Artificial Eye / Curzon Film World

[feihong]

These guys will never do a blu-ray of Aoyama's Eureka, will they?

But the new announcements are exciting.

[Kauno]

Awesome!

I hope it happens, but perhaps they just toy you around like a stuffed animal.

[domino harvey]

So, you're saying that they're not going to send out plush Balthazar figures to anyone who mails in twenty Artificial Eye boxtops?

[RossyG]

I believe McMullin is going to be available on BD also.

[swo17]

So, you're saying that they're not going to send out plush Balthazar figures to anyone who mails in twenty Artificial Eye boxtops?

Au boîte-haut, domino

[Kauno]

So, you're saying that they're not going to send out plush Balthazar figures to anyone who mails in twenty Artificial Eye boxtops?

Sorry, my English is not fluent enough to express all what i would like to say. The chances are 50 to 60.

[domino harvey]

Let's hope no nefarious Bresson fans counterfeit boxtops-- "the franc will fall!"

[Kauno]

Let's hope no nefarious Bresson fans counterfeit boxtops-- "the franc will fall!"

Why are you using so complicated and multifuntional words? Should the rest of the world understand your drunk talk? I mean your sophisticated talk is very much drunk talk.

So not being off topic I recommend Tales of the Four Seasons to everyone. It is one hell of AE release. Now, I'll get my coat.

[med]

Awesome!

I hope it happens, but perhaps they just toy you around like a stuffed animal.

you get me closer to pog

[Kauno]

Awesome!

I hope it happens, but perhaps they just toy you around like a stuffed animal.

You get me closer to pog.

Perhaps you mean "closer to Spock", that I would understand. English is a difficult language, but. I'm a foreigner and an Inuit. I do not know what pog means.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

I have the old Beau Travail DVD and don't remember any subtitle problem. What was it?

On mine, they're practically unreadable. They are faint and translucent. I had to pause the film repeatedly to make them out. The Beav alludes to it but understates the problem, I think.

I had a similar problem with their Platform DVD and eventually figured out the cause: the subtitles are supposed to fade in and out instead of just popping up as usual. That's a questionable idea in and of itself -- I guess they figured a "slow" film deserved slow subtitles? -- but on top of that, some players (including the one I had at the time) don't handle the fading correctly, so the subs remained stuck at their initial near-zero opacity. My hunch is that AE pulled the same trick with the Beau Travail disc and you ran into the same issue.

[Oedipax]

Interesting, they've always showed up as solid on my copy of Beau Travail, but there is one instance where one of the lines glitched and showed some weird garbled text on either side, and another where it flashed up a lengthy title for just a split second.

Anyway, if I had to guess, they won't actually change the authoring on the Beau Travail disc. I wonder if we'll ever get HD upgrades of her films? Maybe if it happens in France.

[triodelover]

I have the old Beau Travail DVD and don't remember any subtitle problem. What was it?

On mine, they're practically unreadable. They are faint and translucent. I had to pause the film repeatedly to make them out. The Beav alludes to it but understates the problem, I think.

I had a similar problem with their Platform DVD and eventually figured out the cause: the subtitles are supposed to fade in and out instead of just popping up as usual. That's a questionable idea in and of itself -- I guess they figured a "slow" film deserved slow subtitles? -- but on top of that, some players (including the one I had at the time) don't handle the fading correctly, so the subs remained stuck at their initial near-zero opacity. My hunch is that AE pulled the same trick with the Beau Travail disc and you ran into the same issue.

You, sir, are a genius. Apparently, VLC couldn't handle the fade-in (which is quite rapid on the disc). My Momitsu BDP-799 did just fine though. To steal from Roseanne Roseannadanna, it's always something.

[rrenault]

Did anyone happen to notice Godard's Every Man for Himself/Slow Motion or whatever it's called is back in print?

[JamesF]

This has been going around Twitter for a couple of days and I've just received confirmation it's genuine - behold the ASDA (Walmart)-exclusive cover for Berberian Sound Studio!

[MichaelB]

I first saw this courtesy of the film's producer Keith Griffiths, who wondered:

(a) whether he'd inadvertently ended up producing the latest Saw film, and;
(b) how many Asda customers would be angrily demanding refunds.

This is a first for him, you won't be too surprised to hear - for some reason Asda never bothered with Institute Benjamenta, Alice or Uncle Boonmee.

[antnield]

Peter Strickland responds.

[ellipsis7]

Maybe Asda are trying to improve their vegetable sales...

[peerpee]

Clearly marketing twonks to blame. Trying to squeeze a few thousand sales out of a supermarket. Strickland's taken down his post, but I hope he stays strong and lays into this. Marketing people usually need a slapdown.

A perfect example of how much respect ASDA has for its customers.

Surprised they didn't rename it BARBARIAN SOUND STUDIO.

[htshell]

Very curious to see what that post said.

IFC seem to keep putting off the US release. I've tried to book it but was most recently told that April would be too early to show it. Not sure what the deal is, but I was hoping to screen it while there was still interest for the soundtrack (released in January) and year-end list buzz.

[peerpee]

Hopefully this will be the last post related to inappropriate designs. Usually my blog posts receive a village hall size attendance, but today's saw a rather uncomfortable amount of attention in a very short space of time, which had both positive and negative repercussions. My opinion remains the same, but it's best kept for pub discussions safely out of internet reach. A lesson that I may or may not remember is that a simple opinion posted on here can rapidly turn into a can of worms, albeit a can of worms marketed as a tin of spam.

Someone obviously got on the phone and told him to shut up.

He shouldn't be afraid of posting what he thinks.

There are too many tossers working in marketing and they need a fucking good slapdown.

[swo17]

For those who didn't get to read the original post, it was pretty polite, along the lines of "I haven't seen the cover people are talking about, but if what they say is true, it's unfortunate, and I hope gorehounds aren't disappointed by my movie for not being more like Saw."

[Matt]

It's still visible in the Google cache.

[peerpee]

What a perfectly fine post. I hope he firms it up when he gets to see the physical monstrosity in the flesh.

As a fellow ex-ASDA employee (dog food aisle, because all the other staff were women and they couldn't lift the cases of dog food) he's absolutely bang on about what's going on here and the misrepresentation of his film for a dumbed down supermarket audience. It's pathetic.

Someone at ASDA probably voiced displeasure with the "boring" original cover. They usually say things like: "it just doesn't look very good because it doesn't look like all the others. Here, this is one that sold great: [hands over a copy of SAW]".

The marketing people may think they're being clever to sell more copies, "targeting it to the market", and other such shite, but they're actually displaying a huge lack of intelligence on their part and doing a great disservice to the film and their industry.

For ASDA, and marketing people in general, I made this:

[TMDaines]

Not often I let out a real chuckle after reading a post.