Would anyone confirm English subs on recently released japanese box-set "Jikken Eizo Shu" of Matsumoto
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.as ... on-videos/
thx
Toshio Matsumoto box set
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Lino
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Don Lope de Aguirre
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This very tasty looking boxset comes with one hefty price tag!I didn't buy it because I wanted to wait for the MOC 'Funeral Parade...'
however Annie Mall,
I have just bought 'DOGURA MAGURA' and 'SHURA' from a French outfit on ebay... These are the Japanese DVDs... I suspect the seller obtained a boxset (or boxsets?) and 'split' it (unless these are, in fact, available separately).
Certainly, they were not very expensive...
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these are bootlegs...they have been copied from the boxset. I paid GBP20 for the 2 incl. P&P. The boxset costs GBP 60 excl. P&P...I think it's worth it as I wont get the chance to see the film otherwise...
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putney
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this is the docu/experimental boxset, not the narrative films boxset, and no, there aren;t subtitels. for a bit of it, you don;t need them, as the experimental films ararely have dialogue. the documentaries do, but are still very watchable without, as they were in his tone-poem docu-style. i've seen the set available as 3 seperate dvds, but the works are spread out over them in a non-linear fashion, so, there isn;t a "docu dvd" etc...
it's a very good set though, co-released with UPLINK. the design was done by the artist ukawa, who might be best know in the west for co designing/designing most of the boredoms artwork, as well as work with Eye, and his old bank Juke 19.
it's a great set, though...
putney
it's a very good set though, co-released with UPLINK. the design was done by the artist ukawa, who might be best know in the west for co designing/designing most of the boredoms artwork, as well as work with Eye, and his old bank Juke 19.
it's a great set, though...
putney
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shirobamba
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hhhmmmm...Jimbo, I'm all with you about the design etc., but we should be honest and tell them folks here, too, that this set is pure poison for progressive setups, because the sources were analogue NTSC tapes, and the 3 DVDs are rife with combing and ghosting etc.
Artistically this is a must-have for everyone interested the least bit in avant-garde cinema, and the set design is really cool, indeed.
Artistically this is a must-have for everyone interested the least bit in avant-garde cinema, and the set design is really cool, indeed.
I am very happy to own it...
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putney
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oh yeah, definitely a lot of the sources are not good, yeah...that is true, i wasn't thinking along those lines when i posted, sorry.
from what i heard from some folks hinvolved, a lot of the originals are in a mess of a shape, and a lot is open reel video, and that stuff hasn't aged too well. i don't think there was too much money for this project to involve restoration and such. funny thing is, when it comes down to it, i like the documentaries best. sadly, just after they put together the box, they finally found a print of his long lost first film "Ginrin", which he made with Toru Takemitsu and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi in '55, i believe.
nonetheless is pretty much the only way to see the bulk of this stuff.
putney
from what i heard from some folks hinvolved, a lot of the originals are in a mess of a shape, and a lot is open reel video, and that stuff hasn't aged too well. i don't think there was too much money for this project to involve restoration and such. funny thing is, when it comes down to it, i like the documentaries best. sadly, just after they put together the box, they finally found a print of his long lost first film "Ginrin", which he made with Toru Takemitsu and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi in '55, i believe.
nonetheless is pretty much the only way to see the bulk of this stuff.
putney