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[Stamper]

Anyone know if a VHS full screen rip of El Mariachi exists?

The DVDs are 1.66:1 and looks like crap
The Blu is 1.85:1 and is unwatchable.

The VHS was open matte + the film looked as good as in the bonuses where Rodriguez shows the outtakes in full screen.

[Koopa Luath]

If one doesn't exist, and I come across a VHS copy, I'm hoping to make one.

[zoidberg]

Just got a copy 'El cheapo' on eBay

[Stamper]

Cool, cos that one is a weird one. I wonder why it always looked crap, except in the outtakes bonuses.

[zoidberg]

I think the o-neg was ruined making film prints. A victim of its own success.

[Stamper]

Was listening to the DVD bonus commentary, and Rodriguez points out that the original edit look better than the film because the conversion to 35mm was badly made. So Columbia ruined in essence the master.

I checked out the Blu-ray, the film is about 16gb in size. It's a different master from the DVD which is 1.66, you can tell because the credits are redone and look pristine and static (computer made), whereas the rest of the film looks crappy. On the DVD everything look crappy and the credits wooble a bit.

Rodriguez should rescan the original 16mm edit, instead of the 35mm which are further removed from the original neg. Or maybe get someone to reconform all the rushes direct from the original footage trims.

I think it may have happened that way:

- Rodriguez printed every he shot.
- All the pristine footage was transfered on video.
- The original edit was on video.

Columbia buy the movie.

- The film is edited on film, but probably from 35mm dupes of the 16mm rushes. So there might not be a 16mm Oneg, just a 35mm one.
- Then IP were made, then IN, then 35mm copies.

The question is, what is on the VHS? The original video edit (since it's 1.37:1), or the 35mm edit in open matte?
If this was the original video edit, it would be awesome.

On DVD & Blu the whole film is misframed, there's too much top and not enough bottom so half the film looks badly shot.

Apparently there's a rare japanese LD in 4/3 full screen format. Link here http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/33480/SRLP...l-Mariachi

[Stamper]

Anyone knows a VHS reference to the original cut of the WILD BUNCH? Peckinpah's classic has only been released in an extended edition which is not the theatrical cut. Could be easy to reconstruct it.

[Chewtobacca]

What's the best audio source for Se7en?  As PDB mentioned, it would have been mixed in 5.1, so the DTS-HD MA 7.1 on the NL BD is out. Is the 5.1 on the Alliance BD relatively unmolested?  There's this on dvdcompare.net.

[spoRv]

Once upon a time, there was the problem of "original mix" vs "remix"... now we got also the "revisionist remix"... if the revisioned video wouldn't be enough!

Further work for us, poor project makers... but further fun (sometime/somehow)!

[zoidberg]

The best audio source for Seven, in the absence of cinema DTS is most likely laserdisc. I understand Ren Klyce supervised a near field mix for the AC3 on the Criterion laserdisc, don't know if it's the same mix on the New Line disc (I have both)