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manicsounds wrote:apparently, the new rerelease of "Innocence: The Absolute Edition" is absolutely dumb. It eliminates most of the extras, and only has the 44 minutes of interviews, plus a trailer for Oshii's latest, "Sky Crawlers".

by the way, Japanese subtitles only.

Geez!!!!

My original understanding was that it was just going to eliminate the DVD and possibly add the "music videos"!

But not even inclusive of English subs? Damn. I often feel very alone in this opinion, but I think "Innocence" is one of the high water marks for anime - and a blu-ray I'd really like to add to my collection.

Do you guys recommend the super expensive original Japanese release? Or do you think it's better to wait for a domestic release?

Rich Malloy wrote:Do you guys recommend the super expensive original Japanese release? Or do you think it's better to wait for a domestic release?

Hello Rich, good to see you around.

Yes, at this point it would be best if you simply wait for a domestic release.

Ciao,
Pro-B

added UK Straw Dogs and Cache to the list in the first post of this thread

deleted Casino (announced for US release)

other clean-up: Twin Peaks FWWM page for amazon uk is now missing; Pulp Fiction is also no longer pre-orderable there, though it's still listed as a 11.27 release at amazon france

Thanks for keeping this list up to date, yoshimori!

When I add Cache to my amazon cart from your link on the first page it says "from Robert W. Davis's wishlist." Does this have something to do with your link?

That's bizarre. Same thing just happened to me. I'll try reposting the link.

edit: seems to work properly now.

apparently, the new rerelease of "Innocence: The Absolute Edition" is absolutely dumb. It eliminates most of the extras, and only has the 44 minutes of interviews, plus a trailer for Oshii's latest, "Sky Crawlers".

by the way, Japanese subtitles only.

Not according to Leonard's review HERE

It has the same subs as the previous - Japanese, English, French, Korean and Chinese. Boost in audio and slightly in image.
Cheers,

Thanks very much to everyone who weighed in on "Innocence" (and particularly for the review at the Beaver).

Now, one more wrinkle: asianblurayguide has now listed that Bandai has a US release slated for 12/02/2008

Perfect Blue has been released in Blu-Ray in Japan.Also,available at the same price from HMV Japan.

Also,there's the limited edition.Available from Amazon Japan,too.
More info here.

Except for the DVD hacks, THIS SITE SEEMS TO HAVE SOME CODES TO UNLOCK BLU-RAY PLAYERS ALSO.

Unfortunately, they only work for playing DVDs,so the quest to make your Blu-Ray player region-free continues.But for now,the best solution is to buy a PC Blu-Ray player and then you can use a program to unlock the disc in order to play.

Sadly, I have a region confirmation - the BFI's Salo is 100% definitely Region B.

And that's direct from the head of BFI DVD Publishing, not some tenth-hand Chinese whispers rumour, so I'm afraid it's official.

How long to wait for region-free Blu-ray players?

Kinjitsu posted this in the Technical Issues & Questions thread a couple weeks ago:

OPPO wrote:We are working on a Blu-Ray player, and we are hopeful for a Winter release. However, it is out policy to only release a product when it meets our strict quality control.

Best Regards,

Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.

I would presume if it's Oppo, it's region-free.

MichaelB wrote:Sadly, I have a region confirmation - the BFI's Salo is 100% definitely Region B.

And that's direct from the head of BFI DVD Publishing, not some tenth-hand Chinese whispers rumour, so I'm afraid it's official.

Hmm, so I'm guessing Red Desert might be the same (Is there any reason it wouldn't?).

So is Criterion gonna release a version of Red Desert (rumored?) or should I plunge on this Blu-ray?

Has anyone seen Megastar's Days of Being Wild Blu-ray that was released last week? I'm hesitant to order because this one didn't get a new R3 DVD release around the time Fallen Angels and Chungking did, so I don't know if this will have been restored to the level those were.

Cosmic Bus wrote:Has anyone seen Megastar's Days of Being Wild Blu-ray that was released last week? I'm hesitant to order because this one didn't get a new R3 DVD release around the time Fallen Angels and Chungking did, so I don't know if this will have been restored to the level those were.

For $30 it's not too bad of a deal. Anyone seen this or seen reviews? I'm tempted.

yoshimori wrote:If you mean One + One and Casanova, they're on the first post in this thread. If you mean the Wilder and the Donen, here they are:

An American in Paris releases Nov. 12

Double Indemnity releases Oct. 8

These need to be added to the first page list.

Cosmic Bus wrote:Has anyone seen Megastar's Days of Being Wild Blu-ray that was released last week? I'm hesitant to order because this one didn't get a new R3 DVD release around the time Fallen Angels and Chungking did, so I don't know if this will have been restored to the level those were.

It did get a new R3 release (along with As Tears Go By), but there were no English subs, so it sorta slipped under the radar. There are some screenshots here; judging from the DVD Beaver roundup, I'd say it's the same source Tartan used for their releases.

And in completely unrelated news, Showbox is releasing Prachya Pinkaew's Chocolate in the UK on November 3rd (Amazon). There doesn't seem to be much chance of U.S. release in the short term -- the Weinsteins picked it up, but supposedly they've dropped it or lost the rights somehow.

(Also, The Host should be removed from the list of Korean BDs -- there's a perfectly good U.S. release from Magnolia.)

Thanks guys. I'll do some clean up this weekend.

I'm very surprised the HK blu-ray of Days of Being Wild has no subs. English and Chinese subs are still listed at dvdasian and the yesasia page says the film has subtitles in Thai, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, English, Bahasa (Indonesia), Bahasa (Malaysia), and Simplified Chinese. I can't remember the last HK release that didn't have English subs.

I never said the Blu-ray didn't have subs, I said the remastered R3 DVD (from Alto Media) didn't have subs. I haven't seen the Blu-ray, but it's almost unthinkable that it wouldn't have English subs -- they're even listed on the back of the package. My big fear is that they'll be the same subs from the Megastar DVD, which were, uh, not good.

denti alligator wrote:So is Criterion gonna release a version of Red Desert (rumored?) or should I plunge on this Blu-ray?

I'm pretty sure this will come eventually. It seems that nearly every rumored Criterion has come true. Even if it's taken years like in the case of Bottle Rocket.

Ivy Mike wrote:

MichaelB wrote:Sadly, I have a region confirmation - the BFI's Salo is 100% definitely Region B.

And that's direct from the head of BFI DVD Publishing, not some tenth-hand Chinese whispers rumour, so I'm afraid it's official.

Hmm, so I'm guessing Red Desert might be the same (Is there any reason it wouldn't?).

I'm sure MichaelB could answer this, but I think how it works is the company that licenses the film to BFI either demands region coding or doesn't. It seems like BFI will try their best to release everything region free, and since a different company licensed Red Desert to them (right?), there's a chance it won't be region locked.

Oh ok cool, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

added: Dead Man (amazon fr now has a page for this and an 11.5 date), An American in Paris (fr and jp releases), Double Indemnity (fr), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (uk)

other clean-up: confirmed region-free Zodiac (fr and scan), Erin Brockovich (german and uk), Funny Games 2.0 (uk)

Still no word on the region coding of the following. If you have info, please post. Thanks.

Japan:
Fincher, Zodiac [region A/0?]
Oshii, Avalon [region A/0?]
Pitoff, Vidocq [region A/0? subs?]
Wong, My Blueberry Nights [region A/0?]

France:
Annaud, Sa majesté minor [region B/0? subs?]
Klapisch, Paris [region B/0?]

Germany:
Fincher, Zodiac [region B/0?]

Hi all,

Carlotta's titles will be region locked and maybe with forced subs (depending on the rights holder) according to an interview at Dvdclassik.

JMO : Vos Blu-ray seront-ils zonés ?

Oui. C’est contractuel.

JMO : Les sous-titres seront-ils imposés ?

C’est aussi une clause contractuelle, ça se fera au cas par cas.

Interview with Fabien Braule (Carlotta's project manager) in french

And TF1 Video seems to region lock every title they release.

added: Man on Wire (uk), Wild at Heart (fr)

Also: Death Proof page now up at amazon us, as are pages for the Japanese Erin Brockovich and My Blueberry Nights discs.

Casanova, Double Indemnity and One+One from Carlotta are region B.

Casanova:
Italian version with french subs
English version with french subs
French version

BAC Films (Wild at Heart, The Man who wasn't There, Dead Man) didn't region lock its first Blu-Ray title. and it seems TF1 Video will region lock their discs according to Dvdfr.com. Their releases will be region locked in a steelbook case, with AVC for video and DTS-HD (Master Audio and/or High Resolution Audio) for audio.