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Marwood wrote:

dda1996a wrote:How worthwhile are their Tatiana and Godard boxsets?

What is this Tatiana box set? Link?

I hate my phone's autocorrect... How is their Tati box? Couldn't find any comparisons online...

Could anyone answer regarding the Tati?

Threads for the Melville and Bunuel sets

domino harvey wrote:Our thread for the Godard set may be helpful

In case it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere the new French upgraded box included blus of 'Le Petit Soldat' and 'Made in USA'. From what I can glean there does not seem to be any subs of any description

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Our thread for the Godard set may be helpful

In case it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere the new French upgraded box included blus of 'Le Petit Soldat' and 'Made in USA'. From what I can glean there does not seem to be any subs of any description

I didn't know that box had gotten upgraded with those titles, so I purchased it. I'll report back here when I get it concerning subs for those titles.

The Bunuel box indeed is just in time for the list project, but we're also getting loads of Godards this year which will help out next summer's LP.

No one has gotten a hold of their Tati box?

dda1996a wrote:No one has gotten a hold of their Tati box?

The Studio Canal Tati box is worthwhile, but I assume many people posting here bought the nearly identical Criterion box.

Unfortunately, this series of restorations is a bit lacking, and the BFI releases of the first two Tati films are prefereable to the box-set.

If you're a Tati fan or if you have never seen his films, it's a great place to start. Unfortunately, it's just not comprehensive/as perfect as it could have been.

They really dropped the ball by making the alternate cuts/versions SD presentations when true HD masters were available. With those first two films, I actually prefer the original cut of M. Hulot's Holiday and the color version of his debut, which is why I kept the BFI discs.

domino harvey wrote:StudioCanal is releasing Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express on Blu-ray in the UK next month

Along with the other 3 Agatha Cristie movies, which are advertised as "new restoration".
Because I'm always confused with these things, does anyone know if by "new restoration" they mean the 3 year old transfers that were released on bluray?

I wanted to buy those blurays, and I didn't because my favourite one, Death on the Nile, didn't look good at all!

NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Our thread for the Godard set may be helpful

In case it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere the new French upgraded box included blus of 'Le Petit Soldat' and 'Made in USA'. From what I can glean there does not seem to be any subs of any description

I received the box. Not only do those two films not include English subs, but from what I can discern (blu ray menu and hitting the subtitle button on my remote), there are no subs of any kind on any of the films/discs.

Can anyone owning the 2016 Essential Collection set indicate how the subs for that set are accessed? Are they on the disc menu options?

Question re: the transfers. I'm gathering Contempt and Pierrot le Fou are the same ones used as on the 2010 releases?

Really enjoyed Demons of the Mind, which I regard as perhaps the finest Hammer film, a beautiful and shocking tale of repression and superstition, elliptical, free form and poetic in execution.

Very strong Blu ray, as far as I can see no digital errors, with subtle colours, natural grain and fine detail in both bright and dark areas.

Well, caps are up for Terminator 2 the remastered edition:

http://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=4415

Watch and shudder...

The rumour says that it's so bad, Lionsgate delayed their release in order to get hold of possibly an unfiltered master.
It will still leave us with the awful new color timing, but at least, if we can get rid of this god-awful DNR and EE, that'd be a good start. It's a shame because the uptick in details is vastly visible, but it's textureless as hell.

It is apparently derived from the 3D master which was degrained because apparently grain and 3D dont necessarily play that well together. Hopefully the pre-3D master is still available.

nitin wrote:It is apparently derived from the 3D master which was degrained because apparently grain and 3D dont necessarily play that well together.

It is the most surprising part to me, considering how many older movies have been converted to 3D / restored in their 3D-version without having such a heavily filtered aspect.
It's even more surprising that you can find such an example within Cameron's own filmography with Titanic, whose BD 3D-release doesn't exhibit such waxiness at all (and looks instead very lovely, just like its 2D counter-part).

I tend to think that this new T2 restoration simply is screwed up because whatever the reason, 3D or not, somebody at SC thought it would look better with the DNR set up at 11 and compensated by some EE.
I'm quite sure SC have different teams working on different projects, and this clearly isn't the team working on their Vintage Classics UK brand, but rather the one that screwed up Purple Noon and thought the Bergman restorations would be better off DNRed.

James Cameron himself is very keen indeed on degraining, and I suspect he'd have contractually-mandated approval. But I've also heard from a friend in the business that the 4K disc is a disaster - he honestly thought he'd been sent the wrong thing at first.

James Cameron is keen on degraining, but the results so far never looked so poor (far from it), and in the case of Aliens, it was technically reasoned.
In the present case, it just looks like the UHE release of Predator, and I don't believe the 3D reasoning behind could ever justify so strongly filtering the movie.

MichaelB wrote:he honestly thought he'd been sent the wrong thing at first.

It's sadly not surprising that some would have reacted this way.

BD's of Le Corbeau, Quai Des Orfèvres and La Prisonnière coming in March

Caligula wrote:BD's of Le Corbeau, Quai Des Orfèvres and La Prisonnière coming in March

In what country?

UK, as per Amazon.co.uk listings

Caligula wrote:UK, as per Amazon.co.uk listings

The French releases are completely English-friendly (including the supplements). Will UK releases be the same, apart from packaging?

No reason to assume otherwise: the mere fact that the French discs are completely English-friendly suggests that one master was created for at least two territories (as is common practice for StudioCanal).

If you don't mind French on the outer packaging there's no reason to wait till March and with these being Studio Canal, they won't be signficantly cheaper than the French discs for a good while yet. Plus, the stylish slim cases of the French discs do save space on the shelves.

Finch wrote:If you don't mind French on the outer packaging there's no reason to wait till March and with these being Studio Canal, they won't be signficantly cheaper than the French discs for a good while yet. Plus, the stylish slim cases of the French discs do save space on the shelves.

Thank you, Finch and MichaelB, for your replies.