Imprint

[TMDaines]

Price of Der Untergang is absurd.

[MichaelB]

Cue a Downfall parody with Hitler ranting about the price…

[domino harvey]

Suspiria remake is coming back in print for a different limited box

[TMDaines]

Downfall
Lore
Don't Come Knocking
Saving Face
The Princess and the Warrior

Don’t Come Knocking revised down to single disc release with one cut.

[swo17]

THE CINEMA OF POWELL & PRESSBURGER Collection Two (1942 - 1956) with authoring and encoding by Fidelity in Motion
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
I Know Where I'm Going!
The Red Shoes
Oh... Rosalinda!!
The Battle of the River Plate
Cameraman - The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

DIRECTED BY… STANLEY KUBRICK 1953 - 1957 with authoring and encoding from Fidelity in Motion.
Fear and Desire
Killer's Kiss
The Killing
Paths of Glory

DIRECTED BY... BILLY WILDER (1945 - 1959)
The Lost Weekend
Stalag 17
Some Like it Hot
Billy Wilder Speaks

The Misfits

[domino harvey]

Was really hoping vol 2 would have Gone to Earth / the Wild Heart

[swo17]

At least there's a standalone from Kino

[TechnicolorAcid]

At least there's a standalone from Kino

That’s OOP though and sells for at least $100 so it would’ve been nice to see it get back in print

[swo17]

Oh, didn't realize!

[domino harvey]

Yeah I’ve been pricing it on eBay for a while but I was gambling on Imprint and missed out on some more affordable copies

[swo17]

I feel like I just bought it during a recent Kino sale or something, but I guess that must have been like 5 years ago

[dwk]

Who owns Gone to Earth outside the US? (Pretty sure it is owned by Disney in the US.)

[tolbs1010]

Another near-mint copy will be up for sale on ebay very soon for the bargain price of $79.97. And free shipping. Love this film, but if someone wants to pay me that much? Sold. The thinly-traded physical media market is the dark horse growth sector of my portfolio!

Like swo said, it seems like I bought this cheap from Kino less than 2 years ago.

[beamish14]

The James B. Harris commentaries on the Kubrick set are pretty major. Wow.

[domino harvey]

THE CINEMA OF POWELL & PRESSBURGER Collection Two (1942 - 1956) with authoring and encoding by Fidelity in Motion
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
I Know Where I'm Going!
The Red Shoes
Oh... Rosalinda!!
The Battle of the River Plate
Cameraman - The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

The above four titles in bold are UHDs as well + the included book runs 236 pages

[swo17]

Yeah, it seems like a more impressive effort than Vol. 1

[mfunk9786]

Before I drop $80, wanted to check whether anyone has confirmed a FiM encode for Downfall? Assuming yes, but you know what they say about doing that

[feihong]

Eureka arrived today. I never heard of Imprint before this, but the first blu ray edition of one of my favorite films is something I don't want to pass up.

Reading on here that Imprint uses dated masters, I'd say that's what it looks like here; but there is a lot of improvement over standard-def sources, revealing more of the intent behind Aoyama's searching camera. A lot of fine details are suddenly apparent that weren't visible in previous home video versions: flashes of light off surfaces in the aquarium in the hostage scene, the way the camera pulls focus on the window latch before it catches Makoto's face in a night scene in his room...there's a lot of little revelations like that. The scene where Shigeo and his assistant are playing catch in the rain––the action and detail between the raindrops is much clearer. The picture is sometimes fairly sharp, sometimes fine grain is visible, but a lot of the time the image looks soft, the contrast quite variable. There isn't the big boost in depth I thought there would be, in part because the contrast seems so all-over-the-place. The highlights look consistently blown-out, the black tones rarely look truly black––and the individual shots display a lot of different balances, of black tones especially. At one point there was a very obvious hair trapped in the gate for a whole scene.

There is an HDTV version of Eureka I'm looking for somewhere to compare to this disc. I remember that version having better contrast, more depth-of-field.

Still, great that someone finally released this on blu ray. I can't believe we got a blu ray of something as obscure as Flaming Ears, still years before one of Eureka. Or a relatively better-looking disc of trash like Obayashi's Four Sisters. So weird. Anyway, my "Oughtta Be on Blu Ray But Isn't" list just lost a real one, and that's always a good thing.

[Captain Paranoia]

Eureka arrived today. I never heard of Imprint before this, but the first blu ray edition of one of my favorite films is something I don't want to pass up.

Reading on here that Imprint uses dated masters, I'd say that's what it looks like here; but there is a lot of improvement over standard-def sources, revealing more of the intent behind Aoyama's searching camera. A lot of fine details are suddenly apparent that weren't visible in previous home video versions: flashes of light off surfaces in the aquarium in the hostage scene, the way the camera pulls focus on the window latch before it catches Makoto's face in a night scene in his room...there's a lot of little revelations like that. The scene where Shigeo and his assistant are playing catch in the rain––the action and detail between the raindrops is much clearer. The picture is sometimes fairly sharp, sometimes fine grain is visible, but a lot of the time the image looks soft, the contrast quite variable. There isn't the big boost in depth I thought there would be, in part because the contrast seems so all-over-the-place. The highlights look consistently blown-out, the black tones rarely look truly black––and the individual shots display a lot of different balances, of black tones especially. At one point there was a very obvious hair trapped in the gate for a whole scene.

There is an HDTV version of Eureka I'm looking for somewhere to compare to this disc. I remember that version having better contrast, more depth-of-field.

Still, great that someone finally released this on blu ray. I can't believe we got a blu ray of something as obscure as Flaming Ears, still years before one of Eureka. Or a relatively better-looking disc of trash like Obayashi's Four Sisters. So weird. Anyway, my "Oughtta Be on Blu Ray But Isn't" list just lost a real one, and that's always a good thing.

What are the logos at the start? I've seen different HD masters on backchannels, and there is one that opens with the StudioCanal logo that looks the best, and there is also an HDTV version with the same logos as the JP DVD (that seems to have similar color timing as such DVD).