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I went and borrowed the Swedish edition of La notte released by Atlantic Film at my local library and was surprised to see the Eureka/Masters of Cinema logo come up when starting the film. That was a first for me. Has anyone experienced that with some other film not released by Eureka/MoC themselves?
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The Australian release of Shoah by Umbrella Entertainment has the MoC logo on the disc menu and the Eureka MoC pre-roll. It even includes the 'Friendly Notice' after the film which starts "For sale in the UK and Ireland only."Flanell wrote:Has anyone experienced that with some other film not released by Eureka/MoC themselves?
Initially I thought they had just copied the UK discs directly, but there is also an Umbrella opening sequence so the discs must have been re-authored. Most likely they licensed the content from Eureka.
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The Metropolis screening at the Warwick student cinema the other week had the Eureka!/MoC stuff at the start of the film so the branding for that was on the UK digital "print".
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Blu Ray 1080P upgrade for April 2013 - superb news! Well done MoC!!...
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If I remember rightly, the DVD sold surprisingly well, so it's not a huge surprise. Great news, though.
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Re: 61 La notte
So the new BD is going to have extra scenes that were previously cut? A world first?
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Where have they said that? Their Twitter claimed 'This release will include the same features/56-page-booklet as our previous DVD edition from a few years ago'.manicsounds wrote:So the new BD is going to have extra scenes that were previously cut? A world first?
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On their FB page:neilist wrote:Where have they said that? Their Twitter claimed 'This release will include the same features/56-page-booklet as our previous DVD edition from a few years ago'.manicsounds wrote:So the new BD is going to have extra scenes that were previously cut? A world first?
LA NOTTE [THE NIGHT]
One of the masterworks of 1960s art cinema and one of the very finest by Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau – upgraded in a brand new 1080p presentation in the film's original 1.66:1 aspect ratio and with previously censored sequences restored for the first time. Released in a Blu-ray edition; worldwide Blu-ray première.
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Those scenes were on the MoC DVD... What has changed, apart from the release format, is the cover, which now adapts the original US release artwork, an image on the golf course the morning after... In reality the exclusive modernist clubhouse was the setting that MA used for the all night party in the film...
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Wasn't there talk of a Criterion BD being delayed because of problems with the elements? Seems like those problems have been solved.
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Will it be region free, or is too early to tell?
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Given the Italian source, I'd assume Region B unless otherwise confirmed.
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Any chance of the commentary on the Madman Australian disc being ported over? It would make the upgrade to Blu even sweeter.
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I do a nonspecialist blog for the elusive "common reader." Here are a few thoughts on La notte.
- ellipsis7
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Amazon have notified that this is pushed back to 20th May...
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According to their Facebook page, it will be released on August 25th.
Unfortunately I have another change of release date to report. Due to unforeseen circumstances LA NOTTE will now be released on 25 August
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Hah...may be we will see at least CC announcing the Trilogy before that.
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Is is safe to assume that the MoC will also be the 4K restoration?
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"Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups." –Stanley Kubrick (and LA NOTTE was one of his favourite films).FrauBlucher wrote:Is is safe to assume that the MoC will also be the 4K restoration?
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I might have to get both the MoC version for the original AR and the Criterion version for the expectedly cleaner image, then. How I hate doing that!
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From the MoC twitter:
MoC wrote:Just to clarify and update, our new Blu-ray edition of Antonioni's LA NOTTE will be 1.85, and has updated on the site. The new master is *slightly* more masked at the very top, but greatly expands the picture info to the left and right compared to the 1.66, i.e., 1.85 here not a case of matting cropping off picture detail that would have otherwise been visible at top and bottom of the old 1.66.
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From earlier in the thread:
With both the Criterion and the new MoC edition being 1.85, has something definitive arisen showing that this is the proper AR?peerpee wrote:MoC final encode is 1.66:1 anamorphic. After reviewing the materials and analysing everything closely, there was no other option without losing key pieces of frame information.
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As the MoC twitter message explains, this new resto reveals a lot more image on the left and right than the one previously used for the DVD. Likely 1.85:1 has always been the accepted ratio, but when working from a source missing vital side information, 1.66:1 was probably decided as more appropriate to retain the correct top and bottom line.
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It's probably worth stressing that MoC (and possibly Criterion too) wouldn't have had access to 35mm materials - they'd have been working from masters created by others. So it's easy to see why they made the decisions they did, based on what they had to hand at the time.