Czech DVDs

[admira]

https://www.namu.cz/item.php?item=244" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.nfa.cz/en/the-history-of-cze ... -film.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Book include a DVD with all film made by Dodal's in Czechia, USA and Argentina.

[petoluk]

According to this article on the restoration of Jasny's All My Good Countrymen, the next in line for the full resto treatment should (could?) be one of these titles:

Kristian
Spalovac mrtvol
Obchod na korze
Ostre sledovane vlaky
Ucho
Kocar do Vidne
Intimni osvetleni
Limonadovy Joe
Sedmikrasky (not sure what they want to restore on this one - the master used for the German Blu-ray looks pretty awesome already!)

[MichaelB]

According to this article on the restoration of Jasny's All My Good Countrymen, the next in line for the full resto treatment should (could?) be one of these titles:

Kristian
Spalovac mrtvol
Obchod na korze
Ostre sledovane vlaky
Ucho
Kocar do Vidne
Intimni osvetleni
Limonadovy Joe
Sedmikrasky (not sure what they want to restore on this one - the master used for the German Blu-ray looks pretty awesome already!)

Ditto Limonadovy Joe.

Out of that lot, Ucho probably looks the worst in terms of current DVD releases, although I'd dearly love a high-def upgrade of Spalovac mrtvol.

[petoluk]

Ditto Limonadovy Joe.

Weeell, AFAIK, the master Filmexport used for their BD of Lemonade Joe was not restored - they kept postponing the release for quite some time, right now I can't recall if they ever officially stated that the reason had been issues with restoration work / lack of money for it, but I can tell you that the final product looks exactly the same as the 2011 Czech TV broadcast (in HD) I talked about here, and quite a few people also commented on the color-timing, at times radically different from the old FEX DVD. My gut feeling is that the HD master in question was never even graded, let alone restored, and FEX just slapped it on the Blu as it was. And the fact that Joe is being considered for the deluxe resto treatment supports my claim...

But I'm right there with you on Spalovac mrtvol - I want it restored a la Marketa L. yesterday, thank you very much!

[MichaelB]

Weeell, AFAIK, the master Filmexport used for their BD of Lemonade Joe was not restored - they kept postponing the release for quite some time, right now I can't recall if they ever officially stated that the reason had been issues with restoration work / lack of money for it, but I can tell you that the final product looks exactly the same as the 2011 Czech TV broadcast (in HD) I talked about here, and quite a few people also commented on the color-timing, at times radically different from the old FEX DVD. My gut feeling is that the HD master in question was never even graded, let alone restored, and FEX just slapped it on the Blu as it was. And the fact that Joe is being considered for the deluxe resto treatment supports my claim...

That makes sense - and it certainly explains why my copy never arrived! (DVDBest cancelled the order in the end and I never bothered following it up anywhere else).

But I'm right there with you on Spalovac mrtvol - I want it restored a la Marketa L. yesterday, thank you very much!

Frustratingly, I've only seen the first 10-15 minutes in 35mm - it was a Paris repertory sinema, something went wrong with the projector and we had to shuffle out for refunds (or free admission to the next show, but I was leaving later that day). There was something like a 15-year gap before I got the chance to see the whole thing even on DVD!

[admira]

Book + 76 films/ 7 hours DVD

http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/cinemar ... daward2013" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Woody Vasulka – Virtuální houbaření

[admira]

English version
https://www.namu.cz/item.php?item=247" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[admira]

Virtually everything made by the Czech film industry in the early 1960s was 1.33:1

List of Czech CinemaScope films:

http://www.nostalghia.cz/data/su/rezie.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[MichaelB]

Thanks for that - that's exceptionally useful.

And assuming my own list of Czech feature films from 1960-4 is equally complete, I'll gladly modify my original "virtually everything" claim to a far more precise "79.3% of features made in the Czech film industry in the early 1960s were in 1.37:1".

Although the Scope stuff, by and large, tended to be the films that didn't get exported - from the 1960-4 period the only ones that are likely to be recognisable to non-specialists are Vojtěch Jasný's Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour), Jindřich Polák's Ikarie XB-1, Zbyněk Brynych's The Fifth Horseman is Fear (A pátý jezdec je strach) and Oldřich Lipský's Lemonade Joe (Limonádový Joe ).

[petoluk]

According to this article on the restoration of Jasny's All My Good Countrymen, the next in line for the full resto treatment should (could?) be one of these titles:

Kristian
Spalovac mrtvol
Obchod na korze
Ostre sledovane vlaky
Ucho
Kocar do Vidne
Intimni osvetleni
Limonadovy Joe
Sedmikrasky (not sure what they want to restore on this one - the master used for the German Blu-ray looks pretty awesome already!)

Two more films added to the "in line for the resto" list:

Daleka cesta
Demanty noci

The whole list is here. No info on the actual restoration schedule yet, but here's hoping they can do more than one film a year...

[admira]

[zedz]

Can I have three strong men to break my swoon?

[htshell]

Hoo boy.

[admira]

[swo17]

It will be interesting to see if Criterion still dumps this into the Eclipse line.

[admira]

http://www.facetsdvd.com/ProductDetails ... e=DV102371" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[zedz]

Facets have an on-demand DVD-R line now?

Well, at least quality control was never an issue with them. Literally.

[admira]

Jiří Menzel - 18 DVD set

no words on ENG subtitles

[admira]

http://www.bontonland.cz/vsichni-dobri- ... 1/?&lang=2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[admira]

http://dafilms.com/event/139-early-days ... e-on-line/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[petoluk]

Just got the Blu-ray of Vsichni dobri rodaci; a word of warning - there are no English subtitles there!

On a more positive note: The three Karel Zeman films released on DVD last winter will be re-released on BD this winter - hopefully, the discs will be completely English-friendly, just like the DVDs.

[MichaelB]

Just got the Blu-ray of Vsichni dobri rodaci; a word of warning - there are no English subtitles there!

Thanks for the warning - how unbelievably annoying. Not least because this is arguably the title least likely to be picked up by an English-friendly label for a Blu-ray release, at least when set against Marketa Lazarová (already happened), The Firemen's Ball and Lemonade Joe.

I'll just have to rely on my existing Czech DVD+fansubs and happy memories of seeing it on the big screen a few years ago.

[admira]

Je třeba zabít Sekala, 1997

http://www.magicbox.cz/blu-ray/je-treba ... la-blu-ray" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[MichaelB]

Je třeba zabít Sekala, 1997

http://www.magicbox.cz/blu-ray/je-treba ... la-blu-ray" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The old DVD had an alternative Polish soundtrack, which I preferred since the two lead actors were clearly speaking Polish.

[admira]