The Color of Pomegranates / Nran guyne (Sergei Paradjanov, 1969)
Note: the Kino (U.S.) and Films-Sans-Frontieres (France) discs are of the Armenian release version ("director's cut"); the Japanese (Columbia) and Russian (Russian Cinema Council) are of the Yutkevich cut. The Russian Cinema Council disc (part of the unsubtitled The Best Films of the Armenfilm Studio box set) is out of sync for at least half an hour of the film's running time, making it a non-starter. Actually, the Japanese disc doesn't look quite so pink when I've viewed it on a CRT monitor and plasma screen.
Captures from Kino's release of Assunta Spina. Individual thread located here
The last still is from the print of the film screened for Bertini in the documentary supplement. The scene, depicting Assunta being followed by her former lover Raffaele in a flooded street in Naples, is not included in the feature presentation on the disc.
It seems pretty certain that it's from the same master as the Czech and Spanish editions, though it's the only one with (optional) English subtitles. The Facets disc provides no competition whatsoever (now there's a surprise!).
As promised in the Griffith - Filmmakers thread, here are a series of stills from the first five volumes of Grapevine's series of D.W. Griffith Director series:
Restored by Cineteca Bologna. FRENCH AND ENGLISH SUBS!!!! And it only 14.90€.
As some of you know, the Strong Guy from Cabira got so popular they made a spin-off. This is the first one and more are coming up if you spend some money on this terrific release. Here Maciste is no longer a bodybuilder living 2000 years ago, but the actor from Cabiria being sought up by a damsel in distress who has just seen the movie and been impressed by his bending skills.
Last edited by Knappen on Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
OK, this may not be the right thread, but I figured I would get an answer quicker here. Please direct me to a more appropriate thread if need be.
I am trying to take screencaps of my some Region 2 DVDs, but they will not play on my computer with VLC. So far, I have been able to take screencaps from my R2 "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" DVDs. But "Celine and Julie Go Boating," "The Innocents," "Paperhouse," and "Kwaidan" will not play. Does anyone know why this is so? I was led to believe that VLC would play all discs.