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Personally, I have no problem with yellow subtitles even if the film is black and white.
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kuddles posted:Personally, I have no problem with yellow subtitles even if the film is black and white. While I really don't care for yellow subtitles, I'll take legible yellow subtitles over illegible white subtitles any day.
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Apr 15, 2012 19:03
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Shallow Grave just got released as a Criterion. It's one of the more obscure Danny Boyle films but it was his debut and it feels kind of like Trainspotting in tone. It's also got a killer plot, very good acting, tons of originality and Ewan McGregor's first starring role in a movie. Plus look at this cover. http://www.dvdactive.com/images/news/screenshot/2012/3/616_bd_box_348x490.jpg drat that's nice. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 15, 2012 19:53
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how does subtitle information exist on a disc? are there standard fonts? do subtitles render differently across different players? how much is communicated/determined by the disc and how much is communicated/determined by the player?
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Apr 15, 2012 20:40
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Maybe I'm just biased because of how often you see them when you're Australian, but I've always thought the subtitles produced by SBS to be well done. They sometimes show up on the more obscure international titles. Not the prettiest, but always legible, yellow for colour films, white for black+white, and with a nice black border. http://outofcontextsubtitles.tumblr.com/ STEVIE B 4EVA posted:how much is communicated/determined by the player? On DVD and Blu-Ray, subtitles are just images. The authoring house can use whatever font or colour or style they like. frumpsnake fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Apr 15, 2012 |
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Apr 15, 2012 21:32
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kaujot posted:And they won't add a border to their subtitle font so the text is readable when over very white areas of the screen. Man, there's a bit in the Kuroneko special features that's in color, and that poo poo is still illegible.
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Apr 15, 2012 22:15
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Shallow Grave is a favorite of mine. Some films stick with you for a while.kaujot posted:While I really don't care for yellow subtitles, I'll take legible yellow subtitles over illegible white subtitles any day. Yellow subtitles would look strange to me the first few times but then it wouldn't bother me at all I'm sure.
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Apr 15, 2012 22:33
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I'm partially deaf, and I'm pretty annoyed regarding their stance on subs. Should we all just email their customer service one day?
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Apr 16, 2012 01:00
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frumpsnake posted:Zero.
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Apr 16, 2012 01:34
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Lena Dunham's show premiered on HBO tonight so I wanted to take this opportunity to remind people that they should never, ever watch Tiny Furniture.
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Apr 16, 2012 07:53
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Swagger Dagger posted:Lena Dunham's show premiered on HBO tonight so I wanted to take this opportunity to remind people that they should never, ever watch Tiny Furniture. I'm still sort of tempted to watch it. 
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Apr 16, 2012 08:03
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Also, here's Dunham's first short film Pressure. I haven't seen Tiny Furniture and I don't want to poo poo on Dunham yet because, frankly, I really want there to be more female directors, and this is pretty good for a first short. At the very least she's charismatic and has a clever writing voice (the camerawork is mindblowingly lovely, though, not that she has much to do with it).
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Apr 16, 2012 08:31
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Swagger Dagger posted:Lena Dunham's show premiered on HBO tonight so I wanted to take this opportunity to remind people that they should never, ever watch Tiny Furniture. I kinda liked it v  vI mean sure it's a bit dull and every character is kinda douchey in their own way, but that's part of the charm I think.
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Apr 16, 2012 08:37
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Every time I watch 'Tiny Furniture' I appreciate it a bit more.
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Apr 16, 2012 15:30
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I haven't seen Tiny Furniture, but the previews for Girls (Dunham's HBO show) actually makes me want to check it out (the show and the movie).
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Apr 16, 2012 15:57
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I'm a pretty ardent fan of mumblecore and that movie was loving terrible.
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Apr 16, 2012 16:34
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The new titles haven't been put up yet on here, but they're up on the site: http://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=1&s=release_date I'm stoked for July. I'm a huge Whit Stillman fan, so I'll definitely be upgrading my copies of Metropolitan and Last Days of Disco, plus Le Havre was one of my favorite movies I saw last year. Here's hoping they put out Barcelona sometime soon!
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Apr 16, 2012 18:27
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What a dud month. Excited for La Havre and I'll rent the Gremillon out of curiosity, but no interest at all in the three upgrades.
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FitFortDanga posted:I'll rent the Gremillon Read this as Gremlins and got unironically excited for a half second.
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Apr 16, 2012 18:55
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I'm excited for Metropolitan on blu even though it's probably one of the few that didn't need a blu upgrade. Still, it's one of the first movies I really got into, back in the mid-90s when A&E would show it.
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FitFortDanga posted:What a dud month. Excited for La Havre and I'll rent the Gremillon out of curiosity, but no interest at all in the three upgrades. Agreed. La Havre will be a definite watch (I never buy, that's why I pay for NetFlix DVD rental), the rest are 'eh.' I don't see why Metropolitan will be better on Blu Ray, though I dug it when I saw it earlier this year (we need more Deb balls in Ann Arbor). Still waiting for my Apu trilogy Criterion  .
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Apr 16, 2012 19:20
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Metropolitan will probably be better on blu than Last Days of Disco. During the latter's commentary Stillman embarassedly pointed out visual errors that hadn't been noticeable before.
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Apr 16, 2012 20:23
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My brother bought Down by Law a year or two ago even though I told him he should wait until the inevitable upgrade. Here it is. Hah. Le Havre rules. But yeah, Criterion has been easy on my wallet this year so far.
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Apr 16, 2012 20:42
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Swagger Dagger posted:Lena Dunham's show premiered on HBO tonight so I wanted to take this opportunity to remind people that they should never, ever watch Tiny Furniture. I couldn't get 20 minutes into Tiny Furniture, but the first ep of the show was really good. I've never seen any Stillman, but this seems like a good time to start.
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 Kind of surprised Paramount isn't doing their own edition, but maybe they're not wanting to associate with Polanski.
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That's Rosemary's Baby, by the way. Also, here's the first episode of Lena Dunham's Girls, courtesy of HBO. It's actually really good.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Also, here's the first episode of Lena Dunham's Girls, courtesy of HBO. It's actually really good. I also really liked it.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:That's Rosemary's Baby, by the way. When you said that, I thought "Wait, how do you get that- it just looks like... ooohhhh." Well played, Criterion. Well played.
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Amazon has some deals running right now with some stuff 50% off and a lot of stuff around that price. They have a bunch of the Eclipse boxes included in that. (I shortened the URLs so that they don't take up half the page) Blu-Ray: http://amzn.to/Iliz5H DVD: http://amzn.to/IliKOu e: I noticed some of the Eclipse sets are cheaper direct from Criterion so it's worth checking before you jump if you see something you're interested in leokitty fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Apr 24, 2012 |
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kuddles posted:Personally, I have no problem with yellow subtitles even if the film is black and white. I didn't even know hating them was actually a thing until last year or something. My mind just tunes-out the color of subtitles. If I can't actually read the subtitles, I'm forced to think about it the entire drat movie and
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They just dropped a hint for Rosetta! Sweet! Hoping for a Dardennes box, that would make up nicely for last month's lackluster announcements.
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Has anyone seen The Samurai Trilogy? Love the source material, and the blu ray is coming out just in time for my birthday, so wondering if it's worth it or not?
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May 3, 2012 23:25
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mrfreeze posted:Has anyone seen The Samurai Trilogy? Love the source material, and the blu ray is coming out just in time for my birthday, so wondering if it's worth it or not? I saw it a while back and remember it being pretty rad.
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mrfreeze posted:Has anyone seen The Samurai Trilogy? Love the source material, and the blu ray is coming out just in time for my birthday, so wondering if it's worth it or not? It starts out really slow, but it gets pretty awesome by the second and especially the third installment.
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Children of Paradise confirmed for September
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FitFortDanga posted:Children of Paradise confirmed for September This is one of those films that I just can't scrounge up any enthusiasm to watch it. I know the history behind it. I know the critical consensus behind it. I've seen and enjoyed other films of Carne's. But I just...eh. I have such apathy about ever seeing it.
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May 7, 2012 18:16
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Confirmation for Lonesome? Who: Criterion Collection editor and executive producer, Kim Hendrickson What They Do: Offer up a monthly selection of well-packaged and informative editions of must-watch classic films and new releases for both the contemporary viewer and the diehard cineaste. What to look forward to: A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, Harold and Maude, Being John Malkovich, Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, the Spalding Gray films (Gray’s Anatomy and And Everything is Going Fine), and Lonesome, a nearly silent film from 1928. http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/07/.../#ixzz1uDoaTSZ2
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Holy poo poo what a month. Rosetta La Promesse Weekend (Haigh) Lonesome Quadrophenia The Films of Norman Mailer (don't buy this)
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May 15, 2012 20:29
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The Royal Tenenbaums Blu on 8/14 too. http://www.criterion.com/films/230-the-royal-tenenbaums
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About time!
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