This is probably of no use to anyone but I watched the DVD last night on my fairly ancient set up (Sony CRT; Phillips DVD player) and it seemed OK, possibly because I wasn't watching it on anything good enough to show up the flaws.peerpee wrote:Has no-one else had a close look at the FAUST BD yet?
The picture varied in sharpness from section to section and the colours varied too, with some sections being glaringly white with a greenish/bluish hue (e.g. the church scene) and some looking more natural. However, as these variations were from different parts of the film, rather than within the same sequence, it felt as if it was deliberate. It certainly fitted with the aesthetic of other Sokurov films I have seen.
I imagine the only people who have seen it on film, apart from the filmmakers themselves, would be the audience at the Venice festival, as everyone else who saw it in the cinema would have seen it on a DCP (which I am no longer able to think of as being an acronym for anything other than Digital Crap Package). It might therefore be difficult to know what it's supposed to look like.
I don't know whether it's possible the BluRay went wrong but the DVD is acceptable as a lower grade alternative. As I said, though, I probably can't see the flaws.
