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What to make of THIS LINK? 148 minutes.

The distributor, Fremantle, apparently puts out tons of history of football dvds.

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And now at AMAZON UK TOO.

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release date now 4/11

Less enthusiastic review of the Carlotta edition here:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=55660

And now at Amazon UK too: Casanova.

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sendit now lists the date as September 5, 2005.

UK R2 - Fremantle Home Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Fellini's Casanova for 3rd October 2005

This 2-disc set includes a 53 minute documentary ‘The Magic of Fellini' and a 46 minute never-before seen interview with Donald Sutherland recorded exclusively for this special edition DVD, ‘Fellini, Casanova and Me'.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58119

Excellent news! Thanks, Subbuteo!

JFYI:
Kinowelt (Arthaus), Germany also releases Fellini's Casanova on October 18th.
It's a bit cheaper than Freemantles edition although the documentary is also present but it's listed as one disk right now.
It 's got german, english, italian and french 1.0 soundtracks and 1,78:1 anamorphic image.

Kinowelt has close ties with the bfi and momentum pictures in the UK but i would asume that they also use the same transfer as Freemantle.

Here is a link to the cover: Arthaus' Casanova

Yup, the German's used the tits on the cover, also. Great!

Some bad news: I have just heard that the R2 Kinowelt DVD will be NON-anamorphic 1,77:1 (letterbox) !! [albeit it's still not official ...]
So Freemantle in the UK are the only hope left to deliver the goods...

mingus wrote:Some bad news: I have just heard that the R2 Kinowelt DVD will be NON-anamorphic 1,77:1 (letterbox) !! [albeit it's still not official ...]
So Freemantle in the UK are the only hope left to deliver the goods...

I hope they do; I'm really looking forward to seeing a good version of this. I hope Gary can get a comparison of all 3 editions up at dvdbeaver as soon as possible.

Here's a review of the UK Fremantle disc:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58949

Looks like the best presentation yet on both A/V. But I need to see some comparison captures!

Great to hear that it is anamorphic. The extras sound excellent, too.

Like Annie, though, I'd love to see a comparison of the available editions.

We'll have one on the site within the next week - it's a case of needing the same person take the screen caps in order to get as fair a comparison as possible. I'll keep you all posted

Which site is that, antnield?

I believe it's DVDtimes.co.uk, right?

Oopds. Sorry, I thought it was clear. Yes, it is www.dvdtimes.co.uk

Ah, DVD Times! I love that site.

A region 4 edition from Umbrella will be released in Australia this November (AU$34.95rrp) - a two-disc affair with the same extras as the UK. Running time stated - 166min.

devlinnn wrote:A region 4 edition from Umbrella will be released in Australia this November ... Running time stated - 166min.

I'll wait and see.

Comparison between the R2 Carlotta edition and the R0 Fremantle release can be found here:

http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=55660

Top work, antnield! Much appreciated.

Quite an improvement over the Carlotta. Excellent work from Fremantle, who can be hit or miss at times, but the colours look gorgeous and the brightness/contrast levels seem far more accurate than the Carlotta.

Play.com shipped my copy today, so I should have it by saturday.

Gordon McMurphy wrote:Quite an improvement over the Carlotta. Excellent work from Fremantle, who can be hit or miss at times, but the colours look gorgeous and the brightness/contrast levels seem far more accurate than the Carlotta.

I'm not so sure. I've only seen the film once on the big screen, and I don't remember it being as garish as the Fremantle (nor as drab as the Carlotta). To me, neither of these transfers looks right, but let us know what you think when you get the discs.

When I saw it, the colours were certainly rich, but the colour in these screen captures seems over-bright, rather than rich, with the golds, for example, looking like dayglo yellow. The skin-tones in the Fremantle seem way too pink as well, considering how heavily powdered everyone was.

zedz wrote:When I saw it, the colours were certainly rich, but the colour in these screen captures seems over-bright, rather than rich, with the golds, for example, looking like dayglo yellow. The skin-tones in the Fremantle seem way too pink as well, considering how heavily powdered everyone was.

Agreed. I've seen brand-spanking-new prints of the film, and the Freemantle caps make me want to cancel my amazon.co.uk order. I'm hoping the disc is not in fact so artificially contrasty.

I did a quick comparison of one shot in the theatrical trailer of "Casanova" and a shot from the print Carlotta released on DVD in France. Needless to say, the trailer blows it away. Somebody seriously needs to restore this film to its visual potential. How does the same shot look on the UK edition?

Here are some screengrabs from the german edition