A 4k restoration upgrade of Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice will be released May 15Ribs wrote:
Wording confused me there, as your post implied to me it would be a UHD!
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A 4k restoration upgrade of Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice will be released May 15Ribs wrote:
Wording confused me there, as your post implied to me it would be a UHD!
I really liked most of A Touch of Zen. But then it just sort of changed into something else near the 3/4 mark. I'm going to assume someone here has seen this. Is this similar?Drucker wrote:Legend of the Mountain coming from Kino.
I'll definitely pick it up then. Thanks for the information.The Fanciful Norwegian wrote:Raining in the Mountain is a different film shot around the same time. Legend is a more discursive movie with less action and a ghost story that Hu actually follows through on (unlike A Touch of Zen where he used it as a jumping-off point for something very different). There's still a Buddhist aspect but it feels more elemental in a way.
The translator commentary sounds really interesting.Kino wrote:DISC ONE:
BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
Feature audio commentary by Layla Alexander-Garrett, Tarkovsky's translator on the set of The Sacrifice
Original Trailer
DISC TWO:
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - a documentary on the making of The Sacrifice (102 minutes)
Interview with Michal Leszczylowski, editor of The Sacrifice and director of Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (32 minutes)
An illustrated booklet with excerpts from Tarkovsky's diaries and an essay by film scholar Robert Bird
According to DVD Beaver, the new Kino Blu-ray from the 4k restoration runs 2:26, whereas the Artificial Eye Blu-ray runs 2:29. That seems like a significant discrepancy in the running time. If anyone ends up with both editions, I'd be interested to hear about the differences. Eventually my library will get the new Kino Blu-ray so I could do a comparison myself, but it wouldn't happen for another month or two.Luke M wrote:DVDBeaver on The Sacrifice
That can’t be the answer, partly because PAL-NTSC isn’t an issue with Blu-ray, but also because a 149-minute theatrical feature would lose six and a half minutes rather than three in that situation.dda1996a wrote:PAL vs. NTSC? That's only three minutes which I'd bet indicate that speed up
I stand corrected then. I thought there were still blu-ray that differ in regions because of speed-upMichaelB wrote:That can’t be the answer, partly because PAL-NTSC isn’t an issue with Blu-ray, but also because a 149-minute theatrical feature would lose six and a half minutes rather than three in that situation.dda1996a wrote:PAL vs. NTSC? That's only three minutes which I'd bet indicate that speed up
I suspect you're thinking of issues where films shot for European television at 25fps (Dekalog, Berlin Alexanderplatz, the TV work of Alan Clarke and Ken Russell) have to be slowed down to 24fps to comply with the more restricted US Blu-ray specs. But that wouldn't apply to a film that's always been a 24fps theatrical feature.dda1996a wrote:I stand corrected then. I thought there were still blu-ray that differ in regions because of speed-up
I'm not pleased that the change in contrast has wiped out all of the cloud texture in the opening scene.tenia wrote:While there seems to be a clear upgrade in texture, the caps I've seen gave me some doubts about the grading. IIRC, it's not the only Tarkvoski restoration like this.
Yes, my heart sank when I saw the screencaps. I have the old Kino bluray and the Artificial Eye, and I'll stick with the latter. The old Kino bluray was bad - terrible encoding. This new Kino disc looks overly contrast-boosted to me (even though I've never seen it on film anywhere).Roger Ryan wrote:I'm not pleased that the change in contrast has wiped out all of the cloud texture in the opening scene.tenia wrote:While there seems to be a clear upgrade in texture, the caps I've seen gave me some doubts about the grading. IIRC, it's not the only Tarkvoski restoration like this.
Thanks for the great review, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.Lost Highway wrote:
I’ll be sad when there will be no more 3D on blu-ray, especially for classic 3D releases like this. These 50s 3D movies are a revelation when having been converted from their anaglyph versions to modern 3D. They never have been seen like this.
A repertory cinema I used to go to a lot in the late 70s/early 80s had a retrospective of 3D movies. I remember that the B&W 50s movies I saw (Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space) were shown anaglyphic while the one color film I saw, Flesh for Frankenstein was shown polarized. I don't pretend to be an expert on 3D but that's what my experience was, so they must have been converted.Bob Furmanek wrote:Thanks for the great review, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.Lost Highway wrote:
I’ll be sad when there will be no more 3D on blu-ray, especially for classic 3D releases like this. These 50s 3D movies are a revelation when having been converted from their anaglyph versions to modern 3D. They never have been seen like this.
THE MAZE restoration is our first collaboration with Martin Scorsese and the Film Foundation: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/the-maze
Polarized 3-D was first shown publicly in 1936. None of the 1950's 3-D features were anaglyphic originally, they were all shown in high quality, discrete polarized 3-D. A handful were converted to red/cyan anaglyphic in the 1970's and 80's. See myth number one for more information: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/top-10-3-d-myths
Our next restoration is SANGAREE: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/sangaree
Bob Furmanek
3-D Film Archive
Hi all - the running time discrepancy comes from a difference in the running time of the opening credits. The new 4K restoration comes from French material - and the French credits run 3 minutes shorter than the Swedish credits. No footage is missing.MichaelB wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 6:21 amI suspect you're thinking of issues where films shot for European television at 25fps (Dekalog, Berlin Alexanderplatz, the TV work of Alan Clarke and Ken Russell) have to be slowed down to 24fps to comply with the more restricted US Blu-ray specs. But that wouldn't apply to a film that's always been a 24fps theatrical feature.dda1996a wrote:I stand corrected then. I thought there were still blu-ray that differ in regions because of speed-up
I'm bemused by this running-time difference, because there's no question that the film originally played theatrically at 149 minutes. I'd understand if a new restoration was slightly longer, because of additional credits to do with the restoration, but unless DVD Beaver is misreporting the running time, it looks as though this is actually missing some footage.
(Although I wasn't particularly attracted to this version anyway - I saw the film numerous times in 35mm, and my memory of the colours suggests that the Artificial Eye disc is far more accurate.)
There's a lot of overlap with Second Run here, but I'll be happy to upgrade the Jancsó titles (assuming they're released on BD.)Variety wrote:Kino Lorber has announced that it has acquired North American rights for ten newly restored classics from the Hungarian National Film Fund- Film Archive.
The titles includes “Mephisto,” directed by István Szabó, which won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1981 Academy Awards; “Colonel Redl,” directed by Szabó and a 1986 Academy Award nominee; Szabo’s “Confidence,” winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 1980 Berlin International Film Festival and 1981 Academy Award nominee.
The others are “My 20th Century, directed by Ildikó Enyedi; and six films by Miklós Jancsó — “The Red and White,” “The Confrontation,” “Elektra, My Love,” “The Round-Up,” “Winter Wind” and “Red Psalm,”which won the Best Director award at 1972 Cannes Film Festival.