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Link your screen captures here to show off the quality (or lack thereof) of certain international DVDs that are, preferably, not shown on other websites. For organization purposes I'd appreciate it if each post only contained images from one particular DVD, unless it's a comparison.

Unfortunately due to bandwidth limitations users will be unable to post images directly onto this site. I suggest using an image hosting site (such as Photo Bucket or Image Shack) and then linking to those images from here.

I'd also appreciate it if the number of images per post were kept down to a reasonable amount, so that the thread doesn't take too too long to load and become too horrendous to look at. If images become dead (the red X) I may delete the images or delete the post, so you have fair warning.

Index of titles

Aîné des Ferchaux, L' (Magnet of Doom) - R2 Germany
Angel Exterminador, El (The Exterminating Angel) - R4
Armee des Ombres, L' (Army of Shadows) - R2/R4
Bandera, La - R2 France
Bellissima - R2
Blind Husbands - R2 France vs German
Brighton Rock - R2 UK
Caught - R2 France
Colour of Pornegranates - Comparison (Japan, France, USA)
David Lean Collection - R2 UK
Derriere Miroir, la (Bigger Than Life) - R2 France
Deuxième souffle, Le - R2 France
Devil, Probably, The - R2 Spain
Dr. Mabuses Meisterwerk: 6 Disc Box Set - R2 Germany
Fallen Angels - R4 France
Femme Mariee, Une - R3 Japan
Gang's All Here, The - R2 France - Fox Laser
General, The (2 Disc) - R4
Gueule d'Amour - R2 France
Happy Together - R0 Taiwan
Histoire de Marie et Julien - R4
Lancelot du Lac - R2
Lettre d'Une Inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman - R2 France
Lost Highway (2 Disc) - R4
Magic Flute, The - R2 France
Maria Chapdelaine - R2 France
Mes Petites Amoureuses - R2 France
Millenium Mambo- R4
Pandora's Box - R2 France
Porte des Lilas - R2 France
Red Desert - R4
Salamandre, La - R2 France
Satantango - R2
Sergio Sollima Italo-Western Box Set - R2 Germany
Seventh Heaven - R0 Spain
Silence de la mer, Le - R2 France
Subida al cieloR1 MexicoR2 UK
Tales of Hoffmann - Compare Criterion laserdisc with Criterion DVD
Tete d'un Homme, La - R2 France
Under Capricorn - R2 France
Valachi Papers, The - R2 UK
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) - R4
Westfront - R2 Germany
Woman in the Window, The - R0 Spain
With Beauty and Sorrow - Compare Shochiku R2 Japan with Panorama R3 HK

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GOOD MAN!! I don't know if it was in PM or on a thread but I was only recently discussing with zedz or Dave Hare that this would be an incredible idea and a great supplement to the Beev. Excellent!

Three samples from the attractive new R2 PAL UK anamorphic edition of The Valachi Papers. Note that this is the Studio Canal edition, not the other recent UK release by Orbit Media, which has had very poor reviews on Amazon and IMDb.





Not sure if this 16:9 aspect ratio is correct, though. The reviews of the Sony R1 disc mention 1.85:1.

(Note to admin: feel free to delete if I've done this wrong!)

Here are four sets of screen captures (between the Panorama R3 HK and Shochiku R2 Japan) that show how washed out,
cropped, stretched, green tinted and painful the brilliant Shinoda Masahiro film (adapted from Kawabata)
With Beauty and Sorrow can be. Unfortunately, the only one of these with english subtitles is the Panorama,
but hopefully that will one day change, as this is one of my favorite Shinoda films, and deserves
better treatment and a larger audience (who couldn't be blamed for disliking the Panorama).
I'm posting these because I would hate for anyone, like me, to have been violently turned away from the film
while watching the Panorama because it's a completely different animal in it's correct state.

They're both NTSC and have the same running time, however the anamorphic Shochiku is dual layered
and averages about 8.0 MBps while the Panorama is single layered averaging about 5.7 MBps.
With this collection of captures I'll place the Shochiku first and the Panorama second. These captures
were taken on PowerDVD (the files are on a geocities account, and there may be limits on viewing, if this
becomes a problem I'll move them to another site).

Capture 1:




Capture 2:




Capture 3:




Capture 4:

From the Warner UK edition of Brighton Rock (1947). Some damage and dirt on the print (see capture 6). Otherwise a pleasing transfer.

Dr. Mabuses Meisterwerk - Box Set (6 DVDs) from Germany


Audio: German
Subtitles: none!!

Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse)


Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse (The Return of Dr. Mabuse)


Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse (The Invisible Dr. Mabuse)


Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)


Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse)


Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse (The Death Ray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse)

davidhare wrote:R4 Vivre Sa Vie

Great progressive transfer. Additional commentary by Adrian Martin and the short Une Histoire d'Eau:

that transfer looks amazing, is there a link for any site that'll sell to Americans?

I would also love to purchase that r4 Vivra sa Vie.

(I'll post screencaps here in the future, so it's not a wasted post)

found it on eBay, some American is selling 30 of them:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0007078657

damn, If criterion doesnt announce vivra sa vie for December, I'll be inclined to pick that up. thanks for the link

can anyone post caps of this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 9145317219

(man, that seller has the tinto brass boxset for 94.99 US. I bought it for 15 pounds and sold it for 40$...)

Eeek! I want those Star Wars and Kill Bill exclusive tins so bad!

too bad I can't buy them seperately...

Time flies... that was the fastest couple hours I ever seen rip by, Monsieur Harestralie.

Your avatar is spinning off in the wrong direction... Jeder macht eine kleine misspent crotch sweat.

..or as Mr. Moto would calmly nod and say "O so?"

Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache)
French R2 SCEREN-CNDP (no subs)

Kinsayder wrote:Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache)
French R2 SCEREN-CNDP

Hoorah!

(no subs)

Aarrgh!

Some enterprising English-language company (MOC, are you listening?) really needs to pick up this great film (in what looks like a great transfer) and subtitle it!

I'd just like to let it be known that I'm ok with caps containing nudity. Infact, I encourage it.

Sergio Sollima Italo-Western Box (4 DVDs) from Koch Media (Germany)

Faccia a faccia (Face to Face)





La Resa dei conti (The Big Gundown)





Corri, uomo, corri (Run, Man, Run!)




Review

Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)
Spanish edition (Suevia Films)

All-region PAL; silent with orchestral score and sound effects; removable yellow Spanish subtitles on the intertitle cards; "restored" but still with a great deal of print damage.

An out-of-print title, but still of interest perhaps...

Le silence de la mer (R2 France)
Rene Chateau - no subs, not even French subs for the German dialogue!

And the condition of the print and grain look about on a par with what we have presently (off the record) with Borzage's STREET ANGEL.

davidhare wrote:Very nice caps from the Melville Kinsayder. Pity the disc is OOP.

Bloody hell - I didn't even now there WAS such a disc! Eh? How did this escape everyone? Gorgeous transfer, too. I have a subbed VHS-to-DVD-R from Super Happy Fun and it looks pretty rough. This is a film that badly needs a USA/UK release. From what I can gather, no one owns the rights in the USA and UK. Perhaps, the global rights are owned by a sole entity. I recall Nick Wrigley mentioning that MoC tried to get it, but had problems finding good unsubbed elements, but those caps prove that a great pre-print elements exists. Heck, just get that mastertape and add subs and a Ginette Vincendeau intro or commentary and you're laughing!

The Magic Flute (Bergman)
French R2 (G.C.T.H.V.), available here
Optional French subtitles only.

The captures have been chosen for comparison with the Beaver review of the Criterion edition. The Criterion image is softer and has been slightly cropped on all sides. The French edition shows more grain but I'm not sure that it's more detailed. The colours seem wrong on both: too red on the Criterion, too green on the French.