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Looks like the floodgates are starting to open on bigger titles for UHD - Gladiator, Braveheart, and Jurassic Park are all up for preorder.
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FancyMike posted:Japan is blu-ray region A so if you're in the US any imports should play just fine. I never knew this. But still a lot of Japanese blu-rays don't include English subtitles. This is why I had to wait forever to see Shin Godzilla.
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CPL593H posted:I never knew this. But still a lot of Japanese blu-rays don't include English subtitles. This is why I had to wait forever to see Shin Godzilla. That's interesting. Because back in the day, Japanese DVDs weren't in the same region as NA, but they all had English subtitles. I have all of these Japanese DVDs that I can't watch right now because my region free DVD player broke and I never bothered replacing. RIP my Shunji Iwai collection.
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Nihonniboku posted:That's interesting. Because back in the day, Japanese DVDs weren't in the same region as NA, but they all had English subtitles. I have all of these Japanese DVDs that I can't watch right now because my region free DVD player broke and I never bothered replacing. Life is pain.
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The DVD of Ichi The Killer my friend brought back from Japan for me sure didn't have english subs 
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handsome only face posted:I just found out about it but Takeshi Kitano's entire back catalogue of directed movies got released in supposedly region free, english subtitled bluray back in september. I ordered got a couple of them off amazon japan while they have a sale the next couple days but the shipping/import fees probably would turn off most. They're not that cheap individually either but I believe it's the first time some of them have been released other than DVD The Film Movement Classics releases of Violent Cop and Boiling Point are top notch, too.
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CPL593H posted:I never knew this. But still a lot of Japanese blu-rays don't include English subtitles. This is why I had to wait forever to see Shin Godzilla. Hong Kong and Korea are also region A now, and every Hong Kong release (blu or dvd) I've watched has had Egnlish subs, though sometimes they aren't great. Still worth going region free, which is pretty easy these days. There are a lot of great region B releases that can be had pretty cheap through Amazon UK.
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What's region C then? I could have sworn some things I ordered from Amazon.jp were not region a.
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MacheteZombie posted:What's region C then? I could have sworn some things I ordered from Amazon.jp were not region a. 
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Steve Yun posted:Anyone here interested in adult anime? I'm pretty sure this has been considered as a lost media for a while, that's interesting.
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Steve Yun posted:Anyone here interested in adult anime? Those are part of the same series as Belladonna of Sadness, right?
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Steve Yun posted:Anyone here interested in adult anime? I'm interested in keeping my job. So you should have that.(I only clicked it because GonSmithe said "lost media" and I took that as a film that was thought to be previously lost forever.)
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Shoombo posted:Those are part of the same series as Belladonna of Sadness, right? I'm not sure if it was intended that way, but I'm certainly making a dedicated section on my bookshelf for them, next to the Jena Malone section. IUG posted:I'm interested in keeping my job. So you should have adult anime
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Shoombo posted:Those are part of the same series as Belladonna of Sadness, right? Yep. The series was a last-ditch attempt to bring some money in for Tezuka Productions. The first two movies, Cleopatra and 1001 Nights, are relatively standard because they thought they still had some hope of surviving as a studio. When they made Belladonna of Sadness, the end was pretty much in sight, so they basically just said "gently caress it" and made the most batshit thing they could, from what I understand. e: like, I'm not going to say the earlier two movies are completely normal but they're... certainly not Belladonna of Sadness.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Yep. The series was a last-ditch attempt to bring some money in for Tezuka Productions. The first two movies, Cleopatra and 1001 Nights, are relatively standard because they thought they still had some hope of surviving as a studio. When they made Belladonna of Sadness, the end was pretty much in sight, so they basically just said "gently caress it" and made the most batshit thing they could, from what I understand. Probably look real pretty though.
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Shoombo posted:Probably look real pretty though. Well, yeah, it's Osamu Tezuka.
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Looks like Warner Bros. is now regularly licensing to Shout! Factory. Besides the It's Alive trilogy being announced, they just confirmed The Curse of the Cat People and Night of the Lepus.
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Egbert Souse posted:Looks like Warner Bros. is now regularly licensing to Shout! Factory. Besides the It's Alive trilogy being announced, they just confirmed The Curse of the Cat People and Night of the Lepus. glad the superior cat people movie is getting a release
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I finally have an excuse to trade out the old Val Lewton double feature DVD for two great restored specialty releases.
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The BBC is up-scaling season 12 of Doctor Who (Tom Baker's first season) for Blu-ray release in June.
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Parallax posted:glad the superior cat people movie is getting a release  Makes a great double feature with The Night of the Hunter.
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More Kino Lorber releases: 4/17 - Camp Nowhere 4/24 - The Holy Mountain (1926) 5/1 - Jane Austen's Mafia!, Legend of the Mountain (4K restoration) 5/15 - The Sacrifice (new 4K restoration) 5/22 - Fistful of Dollars (new 4K restoration) 6/5 - Under Capricorn (new 4K restoration), The Woman in the Window 6/26 - The Martian Chronicles, The Pink Panther Cartoons Vol. 2 TBD - The Day After, For a Few Dollars More (new 4K), Gone to Earth/The Wild Heart (Powell & Pressburger), Irma La Douce (new 4K), Kundun, The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler (new 4Ks), Old Ironsides, The Outer Limits: Season 2, Trilogy of Terror They're also planning to release the Dollars Trilogy on UHD this or next year. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Egbert Souse posted:TBD - The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler (new 4Ks) Hell yes
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Egbert Souse posted:More Kino Lorber releases: Seeing the words "The Holy Mountain" on there was such a cock tease.
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CPL593H posted:Seeing the words "The Holy Mountain" on there was such a cock tease. I put the (1926) there for a reason. The Fanck/Riefenstahl film is highly regarded and pretty much everything coming from the Murnau Foundation looks fantastic. Though, I finally picked up the ABKCO Blu-ray of Jodorowsky's film when it was on sale on Amazon. I thought it looks very good for a Techniscope film, even if the contrast could be a little tighter. A new 4K would certainly look better, but I wouldn't expect a night and day difference.
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Egbert Souse posted:I put the (1926) there for a reason. The Fanck/Riefenstahl film is highly regarded and pretty much everything coming from the Murnau Foundation looks fantastic. I thought it was still out of print. People were charging crazy money for it.
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Egbert Souse posted:They're also planning to release the Dollars Trilogy on UHD this or next year.
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david_a posted:Their recent wonky Good Bad Ugly release was standard HD only, right? I guess it’s too early to tell if they’ll tweak that transfer for UHD? Seems like it might since they said they're working with L'immagine Ritrovata on the color timing this time. Also, they confirmed on Facebook that The Atomic Cafe is coming soon from a new 4K restoration.
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Edward Mass posted:The BBC is up-scaling season 12 of Doctor Who (Tom Baker's first season) for Blu-ray release in June. This is an odd choice since the first story was shot entirely on video and I think another one was that season too. Like it may look better in the US since now US TVs aren't an inferior standard but overall, hmm.
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I think PAL 25fps can fit within 1080i by just duplicating every third frame. The Beatles 1+ set has a lot of 25fps content (either from film or video) encoded this way and it looks quite nice.
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I found a sealed copy of Aspen Extreme today for $1. Not the greatest find, but that’s a surprisingly difficult movie to find.
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Egbert Souse posted:I think PAL 25fps can fit within 1080i by just duplicating every third frame. Doesn’t that... look choppy?
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Steve Yun posted:Doesn’t that... look choppy? I mean it'd probably look indecipherable unless you were really keen on finding it, but wouldn't that 2 seconds of audio lag every minute? The audio dragging on fractionally longer would be more noticeable I'd think, as would slowing it down (the pitch shift on any DVD copy of a US show to when I might rarely catch it on television is astoundingly different).
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It looks a little strange because it looks "faster" than normal 24fps or 29.94fps content, but nothing choppy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblYSKz_VnI
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The Matrix UHD - May 22 New 4K remaster with Dolby Vision supervised by DoP Bill Pope with a new Dolby Atmos track. Looks like it has all the extras from prior editions, including four commentries. Also, Peter Pan: Signature Edition on June 5 Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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Egbert Souse posted:More Kino Lorber releases: Legend of the Mountain is really good and the new restoration is stunning. Definitely the prettiest King Hu film I've seen and the pacing of it is great for 190 minutes. Glad it's getting a quick US release so I won't have to import the UK disc. Janus has had Dragon Inn for two years now and still no news about an actual release.
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Two big pieces of news from today. June's Criterion titles: Female Trouble The Virgin Spring Bowling or Columbine El Sur Manile in the Claws of the Light Shout! Factory gains the rights to 270 Roger Corman films. According to the news, not only do they get the distribution rights, they can also produce sequels to those titles.
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For those of you that don't get the Newsletter Vinegar Syndrome has started shipping the March preorders, and April's releases are now up for preorder.Vinegar Syndrome posted:Keeping with our pledge to maximize horror releases this year, we've dedicated all three of our April Blu-ray slots to horror titles of varying types. Scroll down for the release announcements.
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Liar Lyre posted:June's Criterion titles:  I hope they keep doing this and release Desperate Living next. Lowkey the best John Waters film.
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