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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:53 pm 
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The Conversation on Blu! (10-25-11)

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BLU-RAY DISC SPECIAL FEATURES

· Interviews with director Francis Ford Coppola and composer David Shire – NEW
· “Harry Caul’s San Francisco” featurette – NEW
· Archival screen tests with Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams – NEVER-BEFORE SEEN
· Archival audio of Francis Ford Coppola dictating (writing) the original script – NEVER-BEFORE HEARD
· Archival on-set interview with Gene Hackman – FIRST TIME IN ENTIRETY
· “Close up on The Conversation” featurette
· “No Cigar” archival short film by Francis Ford Coppola
· Audio commentary with director Francis Ford Coppola
· Audio commentary with editor Walter Murch
· Marketing gallery
· Theatrical trailer


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:58 pm 
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Oh, nice, I'm always happy to see new features when a movie comes to blu (even if they seem mostly like puffery.) Hopefully this will be at the $19.99 price point Lionsgate's been using for their Mirimax releases.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:22 pm 
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I'm curious about that No Cigar short. Doesn't seem to be listed on IMDB.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:22 pm 
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Puffery?! This looks to be one of the best Blus yet, and cheap to boot. Wow x 100


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:22 pm 
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knives wrote:
I'm curious about that No Cigar short.

Me too. There are supposedly clips in Eleanor Coppola's Coda: 30 Years Later doc. No Cigar was shot in 1956, when Coppola was 17.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:31 pm 
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domino harvey wrote:
Puffery?! This looks to be one of the best Blus yet, and cheap to boot. Wow x 100

I hope you're right, but it seems like a no-brainer regardless. This and Mimic both seem like Criterion-worthy releases at much cheaper prices, it's pretty exciting.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:13 am 
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This is great news. I never did get around to picking up the DVD so this will be top priority for me.
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Archival audio of Francis Ford Coppola dictating (writing) the original script

This sounds like the most interesting thing listed. I wonder what it will be like? If it's a stream-of-consciousness thing as he works through the script, it could be fascinating.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:23 am 
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Brian C wrote:
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Archival audio of Francis Ford Coppola dictating (writing) the original script
This sounds like the most interesting thing listed. I wonder what it will be like? If it's a stream-of-consciousness thing as he works through the script, it could be fascinating.

Storytelling for film, or screenwriting, came to me not because I was a genius with magical narrative gifts, but because I was willing to try things out, rewrite continually, steal ideas, veer in strange directions, and make use of accidents and my own intuition. I would try any means of working: pencil, typewriter, dictation machine. In fact, in the case of the script for The Conversation, I dictated the entire script to an airline hostess I didn’t know who did clerical work (transcription) on the side. She looked like Dominique Sanda, so mysterious and enchanting. I really worked on the script in such a diligent manner because I didn’t want her to think I was a slouch. When I named the main character, I meant “Harry Call,” but she transcribed him as “Harry Caul,” and I left it that way. It sort of made sense because he was an extremely secretive man who always wore a see-through plastic raincoat. The mistranscription was an accident and a discovery that gave me insight into my new character.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:15 am 
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According to blu-ray.com, this film's BD is now up for pre-order.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:32 am 
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Is it too much to hope that a hi-fi purist will write an angry rant about how they had to switch it off after five minutes because the sound kept distorting?


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:56 pm 
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This is the UK cover-art:

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Apparently the booklet is dedicated to 'A Conversation on The Conversation', reviews of the film on its initial release.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:39 pm 
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Blu-ray.com review is very positive and gives some more details on those supplements. Screenshots look great too. This may give some of the amazing Criterion, MoC, and BFI discs released this year a run for their money.

Beaver's got a review too. Someone on their listserv deal says that it should have a more "saturated" color palette. I wasn't around in 1974, but I've seen it projected from 35mm twice and have owned just about every home video incarnation, and that's not my memory at all. Zoetrope did the transfer themselves, so I'm sure it's the look Coppola wants. Looks perfect to me.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:19 pm 

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Will this be the best Lionsgate release so far? The only good one so far?


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:35 pm 
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Will this be the best Lionsgate release so far? The only good one so far?

That's just ... uninformed. Among other fine Lionsgate releases was Coppola's own Apocalypse Now.


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:50 pm 

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That's why...I asked a question.


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