In The Mood For Love (2000) (4K UHD)

[TheBondFan]

Coming from The Jokers Film.

https://www.fnac.com/a16297945/In-Th...eg-name=AWINID

[Rizor]

English subs?

[Yami]

Originally Posted by Rizor

English subs?

The chance of any European release of this having English subs is close to 0.

[TheBondFan]

(It says UHD + blu-ray + bonus disc but only 2 discs in the digipack according to the picture...)

[Rizor]

Oh that looks nice! But no English subs means I can't have it.

[TheBondFan]

A Fnac special edition will be released. Content will be announced soon:

https://www.fnac.com/a16367288/In-Th...omnsearchpos=6

[Blasst67]

Originally Posted by TheBondFan

A Fnac special edition will be released. Content will be announced soon:

https://www.fnac.com/a16367288/In-Th...omnsearchpos=6

Hopefully it will have English subs.

[TheBondFan]

Official specs:

In The Mood For Love - collector Digipack (35€):
1 UHD-HDR disc
2 blu-ray discs (the movie + bonus)
50 pages booklet that includes photos and press kit.
(2 hours of bonus)

In The Mood For Love - collector's box/collector's edition (50€):
Collector's box
1 UHD-HDR disc
2 blu-ray discs (the movie + bonus)
150 pages book that includes photos and "lines of secrets" that Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung could have exchanged.
(The bonus disc contains 3 hours of bonus including exclusive 110 minutes)

Bonus on the blu-ray disc:

In The mood For Filming (17 min) - NEW
2 or 3 things about Wong Kar Wai (28 min) - NEW
Trailer

BLU-RAY BONUS

Making-of (52 min) - NEW
Deleted scenes (24 min) : The Secret of the Room 2046 / Singapour (post card) / The 70's
Alternative ending : Angkor Wat (8 min)
A note on the making-of (17 min)
Tony Leung in music (4 min)

Languages: Cantonese Dolby 7.1 & 5.1, French Dolby 2.0
Subtitles: French
Runtime: 1h35

It is unclear if the digipack edition has less bonus than the collector's edition. I don't know if a lot of studios do that.
For more information:

[Show spoiler]https://thejokers-shop.com/collectio...-mood-for-love
https://thejokers-shop.com/collectio...-mood-for-love

[TheBondFan]

Collector box:

[Rizor]

Is the fnac special edition the same as the one pictured above? Looks beautiful. Do they ship to the US?

[Rizor]

I ordered a "Edition Collector Edition Spéciale" from fnac under the hopes it was the collector's edition on the Jokers Shop website (fnac never updated their product details or product images). They shipped it over the weekend and I was surprised to get an alert from DHL that it was delivered today. Opened it up and sure enough, it's the Collector's Edition. Looks nice. No English subs though I suppose I really ought to learn Cantonese anyway. Not sure about Shanghainese.

[Rizor]

Transfer is the same as the Criterion version. The titles & text benefit from the added resolution. HDR is quite nice. But the resolution also makes some of the image processing (noise reduction, sharpening, banding) more apparent. Still a gorgeous movie. The disc only has French subtitles.

The photo book is quite nice. There are two extras on the Blu-ray movie disc (which is indeed Region B locked) that I don't recall from the Criterion set. A 16-minute tour of Thailand (I think) with Chris Doyle, and a 26-minute featurette with some early 2000s interviews with Wong Kar Wai, Michelle Reis, Maggie Cheung, and Tony Leung. Thankfully, these are all in English. There's also a 17 minute English-language featurette on the bonus disc that's also in English that I don't think is on the Criterion.

[joenostalgia23]

Would you say the HDR makes a huge difference to the look of the film or it’s more like a subtle refinement?

[scarletlion]

Why do they not include English subtitles with these? Is it a licensing issue? I'd have snapped this or the German version up if they were included.

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by joenostalgia23

Would you say the HDR makes a huge difference to the look of the film or it’s more like a subtle refinement?

I wouldn't say it's transformative, just a nice addition. But I've never really been a huge HDR guy. I don't necessarily miss it when I watch SDR content, but can appreciate it when it's there. Perhaps I'll do a more direct comparison.

[sanjay0864]

It's really not that hard to rip the movie to a mkv file and add English subs to it.

[TheBondFan]

Caps: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=16...0&a=1&go=0&l=1

I prefer the French edition.

[Prince_7]

The french release is a post processing nightmare, filled with DNR smoothing out all the detail. It's a terrible transfer compared to the german release which looks a lot closer to film.

There's more detail on the US blu-ray than this UHD release, it's really that bad, and in motion it looks even worse, very wobbly due to the DNR.

[Mosley likes BFDI]

Should Criterion release this on 4K Blu-ray? I looked up the US and UK Blu-ray and Criterion owns the rights to that film in those countries.

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by Prince_7

The french release is a post processing nightmare, filled with DNR smoothing out all the detail. It's a terrible transfer compared to the german release which looks a lot closer to film.

There's more detail on the US blu-ray than this UHD release, it's really that bad, and in motion it looks even worse, very wobbly due to the DNR.

Good to see there's a version out there with more detail. Was beginning to think it was baked into the restoration.