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Extras:
Shooting Mandabi - Silent Footage from British Pathé
Audio Commentary with Sembène! (2015) Filmmakers Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman
Interview with Alain Sembène
Interview with African film Curator and Consultant Keith Shiri
Discussion with Sembène Specialist and Author David Murphy
Conversation in Dakar with Author Boubacar Boris Diop and Sociologist Marie-Angélique Savané
Theatrical trailer
20-page booklet with brand-new essay from celebrated Sembène writer David Murphy

Coming in June apparently. Curious which cut it will have. :-k

Criterion used the Canal restoration so it should be the same. Or is there something that might specifically be cut in the UK ?

According to DVD Compare

There appear to be two versions of the film:
- the international cut, running ~90 minutes
- the Senegalese cut, running ~105 minutes

If this is the case, would like to email Studio Canal and maybe ask them of the possibility of including both cuts. Who to get in touch though? :-k

I'm fairly certain that only the longer cut has been restored

The Criterion BD is about 92 min.

The Frightened City (1961) coming to Blu-ray in April.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:49 pm Not sure where this should be posted, since it concerns The Elephant Man on both Studio Canal and Criterion discs -- but Studio Canal was apparently responsible for restoring the film, so here goes: there is a fadeout missing from the film discussed here on p. 19 onwards (scroll down for video comparisons):
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... 28&page=19
A good example of a QC issue.
Thread also discusses a missing fade to white on Criterion´s Eraserhead (corrected), missing fade-in to the jitterbug sequence in Mulholland Drive (not corrected) and the soundtrack of Elephant Man.

Today, I've ended up comparing several releases of The Elephant Man, and this "fade" is not present on any of them. It is not on the original R1 Paramount DVD, the previous StudioCanal Collection Blu-ray, or the current Criterion & Studio Canal Blu-rays. Can anyone name a release that has actually has this fade?

The older SC release.
The lack of fade in the new 4k restoration is baked in the restoration and AFAIK no one has corrected it on video.

What I'm saying is it is not present in the older SC Blu-ray release, or even the older Paramount DVD. This is not something that happened for the first time during the newest restoration. If there was truly a fade there at some point, it has been missing for almost 20 years. So I'm trying to identify if there is a specific release that has it.

Hum, I was convinced it was on the older SC BD release. It definitely was on at least a DVD release (not sure if US or European). I'll need to double check that.

Studiocanal now owns the catalogue for Romulus Films. Some of the films in the catalogue include African Queen, Moulin Rouge, and Richard III.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:58 pm Studiocanal now owns the catalogue for Romulus Films. Some of the films in the catalogue include African Queen, Moulin Rouge, and Richard III.

There is a decent list of the Romulus Films in Wikipedia’s entry on “John and James Woolf”.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:58 pm Studiocanal now owns the catalogue for Romulus Films. Some of the films in the catalogue include African Queen, Moulin Rouge, and Richard III.

Obviously both BFI and Eureka released some of these recently - The African Queen from MoC; Moulin Rouge, Cosh Boy, Beat the Devil, The Good Die Young, and Room at the Top from BFI. Apparently those are obviously all fine and currently unaffected by the deal since they had already bought a license, but I expect StudioCanal will continue releasing them on home video when their rights expire.

Good news for the other titles they didn't release yet though, hopefully some of them will make it to Blu-ray. The Story of Esther Costello, The Whole Truth, Term of Trial and Heavens Above! will surely be in the running.

eerik wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:15 pm Australian retailer Kicks (who appear to be the equivalent of Zoom in the UK) have listed Verhoeven's Basic Instinct 4K UHD for July, and Kurosawa's Ran for September. If the latter is correct then it should be the existing restoration from 2016, which makes me hope they will also release Mulholland Drive on UHD.

A year late, understandably, but these will finally be out in June and July.

Basic Instinct
Re-release trailer
4K Collector's set on Amazon.co.uk

Ran
4K Collector's set on Amazon.fr
4K release on EzyDVD.com.au

EzyDVD also list 4K release of Jarmusch's Ghost Dog to be released on 7th July, at least in Australia.

eerik wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:57 pm Ran
4K Collector's set on Amazon.fr
4K release on EzyDVD.com.au

Do you know if Ran will have the controversial new color timing?

I would assume it's the same 2016 restoration. Probably with a new HDR grading, so they could have revised it.

Fingers crossed for a David Mackenzie encode as well

eerik wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:27 pm I would assume it's the same 2016 restoration. Probably with a new HDR grading, so they could have revised it.

Man, I really, really hope they re-did it and dialed back the god-awful teal...

Studiocanal Cinema Club have released a new Catalogue 2021 trailer, which lists the following re-releases as coming soon:
Terminator 2
Paris Frills
Mr Klein
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Great Flamarion
Peeping Tom
The Howling
Near Dark
Coup de torchon
Basic Instinct
Bridget Jones's Diary
Mandabi
Carnal Knowledge
The Outsiders
The Servant
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

eerik wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:31 pm Studiocanal Cinema Club have released a new Catalogue 2021 trailer, which lists the following re-releases as coming soon:
Terminator 2
Paris Frills
Mr Klein
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Great Flamarion
Peeping Tom
The Howling
Near Dark
Coup de torchon
Basic Instinct
Bridget Jones's Diary
Mandabi
Carnal Knowledge
The Outsiders
The Servant
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

I imagine The Howling is just a 4K release as they didn't release the Blu-ray that long ago. Peeping Tom, Near Dark, The Outsiders and The Servant are going to be new scans I'm guessing (and Terminator 2, as I imagine they decided to re-do it?). Mandabi and Basic Instinct have already been announced. Ghost Dog might not be in the UK as it was previously Film4, but I'd be happy whoever released it here (it's a favourite of mine).

It's a mix of everything that also includes simple theatrical re-releases.
The Howling is supposedly getting a new makeover, we already know Mandabi has been restored in 4k, but Bridget Jones and Terminator 2 are just going to be re-releases with no new technical work.

Well that's a missed opportunity because T2 has notoriously been poorly served on disc

swo17 wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:05 pm Well that's a missed opportunity because T2 has notoriously been poorly served on disc

That's kind of astonishing - I actually remember when one of the LaserDisc sets was considered a crown jewel for any home theater owner, but of course that was over 20 years ago.

swo17 wrote:Well that's a missed opportunity because T2 has notoriously been poorly served on disc

The person at Studio Canal who attended Lyon Film Festival last year said it's known "The Howling really needs to be restored", but nothing about T2. My guess is that FWIW, it's a recent 4k restoration supposedly approved by Cameron so people think the job was done, even if it's actually awful. Some consumers defending this crap doesnt help though.