Juggernaut (1974) Blu-ray in September from Kino Classics

[Akijama]

Juggernaut Blu-ray

Juggernaut Official Trailer #1 - Anthony Hopkins Movie (1974) HD - YouTube

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by Akijama

https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorberS...type=1&theater

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Another great announcement from Kino. They don't give us a minute to catch our breath, do they?

[MifuneFan]

I miss the days of epic posters like that. I've never seen this, but just the poster is selling me on it.

[Green4Head]

Unbelievable, one of my childhood favourites! Is this likely to be region locked?

[BarnDoor]

Originally Posted by Green4Head

Unbelievable, one of my childhood favourites! Is this likely to be region locked?

According to Kino all these Studio Classics titles will be Region A only, so it doesn't look good I'm afraid.

[James Luckard]

Yes!!! I never thought I'd see the day. Criminally underrated film. Soderbregh loves it, talks about it in his book of interviews with Richard Lester, "Getting Away With it".

Juggernaut often gets unfairly lumped in with the disaster movies of the 70s, which is wildly inaccurate. It's a suspense thriller about a bomb disposal squad on an ocean liner and an excellent police procedural about the cops back on land, led by Anthony Hopkins, whose wife and kids are on the ship, hunting for the mad bomber. Except for a few scenes illustrating the lives of the various passengers on the ship, it's nothing like the soapy disaster movies, much as I love them.

First-rate film!! So glad it'll be making its way to BD, the ancient DVD is 4:3 letterboxed.

[James Luckard]

VERY intelligent and insightful rave review of the film here:

http://film.thedigitalfix.com/conten...uggernaut.html

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

They don't give us a minute to catch our breath, do they?

Nope. Magnificent bastards.

[CobraVerde]

Time to retire the DVD.

[James Luckard]

Release date is 9/9, per their Facebook page.

[L'armée des ombres]

Just got this
PQ is rather good, no DNR just the standard off the shelf transfer from Kino in the 1.66:1 ratio as it should be.
Sound is mono of course delivered by a DTS-HD Master Audio.
Only extra is a trailer.

[Nocturnaloner]

Never seen or heard of this in my life! Looks good.

[Todd Tomorrow]

I always thought of this film as the British The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. A genre hybrid of the then fashionable disaster film combined with an investigative thriller. Great films both of them.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by L'armée des ombres

in the 1.66:1 ratio as it should be.

Actually, despite what the packaging says, the new BD is 1.85:1, as the screencaps here show:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Jugge...9/#Screenshots

The old MGM DVD was 1.66:1

It's not a change that damages the film to me and American audiences would have seen it this way in 1974 anyway, presumably.

I do wonder which is Richard Lester's preferred format, but I'll bet he shot with both in mind for UK and American theaters.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Actually, despite what the packaging says, the new BD is 1.85:1, as the screencaps here show:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Jugge...9/#Screenshots

The old MGM DVD was 1.66:1

It's not a change that damages the film to me and American audiences would have seen it this way in 1974 anyway, presumably.

I do wonder which is Richard Lester's preferred format, but I'll bet he shot with both in mind for UK and American theaters.

It played on my TV with borders on the side, small but they were there

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by L'armée des ombres

It played on my TV with borders on the side, small but they were there

Strange, my disc played on my TV just like the caps here, no borders on the sides but very, very slim borders on the top and bottom.

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1.66:1 would have fairly sizable borders on the sides though, like this cap from ON THE BEACH:

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Does your Juggernaut BD look like that? If so, is it possible that Kino Lorber released two versions by accident? The back of the case does say 1.66 after all. The people with ON THE BEACH BDs with audio sync issues certainly seem to have different discs from mine.

I'm not trying to be funny or sarcastic, genuinely wondering.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Strange, my disc played on my TV just like the caps here, no borders on the sides but very, very slim borders on the top and bottom.

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1.66:1 would have fairly sizable borders on the sides though, like this cap from ON THE BEACH:

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Does your Juggernaut BD look like that? If so, is it possible that Kino Lorber released two versions by accident? The back of the case does say 1.66 after all. The people with ON THE BEACH BDs with audio sync issues certainly seem to have different discs from mine.

I'm not trying to be funny or sarcastic, genuinely wondering.

Sorry my bad
Did check it again and no borders....i guess i want it to be
Anyway 1.85:1 it is

[James Luckard]

I watched this last night. It's such an underrated film, it really holds up. A taut thriller with just the right sprinkling of comic relief and genuine human emotion that never spills over into sentimentality.

The image looks as good as this film is ever going to look, I suspect, which is pretty darned good. The film looks like it was shot yesterday (on 1970s film stock, obviously), with lifelike colors and tremendous detail. There are a few specks of dirt over the course of the film, but on the whole it's the best I could have expected for this forgotten classic.

The 1.85 framing looks fine. Most of the film seems to have been shot handheld, with framing that's very loose, and I'm sure both the 1.66 of the DVD and the 1.85 here are ratios Lester knew the film would be seen in, since it was a UK production, but also intended for wide American release.

Watching the film reminded me what a huge shame it is that he retired so young, he really is gifted. And when you watch his mid-to-late-70s films, it's easy to see why he's Soderbergh's favorite director, their styles have a great deal in common.

[saltysam]

Somehow hadn't seen this since it's cinema release! Watched it today and it holds up well,excellent stuff.The running time on the box is incorrect,states 126 minutes when in fact it's 110.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by saltysam

Somehow hadn't seen this since it's cinema release! Watched it today and it holds up well,excellent stuff.The running time on the box is incorrect,states 126 minutes when in fact it's 110.

Also says it's 1.66 when it's actually 1.85