New Australian DVD and BD Releases
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With the loss of Umbrella, looks like AV Channel/Madman are revving up the releases. In October -
* 2046 - single or 2-disc ltd ed. metal case, both with Teo commentary (DTS as well)
* Tokyo Story - now only single disc, with I Lived, But...
* DePalma's Obsession
* Taste of Cherry
* The Wind Will Carry Us
* Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata
November has Keaton x 3 - Three Ages, Steamboat Bill Jr. and College in supposedly 'new transfers from fully restored prints'.
Warner has the 4-disc set of Ben Hur due November as well, $49.95rrp. Sadly this is the only 'classic' release on the Warner schedule for the next three months (apart from the James Dean).
* 2046 - single or 2-disc ltd ed. metal case, both with Teo commentary (DTS as well)
* Tokyo Story - now only single disc, with I Lived, But...
* DePalma's Obsession
* Taste of Cherry
* The Wind Will Carry Us
* Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata
November has Keaton x 3 - Three Ages, Steamboat Bill Jr. and College in supposedly 'new transfers from fully restored prints'.
Warner has the 4-disc set of Ben Hur due November as well, $49.95rrp. Sadly this is the only 'classic' release on the Warner schedule for the next three months (apart from the James Dean).
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I do hope so Flixy, although the artwork I've seen are direct copies of the Kino DVDs. Three Ages has 59 minutes of extras, Steamboat 65 minutes, College 90 minutes - everything from Carole Lombard shorts (no, won't go there...), cartoons, rare appearences, doco's etc. They must be from M2K, I couldn't see Madman putting these together.
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- devlinnn
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Crash is pan n' scan, any idea with TPFWWM?Roadshow will be releasing Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me in September, they released Cronenberg's Crash today.
Fingers crossed they don't stuff up the soundtrack and score like the R1.MGM will be releasing Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) sometime soon as well.
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The original, and rather brilliant, soundtrack composed by Eurythmics for the film was not to be found on the DVD, even though the case credits advise otherwise. Instead we have the director-approved Muldowney score. But what the f*** does Radford know? He made Il Postino for cryin' out loud....
Colour-wise, the R1 was also too, well, colourful. Memories from original screenings are of beautiful, bleak, de-saturated browns, blacks and greys. The R1 has been oop for some time, so I always hoped they would go back and fix it up. Hopefully the R4 will port the UKR2 which I've been told is fine in all regards.
(personal trivia - first sighting of female pubic hair on the big screen was Suzanna Hamilton in this film. Whatever happened to this chisel cheekboned, thickly-bushed creature of delight? She gave a stunning performance here.)
Colour-wise, the R1 was also too, well, colourful. Memories from original screenings are of beautiful, bleak, de-saturated browns, blacks and greys. The R1 has been oop for some time, so I always hoped they would go back and fix it up. Hopefully the R4 will port the UKR2 which I've been told is fine in all regards.
(personal trivia - first sighting of female pubic hair on the big screen was Suzanna Hamilton in this film. Whatever happened to this chisel cheekboned, thickly-bushed creature of delight? She gave a stunning performance here.)
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- devlinnn
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Lordy - these are coming in at $32rrp. Fox obviously has no idea what has been happening on the local market courtesy of Sony and Warner for the past six months. Just this week I've found all the MGM Gold Editions now at $15rrp. (That's Good Bad and Ugly, 2-disc SE, for $15!)20th Century Fox will be releasing Special Editions of Laura (1944) and All About Eve in November.
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All old MGM Special Editions, which usually had an RRP$30, were eventually replaced with standard editions at RRP$15. Now MGM are re-releasing all special editions as 'Gold Editions' with exactly the same extras at only RRP$15. So basically if you own the special edition, the Gold Editions are nothing new.King of Kong wrote:So what's the deal with these MGM "Gold" editions?
In other news, Sony BMG are releasing 'The Magic Flute' on September 20, but I am unsure if this is the Bergman version.
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Thanks for giving me a hearty good laugh, Flixy! Somehow I feel l won't get an avalanche of votes. Everybody will think we've crossed the border of sanity when we use that expression - I can't waitflixyflox wrote:Vicious, let's. (Nobody else will know what we're talking about.)
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I had a look at the MGM Gold edition of Raging Bull, thinking it would be a port of the Region 1 Special Edition. Yet it seemed its only extra was a doco...Solaris wrote:All old MGM Special Editions, which usually had an RRP$30, were eventually replaced with standard editions at RRP$15. Now MGM are re-releasing all special editions as 'Gold Editions' with exactly the same extras at only RRP$15. So basically if you own the special edition, the Gold Editions are nothing new.King of Kong wrote:So what's the deal with these MGM "Gold" editions?
In other news, Sony BMG are releasing 'The Magic Flute' on September 20, but I am unsure if this is the Bergman version.
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The Virgin Spring?????King of Kong wrote:I wouldn't hold my breath... these R4 labels are a joke...devlinnn wrote:Bergman x 3, courtesy of Hopscotch via Roadshow, October 20th
* The Virgin Spring
* The Seventh Seal
* Autumn Sonata
Look to be bare-bone, more details when they come to hand.
Please let this be true!!!
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Special Features on the upcoming R4 Un Chien Andalou -
A Slice of Bunuel: Exclusive interview/documentary with Bunuel's son Juan-Luis
Epilogue: Dali and Bunuel bonus interview
Audio Commentary by Spanish surrealism expert Stephen Barber
Mystery of Cinema: Abridged transcipt of Bunuel speech given in 1953
Dave McKean: Graphic design and statement
Also, the OFLC have just classified a DVD of The Seventh Seal, submitted by Roadshow.
A Slice of Bunuel: Exclusive interview/documentary with Bunuel's son Juan-Luis
Epilogue: Dali and Bunuel bonus interview
Audio Commentary by Spanish surrealism expert Stephen Barber
Mystery of Cinema: Abridged transcipt of Bunuel speech given in 1953
Dave McKean: Graphic design and statement
Also, the OFLC have just classified a DVD of The Seventh Seal, submitted by Roadshow.
- devlinnn
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...and they've also re-classified Nine Songs to an X, making it illegal to sell outside of the Territories. Unbelievable. Poor Accent, they can't seem to take a trick at the moment (whatever did happen to Triumph of the Will?) with little news of new releases from them.Also, the OFLC have just classified a DVD of The Seventh Seal, submitted by Roadshow.
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