New Australian DVD and BD Releases

[ChunkyLover]

Worth noting that a 23 year old commentary was the first clue to its potential whereabouts.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

What's funny is that there's a good chance it's been in the Academy's (excellent) online catalog for years. I understand why it took so long for someone to look, since it's not the obvious depository for a film like this, but this seems like one of those "hiding in plain sight" situations.

[Finch]

Umbrella's February titles:

Road games 4K
Human Traffic 4K
Inugami Legacy (Inugami Family & remake Murder of the Inugami Clan) BD
Tsotsi BD

[Peacock]

New Wave have teased a release of Wild Zero (1999)

[dwk]

I'd caution on waiting for reviews/screenshots of Wild Zero. Don May mentioned on a podcast that the licensor was only offering a terrible SD upscale master.

[Peacock]

I'd caution on waiting for reviews/screenshots of Wild Zero. Don May mentioned on a podcast that the licensor was only offering a terrible SD upscale master.

Interesting, but that makes me think we should expect something special. New Wave have so far primarily gone after titles which don’t have HD masters or have been unavailable due to complex Japanese rights issues; so I imagine they will be spearheading their own scan rather than issuing an upscale

[dwk]

That would be nice, but the film was cut on video not film, so I'm not holding my breath.

I double checked what Don said and he he said the licensor offered them a 4K master, but he looked at it and it clearly was a 480 master upscaled to 1080, so he passed on it.