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Finch wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:37 pm Cauldron are off to a flying start with their 4k entry, Fulci's City of the Living Dead, with a David M encode and here is one of some early very positive reactions.

EDIT: 3/27/12: second review

For compression it goes a little something like this:

Rocky: not amazing, but decent enough

Rocky II: breaks down badly in various spots

Rocky III: wunderbar

Rocky IV theatrical: disaster zone

Finch wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:23 pm Geoff confirmed that the Rocky set is a mess in terms of how the films have been encoded.

For compression it goes a little something like this:

Rocky: not amazing, but decent enough

Rocky II: breaks down badly in various spots

Rocky III: wunderbar

Rocky IV theatrical: disaster zone

Finch wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:13 pm Be forewarned that WB did not upgrade the BD that comes with the 4k.

FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:56 pm Ryan, Unforgivin was one that they also upgraded the bluray. But that was a while ago. I think they stopped doing that

Finch wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:42 am Kyle15 on Second Sight's Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4k

I know that some collectors will be holding out for the upcoming Limited Edition from UK label Second Sight, but if you can live without its hardbound book of critical essays, this is a comparatively affordable alternative that doesn't feel like a compromise.

Also new to this edition is "The Cinefamily Presents FRIEDKIN/HOOPER: A Conversation About The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (onscreen title: "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th anniversary Q&A"), a 54-minute dialogue between Hooper and The Exorcist director Friedkin conducted after a screening and handprint ceremony at the Vista Theater in Los Feliz on July 21, 2014. Calling The Texas Chain Saw Massacre the scariest movie he's ever seen, Friedkin spends the hour drifting off into Trump-esque interzones of passive-aggressive hyperbole while a visibly fatigued Hooper, reaching the end of a publicity tour for the film's 2014 restoration, gives sprawling, discursive answers vaguely in sync with Friedkin's train of thought. It seems important to Hooper to get across the movie's European-ness, specifically with regards to how it drops you in the middle of a story already in progress ("It's a bad day for everybody," he says, "it's a bad day for Leatherface, believe me"), but the conversation truly is all over the place with chaos demon Friedkin in charge of it. Interestingly, Hooper confesses to seeing Frankenstein's Monster in person at a revival of James Whale's Frankenstein when he was a kid and running in terror from it. An interviewer more intimately familiar with Hooper's work would have drawn a line from this incident to his 1981 film The Funhouse, but Friedkin immediately switches gears and asks Hooper if he could still make The Texas Chain Saw Massacre "now." Which isn't a bad question in and of itself, though it backs Hooper into a corner.

Finch wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 1:37 pm Cauldron are off to a flying start with their 4k entry, Fulci's City of the Living Dead, with a David M encode and here is one of some early very positive reactions.

EDIT: 3/27/12: second review