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feckless boy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:49 pm

Partie de Campagne: BFI vs Studio Canal

BFI

Studio Canal

BFI

Studio Canal

Slightly different framing, Studio Canal showing more on the sides and on top, but a shade less on the bottom. Studio Canal also looks sharper, not only brighter, and the highlights are more distinct (see last cap). No subtitles on Studio Canal, burnt-in on BFI.

HerrSchreck · **Posted:** Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:59 pm

The caps show such a bluish tint they almost blend in with the forum background.

feckless boy · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:58 am

HerrSchreck wrote:

The caps show such a bluish tint they almost blend in with the forum background.

Shreck, what kind of monitor are you using? On one older TFT-LCD ("flat monitor") I get the tint you're refering to, but on others (newer TFT-LCDs and an old CRT) they look fine. Weird - anyone else care to comment.

The Fanciful Norwegian · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:29 am

To make it nice and scientific, I pulled the caps into Photoshop and looked at the histograms -- there's no blue bias. Conversion to pure grayscale didn't result in any noticeable difference.

HerrSchreck · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:11 pm

Thanks for the heads up (hurls monitor out window).

Thank god I never watch movies on this. Probably needs a calibrative tweak.

Person · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 3:00 pm **Posts:** 852

HerrSchreck wrote:

Thanks for the heads up (hurls monitor out window).

Thank god I never watch movies on this. Probably needs a calibrative tweak.

That's the least of your worries - your manky malfunctioning monitor is probably leaking radiation into your brain, brother. You'll have temporal lobe epilepsy come Christmas morning! Enjoy the sights in the fifth dimension! :shock:

HerrSchreck · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:01 pm

Gor-don! Have you been at the Salvia again?

charulata · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:23 am

Some minor compression artefacts (5.39GB for 150 min.) and other weirdness - pretty much as noted in the DVD Times review - but nothing too distracting and overall a very good presentation of a beautiful film.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8763/09gx3.jpg
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4024/10ag4.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2629/15bw0.jpg

MyNameCriterionForum · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:27 am **Posts:** 288

Analysis (I use the term loosely) of an exploding cigar (har!) in Where There's Life:

Scharphedin2 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:39 pm

Below, some stills from various of the two-reelers on the first three volumes of the Looser Than Loose 6-Disc release of Buster Keaton: Educational Two-Reelers. All of the films (aside from one, I believe) were transferred from private collectors' 16mm prints.

It would be possible to display stills that would make these discs look a lot more unbecoming, than I have done here. However, in motion, most of these films look like the 16mm prints that they originate from. Some are in very nice shape, and some look slightly rougher.

david hare · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:01 pm **Posts:** 5576

another test run

Scharphe, thanx for the hints on using VLC - it seem to work fine, and despite not having a four year old handy, I think I can now get on with correctly registered grabs. This replicates the DVD and it confirms what Craig is talking about.

Trelkovsky · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:33 pm

Crime and punishment (Josef von Sternberg, 1935). R2, Spain, Sony.

david hare · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:01 pm **Posts:** 5576

Chabrol LES COUSINS (1959) Madman R4

Scharphedin2 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:54 am

Supplementing the Unknown Video thread. Here are a series of stills from their Nickelodia releases. For those concerned with such things (even if the stills below do not reflect this), all of the films do show combing when played on a computer, although when viewing these films on my projector, I noticed no disturbances of the image.

Yup! That would be Mr. Griffith himself doing a "Hitchcock"...

MyNameCriterionForum · **Joined:** Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:27 am **Posts:** 288

Star Wars wipes

Knappen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:57 am

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1960), the very good follow-up to I Soliti ignoti (Criterion's Big Deal on Madonna Street) is out in France as part of a box and now as a single disc. French title: Hold-up a la milanaise. French subs only.

Scharphedin2 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:29 am

Some captures from the Polish Tadeusz Konwicki box set:

Scharphedin2 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:23 am

Some captures from Swedish label Sandre Metronome's Syskonbädd 1782.

criterionsnob · **Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:12 pm

Careful (1992, Maddin)
Top (Kino); Bottom (Zeitgeist)

jsteffe · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 12:17 pm

The Color of Pomegranates / Nran guyne (Sergei Paradjanov, 1969)

Note: the Kino (U.S.) and Films-Sans-Frontieres (France) discs are of the Armenian release version ("director's cut"); the Japanese (Columbia) and Russian (Russian Cinema Council) are of the Yutkevich cut. The Russian Cinema Council disc (part of the unsubtitled The Best Films of the Armenfilm Studio box set) is out of sync for at least half an hour of the film's running time, making it a non-starter. Actually, the Japanese disc doesn't look quite so pink when I've viewed it on a CRT monitor and plasma screen.

Kino (U.S.):

F-S-F (France):

Columbia (Japan):

Ruscico (Russia):

Kino (U.S.):

F-S-F (France):

Columbia (Japan):

Ruscico (Russia):

Kino (U.S.):

F-S-F (France):

Columbia (Japan):

Ruscico (Russia):

Scharphedin2 · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2009 2:17 pm

Captures from Kino's release of Assunta Spina. Individual thread located here

The last still is from the print of the film screened for Bertini in the documentary supplement. The scene, depicting Assunta being followed by her former lover Raffaele in a flooded street in Naples, is not included in the feature presentation on the disc.

Rufus T. Firefly · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 5:24 am

Caps from three Madman R4 Kurosawa releases. First Sanshiro Sugata:

Sanshiro Sugata II

The Quiet Duel

MichaelB · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:52 pm

Second Run's Daisies, with frame grabs deliberately chosen to match this DVDFreak comparison of the other editions.

http://www.michaelbrooke.com/blogpics/daisiesbig7.jpg
http://www.michaelbrooke.com/blogpics/daisiesbig8.jpg
http://www.michaelbrooke.com/blogpics/daisiesbig9.jpg
http://www.michaelbrooke.com/blogpics/daisiesbig10.jpg
http://www.michaelbrooke.com/blogpics/daisiesbig11.jpg

It seems pretty certain that it's from the same master as the Czech and Spanish editions, though it's the only one with (optional) English subtitles. The Facets disc provides no competition whatsoever (now there's a surprise!).

colinr0380 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:30 pm

Notre Musique (Optimum Region 2)

Hell:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_196.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_197.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_198.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_199.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_200.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_201.jpg

ouatitw · **Joined:** Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:13 am **Posts:** 87

thanks colinr0380:

here are some screenshots from the R1 release for comparison:

R1 top -- R2 bottom

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162 ... 1389-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_178.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162 ... 1390-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_186.jpg

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o162 ... 1396-1.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc14 ... VD_188.jpg

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