56 pm

Anyone familiar with Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer? Any comments about the films themselves as well as the transfers?

Tribe

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#24 Post by htdm » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:15 pm

I probably would have agreed with Matt until I happened across an unusual CD-ROM entitled Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films. It's a bilingual (Russian/English) CD-ROM covering in depth about 100 early films including Bauer's films. Film scholar Yuri Tsivian (who is a commentator on the R2 DVD) breaks the films down (using clips as visual footnotes) in great detail explaining why the use of lighting and editing, for example, were so groundbreaking at the time. It really changed how I viewed the films.

I haven't seen the R1 DVD but have heard that there is "ghosting" on it as a result of an improper PAL-NTSC conversion. While this seems to be a chronic problem for most Milestone and Kino releases mastered from PAL, it isn't such a problem here (as opposed to The Phantom of the Opera or The Iron Mask) as there isn't as much movement.

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#25 Post by DrewReiber » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:34 am

My Name is Nobody - April 26, 2005

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum ... did=226320

About FRICKIN' TIME!!! Now if only Universal would have the brains and guts to license Lost Highway to Criterion...

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