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#401 Post by The Digital McGuffin »

DVD Times reviews Les Vampires
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#402 Post by domino harvey »

The Digital McGuffin wrote:DVD Times reviews Les Vampires
I don't understand, how can a transfer be both progressive and interlaced?
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#403 Post by miless »

domino harvey wrote:
The Digital McGuffin wrote:DVD Times reviews Les Vampires
I don't understand, how can a transfer be both progressive and interlaced?
can't this happen with older films shot at (generally) around 18 fps? because this framerate is not acceptable to PAL or NTSC standards, it must be converted (unless it is just played faster). Progressive means that every frame is scanned, but a conversion must be done to conform a slower frame-rate to 29.97 or 25 fps (this problem is also seen in Criterion's Häxan and, I believe, Pandora's Box).
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#404 Post by HerrSchreck »

Technically anything can be mathematically divided whereby a progressive encode is possible. The way the guy in the review states it sounds like he's not all too sure what the story is. CC Pandora is not progressive, and Haxan is probably not either.

Of course progressive players can upscale an intelaced transfer. But straight like-for-like, if it's progressively encoded by the author, it should play progressive.
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#405 Post by Petty Bourgeoisie »

Regarding the new AE release - So is there a correct answer as to whether untinted is in line with Feuillade's original wishes? Or did he create Les Vampires with tints?
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#406 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian »

domino harvey wrote:
The Digital McGuffin wrote:DVD Times reviews Les Vampires
I don't understand, how can a transfer be both progressive and interlaced?
I haven't seen the AE Les Vampires and don't claim to know what the problem is, but it's very much possible for a transfer to be both progressive and interlaced. There's a somewhat technical explanation here ("How The Information is Stored on Disc" is the relevant section); some of the info is probably out of date (I'm guessing the bit about the source master being "almost always an interlaced digital master tape" no longer applies) but it nicely covers some of MPEG2's little quirks.
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#407 Post by zone_resident »

DVD Times review of A Crude Awakening
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#408 Post by What A Disgrace »

You can now pre-order the Satyajit Ray Collection Volume 1 for 17.98 at Amazon UK.
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#409 Post by What A Disgrace »

...and the second Satyajit Ray set is up for pre-order at Amazon UK. Three discs, no other details. June 23, retail is £29.99, selling for £22.49.
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#410 Post by stephan73 »

These are the details found on Amazon: Three more critically-acclaimed films from master Indian filmmaker, Satyjit Ray. Includes KAPURUSH, MAHAPURUSH and JOI BABA FELUNATH.
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#411 Post by MichaelB »

stephan73 wrote:Three more critically-acclaimed films from master Indian filmmaker, Satyjit Ray. Includes KAPURUSH, MAHAPURUSH and JOI BABA FELUNATH.
Or The Coward (1965), The Saint (1965) and The Elephant God (1978), for those whose Bengali isn't up to it. The links are to the IMDB entries.
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#413 Post by Person »

A Man Escaped is only £6.79 HERE. :D
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#414 Post by kekid »

stephan73 wrote:These are the details found on Amazon: Three more critically-acclaimed films from master Indian filmmaker, Satyjit Ray. Includes KAPURUSH, MAHAPURUSH and JOI BABA FELUNATH.
Any film of Satyjit Ray is worth seeing. However, I am not very excited about the selection on the second set. I think all 3 films on AE volume two are second-tier Ray. With so many better choices available, I am not sure why they picked these.
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#415 Post by denti alligator »

Les Vampires, which should be released tomorrow, is listed as "currently unavailable" at amazon. What does this mean?
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#416 Post by MichaelB »

denti alligator wrote:Les Vampires, which should be released tomorrow, is listed as "currently unavailable" at amazon. What does this mean?
That you shouldn't take anything you read on Amazon as gospel?

Seriously, I see glitches like this all the time - in fact, in one case I even posted a customer comment myself to reassure people that all was in hand!
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#417 Post by denti alligator »

New dispatch estimate for Les Vampires is April 21! Let's hope it goes out sooner than that!
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#418 Post by What A Disgrace »

denti alligator wrote:New dispatch estimate for Les Vampires is April 21! Let's hope it goes out sooner than that!
Mine is about to ship.

Girlish squealing may commence.
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#419 Post by What A Disgrace »

According to MovieMail, A Man Escaped will contain the documentary The Road to Bresson. The other Bresson discs don't have specs yet.
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#420 Post by Kinsayder »

Time Out wrote:A Man Escaped: A heart-stopping, palm-sweating, emotional roller-coaster ride...
When did Time Out write that blather? I prefer their current review:
The true story of a French Resistance worker's escape from imprisonment by the Gestapo in the Montluc fortress at Lyon was the inspiration for A Man Escaped: 'The story is true. I give it as it is, without embellishment,' claimed Bresson. However, by pushing through the authentic details into a more transcendental realm, Bresson in fact subtly transforms the simple story into a metaphysical meditation. This he does by introducing an unseen, transcendental force which helps the young man in simple but crucial ways: 'I would like to show this miracle: an invisible hand over the prison, directing what happens and causing such a thing to succeed for one and not another...the film is a mystery...The Spirit breathes where it will.' The kind of film which inspires awe, even in an atheist.
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#421 Post by MichaelB »

Kinsayder wrote:
Time Out wrote:A Man Escaped: A heart-stopping, palm-sweating, emotional roller-coaster ride...
When did Time Out write that blather?
Early 1990s reissue, if I remember rightly.
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#422 Post by domino harvey »

denti alligator wrote:New dispatch estimate for Les Vampires is April 21! Let's hope it goes out sooner than that!
Amazon just shipped mine, so fear not
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#423 Post by denti alligator »

I received my Les Vampires today! Beautiful packaging. I love the three-slim-paks-in-a-cardboard-slip (same as with Satantango).

The back says it's "colour-tinted," the power supply on my HTPC is being repaired, so I can't check it. Could this be different from the Gaumont?
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#424 Post by Kinsayder »

As far as I can tell the AE is identical to the untinted Gaumont (apart from the subs). "Colour-tinted" may refer only to one of the extras, L'Orgie romaine, which is hand-coloured.
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#425 Post by colinr0380 »

DVD Outsider review of Les Vampires.
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