Unauthorized Releases & Bootlegs
- bcsparker
- Joined: Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:41 am
- Location: Waging War With The DVD Monkey On My Back
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I have bought five DVDs from Revok.com.
EL TOPO - full screen, decent print, genital blurring (from Jap. LD)
HOLY MOUNTAIN - widescreen, good sound, genital blurring. Also because of something in the PAL transfer, widescreen image takes up top half of screen. Still watchable though.
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - decent print, uncut, GREAT COVER!
VIOLATION OF THE BITCH - kind of a soft print. I think that's how the film was shot, though.
HARD TARGET (work print) - widescreen, decent image, japanese subtitles that aren't removable. I like this cut, though.
So overall, I'm happy with their product. I realize now, all I have to do is get a region-free player and buy the original imports. But they do have several items that you won't find easily. I have been told by them that they will be coming out with a disc of Mario Bava's ultra rare film RABID DOGS in the next few months. Check them out if you like.
EL TOPO - full screen, decent print, genital blurring (from Jap. LD)
HOLY MOUNTAIN - widescreen, good sound, genital blurring. Also because of something in the PAL transfer, widescreen image takes up top half of screen. Still watchable though.
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - decent print, uncut, GREAT COVER!
VIOLATION OF THE BITCH - kind of a soft print. I think that's how the film was shot, though.
HARD TARGET (work print) - widescreen, decent image, japanese subtitles that aren't removable. I like this cut, though.
So overall, I'm happy with their product. I realize now, all I have to do is get a region-free player and buy the original imports. But they do have several items that you won't find easily. I have been told by them that they will be coming out with a disc of Mario Bava's ultra rare film RABID DOGS in the next few months. Check them out if you like.
- bcsparker
- Joined: Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:41 am
- Location: Waging War With The DVD Monkey On My Back
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- exte
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:27 pm
- Location: NJ
- stockton
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:03 pm
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Sorry, no idea about DVD...but people in Boston can catch 'Film' at the HFA on Feb 27.Looks like 5minutestolive.com has discontinued selling "Samuel Beckett's Film." Does anyone have any info as to who may be going to officially release this one?
Apologies for the digression
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- g30
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:47 am
- Location: Canada
I'm thinking of buying 'Reflections Of Evil' from www.bijouflix.com
Anyone familiar with the movie (it sounds interesting) or bijouflix?
Thanks,
G30
Anyone familiar with the movie (it sounds interesting) or bijouflix?
Thanks,
G30
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- Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:27 am
I've ordered many titles from Revok.com and am very happy with their customer support. As the import/export laws provide for an actual *legal* operation, they take themselves very seriously. I got a damaged DVD copy of Inglorious Bastards and they were excellent and curteous about sending me a replacement copy. I highly recommend them.Fletch F. Fletch wrote:Revok Film Prodigies: they carry stuff like Scorsese's early student films, David Lynch oddities like On the Air and Hotel Room, John Woo's workprint of Hard Target ...
I had been considering getting Elvis, Necronomicon, Blood Diner and probably Crimewave, but they're ordering system wasn't back up after the New Year the last time I tried to buy something.
- Fletch F. Fletch
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:54 pm
- Location: Provo, Utah
If you get Elvis could you please let me know how the quality is? I've been thinking about getting it myself.DrewReiber wrote:I had been considering getting Elvis, Necronomicon, Blood Diner and probably Crimewave, but they're ordering system wasn't back up after the New Year the last time I tried to buy something.
- exte
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:27 pm
- Location: NJ
How is Night and Fog in Japan? It's the first I've heard of it...
Is it a coincidence or does the title have a thematic relation to the original Night and Fog, sort of like Tokyo Olympiad...?Widely regarded as the most personal of director Nagisa Oshima's three 1960 films, Night and Fog in Japan centers around a gathering of former student activists, all of which protested the signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Preferring to let go of the past, the old protestors had regrouped for a mutual friend's marriage, and maintained a peaceful atmosphere until the last of their old companions arrives and immediately begins hurling accusations. Now a fugitive, the party crasher denounces the party as a charade and claims that those in attendance betrayed their own ideals in exchange for personal security. Before long, all pretenses of a happy reunion are thrown aside, and the marriage is reduced to an all-out brawl. Oshima himself was once a student protestor, and the film served as an open display of his disappointment with Japan's left-wing political movement meant to illustrate how those who once united in hopes of making a positive chance in Japanese society have denigrated into bickering, weak-minded versions of their former selves.
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- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:06 pm
- Location: Athens
"NIght and Fog in Japan" is a fairly complex political character drama that feels more staged than anything else I have seen from Oshima. I didnt care much for it, perhaps I am ignorant and indifferent of the communist - student - worker upheaval of the era. It does have its merits: as the narrative unravels in character-linked flashbacks, relations between the players, their alliances and relative importance shift, our viewpoint, sympathies and associations confused and challenged. The stage, tight, crowded and artificially lit as it is, acts more like a trap which forces all their lurking conflicts to surface and be conffronted. placing the camera often in the middle of the ensemble not only places the viewer among both the accusers and the accused but often acts like a suffocating device: the threat of not knowing who hovers over your shoulder (you get the point...).
Ultimately, I wouldnt recommend it.
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Hey, can we get that emoticon with the tongue sticking out?)
Ultimately, I wouldnt recommend it.
(this text was NOT spellchecked. You know who you are...
Hey, can we get that emoticon with the tongue sticking out?)
- Gordon
- Joined: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:03 am
From Super Happy, I ordered:
Face to Face (Bergman)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (2.35:1 from the Criterion Laser + second disc with the commentary!)
Voyage to the End of the Universe (Ikarie XB-1 / AIP dubbed version)
The Passenger (from the Japanese letterboxed Laser / Doubt we'll see a legit DVD anywhere)
The Stranger (Been wanting to see this for YEARS)
Jean-Pierre Melville: A Portait In 9 Poses (Great, rare docu on one of my fave filmmakers)
The Conformist (Paramount are wasting my time)
Neil Young: Weld (From the Laser / I love NY)
The Reflecting Skin (this should have had a legit DVD during the LOTR hype circus)
Sole Survivor (Legendary, ultra-rare TV-movie with Bill Shatner)
From Revok, I ordered the Scorsese set. American Boy is glorious! Plus, Neil Young's "Time Fades Away" on the soundtrack!
I have ordered "Blast of Silence" from 5 Minutes. Again, I have wanted to see this all my life. Glad to hear the PQ is good.
http://www.eurofilmsltd.com/
- "Pretty Poison", "Hitler: A Film from Germany" with English subs, among others
Where can I get John Huston's, "Freud"?
Face to Face (Bergman)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (2.35:1 from the Criterion Laser + second disc with the commentary!)
Voyage to the End of the Universe (Ikarie XB-1 / AIP dubbed version)
The Passenger (from the Japanese letterboxed Laser / Doubt we'll see a legit DVD anywhere)
The Stranger (Been wanting to see this for YEARS)
Jean-Pierre Melville: A Portait In 9 Poses (Great, rare docu on one of my fave filmmakers)
The Conformist (Paramount are wasting my time)
Neil Young: Weld (From the Laser / I love NY)
The Reflecting Skin (this should have had a legit DVD during the LOTR hype circus)
Sole Survivor (Legendary, ultra-rare TV-movie with Bill Shatner)
From Revok, I ordered the Scorsese set. American Boy is glorious! Plus, Neil Young's "Time Fades Away" on the soundtrack!
I have ordered "Blast of Silence" from 5 Minutes. Again, I have wanted to see this all my life. Glad to hear the PQ is good.
http://www.eurofilmsltd.com/
- "Pretty Poison", "Hitler: A Film from Germany" with English subs, among others
Where can I get John Huston's, "Freud"?
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- Gordon
- Joined: Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:03 am
- Blissful Sinner
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:24 pm
- The Elegant Dandy Fop
- Joined: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:25 am
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Anybody been to http://www.subcin.com/ ?
It has lot's of great films you can buy from the website master. I've been wanting to get the movie he owns of Groucho Marx smoking pot and jackie Gleason tripping on acid.
The site also has great sections for the unrealeased George Romero, Jerry Lewis, and Andy Kaufman films.
It has lot's of great films you can buy from the website master. I've been wanting to get the movie he owns of Groucho Marx smoking pot and jackie Gleason tripping on acid.
The site also has great sections for the unrealeased George Romero, Jerry Lewis, and Andy Kaufman films.