Thanks.:) Superb news; 'snow' half going to be a good new year!:happy: |
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It would be fantastic if this forthcoming release could include Chris Rodley's Ultimate Performance documentary... |
I haven't seen this since the days of Warner's Maverick Director's video. To see it in HD is worth waiting on. |
I last saw it in 35mm, way back in 1988! |
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DVDActive on Lifeforce - the first in-depth review that I've seen. |
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Arrow used the same master (from MGM), but encoder David Mackenzie worked really hard to wring the best possible picture and sound out of it. One big advantage was that each cut of the film got its own separate disc, so he had a fair bit more space to play with, but he reckons that he was also using more sophisticated compression algorithms. |
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I remember waiting for the Zeitgeist version of the Quay Brothers shorts compilation with some trepidation, as I produced the BFI edition. As the primary rightsholders, the BFI had engineered a six-month release-date gap into the licensing deal, but I thought there was every likelihood that Zeitgeist would use those six months to create a whole host of extra features, and was pleasantly surprised when they merely consisted of a couple of additional trailers. |
Michael have you ever worked on something where a great extra couldn't be included for whatever reason ? I mentioned it a few posts back but it was a real shame that Warners didn't include Donald Cammell The Ultimate Performance on their DVD of Performance. Even though Rodley's documentary is a career wide retrospective, the centerpiece of that film relates to Performance. I wonder was it lack of interest on Warners' behalf or they couldn't include it for some reason... |
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Jaw-droppingly hilarious though the latter undoubtedly is, there's no question that the former is infinitely more relevant to The Long Goodbye (not least because the Hayden interview was filmed in 1970), and I could only afford one, so I went for the Altman doc. Although I've mentally put the Hayden interview aside for future disinterment in case Arrow picks up any more of his films. Something similar happened with the BFI's Jan Švankmajer shorts compilation - I originally planned to feature a whole montage of his effects sequences from other people's films, but as soon as I started making enquiries into rights, materials and licensing costs it became clear that five minutes of effects from just one film would be much more practical, so that's what I went for. I also watched two documentaries that I ended up dropping - the first was a 25-minute BBC effort for which the Beeb wanted fully twenty times the reasonable market rate that I was prepared to offer, and the second was an hour-long Czech TV documentary about the Laterna Magika multimedia theatre where Švankmajer cut his creative teeth at the turn of the 1960s. This was more of a wrench, as it was fascinating stuff, but I simply didn't have the space and it was a bit of an indulgence: he's only onscreen for about three minutes, but scattered throughout the documentary, so simply extracting his bits wouldn't have worked very well. And while I'm in Švankmajer-reminiscence mode, I originally planned to include HD versions of his Lewis Carrollesque shorts Jabberwocky and Down to the Cellar on the BFI's Alice Blu-ray, but HD masters didn't exist, we didn't have the budget to create new ones from scratch, and I assumed there'd be a massive overlap between purchasers of Alice and the shorts collection - in other words, they'd have SD copies already. Also, the BFI had five Alice-themed shorts already available (four in HD), so that was a bit of a no-brainer - the final release arguably did a better job of fulfilling the BFI's cultural remit of increasing access to both outstanding foreign and British cinema. I imagine pretty much every other ambitious DVD/BD release will have similar stories behind it. |
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Don't get me wrong - I'm very very happy indeed with how both Švankmajer releases turned out, and I think it's much better to spend the budget on a completist shorts survey or a superlative HD transfer of Alice than in trying to chase and secure every conceivable extra. In fact, the Alice-themed shorts turned out to be an inspired idea (not mine, for the record, although I was delighted by the suggestion), as the BFI owned rights and materials outright. As a result, the on-disc extras budget was effectively slashed to zero, which compensated for the main transfer turning out to be more expensive than originally envisaged (partly because it involved flying James White over to Prague, although I don't recall him complaining). As ever, it's swings and roundabouts - the crucial thing is to make sure that the release is the best that you can possibly make it within the agreed schedule and budget, and not to beat yourself up too much if you can't cram in absolutely everything. |
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It looks like the Tenebrae steelbook is a Zavvi exclsuive. The pre-order goes live tomorrow, apparently. |
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Thanks for replying guys. |
Does anyone know if there will be an Amaray release of Tenebrae? |
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You can use the code DEUT10 to get 10% off the Tenebrae steelbook. Works out at £13.49 |
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1 Attachment(s) It seems someone got a postcard in Lifeforce for The Beast Within, and look what I found, one for Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins :D Good times! Attachment 121674 |
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Ok so, so far unannounced titles we have, are Phantom of The Paradise Sisters White Of The Eye Pit Stop Remo Hell Came To Frogtown The Beast Within Nightmare City The Burbs Caliber 9 Theatre Of Blood Abominable Dr Phibes Theres possibly more that I missed. 2014 is looking to be a brilliant year from Arrow |
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Also I think there were 2 erotica titles unreleased. One was Cheeky! I know that much. Edit: Also forgot Mark Of The Devil |
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