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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1601 Post by tenia » Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:55 am

I was waiting for some post-2017 restorations to see if Ritrovata indeed fixed their gradings, as heard by a member, but clearly they didn't.
Incidentally, I quickly went through Youssef Chahine's Adieu Bonaparte yesterday, and Eclair's gradings are getting quite easy to spot too.

EDIT : my bad, it's actually Eclair, so there is still a chance Ritrovata worked on their gradings.
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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1602 Post by Apperson » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:22 am

domino harvey wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:55 pm
StudioCanal's new "restored" Producers Blu-ray gets soaked in piss-- one guess who did the resto
Don't forget the hideous macro-blocking as seen on the gown in the first screencap.

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1603 Post by tenia » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:37 am

I don't want to defend this specific point, but I'm not too bother with macro-blocking in this kind of places. Unlike in Beauty and the Beast, this is likely to be difficult to spot in motion (more like Pan's Labyrinth).

However, it still tackls the question : how can a 90 minute catalogue movie without a crapload of soundtracks or heavily spatialized tracks can end up with only a 24 Mbps despite using a BD-50 ?

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1604 Post by jsteffe » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:47 am

domino harvey wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:55 pm
StudioCanal's new "restored" Producers Blu-ray gets soaked in piss-- one guess who did the resto
Yep, it had to be either Éclair or Ritrovata, and this time it's...

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1605 Post by tenia » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:51 am

I was thus wrong in thinking that's Ritrovata, though there isn't much to rejoice about this mistake.

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1606 Post by jsteffe » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:17 pm

tenia wrote:
Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:51 am
I was thus wrong in thinking that's Ritrovata, though there isn't much to rejoice about this mistake.
Sadly, it means that twice as many color restorations will continue getting the super-yellow treatment.

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#1607 Post by movielocke » Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:24 pm

I started fords young Cassidy yesterday on filmstruck and it has a definite yellow look to it.

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#1608 Post by Finch » Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:47 pm

Hopefully they won't have fucked up the new Marienbad.

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#1609 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:59 pm

Finch wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:47 pm
Hopefully they won't have fucked up the new Marienbad.
Man would that be a massive fuck up - "we decided to present this in black and urine amber, just as Resnais no doubt would have wanted it to look."

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#1610 Post by Drucker » Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:29 pm

I've had CC's Marienbad unwatched on my shelf for years, but considering it comes with a purposefully unrestored audio track, there is no way I would give it up in this day and age.

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#1611 Post by tenia » Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:56 am

I briefly looked at the new disc and the PQ at least looks quite good. There is only one French track, a new restoration whose high frequencies seem intact.
Extras are the same than the old SC disc plus a new 30 min doc on Resnaid and Robbe Grillet. The 2 shorts have been newly restored. And the original trailer has been replaced bt the 2018 rerelease one.


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#1613 Post by TMDaines » Mon Dec 31, 2018 8:45 am

Hopefully the first of many Von Trottas. If not, I'll be importing.

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1614 Post by Drucker » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:03 pm

Several of the John Carpenter 4k deluxe editions seem to be out of stock on Amazon for some time. I assumed they just sold well during the holidays, but are Escape From NY and The Fog out of print permanently?

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#1615 Post by Ribs » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:09 pm

Seems like standard non-LE UHD releases are coming out in March?

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#1616 Post by tenia » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:10 pm

The LEs seems definitely OOP and yes, standard UHD releases seem to be upcoming to replace those.

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#1617 Post by Drucker » Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:41 pm

I just hope they’ll be dual format.

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#1619 Post by tenia » Wed May 01, 2019 9:00 am

Blu-ray (2K) and DVD (~1K)
I guess we're at the point when the general audience got "4K" so much shoved into its throat than BD and DVD formats need these additons. :roll:

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1620 Post by DeprongMori » Thu May 23, 2019 1:16 pm

Has anyone heard any rumblings about a “Volume 2” for The Ealing Studios Collection on Blu-ray?

Volume 1 (Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Man in the White Suit) came out in 2014, and they’ve released plenty of stand-alone Blu-rays of Ealing titles since, so I’m curious about the delay. Has it officially been cancelled?

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#1621 Post by What A Disgrace » Thu May 23, 2019 1:56 pm

I don't think that's likely to happen. The first volume probably didn't sell enough to justify it.

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#1622 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:56 pm

Studio Canal is releasing Don't Look Now as a UHD/Blu-ray combo. Based on their infamous previous release, widely considered by many to be among the worst Blu-rays of all time, it's prob worth waiting to see more, but talk about a ballsy movie for a UHD release!

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1623 Post by andyli » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:10 pm

Criterion's diac already boasts a 4K transfer from OCN approved by Mr. Roeg. So is there any reason to believe StudioCanal did something new here?

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Re: Studio Canal/Kinowelt/Optimum

#1624 Post by tenia » Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:57 am

This is a new different restoration, though there's no word here if it's better or not than the one used by Criterion. It'll be interesting however to compare it to the existing one, because it's recent, competently done, in 4K and approved by Roeg.

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#1625 Post by eerik » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:01 am

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