Don't think so... The figure of 122 mins comes from Perry & Prieto's MA: Refs and Resources, Carlo di Carlo's recent MA book published by CineCitta, Chatman, Rohdie etc.... Of course this may be one of those facts that enters common currency... My maths, which may well be rusty, works out as 1.00/1.04 x 122 = 117.31 or so, which could round up to 118 mins... Similarly if it was 121 mins it would come out at 116.35 or so, as you say...MichaelB wrote:The UK release version was 10,890 feet, which translates to 121 minutes exactly.ellipsis7 wrote:The Fox Lorber disc runs 115 mins, while the original release duration is recorded as 122 mins...
And if you apply PAL speedup to that, you get just over 116 minutes. Was the Fox Lorber disc from a PAL source?
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OK, the British figure is irrelevant because it was cut by the BBFC on its original release, so I'm happy to go along with 122.
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It`s up for pre-order @ HMV
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I have a Philips DVP642 that (thanks to the pressing of a few buttons) plays multi-region titles & PAL/NTSC. However, it doesn't upconvert. Based on the huge improvement that is evident when, say, watching Criterion's Dazed and Confused upconverted on my Toshiba A-3 HD DVD player (as opposed to how the disc looks un-upconverted on the Philips), I've gotten the impression that a merely average R1 probably looks better upconverted by my A-3 than a beautiful MoC title looks unconverted by the Philips.davidhare wrote:I think you should take the dive and buy a multi-region player
I think I read about that in the "Blu-ray vs. HD DVD" thread, but it sounded pretty complicated and risky. I guess that, if there's a good, relatively inexpensive upconverting Standard Def DVD player that can be easily set for multi-region with a few button mashes, I might swap out the Philips for something like that.I dont know much about this but apparently somone invented a hack which turns the US Toshiba A2 player into both multi region and PAL compliant.
Well, is that multi-region for just HD DVDs (like our U.S. players) or multi-region & NTSC/PAL for SD DVDs, too? Because (especially if/once fire sale prices on HD DVD players kick in) that could be an awfully tempting option for replacing the Philips.Of course all the Euro/Oz Tosh players are now capable of All Region.
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I have always held the idea in my head that in the 60s, non-scope (2.35:1) Italian films were almost always hard-matted to 1.66:1, but were often protected for 1.85, unlike in France where everything was composed for 1.66:1, though hard-matting was less common. 1.75:1 was also common in Italy, judging from my bungling research over the years.
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Well beyond that - in fact, it's a very convenient aspect ratio for the late 1970s/early 1980s video era, where it was in filmmakers'/distributors' commercial interests to be as 4:3-friendly as possible.davidhare wrote:Certainly France and the UK seem to favor 1.66 at least until the mid 70s.
Most cinemas couldn't show 4:3 by then, so 1.66:1 was the next best option, as it only involved shaving a relatively small amount off the top and bottom.
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A number of other factors also contribute towards whether a disc is £17.99, £19.99, £22.99 or £24.99 -- such as: the cost of acquiring the title and the cost of restoration.
With this title, we wanted to devote the entire disc to the film (and the trailer) -- so it's a 7GB DVD9, anamorphic, pillarboxed 1.66:1 transfer, and nicely cleaned up too. I'm proofing it at the moment and I can't keep my eyes off it --- looks marvellous.
If we could have found something else really decent to accompany the film we could have gone to 2 x discs, and bumped the price to £22.99 -- but it would also have delayed the title, and thus others, by a few months. We're having to make harsh (but ultimately sound, I think) decisions about how much time and effort to expend on each release -- and I'd rather concentrate on the essentials.
So, we're concentrating on getting the transfer and subtitles as good as possible and putting all our efforts into the book. We're bumping the book to 56-pages.
I'll post some grabs of LA NOTTE and CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI / UWASA NO ONNA tonight/tomorrow. The current preorder prices on Amazon for both these are pretty hot and will no doubt rise once the title comes out.
With this title, we wanted to devote the entire disc to the film (and the trailer) -- so it's a 7GB DVD9, anamorphic, pillarboxed 1.66:1 transfer, and nicely cleaned up too. I'm proofing it at the moment and I can't keep my eyes off it --- looks marvellous.
If we could have found something else really decent to accompany the film we could have gone to 2 x discs, and bumped the price to £22.99 -- but it would also have delayed the title, and thus others, by a few months. We're having to make harsh (but ultimately sound, I think) decisions about how much time and effort to expend on each release -- and I'd rather concentrate on the essentials.
So, we're concentrating on getting the transfer and subtitles as good as possible and putting all our efforts into the book. We're bumping the book to 56-pages.
I'll post some grabs of LA NOTTE and CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI / UWASA NO ONNA tonight/tomorrow. The current preorder prices on Amazon for both these are pretty hot and will no doubt rise once the title comes out.
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Great price on Amazon... I'm eagerly awaiting this... 'pillarboxed' & 'anamorphic' means presumably means we get every little bit of left and right of frame, the complete composition, with negligible clipping top and bottom of frame as it is 1.66:1...
As regards extras, I'm happy to hear the film looks so good (awaiting keenly the screengrabs) which is the main thing....
Only outstanding potential extra I can think of is 1997 docu CARO ANTONIONI reedited substantially as DEAR ANTONIONI for BBC Arena... That said it does not particularly feature LA NOTTE, so would not be worth delaying to include...
What this film needs is a really decent release, which MoC is giving it... Garlands and gratitude await...
As regards extras, I'm happy to hear the film looks so good (awaiting keenly the screengrabs) which is the main thing....
Only outstanding potential extra I can think of is 1997 docu CARO ANTONIONI reedited substantially as DEAR ANTONIONI for BBC Arena... That said it does not particularly feature LA NOTTE, so would not be worth delaying to include...
What this film needs is a really decent release, which MoC is giving it... Garlands and gratitude await...
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The MoC La notte page has now gone live.
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We settled on 1.66:1 pillarboxed anamorphic, as per my previous post with screengrabs.
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Is La Notte actually confirmed to be coming from Criterion at some point or just speculation?justeleblanc wrote:I'm waiting for the Criterion release, but only so the three of them match on my shelf.
Also, with the upcoming Scorsese Criterion disc, I assume the Criterion disc would have some sort of Scorsese/Antonioni feature. That may of course be on the MoC disc as well. Still, matching spines.