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alfons416
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Re: Artificial Eye

#1151 Post by alfons416 » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:05 pm

Nice with more Bergman on Blu, but i wouldn't call any of them (maybe with the exception of Sawdust and Tinsel) one of his classics? Who owns the rights to the movies Tartan released on DVD now?

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1152 Post by RossyG » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:57 pm

alfons416 wrote:Who owns the rights to the movies Tartan released on DVD now?
Well, Tartan released Sawdust and Tinsel individually and Dreams was in their Bergman box set. So it seems AE have them.

I'm guessing the real classics will be released individually.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1153 Post by Calvin » Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:37 pm

Well, isn't this interesting! I'd long thought that Palisades Tartan still held the Bergman titles as they appear to be still in-print on DVD. Does AE just have the Blu-Ray rights? Only some of his films or his entire oeuvre? I can't wait to see...

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#1154 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:13 pm

Wonderful - So Close To Life/Brink Of Life is I think one of the more underrated Bergman films, and makes for an especially fine double bill with Bo Widerberg's 1963 film about a new mother The Pram/Barnvargnen! I had never thought that it would be on Blu before some of his more celebrated work though!

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1155 Post by Hail_Cesar » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:39 pm

Calvin wrote:Well, isn't this interesting! I'd long thought that Palisades Tartan still held the Bergman titles as they appear to be still in-print on DVD. Does AE just have the Blu-Ray rights? Only some of his films or his entire oeuvre? I can't wait to see...
I'm a bit Worried about the absence of any saying that would imply a "Vol. 2".

Although I'm glad it contains 3 of the 5 films available on dvd that I still need to watch from Bergman... I Might buy it even though I already have Dreams and Sawdust...

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1156 Post by HJackson » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:22 pm

Glad to see some Bergman heading to Blu in the UK. The Tartan situation confuses me though. I know BFI picked up the Ozu rights when they went bust, yet all of their Bergman DVDs appear to remain in print.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1157 Post by eerik » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:31 pm

Fantastic, Mizoguchi and Bergman boxsets are nice surprises. :)

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1158 Post by TMDaines » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:08 pm

I still can't find any reviews of their Ivan the Terrible release. Has anyone picked it up?

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1159 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:19 pm

Artifical Eye has obviously done some restoration work if Brink of Life merits a Blu-ray: the existing discs are hideous tape dubs of bad prints with the edges lopped off! That said, none of these films are very good, much less "masterpieces"

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1160 Post by Cremildo » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:40 pm

domino harvey wrote:none of these films are very good
Maybe, with the exception of "Dreams" and "Sawdust and Tinsel". These are good.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1161 Post by Drakath » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:28 pm

TMDaines wrote:I still can't find any reviews of their Ivan the Terrible release. Has anyone picked it up?
Yup, I got it afew weeks ago, seems to be a pretty good release, i've not seen the old dvds so i can't really compare.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1162 Post by TMDaines » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:25 pm

It's barebones presumably?

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1163 Post by Drakath » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:34 pm

TMDaines wrote:It's barebones presumably?
Sadly yes.

Has anyone stumbled across any reviews for Come & See? I have the old "Nouveaux" dvd, I'd like to see if AE have improved the PQ.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1164 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:07 pm

I've only seen Dersu Uzala of their latest Russian batch - and it's a definite improvement on the earlier one (although still far from perfect: it badly needs a proper photochemical restoration).

I'm guessing their other discs were also Ruscico-sourced, so it might be worth seeing if any of the other titles have been revisited since their original releases a decade or so ago.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1165 Post by Hail_Cesar » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:33 pm

Any updates on Angelopoulos Vol. 1????

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1166 Post by GaryC » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:04 pm

Hail_Cesar wrote:Any updates on Angelopoulos Vol. 1?
No, but I'm told that Volume 3 has gone back two weeks to 27 February. The Dust of Time came out as a standalone DVD release this week.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1167 Post by Pietersen » Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:59 am

Hail_Cesar wrote:Any updates on Angelopoulos Vol. 1????
From Facebook:
Artificial Eye wrote:Volume 1 should be available to order again late next week

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1168 Post by isakborg » Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:42 am

Given that Volume I was (if I'm not mistaken) pulled from circulation on the basis of the uproar over the cut version of The Hunters - does this mean that the return of Volume I signals a restoration of the full version? Probably a pipe dream of mine, but I can hope. I still have Volume I, unopened, in hopes that Artificial Eye will remedy the situation.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1169 Post by MichaelB » Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:01 pm

isakborg wrote:Given that Volume I was (if I'm not mistaken) pulled from circulation on the basis of the uproar over the cut version of The Hunters - does this mean that the return of Volume I signals a restoration of the full version?
Artificial Eye have confirmed on their Facebook page that the version on the DVD is the only one they've got access to - the recall was to fix a couple of authoring errors elsewhere, not to replace the film.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1170 Post by bigP » Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:56 am

I received my Moviemail catalogue through today which confirms Amazon's listing of Imamura's The Eel as being the shorter 117 minute cut of the film (I haven't seen any mention of extras yet, so perhaps deleted scenes will be included). For the longer cut (134 minutes), the Madman release is a pretty decent alternative. I'll probably still pick up the AE at some point, regardless, but it's a shame that they've let another shorter cut of a film get through the cracks. I was hoping with the long delay that this may have found its way on to Blu or that AE were grappling for the release of both cuts.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1171 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:32 pm

bigP wrote:For the longer cut (134 minutes), the Madman release is a pretty decent alternative.
Madman's site lists their cut of The Eel at 117 minutes. Incidentally, how drastic are the cuts from the longer cut to the 117 minute cut?

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1172 Post by bigP » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:50 pm

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:
bigP wrote:For the longer cut (134 minutes), the Madman release is a pretty decent alternative.
Madman's site lists their cut of The Eel at 117 minutes. Incidentally, how drastic are the cuts from the longer cut to the 117 minute cut?
Strangely the madman DVD artwork lists 146 minutes which I assume is probably the unconverted NTSC runtime, but it definitely runs 134 minutes 26 seconds. I just double checked on my DVD. I've not seen the shorter version of the film so I don't know how dramatic the cuts are, though the variation in length has me intrigued as it's a fairly significant difference. I'll pick up the AE at some point.

Information on the Madman DVD can be found at MichaelDVD's review page.

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1173 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:06 pm

Hey, I noticed that my DVD of Mirror is actually the older one with the messed up audio track instead of the original mono track. I tried emailing Artifical Eye at the 'home entertainment' email address (done through their website, than copied and pasted from their website), but it apparently is no longer valid. Does anyone have an alternate email address that works? Also, do they still do exchanges?

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Re: Artificial Eye

#1174 Post by otis » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:07 pm


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Re: Artificial Eye

#1175 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:25 pm

excellent - thanks!

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