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david hare wrote:Are you kidding? I keep loving them and buying them because no one else is interested in directors likes like Mann or Vorhaus or Hugo Fregonese. And in HiDef let, alone masterpieces like the Fords or Ophuls or McCareys. I don't care if Olive isn't the pinnacle of Maria Palazzola or Uncle Wrigley refined transfers, although I do wish they could include HOH subs. But they are putting out stuff I really want and can get to see in as close to 35mm cinema format possible through a good PJ literally before I die.

jurples wrote:importcds shipped my china gate blu-ray this morning.

swo17 wrote:Great news about the Manns!

Perkins Cobb wrote:The Big Combo has never looked good on home video. If they can get a decent Blu together, it'll be a revelation.

swo17 wrote: You're probably best off just waiting for the street date to pass before ordering something from them.

swo17 wrote:Preorders are only available to order maybe a month before street date. There's also a fair possibility that your preorder will just sit there forever until it is eventually canceled. You're probably best off just waiting for the street date to pass before ordering something from them.

Hans Guerth wrote:

Drucker wrote:Robert Harris is less enthusiastic than others, but still pleased, with A Quiet Man, anybody here with a copy yet that can comment?

Did anyone see the picture - in 1952 or in the aftermath? The late Mr. Farber certainly did and for him it had the air of "some of the sunless, remembered look of a surrealist painting". Whatever that was supposed to mean, I wouldn't trust a man who loathed John Ford ("old wrangler type ... marred by a phlegmatically solemn Irish personality") and abhorred The Quiet Man ("no better than the overrated Informer and a bit worse than the recent potboiler ..."). Not to mention his other hogwash like "the women of Ford, who tend to be desexualized mother-figures". All of us have seen Maureen O'Hara, haven't we.

Anyone can enjoy today and in the aftermath of 2013 the glorious technicolours of The Red Shoes - thanks to an exemplary restoration and to a meticulous high-def-digitalization. But where is the adequate TQM? What is there hidden "in the vaults" of UCLA, as Robert Harris dares to make us curious about?

It should be better than the newest botch of that Paramount-smokescreen called Olive. We know that TQM is not for Paramount what Casablanca means for Warners. In fact they had nothing to do with the movie. By multifarious mergers and un-mergers inside the Viacom-Empire they acquired the rights, hardly knowing what to do with the stuff. Unfortunately, obligations do not go along with such rights.

I'm of a certain age but not old enough to have seen the movie in 1952. But I've read a lot about its appearance:

To start with that nasty Yates fellow (head of Republic): "Everything's all green. Tell the cameraman to take the green filter off." (of course ignored by Ford and Hoch)

"Visually, the movie endorses Sean's Edenic vision. The vibrant greens and scalding reds of Innisfree are so bright as to make Oz look drab by comparison." (William C. Dowling In: EIRE-IRELAND: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 2002)

"Three-strip dye transfer Technicolor was ... generally used not for naturalism but for glorious artifice. The deep scarlet of the roses is one such example, the greenness of the fields another - Ford was actually accused of painting the fields." (Tag Gallagher)

And as the old master himself has spoken to Bogdanovich:
"Color is much easier than black and white for the cameraman; it's a cinch to work in if you've any eye at all for color or composition. ... but it can go awfully wrong and throw a picture off. There are certain pictures, like The Qiet Man, that call for color - not a blatant kind - but a soft, misty color."

"It was photographed in the rain - or Irish mist, as they call it in Ireland. That helped the picture a lot."

And a word from the daughter, Barbara Ford, after leaving the cutting room: "It looks just like a fairyland."

I must confess, I see nothing of the sort in the recent Blu-ray.

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rockysds wrote:If your order is more than a couple of weeks old you should contact ImportCDs with the order nu,ner. I have encountered the problem a couple of times with pre-orders.

ImportCDs Customer Service wrote:Since this order reached 21 days old before we received stock on this item, our system automatically canceled the rest of the order. You did not receive notice of this since our system cannot be directly connected to the website. This makes it so that the website is not updated and therefore does not send out an automatic update to you. We are very sorry about this but in order to receive this item you will need to reorder it. If the item price has increased since your last order we will refund you for the difference. Also, we can issue you a refund for the handling fee on the order if this is the only item you need to order at this time. All you need to do is email us the old and new order numbers clearly marked. Please let us know if you have any further questions.
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rockysds wrote:If your order is more than a couple of weeks old you should contact ImportCDs with the order number. I have encountered the problem a couple of times with pre-orders.

ImportCDs Customer Service wrote:Since this order reached 21 days old before we received stock on this item, our system automatically canceled the rest of the order. You did not receive notice of this since our system cannot be directly connected to the website. This makes it so that the website is not updated and therefore does not send out an automatic update to you. We are very sorry about this but in order to receive this item you will need to reorder it. If the item price has increased since your last order we will refund you for the difference. Also, we can issue you a refund for the handling fee on the order if this is the only item you need to order at this time. All you need to do is email us the old and new order numbers clearly marked. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Sincerely,
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