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Careful (1992, Maddin)
Top (Kino); Bottom (Zeitgeist)

The Color of Pomegranates / Nran guyne (Sergei Paradjanov, 1969)

Note: the Kino (U.S.) and Films-Sans-Frontieres (France) discs are of the Armenian release version ("director's cut"); the Japanese (Columbia) and Russian (Russian Cinema Council) are of the Yutkevich cut. The Russian Cinema Council disc (part of the unsubtitled The Best Films of the Armenfilm Studio box set) is out of sync for at least half an hour of the film's running time, making it a non-starter. Actually, the Japanese disc doesn't look quite so pink when I've viewed it on a CRT monitor and plasma screen.

Kino (U.S.):


F-S-F (France):


Columbia (Japan):


Ruscico (Russia):


Kino (U.S.):


F-S-F (France):


Columbia (Japan):


Ruscico (Russia):


Kino (U.S.):


F-S-F (France):


Columbia (Japan):


Ruscico (Russia):

Captures from Kino's release of Assunta Spina. Individual thread located here







The last still is from the print of the film screened for Bertini in the documentary supplement. The scene, depicting Assunta being followed by her former lover Raffaele in a flooded street in Naples, is not included in the feature presentation on the disc.

Caps from three Madman R4 Kurosawa releases. First Sanshiro Sugata:





Sanshiro Sugata II





The Quiet Duel

Second Run's Daisies, with frame grabs deliberately chosen to match this DVDFreak comparison of the other editions.







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It seems pretty certain that it's from the same master as the Czech and Spanish editions, though it's the only one with (optional) English subtitles. The Facets disc provides no competition whatsoever (now there's a surprise!).

Notre Musique (Optimum Region 2)

Hell:



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Purgatory:



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Heaven:



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thanks colinr0380:

here are some screenshots from the R1 release for comparison:

R1 top -- R2 bottom










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If anyone [quote]'s colins post w 56 screen caps, I think the whole internet might sputter out.

Come on, its Godard

Yes - you should have seen how many I edited it down from!

56? Thats almost 2 1/2 seconds of truth...

The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (Masao Adachi, 1971) R2 Japan

Pretty straightforward propaganda. No subtitles on the disk, but srt-files are available.

Some stills from Kino's release of Cabiria (to complement the separate thread for this release):

Stills from Kino's release of A Fool There Was (Frank Powell, 1915):













Dedicated thread located here.

As promised in the Griffith - Filmmakers thread, here are a series of stills from the first five volumes of Grapevine's series of D.W. Griffith Director series:


V1: The Adventures of Dollie (1908)


V1: Those Awful Hats (1909)


V1: Song of the Shirt (1908)


V1: Romance of a Jewess (1908)


V2: A Politician's Love Story (1909)


V2: The Golden Louis (1909)


V2: Resurrection (1909)


V3: Her First Biscuits (1909)


V3: The Country Doctor (1909)


V3: Renunciation (1909)


V4: A Corner In Wheat (1909)


V4: Fools of Fate (1909)


V4: The Gibson Goddess (1909)


V4: Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1910)


V5: The Rocky Road (1910)


V5: As It is In Life (1910)


V5: Her Terrible Ordeal (1910)


V5: In the Border States (1910)

Aria (Second Sight, Region 2 UK)

Maciste (Borgnetto/Denziot 1915)

Restored by Cineteca Bologna. FRENCH AND ENGLISH SUBS!!!! And it only 14.90€.

As some of you know, the Strong Guy from Cabira got so popular they made a spin-off. This is the first one and more are coming up if you spend some money on this terrific release. Here Maciste is no longer a bodybuilder living 2000 years ago, but the actor from Cabiria being sought up by a damsel in distress who has just seen the movie and been impressed by his bending skills.

117 screen caps for ARIA...

Imagine having dial-up?

Knap, that restoration looks fabulous-- has the Cinoteca B/L'Imagine Ritrovata always had this line, or is it a new venture?

Schreck, this is the first Cineteca Bologna DVD I ever put my hands on, so I don't really know.

Dave, Machiste wears a lot of disguises in this, so there'd not too much time for topless scenes.

Here are some stills from Flicker Alley's The Lost Films of John Gilbert:

Bardelys the Magnificent (King Vidor, 1926)







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Monte Cristo (Emmett J. Flynn, 1922)







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A few grabs from the Korean Film Archive release of Kim Ki-Young's Housemaid:






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Pasazerka (1963) / Czech release

(The screenshots match the ones in DVDBeaver's review of the Second Run release here.)











PROS

• ● OAR

CONS

• ● non-anamorphic

• ● the voice-over narration is dubbed in Czech

• ● the Polish dialogue is supplemented by burnt-in Czech tits

](*,)

Cheers!
Peto

petoluk wrote: CONS

• ● the Polish dialogue is supplemented by burnt-in Czech tits

Not just a CON, but an exquisitely painful one.

OK, this may not be the right thread, but I figured I would get an answer quicker here. Please direct me to a more appropriate thread if need be.

I am trying to take screencaps of my some Region 2 DVDs, but they will not play on my computer with VLC. So far, I have been able to take screencaps from my R2 "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" DVDs. But "Celine and Julie Go Boating," "The Innocents," "Paperhouse," and "Kwaidan" will not play. Does anyone know why this is so? I was led to believe that VLC would play all discs.