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  Issue with LD captures?
Posted by: alleycat - 2020-02-22, 12:51 AM - Forum: Capture and rip - Replies (2)

Hi All,

I wondered if anyone could confirm what this is and if anything can be done to fix it? I've seen this on a couple of different LD captures - see below - the green/red coloring around the tree branches and shrubs?

Thanks



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  The Haunting (1999) BD release
Posted by: Bigrob - 2020-02-20, 05:05 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (23)

Finally makes it's Blu-ray debut and it comes to £10.70 shipped to the UK. Quite a fan of the story and absolutely love the 1963 film (even have an original vintage cinema poster in my collection) and loved the Netflix adaption recently. the 1999 film wasn't as great but it's entertaining.  

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/haunt...99-blu-ray

the DTS DVD was my demo disc. The audio was a real powerhouse. Shame the BD only has 5.1 audio as this was the second film to be mixed in Dolby Surround EX

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  Last Post button on Chrome mobile
Posted by: Bigrob - 2020-02-20, 05:02 PM - Forum: Bug reports and suggestions - Replies (1)

small bug that I should make you aware of

using google chrome on my android device and whenever I press last post to see the final page of the thread i'm reading (this is either form the forum index or the thread itself), it only goes to halfway through the thread an di have to keep pressing last post to forward through the pages

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  'Visiting Criterion Collection' Video/Interview
Posted by: zoidberg - 2020-02-16, 07:08 PM - Forum: General technical discussions - Replies (2)

An interesting interview with Criterion's Technical Director Lee Kline talking about how they approach restorations etc., can't help but read it as a defense of some of their previous 'tealed' releases.

Visiting Criterion Collection

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  SE7EN - Criterion LD 5.1
Posted by: Croweyes1121 - 2020-02-15, 06:37 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (11)

Looking for the DD5.1 audio from the Criterion CAV laserdisc if anyone has it.

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  request booshan'e superman IV international cut
Posted by: humie99 - 2020-02-15, 07:48 AM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (13)

Hi everyone. Can someone help me out please? I would like to see Booshman's superman IV international cut. Unfortunently I dont' have a myspleen account. Any help is really appreciated!!

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  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Mono
Posted by: NeonBible - 2020-02-09, 01:33 PM - Forum: Requests, proposals, help - Replies (21)

The movie was originally released with a mono mix. The LaserDisc has this and I read that the R1 DVD also has the mono track.

Was listening to P&S capture and noticed there are some scenes missing on the LD compared to the BD, and that the track is analog.

So was wondering if anyone has the track from the R1 DVD which would be interesting for comparison.

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  A Blade In The Dark (1983) [Project: Celluloid]
Posted by: LucasGodzilla - 2020-02-08, 08:05 AM - Forum: Released - No Replies

So! It's been a while. I've been working on and off a number of projects in my minimal spare time nowadays that I haven't announced in the likely off-chance of raising people's hopes before stating that I gave up on it / shelved it / got tired of it. HOWEVER, I can say that thankfully, I've come across an interesting case of a movie needing a regrade that ended up being a rather quick project to get the desired results.

Introducing...

PROJECT CELLULOID: Lamberto Bava's A Blade In The Dark / La Casa Con La Scala Nel Buio



Now I'm not going to go talk about the movie, but just let it be known it's a charming low-budget example of the giallo genre with a more slasher / stalker sort feel to it than most other examples of the genre. What I am going to say though, is that I managed to recently see a 35mm screening of it up in Los Angeles as a part of a Giallo January Marathon. Out of curiosity, I decided to look into the 88 Films blu-ray afterward only to be shocked by not only how wrong the colors were, but also just how ugly it was as a result. As such, with some experimentation, I managed to get a look close to what I saw that afternoon in theater.

Unfortunately, I had limited sources to recreate the look: Primarily my memory as well as a few low-quality 35mm pics Cinematic Void uploaded to advertise / tease the event (which I wanna say were probably just taken by an iPhone). Problem was the movie doesn't look quite like those pictures at times nor the trailer posted above, so I had to sort of hybridize some regraded video tracks in Da Vinci Resolve to get the closest thing to what I could recall (wasn't paying too much attention to colors sadly since I didn't realize the blu-ray looked so dreadful, so I didn't bother trying to sneak a projection recording or anything).

The blu-ray source is also imperfect for having the wrong lighting level in some shots but I didn't want to do a shot-for-shot sort of grade since I don't remember everything to a T, so there are some shots that likely looked much colder and darker in-print (EG: The locked room) and probably looked warmer (EG: Outdoors maybe? It's a bit fuzzy...). What the movie really could use is a new restoration though given it just looks pretty bad as (I hope Blue Underground will give it a 4K update like they've been doing for the rest of their catalog recently, especially since it seems the screened print belongs to the company if this is anything to go by).

I hope you all can enjoy it nonetheless, and for those of you who've never seen or heard of this movie before, now's a good time to check it out I suppose. If you want a download, just shoot me a PM.

You can screencaps of the original master here and the regraded master here...

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  Underwater (2020) - impressions
Posted by: spoRv - 2020-02-07, 03:22 PM - Forum: Movies, TV shows and other - Replies (2)

I usually do not go to theater anymore, due to various reasons that I will not list here.

Yet, sometimes, if ticket price is very low I could spend couple € to watch a decent movie. Other times - really few - I spend normal ticket price to watch a movie that I feel the "urge" to watch, and this was one of these times.

Stumbled upon the trailer ten days ago, I immediately thought "I HAVE to watch it ASAP!". And I watched it a week later, in theater... in Vilnius (that is the capital of Lithuania, if someone is too lazy to search for it), in English with Lithuanian subtitles.

Yes, I know, subtitles were a bit distracting. And, frankly, I lost sometimes the sense of dialog due to quite fast speech - except for Vincent Cassel that, being French, luckily speaks at a reasonable pace (for an Italian, at least!)

I liked this movie. Quite a lot, indeed! One of the best thing ever, is the fact that action started almost immediately, two minutes at most in the movie. No useless half movie time spent in prologues, explanations etc. no, directly in the action. Perfect!

Acting: far from perfect, but more than decent. Dialogs: as written before, lost something, but good enough. Story: nothing original, still interesting. Monsters: great, apart the supa-dupa over-the-top final one (that I liked as well, by the way). Music, very good. SFX, perfect.

Alien meets what The Abyss should have been.

8/10

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  Hello all friends.
Posted by: sertoli - 2020-02-05, 11:59 PM - Forum: Presentation - No Replies

Greetings from Brazil!
There's many interesting projects.
Thanks a lot.

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