Before anyone sees dollar signs and buys it to resell, it also appears to have dipped in price on eBay, selling recently in the high $200s
And one eBay user appears to really dislike The Seventh Seal - this gives me so much anxiety
Before anyone sees dollar signs and buys it to resell, it also appears to have dipped in price on eBay, selling recently in the high $200s
Coming back to this : I took out all 4 covers and placed them flat in the first page of the text book with no problem. I placed the 4 discs in individual plastic sleeves, placed them in the first page of the disc book 2 by 2, and it fit too. This way, I can keep the 4 discs with restorations different than from the set and not having to care about what to do with the empty cases, all in the same boxset (I have a dedicated boxes where I keep booklets or other text material I receive so I placed the Criterion booklets there).
As a note, I was able to see the uncut version at TIFF's Bergman retrospective (a standard-def digital screening with slightly erratic subtitles). It was hard for me to sense anything new in the longer version, but it's been almost a decade since I first saw the theatrical edition. There was plenty to like, particularly how it approaches that sense of being absolutely unable to truly be in contact with others, and Ullmann throws herself bodily into the role (there's a particularly good scene where she has a breakdown in the middle of the night and she's lit so her face is just a black void). Everything feels ill and sick, the characters are desperate and unhappy, people grasp at each other in a misanthropic way, there's lots of disappointment about, which is fun. On the other hand, I don't think it's Bergman's most well-constructed film. Jenny plays a psychiatrist, which means people are constantly blabbing their torment to her, and then she loses her mind, and that should be satisfying as a literalization of the catastrophic limits of control, but for some reason it's not. It feels like an oddly incomplete thought, even though I think it makes a very good and firm statement about empathy. Comfort yourself with the fact that it's not a must-see, I guess.ari101 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:47 pmFrom Wikipedia.....kekid wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:19 amI apologize if this has been mentioned before. But I was quite surprised to notice that "Face to Face" is not included in this set. It has appeared on DVD in region A, with a tantalizing comment that a longer version exists. So I was looking forward to both versions (the theatrical version and the extended cut). Instead, it is completely excluded. Does anyone know why?
The film was conceived and produced as a four-part mini-series on Swedish television with a running time of 177 minutes. The episodes were entitled:
Uppbrottet (The Separation)
Gränsen (The Border)
Skymningslandet (The Twilight Land)
Återkomsten (The Return)
It was edited down for theatrical releases for running times from 114 to 135 minutes. However, the theatrical version premiered first. The film was later screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival held in May, but was not entered into the main competition. The television version aired in Sweden over four weeks in May and June of that year, and has not been released for home media.
Thanks domino! Just what I wanted to hear.domino harvey wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 1:40 pmVery easy. The backing material is slick and they slide out with no effort. Maybe if you have thicker fingers or decreased digital mobility there might be some issues with pulling the slot away from the backing while simultaneously removing the disc, but that's about it
Same issue here. I managed to move them down the sleeves at some point, and then could grab them and take them out.HitchcockLang wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 3:08 pmFor the most part, I would agree, but I must have struggled for a solid 10 minutes to get Fanny and Alexander out. Not because it was stuck. I agree, the backing is very slick, but I couldn't get enough leverage to get the disc above the lip of the upper layer of packaging which kept the disc in place. Some of those little rounded thumb cutaways would have been helpful.
I would agree, I've often fantasized about an Eclipse of Bergman's television work. Of course, some of his television work does appear in the smaller edition. Things such as The Magic Flute,Face To Face,From The Life of Marionettes, After The Rehearsal, et al. I secured a copy of the television version of Face To Face via a dealer and the final 15 minutes proved unplayable! I know that Olive gave us Face To Face but it was disappointing that it was only the US theatrical version and didn't include the Swedish television version. Criterion and other like-minded companies have spoiled me as I expect all of them to behave similarly with multiple versions of something if it exists. I'd welcome, as I'm sure all of us would, a Face To Face edition that includes the theatrical film (which runs 135 minutes) and the television version (which runs at 175 minutes).