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Michael Kerpan wrote: Thu May 14, 2026 2:51 am Do people actually pre-order releases 5 or so so months before they come out?

I seem to recall that the Japanese DVD release of Eureka (which WAS subbed -- more common back in those days) looked pretty decent.

swo17 wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 8:53 am Downfall
Lore
Don't Come Knocking
Saving Face
The Princess and the Warrior

swo17 wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2026 4:00 am At least there's a standalone from Kino

swo17 wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2026 3:56 am THE CINEMA OF POWELL & PRESSBURGER Collection Two (1942 - 1956) with authoring and encoding by Fidelity in Motion
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
I Know Where I'm Going!
The Red Shoes
Oh... Rosalinda!!
The Battle of the River Plate
Cameraman - The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

feihong wrote: Fri Jul 03, 2026 11:33 pm Eureka arrived today. I never heard of Imprint before this, but the first blu ray edition of one of my favorite films is something I don't want to pass up.

Reading on here that Imprint uses dated masters, I'd say that's what it looks like here; but there is a lot of improvement over standard-def sources, revealing more of the intent behind Aoyama's searching camera. A lot of fine details are suddenly apparent that weren't visible in previous home video versions: flashes of light off surfaces in the aquarium in the hostage scene, the way the camera pulls focus on the window latch before it catches Makoto's face in a night scene in his room...there's a lot of little revelations like that. The scene where Shigeo and his assistant are playing catch in the rain––the action and detail between the raindrops is much clearer. The picture is sometimes fairly sharp, sometimes fine grain is visible, but a lot of the time the image looks soft, the contrast quite variable. There isn't the big boost in depth I thought there would be, in part because the contrast seems so all-over-the-place. The highlights look consistently blown-out, the black tones rarely look truly black––and the individual shots display a lot of different balances, of black tones especially. At one point there was a very obvious hair trapped in the gate for a whole scene.

There is an HDTV version of Eureka I'm looking for somewhere to compare to this disc. I remember that version having better contrast, more depth-of-field.

Still, great that someone finally released this on blu ray. I can't believe we got a blu ray of something as obscure as Flaming Ears, still years before one of Eureka. Or a relatively better-looking disc of trash like Obayashi's Four Sisters. So weird. Anyway, my "Oughtta Be on Blu Ray But Isn't" list just lost a real one, and that's always a good thing.