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#251 Post by fiendishthingy » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:03 pm

Carlotta also has restorations of the six films directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. I know they all played recently at the Lumière Film Festival, and they're scheduled to be released in theaters in France in April 2022.

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#252 Post by Michael Kerpan » Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:02 pm

fiendishthingy wrote:
Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:03 pm
Carlotta also has restorations of the six films directed by Kinuyo Tanaka.
I hope these make it on to home video.

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#253 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:52 am

Tests of Carlotta´s Antoine Doinel box set, with comparison screencaps:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray ... otta-films
https://testsbluray.com/2021/12/05/test ... ne-doinel/

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#254 Post by mhofmann » Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:48 am

Stefan Andersson wrote:
Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:52 am
Tests of Carlotta´s Antoine Doinel box set, with comparison screencaps:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray ... otta-films
https://testsbluray.com/2021/12/05/test ... ne-doinel/
Contrary to what's mentioned in the second review, David Mackenzie/Fidelity in Motion does not seem to be involved with the encoding/mastering of these discs in any way. (At least not with the UHDs; the review seems to cover the Blu-ray edition.)
Instead it appears to be the work of a company called Com'on Screen. Unfortunately there are compression artifacts intermittently visible throughout the presentations - certainly a step down from the gold standard that FiM usually sets.

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#255 Post by tenia » Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:13 pm

I covered the BDs only, since I'm not 4k equipped. I can confirm David M did the BD encodes.
According to DVD Classik UHD review, Hiventy did the UHD encodes.
Com'On Screen hasn't done Carlotta's encodes since quite some time, but are routinely doing the pre-mastering for them.

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#256 Post by mhofmann » Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:00 am

tenia wrote:
Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:13 pm
I covered the BDs only, since I'm not 4k equipped. I can confirm David M did the BD encodes.
According to DVD Classik UHD review, Hiventy did the UHD encodes.
Com'On Screen hasn't done Carlotta's encodes since quite some time, but are routinely doing the pre-mastering for them.
Thanks for the info! A bit strange that FiM didn't do the UHD encodes then - they would have come out better for it, I assume, even if they're not perfect as per your screenshots.

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#257 Post by tenia » Fri Dec 31, 2021 10:45 am

I'm surprised since he, AFAIK, otherwise did Carlotta's others UHDs (except Crash, which as I recall uses the German encode).

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#258 Post by mhofmann » Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:02 pm

tenia wrote:
Fri Dec 31, 2021 10:45 am
I'm surprised since he, AFAIK, otherwise did Carlotta's others UHDs (except Crash, which as I recall uses the German encode).
Indeed. And unless I am missing something, there is nothing that explicitly points toward Hiventy having done the encode in the UHD disc credits (of any of the four discs). Could of course be that they did it, but I don't see any such information - neither on the credits screen, nor after the film, although two Hiventy employees are mentioned in the 'special thanks' section. In any case, I remain underwhelmed by the encode.

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#259 Post by tenia » Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:30 pm

FiM usually now is only mentioned in the Special Thanks too, IIRC.

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#260 Post by andyli » Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:53 am

Can anyone confirm that the Antoine UHD set is region locked (even tho UHDs aren't supposed to have region locking at all)?

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#261 Post by tenia » Mon Jan 03, 2022 4:22 am

This likely is a mistake on Classik's review.

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#262 Post by andyli » Mon Jan 03, 2022 8:04 am

tenia wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 4:22 am
This likely is a mistake on Classik's review.
A friend was saying the disc could not be played on his OPPO UDP-203. That prompted me to go checking out the review in the first place.

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#263 Post by dadaistnun » Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:20 am

Carlotta released a BR of Velvet Goldmine back in 2014 that features a longer international cut of the film. Old news but new to me, and I couldn't find any mention of it on the forum. The existence of a longer cut somehow eluded me despite being a Haynes fan (albeit, a fan whose film viewing from 2015 - 2020 took a bit of a hit between parenthood and other personal issues; I just got around to seeing Carol for the first time yesterday and omg what a movie. Feel like I developed a heart murmur or something).

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#264 Post by senseabove » Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:06 pm

Oh, I'm certain you could find me babbling on about that release somewhere on here. It's entirely worth importing if you're a fan, though more for the scan than the cut. The Cannes cut isn't extremely different (here's a description of all the differences), and it looks to me like an older HD master, but it's still a big step up from upscaled DVD master the US BD uses.

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#265 Post by yoloswegmaster » Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:22 am

andyli wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:53 am
Can anyone confirm that the Antoine UHD set is region locked (even tho UHDs aren't supposed to have region locking at all)?
Someone on the other forum confirmed that the UHD discs are region-locked.

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#266 Post by andyli » Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:03 pm

yoloswegmaster wrote:
Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:22 am
andyli wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 2:53 am
Can anyone confirm that the Antoine UHD set is region locked (even tho UHDs aren't supposed to have region locking at all)?
Someone on the other forum confirmed that the UHD discs are region-locked.
Too bad. Thought I saw tenia directly asking that site reviewer on twitter and being told the Region B designation was a typo.

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#267 Post by tenia » Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:28 am

I did and that's what they answered me, though I don't know if they tested physically the discs through different regions to confirm, or if they simply went by the idea that UHDs aren't supposed to have any region-locking.

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#268 Post by _shadow_ » Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:04 am

senseabove wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:06 pm
Oh, I'm certain you could find me babbling on about that release somewhere on here. It's entirely worth importing if you're a fan, though more for the scan than the cut. The Cannes cut isn't extremely different (here's a description of all the differences), and it looks to me like an older HD master, but it's still a big step up from upscaled DVD master the US BD uses.
I was disappointed to find that the Carlotta release has noticeable issues with contrast/gamma, such that there are never any true blacks and image contrast and dynamics are flattened, even during daytime scenes.

E.g.:
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http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_ ... -ray_2.jpg

...and:

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http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_ ... -ray_7.jpg

...and:

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http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_ ... ray_10.jpg

..and:
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https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0 ... 25&i=4&l=0

I really hope this will resurface with properly adjusted levels. I was able to get a bit of improvement by misadjusting the brightness and contrast settings of my Oppo, but it really is baffling that this wasn't corrected during a QC.

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#269 Post by _shadow_ » Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:35 am

I was trying to find scenes where there was an existing BD comparison, but the issue is most noticeable in some other examples.

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#270 Post by tenia » Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:06 am

I don't know if it's a disc issue or just the fact that this is a visibly dated master.

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#271 Post by andyli » Sat May 07, 2022 8:04 am

Antonioni's Red Desert and Story of a Love Affair both confirmed to be from the recent 4K restoration.

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#272 Post by ellipsis7 » Sat May 07, 2022 8:14 am

Restorations plural... And RED DESERT/LE DÉSERT ROUGE is coming in two editions, a bare bones Blu Ray and an Édition Prestige limitée of a Combo Blu Ray & DVD plus a package of goodies, the full specs being...
Somptueusement photographié par Carlo Di Palma et disponible pour la première fois en Blu-ray™ dans sa nouvelle restauration 4K, Le Désert rouge (Lion d’or au Festival de Venise 1964) est un sommet dans la carrière du réalisateur de Blow-Up !

LE DÉSERT ROUGE de Michelangelo Antonioni
(1964 - Couleurs - 117 mn)
Nouvelle restauration 4K
Version originale sous-titrée français

Inédit en Blu-ray
EPL (ÉDITION PRESTIGE LIMITÉE) #21
// LE FILM EN COMBO BLU-RAY + DVD
Édition prestige limitée à 2000 exemplaires

// LES SUPPLÉMENTS

. LE DÉSERT ET L’OASIS (13 mn)
Illustré par un texte de Jean-Louis Comolli paru dans les Cahiers du Cinéma n° 159 (octobre 1964), un retour sur Le Désert rouge et sur le changement de regard que le cinéaste opère sur le monde.

. LE(S) SENS SUSPENDU(S) (18 mn)
Entretien avec Clotilde Simond, enseignante et auteure de l’ouvrage Esthétique et schizophrénie. Comment Antonioni utilise les moyens du cinéma pour nous offrir une vision unique de l’être-au-monde du sujet moderne.

LES ÉCRANS DE LA VILLE (12 mn)
Réalisation : Colette Thiriet - © 1964 INA
Un entretien d'époque dans lequel Antonioni revient sur la genèse du film, l’univers industriel peint et ses personnages.

. RUSHES (6 mn)
. BANDE-ANNONCE (HD*)

// INCLUS DE NOMBREUX MEMORABILIA

• FAC-SIMILÉ DU DOSSIER DE PRESSE D'ÉPOQUE
• JEU DE 10 PHOTOS
• MARQUE-PAGE
• AFFICHE

*en HD sur la version Blu-ray Disc™

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BD 50 • MASTER HAUTE DÉFINITION • 1080/23.98p • ENCODAGE AVC
Version Originale DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 • Sous-Titres Français
Format 1.85 respecté • Couleurs • Durée du Film : 117 mn

DVD 9 • NOUVEAU MASTER RESTAURÉ • PAL • ENCODAGE MPEG-2
Version Originale Dolby Digital 1.0 • Sous-Titres Français
Format 1.85 respecté • 16/9 compatible 4/3 • Couleurs • Durée du Film : 110 mn

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#273 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri May 13, 2022 7:24 am

Inagaki´s two versions of The Rickshaw Man on a French blu from Carlotta, reviewed in French here:
https://testsbluray.com/2022/05/08/test ... se-pousse/

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#274 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri May 20, 2022 12:16 pm

Carlotta acquires French theatrical rights to 23 Pagnol titles:
https://ecran-total.fr/2022/05/20/mk2-a ... el-pagnol/ (paywalled)

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#275 Post by PfR73 » Tue May 31, 2022 1:59 pm

Amazon has listings for 3 Peter Bogdanovich Blu-rays releasing June 21:

Daisy Miller
Texasville
The Great Buster

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