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denti alligator wrote:But it's unacceptable, as is the New Yorker disc.

Nick: Hello, is that Artificial Eye?
Artificial Eye: (guardedly) Yes.
Nick: I'm afraid your disc of Platform is officially unacceptable, so we're taking over the rights as of midnight. But you can have a week to sell off your outstanding stock provided you put a big red 'UNACCEPTABLE' sticker on the box.
Artificial Eye: It's a fair cop, guvnor. You've got us bang to rights this time and no mistake.

Picturing 'Artificial Eye' as Ron Tarr has made my day. Blah Blah Blah, secret plans, blah blah blah. Blah blah blah, Eric Rohmer, blah blah blah.

To be fair to Artificial Eye - they did release PLATFORM on DVD in early 2003. That's over 7 1/2 years ago, and they've probably not sold enough copies of it in that time to pay for the rendering of the subtitles again in HD for Blu-ray, let alone a new HD master.

I tip my hat to them for releasing it in the first place!

Sounds good, so long as that red sticker says : "'UNACCEPTABLE' - denti alligator (criterionforum.org)"

peerpee wrote:To be fair to Artificial Eye - they did release PLATFORM on DVD in early 2003. That's over 7 1/2 years ago, and they've probably not sold enough copies of it in that time to pay for the rendering of the subtitles again in HD for Blu-ray, let alone a new HD master.

I tip my hat to them for releasing it in the first place!

And didn't they throw in a (very barebones) copy of Xiao Wu for lagniappe?

No - that was their other Jia release (UNKNOWN PLEASURES / XIAO WU) from 2004. They were the first to release anything by Jia in the UK.

The connection with Jia's film is tenuous bordering on nonexistent, but fans will probably realise why I'm linking to this story.

I watched this for the first time tonight and I enjoyed it overall. One thing that's sticking with me is that I got a stylistic sense of intense deja vu from the film. The way it was shot and told it's story reminds me very much so of an other completely unrelated Asian film, but I can't tell which.
Also can't wait to jump into the special features if just to understand the thought process behind some of the things such as the animated trip.

I'm surprised this one will be dual format. I know the other Blu-Ray only releases came out on DVD to fill a gap in the release schedule, but it was stated that this would never be released on DVD

MoC on Twitter says it looks like this dual format release will be ready in late January or early February.

I bought The World for Christmas after reading Jonathan Rosenbaum's review of it, and I must say I thought it was beautiful!

I wasn't quite satisfied with the ending, but everything up until that point was near-perfect. I'll definitely be checking out more of Zhangke's films.