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#276 Post by CSM126 » Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:44 pm


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#277 Post by MichaelB » Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:52 am

That's interesting about the compression - I suspect Arrow will be using the same master, but there would appear to be obvious scope for improvement there.

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#278 Post by tenia » Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:31 am

It's also quite surprising since, even if it's only a BD-25, there's probably a healthy video bitrate to begin with (a 95 minutes main feature with only 2 LPCM 2.0 tracks, and probably 2 Gb of SD extras, that's not a lot of material).

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#279 Post by Ovader » Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:02 am

Hoberman's article on Raro's Liliana Cavani's I Cannibali, Francesco Rosi's Uomini Contro and Sergio Garrone's Hanging for Django.

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#280 Post by ellipsis7 » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:04 pm

I CANNIBALI also gets a decent review in the March ish of Sight and Sound... My copy of the BR arrived this morning - a splendidly crisp transfer of a rather intriguing film of its time and place...

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Re: Raro Video

#281 Post by Graham » Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:30 am

Gang War In Milan's menu on YouTube. Looks appalling - wax city.

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#282 Post by Ampersand » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:00 am

Graham wrote:Gang War In Milan's menu on YouTube. Looks appalling - wax city.
Now we're reviewing blu-ray transfers based on youtube menu clips, huh?

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#283 Post by tenia » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:26 am

That's indeed particularly disastrous. :shock:

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#284 Post by captveg » Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:11 pm

I vinti (1953) and Le soldatesse (1965) on Blu-ray later this year.

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#285 Post by Graham » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:17 pm

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Graham wrote:Gang War In Milan's menu on YouTube. Looks appalling - wax city.
Now we're reviewing blu-ray transfers based on youtube menu clips, huh?
Did you actually watch it? Even on YouTube, it looks absolutely dreadful. Of course, I'd love the blu-ray to look great, but it's not looking likely based on the action visible in the menu - just look at the faces.

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#286 Post by Ampersand » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:14 pm

Graham wrote: Did you actually watch it? Even on YouTube, it looks absolutely dreadful. Of course, I'd love the blu-ray to look great, but it's not looking likely based on the action visible in the menu - just look at the faces.
It's worth noting that nearly every recent Raro blu-ray has some sort of ugly filter over the video footage used on the menu screen. I don't think it will be clear whether that's the case here until it's released. Let's not settle on our assessments prematurely, is all.

That said, I don't have lots of hope, either. I received their blus of Meet Him and Die and Hallucination Strip in the mail today and they're huge disappointments. Imagine those ugly, noisy transfers out of Italy from a few years ago but botched to the nth degree. I'm not even entirely certain that Meet Him and Die is coming from an HD source.

However, their recent blu-ray of Death Occurred Last Night is impeccable, so maybe all is not lost.

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Raro Video

#287 Post by Graham » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:16 pm

Ampersand wrote:It's worth noting that nearly every recent Raro blu-ray has some sort of ugly filter over the video footage used on the menu screen.
That's exactly the info I was looking for, thanks. So there's still a chance this release might be OK.

And thanks for the feedback on the other Raro titles. The only blu-rays they've released that I own are the first Di Leo box, which on La Mala Ordina dubbing even more out-of-sync than it should be, and Shoot First, Die Later.

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#288 Post by Calvin » Wed May 14, 2014 9:41 am

Monte Hellman has posted on Facebook that Raro will soon be releasing his 1988 film Iguana.
Monte Hellman wrote:Josep Civit, who's been my cinematographer since IGUANA, has been working for the last two days in Rome on the color correction for the upcoming Raro blu-ray. This will have the restored lost two minutes, and may just be the definitive edition.

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Re: Raro Video

#291 Post by Altair » Tue May 20, 2014 9:02 am

Raro's The Conformist promises some unique extras in comparison to the Arrow release, but I think we'll be wondering as to what the image is going to look like (I thought Arrow's release of it on Blu was very good but I know some people had issues with its image quality and colour).

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Re: Raro Video

#292 Post by swo17 » Tue May 20, 2014 10:45 am

They already put out a subpar Blu-ray in Italy. Is there any reason to believe this release will feature a different transfer?

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#293 Post by captveg » Tue May 20, 2014 1:30 pm

They do say director approved, so that's something.

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#294 Post by Drucker » Tue May 20, 2014 2:28 pm

captveg wrote:They do say director approved, so that's something.
The Arrow transfer was already approved by Storaro, so pretty safe to assume it's the same master/transfer.

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#295 Post by Feego » Tue May 20, 2014 4:42 pm

But Storaro was not the director.

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#296 Post by Drucker » Tue May 20, 2014 4:47 pm

I stand corrected.

For clarity on my part, Raro's FB Post says:

"New Restored version supervised by Vittotio Storaro."
"Director approved."
and Arrow's website reads:

"HD restoration supervised by Director of Photography Vittorio Storaro in the original 1.66:1 aspect ratio"

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Re: Raro Video

#297 Post by MichaelB » Tue May 20, 2014 5:40 pm

My money's on it being exactly the same master.

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#298 Post by captveg » Tue May 20, 2014 7:54 pm

Most likely.

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Re: Raro Video

#299 Post by javi82 » Sun May 25, 2014 11:14 am

Pro-b seems to confirm the old master, unless Raro is receptive to enough protestations.

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Re: Raro Video

#300 Post by ellipsis7 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:55 am

Raro have done a nice job with the restored I VINTI materials in their new BR package... L'AMORE IN CITTA to follow likewise based on the evidence of the TENTATO SUICIDIO episode included on this disc...

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