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Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:06 pm
by swo17
More of a shame they didn't include Un agenzia matrimoniale or Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio, the two-half films you need to get to 8½
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:06 pm
by Minkin
domino harvey wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:59 pm
The Arrow Blu-Ray is region free if you want the whole thing
Hah, I forgot that I already own it! :-"
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 4:50 pm
by ellipsis7
A pretty monumental new study -
FELLINI 23 1/2 Tutti i film - by Aldo Tassone, just published in Italian by Cineteca di Bologna, all 880 pages of it!...
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:11 pm
by MichaelB
Roger Ryan wrote:ellipsis7 wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:46 pm
As dubbing was the norm rather than the exception in Italian films of the era and earlier, it is not unusual or to be decried, it's just how things where...
True, but if the English-speaking actors in the cast came in and dubbed their own voices for an alternate soundtrack to be used in English-speaking markets, then it would be nice to have that soundtrack as an option.
See also Pasolini’s
The Canterbury Tales, which for me plays much better in English. (Tom Baker, like Freddie Jones, has too distinctive a voice to take kindly to having it replaced by an anonymous Italian.)
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:34 pm
by Drucker
Nights of Cabiria looks superb at Beaver. Really stunning, and I almost feel like it's not the norm these days to see a restoration look so good!
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:41 pm
by yoloswegmaster
Is the screenshot for 'Amarcord' on the Criterion page for the boxset from the Ritrovata restoration? It doesn't seem to have that strong yellow tint that I was expecting.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:35 pm
by dwk
Appears so. Here is he image from the boxset
and here is the one from the film's page
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:53 pm
by fdm
Drucker wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:34 pm
Nights of Cabiria looks superb at Beaver. Really stunning, and I almost feel like it's not the norm these days to see a restoration look so good!
I've been having internet problems last day or two, thought they were mostly all straightened out. But: is dvdbeaver.com up? Can't seem to get to it as of right now.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:46 pm
by TheKieslowskiHaze
fdm wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:53 pmI've been having internet problems last day or two, thought they were mostly all straightened out. But: is dvdbeaver.com up? Can't seem to get to it as of right now.
It's not working for me either.
Is
Nights of Cabiria the only one from the boxset reviewed so far?
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:24 am
by FrauBlucher
Beaver is back up
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:54 pm
by Drucker
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:22 pm
by tenia
It's no surprise : the SC BD was quite disappointing, obviously filtered and with quite a harsh contrast. Glad to see the new 4K restoration fixes this despite being seemingly sourced at least from the same element.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:35 am
by FrauBlucher
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:45 pm
by What A Disgrace
So that's where the missing audio commentary was.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:24 pm
by yoloswegmaster
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:56 pm
by black&huge
I wish there was packaging pics
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:04 pm
by FrauBlucher
I’m sure Chris will have them soon
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:18 am
by FrauBlucher
Amarcord...bluray.com
The new restoration comes with an entirely new color scheme.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:15 pm
by Drucker
A color scheme that looks quite nice!
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:42 pm
by dwk
I think shots 6 and 8 could be questionable (and 8 only in direct comparison to Criterion's older transfer, because on its own it looks alright), but other than that, being a Ritrovata job, the colors appear fine.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:25 pm
by tenia
There are a few caps that indeed allow to instantly know which lab did the work, but other than that, yes, many other caps don't bear their usual signature at all. I wonder how it compares to the IT BD.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:33 pm
by dwk
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:03 pm
by hearthesilence
Re: Amarcord the contrast looks a little bit crushed to me, but yeah, the color's not a disaster.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:56 pm
by TheKieslowskiHaze
Amarcord is not a political film?
Anyways, I think it looks pretty good, and I'm curious about revisiting it. The first and only time I saw it, I was very tired and it was on a laptop. Not a very memorable experience.
Re: Essential Fellini
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:03 pm
by Blutarsky
The new Juliet of the Spirits transfer looks noticeably lighter and has hints of teal/yellow per DVDBeaver