Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World

[antnield]

The review doesn't state the region code...

It's there in the technical specifications column (top left) - Region B.

[manicsounds]

Ya, but DVDTimes doesn't usually check that, and state whats on the box usually.

EIther way, I'm region free so it doesn't matter to me really. Just wonder why the UK, Danish, French editions are all 1080i

[Hail_Cesar]

When I saw it in theater, it was interlaced and it was awful! Espescialy during the slow motion, I doubt he filmed it in 1080p...

[mikkelmark]

It is shot in 25p with a RED ONE camera, but blu-ray doesn't support 1080p25, so instead it's 1080i50.

[Hail_Cesar]

blu-ray doesn't support 1080p25

How many fps is blu ray then!? :-k

+ The slow motion was filmed with a different camcorder (Phantom HD Camera)...

[mikkelmark]

Most blu-rays are 1080p24. That is 24 fps.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Why was it shot at 25fps? I guess it makes it easier to go to standard-def PAL, but it screws up the theatrical release and non-European video versions. Seems like a weird decision for a theatrical feature in the year 2009.

[Hail_Cesar]

It's the standard in numeric camcorders...

That's why I though blu-ray were 1080p25...

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

It's the standard in numeric camcorders...

The Red One supports 24p just fine. Any reasons for shooting at 25fps had nothing to do with the camera. Anyway going from 25p to 50i is no huge deal. (Note that BD doesn't support 1080p30 either, so some stuff gets converted to 60i.)

Google turned up this article, which says Dogville and Manderlay were 25p to maintain compatibility with their 50Hz equipment. I assume this is also what happened with Antichrist. But all in all I'm not sure it's a good deal -- it creates issues with theatrical exhibition (I'm positive many viewers saw these films projected at 24fps rather than 25) and video releases (presumably DVD/BD releases in NTSC territories will be slowed down or converted, since 50i isn't widely supported there). The only viewers it actually benefits are those watching in standard-def PAL, which I guess is a small compensation for all those years of 4% speedup. Not that NTSC is hot shit or anything.

[tojoed]

Coming in April The Claude Chabrol Collection - VOL 1, contains "Merci pour le Chocolat","Betty" and "Inspector Lavardin".

[domino harvey]

Betty and Lavardin need non-Kino transfers, this is good news despite all of three being minor Chabrol

[anvilscepe]

Help please.

Can anyone confirm if Trust is anamorphic? The Artificial Eye website lacks detailed information.

Also, are the two bonus short films in the Hal Hartley Collection worth seeing? I'm not sure if I should splurge on the collection or just go for the film that I truly want.

Does anyone know if there's a better edition of Trust available other than AE?

Thanks for help.

[Tribe]

Can anyone confirm if Trust is anamorphic? The Artificial Eye website lacks detailed information.

Also, are the two bonus short films in the Hal Hartley Collection worth seeing? I'm not sure if I should splurge on the collection or just go for the film that I truly want.

Trust is anamorphic. I haven't watched the two shorts, so I can't be of help there.

[anvilscepe]

Trust is anamorphic. I haven't watched the two shorts, so I can't be of help there.

Thanks Tribe.

[menthymenthy]

Does anyone know if there's a better edition of Trust available other than AE?

I would be interested in this answer too. For a few years now there has been a DVD release in Australia, at a fairly high price range, never going down. I am mostly interested in transfer differences.

As for special features, there's a big difference.

Australian aztec/shock DVD:
Interviews With Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelley, Martin Donovan, Ted Hope
Short Film "theory Of Achievement"
Extensive Photo Gallery
Full Colour Information Booklet.

compared to the Artificial Eye:
'Upon Reflection' – The making of TRUST
Theatrical trailer

[MichaelB]

I haven't had time to watch the whole thing yet, but a quick glance at the Double Life of Véronique Blu-ray suggests that it really is as gorgeous as I hoped - and I first saw this in a gigantic cinema in Paris back in 1991, so my expectations were pretty high.

It's 1080p, framed at the correct 1.66:1 - and, crucially with this film, the sound is particularly good, especially in the all-important music scenes.

According to the box (I don't have the equipment to confirm from the disc) it's region-free. However, the extras all appear to be PAL, so there may be compatibility issues outside Europe/Australia.

[menthymenthy]

I went a head and bought Hartley's Trust. I've posted screenshots here:

http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... 53#p274853" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

above the Trust caps, I posted some caps for The Unbelievable Truth, one cap from the [OOP] US release, and a few from the in-print [yet awful] C'est La Vie release.

[Tribe]

dmk_world, I thought your caps of the AE version of Trust looked much too bright to me. But I don't know if that is as a result of the original or my own user settings which, among other things, turns the bright down.

[menthymenthy]

dmk_world, I thought your caps of the AE version of Trust looked much too bright to me. But I don't know if that is as a result of the original or my own user settings which, among other things, turns the bright down.

Hm, not sure. I took those caps using VLC player, which is usually accurate. I tried the same process using Media Player Classic, and the result is similar - although not entirely.




These two images were very much so compressed, so the detail isn't 100% accurate, but as for brightness, they're about the same I'd say.

Is there a superior program for screencapping?

[Awesome Welles]

AE appear to have a packed April with the following listed on Amazon. Couldn't find any further details though.

I'm Gonna Explode
My Father My Lord
The Essential Claude Chabrol Vol 1. - Betty / Inspector Lavardin / Merci pour le chocolat
Eric Rohmer - Moral Tales
The Essential Eric Rohmer Collection
Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
Rendezvous in Paris

Particularly excited about the unspecified Rohmers though this late in the day the Moral Tales will at best be a cheap alternative to the CC box.

[What A Disgrace]

I suppose its no use hoping Perceval le Gallois is part of this Rohmer business.

[Zot!]

Is this the same lackluster Rohmer transfers that already exist for the non-moral material, or is it something new?

[ellipsis7]

Essential Eric Rohmer contents @ play.com..

Films Comprise:
The Romance of Astrea & Celadon
Triple Agent
The Sign of Leo
Rendez-vous in Paris

i.e. 3 previous released AE titles (the Sign of Leo is in ER:The Early Works along with first 2 Moral Tales)...

Plus Moral Tales is apparently 5 not 6, Love in the Afternoon being already out on UK DVD via Arrow Films...

Films Comprise:
Suzanne's Career
The Girl at the Monceau Bakery
My Night at Maud's
Claire's Knee
La Collectionneuse

Pleased with Rendezvous in Paris...

Three short stories chart the effects of chance encounters of the amorous kind in contemporary Paris. In the first, a student, doubtful of her lover's fidelity, is chatted up in a market by a youth who may or may not be a thief; in the second, a teacher's attempts to seduce a woman already in a long-term relationship are both stimulated and frustrated by her feelings about the public places in which they are forced to meet; in the third, an artist playing host to a Swedish visitor decides to ignore her in favour of a woman he follows through the streets to the Picasso Museum. Slight tales, perhaps, but Rohmer turns a seemingly inconsequential confection into yet another of his subtle studies of modern love. What gives this particular piece a lift is that Rohmer shot it so casually, on 16mm and a minimal budget, so it's something of a return to the ideals of the nouvelle vague; and that it's very much a love-letter to Paris. The acute feeling for milieu is not decorative but crucial, in that the relationships we see are profoundly affected by the mood, population and topography of the places in which they develop. Witty, touching, perceptive, this is a film that belies Rohmer's 70-odd years.
Author: GA
Time Out Film Guide

[Awesome Welles]

Well the Rohmer set sounds all right for me as I own none of those titles and it allows me to pick up The Sign of Leo again pretty cheap, good thing I got rid of that 'Early Works' set. A little surprised to see no re-issue of Tales of the Four Seasons, wonder if they have lost the rights...

[GaryC]

The only English-friendly DVD of Perceval that I know of is the Fox Lorber edition from 2000, which is indifferent at best. In the UK, it was one of a batch of Rohmers that Hendring released on VHS in the early 1990s, and the only one that hasn't yet appeared on DVD from either Artificial Eye or Arrow.

AFAIK that Moral Tales set marks the UK DVD debut of My Night at Maud's and La collectionneuse.

That leaves just 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle from the titles that Artificial Eye released in the cinema and on VHS...so hopefully that may be soon.

And is it too much to hope that someone might release an English-friendly version of The Tree, The Mayor and The Mediatheque or the TV film Catherine de Heilbronn? Both are available on DVD in France (the latter as an extra to Die Marquise von O), but as far as I've been able to determine neither have any subtitles, not even French ones. My French simply isn't good enough to follow a film through spoken dialogue, especially not a Rohmer film! (I probably could manage if it had French subtitles). I doubt either of these are priority releases but I would certainly like to see them, as they're the only Rohmer features I haven't seen.