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skuhn8
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#1 Post by skuhn8 »

Cinetel is a Hungarian art DVD house. They do the Cassavetes and Bergman DVDs here. Also slated to come out with Red Desert. But check out their home page: look familiar?

http://www.cinetel.hu/

They often use CC cover art on their coming soon page when they don't have their own ready yet.
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godardslave
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#2 Post by godardslave »

hehe thats funny.

what a blatant rip-off!
if criterion see that site they will not be happy.
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Toshiro De Niro
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#3 Post by Toshiro De Niro »

they have Ipcress File, cool :)
http://www.cinetel.hu/film.php?id=31
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#4 Post by montgomery »

I like how the "Cinitel Hungary" logo on the top right is really poorly aligned and unevenly spaced, and some of the letters (particularly the "H") seem to come from a different font.
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#5 Post by godardslave »

montgomery wrote:I like how the "Cinitel Hungary" logo on the top right is really poorly aligned and unevenly spaced, and some of the letters (particularly the "H") seem to come from a different font.
i would imagine its in Hungarian and your browser does not support that.
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nyasa
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#6 Post by nyasa »

But be fair to them: they've got Popeye 2. God, how I've been yearning for that in the CC.
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Gordon
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#7 Post by Gordon »

HA-HA! Outrageous. =D>
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Cinephrenic
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#8 Post by Cinephrenic »

Criterion should let them run their site, at least we would get all the May releases by now.
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Zumpano
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#9 Post by Zumpano »

Wow! Donen's "Saturn 3"!

It's pretty wild to see a Bizarro World Criterion website (even the Browse The Collection feature is similar).
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#10 Post by godardslave »

nyasa wrote:But be fair to them: they've got Popeye 2. God, how I've been yearning for that in the CC.
yes its a pretty strange mix.

Bergman et al. mixed in with....well, whatever they feel like, it seems.

check some of the later (post 1990) films too, seem rather weird selections.
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Schkura
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#11 Post by Schkura »

Zumpano wrote:It's pretty wild to see a Bizarro World Criterion website (even the Browse The Collection feature is similar).
cRITERION AM VERY AMUSED
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#12 Post by Anonymous »

Laugh away, at least they've got The African Queen! :D
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#13 Post by kaujot »

They've got a copy of "The General" out.

I would kill for Criterion to release a Keaton box similar to Keaton's. Sherlock, Jr., et. al.
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#14 Post by miless »

oh man... they've got The Brave Little Toaster, I've been buggin' Mulvaney about that one for years!
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#15 Post by backstreetsbackalright »

miless wrote:oh man... they've got The Brave Little Toaster, I've been buggin' Mulvaney about that one for years!
Heyheyheyheyhey! No clownin' on BLT. Serious.
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#16 Post by skuhn8 »

kaujot wrote:They've got a copy of "The General" out.

I would kill for Criterion to release a Keaton box similar to Keaton's. Sherlock, Jr., et. al.
I bought their "General"--it's the recent restoration. Very nice. I believe their AFrican Queen is a port of the Carlton. I have the UK edition so didn't bother checking out theirs.

Sadly, to my knowledge, Hungary has yet to release a single silent film on DVD...oh, except the MK2 chaplins and the single Keaton.
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#17 Post by Cinesimilitude »

wow....

http://www.cinetel.hu/dd_50.php

looks like they are releasing the pillow book sometime soon...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114134/
http://www.cinetel.hu/film.php?id=105

and can someone tell me how to buy this?
http://www.cinetel.hu/film.php?id=36
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#18 Post by skuhn8 »

SncDthMnky wrote:wow....

http://www.cinetel.hu/dd_50.php

looks like they are releasing the pillow book sometime soon...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114134/
http://www.cinetel.hu/film.php?id=105

and can someone tell me how to buy this?
http://www.cinetel.hu/film.php?id=36
no english subs on this release...but on the bright side it is the same as the Italian edition
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