Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional images)

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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#551 Post by ellipsis7 » Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:12 am

Seems comparable imagewise with the French subbed Carlotta CAMELIE (in their MA set with RED DESERT & CRONACA DI UN AMORE)...

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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#552 Post by eltopo » Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:14 am

The Story of Sin (1975)

DVD Poland (Propaganda Film)
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Walerian Borowczyk on DVD

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#553 Post by MichaelB » Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:38 pm

Mr Bongo's El Bruto, with framegrabs chosen to match the ones in this Beaver review of the Facets edition. I haven't seen that in motion, but it's obvious just from the framegrabs that Mr Bongo's edition is significantly better, with a brighter, clearer picture offering more detail.

The print source was clearly the same, as the damage is identical (though the four-way tramline is thankfully brief) - but, as the last grab reveals, the interlacing present on the Facets is not an issue here: it's a progressive transfer that appears to be native PAL (it's three minutes shorter than the Facets, which one would expect as a by-product of PAL speedup).

In a nutshell, far from perfect, but very watchable (it looks better in motion than the screencaps suggest), and I doubt there'll be a superior edition along any time soon.

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#554 Post by MichaelB » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:07 pm

...and here's Mr Bongo's Susana, again with grabs chosen to match this Beaver review of the Facets edition.

Not much to say: the Facets looks dreadful, whereas Mr Bongo's disc, while clearly from an analogue tape source, is very watchable indeed - as with El Bruto, it looks better in motion than these grabs suggest. I'm guessing that both versions had a common source, but Mr Bongo's appears to be much less compromised.

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#555 Post by MichaelB » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:39 pm

Second Run's A Blonde in Love, taken from a final production copy. Grabs chosen to match this Beaver comparison.

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#556 Post by martin » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:41 am

Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960).

Top: French blu-ray, Gaumont, NO ENGLISH SUBS (click the images for full 1920x1080 res.)
Bottom: Criterion Collection dvd

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The French blu-ray has no English subs, and is missing a brief scene, that is on the Criterion DVD. It's listed as Region ABC on the cover.

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#557 Post by ola t » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:02 pm

From the Portuguese "Raúl Ruiz - Raridades" box set, discussed in the Ruiz on DVD thread. More caps are available here. All the films have English subtitles (except when the dialogue is already in English). Point de fuite has burnt-in French subtitles in the scenes where English is spoken.

I admit that I have no idea if the software I'm using (Totem Movie Player on Ubuntu) is actually much good.

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Point de fuite

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Love Torn in Dream

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Again, there's more here.

EDIT: Apologies for the previously non-working images.

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#558 Post by DanV » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:02 pm

You Only Live Once BD

Region B, C.
codec: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p; feature size: 22, 2 GB
Audio: DTS-HD 2.0 (It), Dolby Digital 2.0 (Eng, It)
Subs: Italian (HoH)

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and: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

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#559 Post by BsRoz » Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:54 pm

That Obscure Object of Desire - Italian BD

Region B/C locked. DTS-HD 2.0 Italian track, Dolby Digital 2.0 French and Italian track.

Italians SDH subs, no English subs.
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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#560 Post by DanV » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:47 am

Ladri di Biciclette (Italian BD)

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p.; feature size: 21, 1 GB.
AR 1.33:1
Audio: DTS-HD 2.0, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Languages: Italian.
Subs: Italian (HoH), English.

PS. the English subs are great.

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#561 Post by DanV » Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:42 pm

just another couple of grabs from the Italian disc of Bicycle Thieves (compare with DVDBeaver) )

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#562 Post by BrianInAtlanta » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:44 am

Images from 1PM DVD (Pennebaker Hegedus Films DVD):

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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#563 Post by swo17 » Sat May 14, 2011 1:17 am

Len Lye: Rhythms (Re:Voir DVD-R, R0 PAL) buy from BFI Filmstore

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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#564 Post by MichaelB » Sat May 28, 2011 10:09 am

The BFI's Un Chien andalou, taken from the DVD (I can't do Blu-ray captures, but the source master is the same). The images were deliberately chosen to match these Beaver grabs:

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Conclusion: although obviously sourced from the same 1960 restoration and showing many of the same issues regarding age-related damage, even the 576p version of the new BFI transfer is a very noticeable improvement on the old BFI one, which in turn was clearly superior to the Facets. The 1080p version isn't a dramatic advance, but it does offer noticeably more detail.
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#565 Post by MichaelB » Sat May 28, 2011 10:43 am

...and here's the BFI's new L'Âge d'or, again from the DVD, grabs also chosen to match this Beaver review. The 1080p version is dramatically better (a much more marked improvement over the 576p version than is the case with Un Chien andalou), but even this version shows a distinct advance on the previous edition, not least because it's been framed correctly at 1.19:1 - there's much more at the top of the compositions than there was before.

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#566 Post by swo17 » Sat May 28, 2011 11:04 am

For comparison to the BFI of Un chien andalou, stills from the Filmoteca Española DVD:

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#567 Post by MichaelB » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:06 am

Second Run's Szindbád, sourced from the recent Hungarian National Film Archive transfer. Note that this is from a test pressing on DVD-R, not the final production version.

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#568 Post by zedz » Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:35 pm

You have just sold a dozen copies of Szindbad.

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#569 Post by knives » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:05 pm

...And one salad. Seriously everything about this film that is introduced to me makes me want to throw a feast.

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#570 Post by feckless boy » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:29 am

Merry-Go-Round (1981, Rivette). PAL, R2, dual-layered, Ripley's Home Video, no English subtitles (forced Italian subtitles, but not burnt-in).

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Merry-Go-Round (1981, Rivette)

#571 Post by martin » Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:26 am

Merry-Go-Round (1981, Rivette).

Two sceen captures from the German Kinowelt/Arthaus 4-disc Rivette box for comparison.
PAL, R2, dual-layered, no English subtitles (German subs, not forced).

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#572 Post by MichaelB » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:46 am

Second Sight's long-awaited The Colour of Pomegranates, the first three grabs deliberately chosen to match this comparison.

The subtitles are optional, but I thought I'd include them on one grab so you can see what they look like - and also to show that Second Sight have conscientiously identified the language being spoken.

[rest of post deleted because of superior grabs below]
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#573 Post by David M. » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:30 am

I've uploaded some screen captures taken via DGIndex, so without the aliasing seen above :)

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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#574 Post by der_Artur » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:16 am

MichaelB wrote:Second Sight's long-awaited The Colour of Pomegranates, the first three grabs deliberately chosen to match this comparison.

The subtitles are optional, but I thought I'd include them on one grab so you can see what they look like - and also to show that Second Sight have conscientiously identified the language being spoken.

[rest of post deleted because of superior grabs below]
So with the SecondSight website stating the language as Georgian this release is one of the so called "Director's Cut", am I right? The releases of this film confuse me.

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Re: Screen Captures (5-6 per post + links to additional imag

#575 Post by jsteffe » Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:32 pm

The Second Sight website is unintentionally misleading, I'm afraid. It will definitely be the Yutkevich version, which has (mostly) the same soundtrack as the Armenian release version (the so-called "director's cut") but uses Russian-language credits and chapter titles. Most of the soundtrack is actually in Armenian, though there is a smaller amount of Georgian and Azerbaijani Turkish. (The poet Sayat-Nova wrote in all three languages.)

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