Studio Canal / Kinowelt / Optimum

[Caligula]

4K resto of Dambusters being issued by Studio Canal on BD in the UK on 4 June 2018

[Pepsi]

The French releases are completely English-friendly (including the supplements). Will UK releases be the same, apart from packaging?

The UK disc start with the option French / English, so they are identical. The transfer of La prisoner is gorgeous, both the picture and the sound. Watched it projected, simply unbelievable wonderful.

The film is interesting (a little dated). Couldn't stop thinking in the first 30 min, that i'm watching Tati's Playtime, and the rest is a mix of Peeping Tom and Belle de Jour.

If only Henri-Georges Clouzot knew that 50 years later everyone has a camera in their pocket, and every child can google those kind of picture's in a second.

[L.A.]

4K resto of Dambusters being issued by Studio Canal on BD in the UK on 4 June 2018

This indeed is getting an impressive release. Five discs!

[EddieLarkin]

And in its originally intended widescreen aspect ratio for the first time ever, albeit only as an extra exclusive to the expensive multi disc LE set.

[charal]

Rivette’s THE NUN (1966) is up for pre-order at Amazon UK. Assuming Amazon will honour all pre-July orders from Australia now is the time to order this brothers and sisters.

[What A Disgrace]

Renoir's The Crimes of Monsieur Lange is also up for pre-order, as are some 40th anniversary editions of Deer Hunter.

[andyli]

According to Blu-ray.com, this batch of Studio Canal releases also include Bagdad Cafe, Last Year at Marienbad, The Seventh Seal, all newly restored in 4K.

[What A Disgrace]

The Deer Hunter Limited Edition will include a UHD of the film.

[tenia]

I suppose the cover could go in the dedicated topic :



In terms of content, Amazon.fr has it detailed :
- UHD
- BD with the film newly restored in 4K
- dedicated BD for the extra features
- OST CD
- original script titled The Man Who Came To Play
- booklet written by a film critic

Extras :
David Thompson interview (new)
Michael Cimino interview for The South Bank Show (1979) (new)

Mickey Rourke introduction to the movie
Realising the Deer Hunter
Shooting the Deer Hunter
Playing the Deer Hunter
Commentary by Cimino
Commentary by Zsigmond & Fisher
Deleted scenes


Missing is the Vietnam War: Unknown Images documentary included on the Studio Canal older release and the trailer.
It could be that the booklet simply is the same than the one in the older SC release (which was written by Ryan Gilbey)

[domino harvey]

Great cover, looking forward to picking this up

[Altair]

Neither the old Studio Canal or the Universal releases were ideal (the former was edge-enhanced, the latter DNR'ed), so hopefully it's finally been treated right (and not pushed towards the teal-end of the colour spectrum, either...).

[tenia]

I'm more afraid about SC tendancies to DNR and very poorly encode their movies. In this case at least, putting the extras aside is a good sign (though most of them are probably in SD so it might seem a bit extreme).

[Altair]

Their edition of the restored Ran however, was excellent (the colours were of course debatable, but not their fault), so I'm optimistic about the encode.

[tenia]

Yes, they have some hits but also plenty of misses. They DNRed most of their French Bergman releases, FUBARed the encode on Le magnifique (French release), Highlander and The Man Who Fell To Earth (on top of missing the restoration), and of course there is their trainwrecks that are Terminator 2 and Purple Noon.
However, Ran was very good, and the utmost majority of their UK Vintage Classics are tremendous.

It's always been rumored they have 2 technical teams, one good and one not so much. Let's just hope in this case, they gave the project to the good one.

[rapta]

FWIW, their recent discs of Blood Simple, Mulholland Drive and The Graduate looked great to me. And I agree that Ran looked fantastic (colour debate aside).

It's a shame they got The Man Who Fell To Earth so wrong after getting The Third Man so right.

[tenia]

The Graduate, MD and Blood Simple were restorations not performed by / for them. Mulholland Drive was performed at Colorworks / Fotokem, most have input from Deluxe Culver City or Colorworks and all 3 show input from Criterion's own Lee Kline.

[Jonathan S]

…. after getting The Third Man so right.

Only on the image side, according to this analysis of the "restored" soundtrack.

[rapta]

The Graduate, MD and Blood Simple were restorations not performed by / for them. Mulholland Drive was performed at Colorworks / Fotokem, most have input from Deluxe Culver City or Colorworks and all 3 show input from Criterion's own Lee Kline.

Sorry I thought we were talking encodes (was already aware these were not examples of in-house restoration).

[tenia]

The Graduate, MD and Blood Simple were restorations not performed by / for them. Mulholland Drive was performed at Colorworks / Fotokem, most have input from Deluxe Culver City or Colorworks and all 3 show input from Criterion's own Lee Kline.

Sorry I thought we were talking encodes (was already aware these were not examples of in-house restoration).

Ah OK, my bad then. Then yes, these encodes were very good (at least MD was performed by David Mackenzie), but they seem to be rather the exception than the rule. I'm for instance quite eager to see their new Dam Busters disc because it looks quite good but I can't understand why they would give such a new seemingly lavish restoration the same AVB than the previous disc, an AVS which is relatively mediocre (20.5 Mbps).

…. after getting The Third Man so right.

Only on the image side, according to this analysis of the "restored" soundtrack.

We'll never thank Moshrom enough for his work on soundtracks and I hope he'll be able to do some more. It's probably the best investigative work there has been on AQ, which made me realise AQ analysis and review is like 15 years late compared to PQ.

[Costa]

Trailer for the new 4K restoration of The Deer Hunter.
I'm extremely happy that it doesn't seem that the film has been tealified!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7q1SjVdsNk

[feckless boy]

The trailer for La Religieuse looks way too "tealy" to me. Granted it has been a few years since I saw an actual print, but that's not the way I remember It.

[tenia]

I suppose this is an Eclair restoration, since some of their restorations have this exact same grading (Pinoteau's Le silencieux, very recently, but also Sautet's Une histoire simple, Tarkovski's The Sacrifice, and Malle's Atlantic City, Black Moon & Lucien Lacombe, notably). I thus, like Ritrovata's yellow LUT table, doubt this is totally accurate.

[fdm]

I don't recall it looking like that on filmstruck either.

[4LOM]

I suppose this is an Eclair restoration, since some of their restorations have this exact same grading (Pinoteau's Le silencieux, very recently, but also Sautet's Une histoire simple, Tarkovski's The Sacrifice, and Malle's Atlantic City, Black Moon & Lucien Lacombe, notably). I thus, like Ritrovata's yellow LUT table, doubt this is totally accurate.

It is a Ritrovata restoration

[tenia]

My bad about the lab, then (though it doesn't change my feeling about the color timing).