Link your screen captures here to show off the quality (or lack thereof) of certain international DVDs that are, preferably, not shown on other websites. For organization purposes I'd appreciate it if each post only contained images from one particular DVD, unless it's a comparison.

Unfortunately due to bandwidth limitations users will be unable to post images directly onto this site. I suggest using an image hosting site (such as Photo Bucket or Image Shack) and then linking to those images from here.

I'd also appreciate it if the number of images per post were kept down to a reasonable amount, so that the thread doesn't take too too long to load and become too horrendous to look at. If images become dead (the red X) I may delete the images or delete the post, so you have fair warning.

Index of titles

Aîné des Ferchaux, L' (Magnet of Doom) - R2 Germany
Angel Exterminador, El (The Exterminating Angel) - R4
Armee des Ombres, L' (Army of Shadows) - R2/R4
Bandera, La - R2 France
Bellissima - R2
Blind Husbands - R2 France vs German
Brighton Rock - R2 UK
Caught - R2 France
Colour of Pornegranates - Comparison (Japan, France, USA)
David Lean Collection - R2 UK
Derriere Miroir, la (Bigger Than Life) - R2 France
Deuxième souffle, Le - R2 France
Devil, Probably, The - R2 Spain
Dr. Mabuses Meisterwerk: 6 Disc Box Set - R2 Germany
Fallen Angels - R4 France
Femme Mariee, Une - R3 Japan
Gang's All Here, The - R2 France - Fox Laser
General, The (2 Disc) - R4
Gueule d'Amour - R2 France
Happy Together - R0 Taiwan
Histoire de Marie et Julien - R4
Lancelot du Lac - R2
Lettre d'Une Inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman - R2 France
Lost Highway (2 Disc) - R4
Magic Flute, The - R2 France
Maria Chapdelaine - R2 France
Mes Petites Amoureuses - R2 France
Millenium Mambo- R4
Pandora's Box - R2 France
Porte des Lilas - R2 France
Red Desert - R4
Salamandre, La - R2 France
Satantango - R2
Sergio Sollima Italo-Western Box Set - R2 Germany
Seventh Heaven - R0 Spain
Silence de la mer, Le - R2 France
Subida al cieloR1 MexicoR2 UK
Tales of Hoffmann - Compare Criterion laserdisc with Criterion DVD
Tete d'un Homme, La - R2 France
Under Capricorn - R2 France
Valachi Papers, The - R2 UK
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) - R4
Westfront - R2 Germany
Woman in the Window, The - R0 Spain
With Beauty and Sorrow - Compare Shochiku R2 Japan with Panorama R3 HK

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GOOD MAN!! I don't know if it was in PM or on a thread but I was only recently discussing with zedz or Dave Hare that this would be an incredible idea and a great supplement to the Beev. Excellent!

Three samples from the attractive new R2 PAL UK anamorphic edition of The Valachi Papers. Note that this is the Studio Canal edition, not the other recent UK release by Orbit Media, which has had very poor reviews on Amazon and IMDb.





Not sure if this 16:9 aspect ratio is correct, though. The reviews of the Sony R1 disc mention 1.85:1.

(Note to admin: feel free to delete if I've done this wrong!)

Here are four sets of screen captures (between the Panorama R3 HK and Shochiku R2 Japan) that show how washed out,
cropped, stretched, green tinted and painful the brilliant Shinoda Masahiro film (adapted from Kawabata)
With Beauty and Sorrow can be. Unfortunately, the only one of these with english subtitles is the Panorama,
but hopefully that will one day change, as this is one of my favorite Shinoda films, and deserves
better treatment and a larger audience (who couldn't be blamed for disliking the Panorama).
I'm posting these because I would hate for anyone, like me, to have been violently turned away from the film
while watching the Panorama because it's a completely different animal in it's correct state.

They're both NTSC and have the same running time, however the anamorphic Shochiku is dual layered
and averages about 8.0 MBps while the Panorama is single layered averaging about 5.7 MBps.
With this collection of captures I'll place the Shochiku first and the Panorama second. These captures
were taken on PowerDVD (the files are on a geocities account, and there may be limits on viewing, if this
becomes a problem I'll move them to another site).

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Capture 4:

Attempting to transfer previously posted caps here;

The French Universal Under Capricorn:

Fixed (but rippable) French subs;

Excellent progressive stable image far FAR superior to the old Image disc. This transfer is reportedly available on other Euro Universals.

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Bellissima Italian R2, Medusa:

Absolutely one of the most beautiful B&W transfers I own. Optional white English and Spanish subs and copious extras including IVs with Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Zefirelli and Piero Tosi. Extras not subbed.

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Tales of Hoffmann.

The Criterion laserdisc from 1995 top (with what I consider the correct color balance for blue) and the Criterion DVD below from the Studio Canal source which I consider to be blue-supressed, green biased:



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From the Warner UK edition of Brighton Rock (1947). Some damage and dirt on the print (see capture 6). Otherwise a pleasing transfer.

Dr. Mabuses Meisterwerk - Box Set (6 DVDs) from Germany


Audio: German
Subtitles: none!!

Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse)


Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse (The Return of Dr. Mabuse)


Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse (The Invisible Dr. Mabuse)


Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)


Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse)


Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse (The Death Ray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse)

R4 Vivre Sa Vie (Madman/Av Channel)

Great progressive transfer. Additional commentary by Adrian Martin and the short Une Histoire d'Eau:

El Angel Exterminador R4 (AV Channel):

A port of the UK disc. I agree with Gary Tooze, a disappointingly soft image with some brighness enhancement, and a couple of inserted second gen-ny shots. Not bad, but the movie needs the Criterion treatment.

Adrian Martin Commentary track and Booklet essay.

that transfer looks amazing, is there a link for any site that'll sell to Americans?

I would also love to purchase that r4 Vivra sa Vie.

(I'll post screencaps here in the future, so it's not a wasted post)

found it on eBay, some American is selling 30 of them:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0007078657

damn, If criterion doesnt announce vivra sa vie for December, I'll be inclined to pick that up. thanks for the link

can anyone post caps of this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 9145317219

(man, that seller has the tinto brass boxset for 94.99 US. I bought it for 15 pounds and sold it for 40$...)

Ahhh GUYS!!!!!!

Dont you all know the Australian etailer by now??


www.ezydvd.com.au

Undoubtedly there are others.

Eeek! I want those Star Wars and Kill Bill exclusive tins so bad!

too bad I can't buy them seperately...

As a further taunt

upcoming caps of the R4 Millenium Mambo which is totally gorgeous!! It's as drastic an improvement over existing DVDs as the Accent Fallen Angels.

Give me a couple of hours,,,

R4 Millenium Mambo (Accent - please not I cannot find this title on any Oz etailers currently):

Time flies... that was the fastest couple hours I ever seen rip by, Monsieur Harestralie.

Va te faire enculer, mon choux!

Your avatar is spinning off in the wrong direction... Jeder macht eine kleine misspent crotch sweat.

..or as Mr. Moto would calmly nod and say "O so?"