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119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:08 am
by MichaelB
THE TRIPLE ECHO
(Michael Apted, 1972)
Release date: 18 March 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)
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Michael Apted made his feature-film debut with this distinctive drama based on the novella of the same name by H E Bates. Reuniting Glenda Jackson with her
Women in Love co-star Oliver Reed, the film also stars a young Brian Deacon (
Vampyres, A Zed & Two Noughts).
When a young soldier (Deacon) deserts his outfit and hides in a remote farm, the farm owner (Jackson) and he fall in love. But their idyll is shattered by the arrival of a boorish, violent army sergeant (Reed) searching for his AWOL recruit.
Unconventional and superbly played,
The Triple Echo is one of the finest British films of the 1970s. Long overlooked and unjustly neglected, this powerful drama is now ripe for rediscovery, and is presented in a brand new 2K restoration from the film’s newly rediscovered original negative.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
• New 2K restoration by Powerhouse Films from the original negative
• Original mono audio
• Interview with director Michael Apted (2019): the award-winning filmmaker discusses
The Triple Echo in this new and exclusive interview
• Interview with actor Brian Deacon (2019)
• Interview with composer Marc Wilkinson (2019)
• Interview with editor Barrie Vince (2019)
• Interview with costume designer Emma Porteus (2019)
• Neil Sinyard on ‘The Triple Echo’ (2019): a new appreciation by the author and film historian
• Super 8 version: original cut-down home-cinema presentation
• Theatrical trailer
• Teaser trailer
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Pasquale Ianonne, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• World premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
• All extras subject to change
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BBFC cert: TBC
REGION B
EAN: 5037899071755
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Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:03 pm
by eerik
Wow,
the trailer really grabbed my attention.
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:15 am
by M Sanderson
Great that they’re initiating their own restorations, as not all of the intriguing movies - in particular, British - Indicator have had access to have benefited from state of the art restoration jobs. I’m very glad to see them take on this responsibility, and for the company to develop.
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:56 pm
by MichaelB
I'm very happy to confirm that this has Indicator's strongest batch of original interviews since Charlie Bubbles last November, and their combined running time isn't that far short of the main feature.
This sort of thing is always pot luck, because even if you can track the relevant people down at all (assuming they're still alive) and persuade them to appear on camera, there's no guarantee that they'll remember much about a nearly fifty-year-old film - but everyone here has excellent recall, possibly because they all seem genuinely proud of their work on it. Although Brian Deacon makes working with Oliver Reed sound absolutely petrifying both on camera and off, not least because Reed downed half a bottle of vodka before filming their big set-piece scene (no spoilers, but those who know the film will know exactly what I'm referring to).
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:11 am
by MichaelB
Final specs:
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:50 pm
by MichaelB
Beaver:
Indicator bring Michael Apted's debut film "The Triple Echo" to Blu-ray with a new 2k restoration from the original negative. The film is housed on a dual-layered disc with a completely maxed out bitrate. The 1.85:1 image looks very clean, with an appropriate amount of grain. The restoration work here is outstanding, with a strong contrast in darker scenes, still showing lots of detail without any crushing blacks. This film is shot by cinematographer John Coquillon, notable for also lensing "The Changeling" and "Straw Dogs", and his work looks stunning thanks to this immaculate transfer. Indicator are really at the top of their game.
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 5:50 pm
by MichaelB
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:08 am
by MichaelB
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:32 pm
by swo17
Wow, this did a great job of ratcheting up the tension throughout, so subtly that it takes a minute to realize things are off, but still so inevitably that it can't help but end in an explosion. It's perfectly cast as well--I don't think I've ever enjoyed Jackson or Reed as much as I did here, and Deacon is just the right type to be able to pull off his delicate pivotal role. It's crazy that the U.S. tried to sell this as a comedy!
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 4:24 pm
by MichaelB
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:14 pm
by M Sanderson
Superlative transfer. Colour, detail, black levels, grain intact; everything is of the highest standard. As with the other restoration job Indicator did, Immaculate Conception. These releases deserve our support, they get mine fully, and I hope for plenty more gems receiving this treatment.
Triple Echo is a fine, intriguing chamber drama. Intriguing interplay between Jackson and Deacon as they come into conflict, both trying to control the image and the identity of the female persona Deacon is to take on. Horrible feeling of entrapment as Deacon goes to the dance with Reed. Reed really is magnificently loathsome, here.
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:57 pm
by therewillbeblus
The power of the tense social suffocation and dissolve of identity is only at their unbearable extremes because of the airy scenes of limitless freedom and harmonious bliss our leads bask in during the first act. Their laughter and playfulness mimics that of Eden, innocent and safe, until they’re not, and the fleeting serenity is violated with darkness, as the mise en scene becomes full of literal mud and brown shades of murkiness, and the smog of anxiety clouds up the very spaces that were clear and clean, flooding stress that strains a previously gleeful union. The film would not have functioned nearly as well without so much generous time and effortless emphasis given to the priceless unobstructed happiness that freedom grants, and too many lesser films have taken the same route without the consideration to set the stage with the patient or intelligence for a mindful wind-up. The pacing and attention to detail are so exquisite in their expositions that the elliptical nature swallows up the gifts that were dangled at the start. The fragility of identity and the flexibility of limits are tested against the grain of the confident foundation of two self-actualized souls, and reveal the relative nature of man’s adaptability, compromise, hostility, and disintegration in the face of threats to such freedoms.
Jackson's final act of shooting Deacon to spare him, coldly and confidently from an elevated distance without communicated termination, contrasts with their reciprocal warm intimacy from the beginning, but with equal confidence and oddly synonymous with the ultimate declaration of love (after a long middle act of angst and resentment). It's truly powerful in its journey back to closing the loop, and even optimistic at its core that was thought to be swallowed in the shadows of realism.
Another superb discovery from the label. It's amazing that a film this lean can feel so full, as it seemingly trudges through every micro-stage from loose comfort to strangulating total crisis.
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:18 pm
by swo17
The UK release is "very low stock" but this is getting a new limited run for US/CA, being described as "an exact port" of the UK edition. Also, this movie is great
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:25 pm
by MichaelB
Yes, aside from minor cosmetic localisation issues on the sleeve and disc (no BBFC certs, for instance), the US edition will be identical to the UK one, including the machine-readable side of the disc.
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:32 pm
by swo17
Can they change the cover to the original U.S. poster art?
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Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 7:46 pm
by Pavel
Hopefully US reissues will help me get some of the OOP titles I missed
Re: 119 The Triple Echo
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:54 am
by MichaelB
Specs for the US edition (whose disc is identical to the UK one, but the wording at the end has been tweaked slightly to acknowledge the US print run).
