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We probably will not be doing any booklets larger than 48-pages again. Thanks to the Blu-ray box.

Oh man... Isn't there a company that can make bigger Blu-ray boxes? Or can't you just release the Blu-ray in a normal DVD box? It doesn't sound like a major problem.

We have plans to do something larger for METROPOLIS, DIE NIBELUNGEN, and a few other titles, and DVD booklets can go larger than 48-pages. Timing was the main factor here - rather than a new policy.

I can hardly control my excitement just thinking about having this, Metropolis, and Die Nibelungen on blu-ray. I'm seriously acting like a little girl in my head.

peerpee wrote:We have plans to do something larger for METROPOLIS, DIE NIBELUNGEN, and a few other titles, and DVD booklets can go larger than 48-pages. Timing was the main factor here - rather than a new policy.

The BFI released Nighthawks with a properly bound 76-page booklet, but had to stick it and the Blu-ray case in a separate cardboard slipcase - there's clearly no way it would fit in a standard one.

For those who care about this sort of thing, the Blu-Ray of Sunrise has been given spine number 100.

Fraid it hasn't.... we're putting the BDs at the top there... we're still debugging the new site.

The SUNRISE BD is #1, like the DVD.

Beaver (on the DVD; Blu-ray to follow)

How come Beaver does not have a comment comparing the new MOC Sunrise to the Ford At Fox edition? Or did I just miss it?

Check the Ford at Fox review, it's between She Wore the Last Yellow Laugh and The Vampire who shot Faust.

Saturnome wrote:Check the Ford at Fox review, it's between She Wore the Last Yellow Laugh and The Vampire who shot Faust.

you mean Murnau / Borzage

But then again, the "Export Version" from the Fox boxset, is it the same as the "Czech Print" from the MoC?

manicsounds wrote:

Saturnome wrote:Check the Ford at Fox review, it's between She Wore the Last Yellow Laugh and The Vampire who shot Faust.

you mean Murnau / Borzage

But then again, the "Export Version" from the Fox boxset, is it the same as the "Czech Print" from the MoC?

No, I'm fairly certain they said that the prints included on the newest Sunrise release are brand new restorations.

Sorry, Yes, I mean Murnau/Borzage.

No they're not-- they're using the hi def digital transfers from Fox used in the MurBorz box. Primary difference being they're actually encoding the HD transfer of Sunrise in it's 1080p rez, rather than cmpressing down to SD a la the DVD's in the box set.

Saturnome wrote:Check the Ford at Fox review, it's between She Wore the Last Yellow Laugh and The Vampire who shot Faust.

#-o I think you should use spoiler tags for information like this. Faust is totally ruined for me now.

Yeah, silly directors who put spoilers right into the title of their films. The thing is that if you play by the rule people can't tell what film you are talking about.
(And I have just realized that yellow laugh doesn't translate from french into english, too bad)

Hmpf I'll try get back into the topic: I wonder how the American print will turn out on Blu-ray. The Czech print looks wonderful from the screencaps, but the American print is far more blurier. Will the blur turn into grain? (I tried)

Yes it is dissapointing that the booklet is not as big as first said it would but looking at the dvdbeaver caps, the transfer makes more than up for that. It looks gorgeous

Okay, so do we have confirmation that this is Region Free? Because according to DVD Beaver's release calendar, it is Region B. Is that just a mistake on their part ( [-o< ), or do they know something we don't? I could have sworn they previously had it listed as Region Free.

Feego wrote:Okay, so do we have confirmation that this is Region Free? Because according to DVD Beaver's release calendar, it is Region B. Is that just a mistake on their part ( [-o< ), or do they know something we don't? I could have sworn they previously had it listed as Region Free.

I'm 99% sure it's just a mistake; if you scroll down to the bottom of the site page, you can see in the yellow portion of the release calander it being marked as region-free.

I have a final copy, but I have no idea how to confirm region status on a PS3 - or even if it's possible.

Our only BD so far to be Region B will be FOR ALL MANKIND (unfortunately).

peerpee wrote:Our only BD so far to be Region B will be FOR ALL MANKIND (unfortunately).

But unavoidably, I imagine - given Criterion presumably doesn't want anyone encroaching on Region A territory?

re: FOR ALL MANKIND. They made theirs Region A, so there was no wiggle-room, unfortunately. We left it too late.

My copy has now shipped from Moviemail, so I should have it fairly soon. Really looking forward to seeing it on BD and from the screenshots I've seen, I'm not going to be disappointed.

Movietone version looks pretty bad compared to the gorgeous Czech version.