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tenia
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by tenia » Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:35 pm
chatterjees wrote:Was there ever any talk of Arrow releasing the Bruce Lee films in UK? I am talking about the films released by Shout in USA in their Legacy Collection - Big Boss / Fist of Fury / Way of the Dragon / Game of Death. I know there are sets available in France, Japan, Hong Kong, and Spain, but nothing in UK, which could be more English friendly. These films look perfect for Arrow. Can somebody provide me with any information (or rumor)? Thanks.
Except if they can get hold of real HD material, Arrow should either deem them as "not up technically to their standard" or be prepared for a customer backlash due to lackluster presentations.
And since both Shout and HK Video only released these lackluster presentations, I don't see anyone in the UK being able to fare better.
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by What A Disgrace » Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:31 am
I received a "small packet" in the mail yesterday from Arrow, and inside was a Blu-ray of Theatre of Blood. It looks like its supposed to be a replacement disc, but I never requested such a thing, and as far as I can tell my Theatre of Blood works fine. Is there something up with that?
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by MichaelB » Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:32 am
One of the extras is slightly faulty at the start. Arrow automatically sent replacements to everyone who ordered it directly from them.
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by Adam X » Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:45 am
Wow, that's certainly a huge step up from the troubled replacement schemes for The Beyond & Zombie Flesh Eaters.
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by tenia » Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:16 pm
It's something which was mentioned during the ZFE replacement program : "why do we have to ask Arrow, when they already know at least who ordered one from their own store (plus they already have the mailing address and all". It's very nice to see they thought of that in the present case.
The replacement discs for Theatre of Blood have been received by people since last week, so they probably have been dispatched 10 days ago or so.
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by MichaelB » Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:26 pm
A crucial difference here is that the problem was spotted very quickly indeed, before most of the Theatre of Blood discs had a chance to enter the retail chain (although there seems to have been a problem with Amazon). Which is why it was resolved so quickly.
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by MichaelB » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:04 pm
Arrow's Video Deck blog has begun a series of weekly posts under the self-explanatory heading 'Meet the Team', starting with Director of Catalogue Distribution
Francesco Simeoni - the man most directly responsible for the across-the-board improvement in standards over the last two or three years.
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by Finch » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:48 pm
Enjoyed reading that and look forward to future team blogs.
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by antnield » Fri Jun 20, 2014 5:36 am
The Arrow Video blog is hosting
a not-so-easy quiz to celebrate the label fifth anniversary. Prize is all six Zavvi-exclusive SteelBooks. Competition closes at midnight June 29th and is open to everyone.
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by domino harvey » Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:25 pm
I only know one of these off the top of my head, which means probably everyone knows them
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by EddieLarkin » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:56 am
I believe I have everything but it cost me 3 hours of intense late night googling, so I'm not sharing
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by MichaelB » Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:26 am
The Cinema Ritrovato Awards for 2014 have just been announced, including:
BEST PUBLISHING STRATEGY BY A LABEL: ARROW VIDEO
Arrow Video, an excellent new label in the U.K., has already given us exemplary editions, with many thoughtful and valuable extras, of several features, including Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, Donald Cammell's White of the Eye, Don Siegel's The Killers, and many Brian De Palma films.
(Full press release and other winners
here)
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by zedz » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:27 pm
MichaelB wrote:The Cinema Ritrovato Awards for 2014 have just been announced, including:
BEST PUBLISHING STRATEGY BY A LABEL: ARROW VIDEO
Arrow Video, an excellent new label in the U.K., has already given us exemplary editions, with many thoughtful and valuable extras, of several features, including Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye, Donald Cammell's White of the Eye, Don Siegel's The Killers, and many Brian De Palma films.
(Full press release and other winners
here)
This award is hard to argue with. Arrow has really pulled ahead of its major rivals in the past year. Both MoC's and Criterion's current publishing strategies could be described as "good editions of stuff you've already got".
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by domino harvey » Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:39 pm
Swo wasn't kidding about Criterion changing their name to Arrow!
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by criterion10 » Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:46 pm
Will be interesting to see how the color timing of this release will compare with Criterion's.
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by The Narrator Returns » Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:50 pm
If I never have to hear another debate about (director-approved!) color timing again, I won't be blue. I may be teal and orange, but I'm working with my doctor to get that fixed.
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by med » Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:28 pm
I sure do love to read a post about someone's 40-year-old memory of a screening being definitive.
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by EddieLarkin » Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:01 pm
I've heard that the Criterion booklet states that they used Michael Mann's original 35mm answer print (i.e. the definitive source of the original colour timing) as, you guessed it, a source for the new transfer's colour timing. Can anyone confirm that?
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by mistakaninja » Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:07 pm
"This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Northlight film scanner from the 35mm original camera negative. Director Michael Mann's original 35mm answer print was used as a color reference, and Mann supervised and approved the entire transfer."