The City Of Lost Children - Studiocanal

[Oscar Rothman]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Lost-Ch...ocanal+blu-ray

Street date - March 14

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Oscar Rothman

http://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Lost-Ch...ocanal+blu-ray

Street date - March 14

SC are asshats tho

[Dougling]

I love this film so much! This had best be good.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Dougling

I love this film so much! This had best be good.

Can't be worse than the Sony disc, right? Right????

[Dougling]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Can't be worse than the Sony disc, right? Right????

Honestly, not seen it. I'm only just about to go region free in the New Year. It's not exactly got a stellar reputation, though...

[Sifox211]

Sony disk? The one that came out yesterday in the States?

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Sifox211

Sony disk? The one that came out yesterday in the States?

Yep

[Dougling]

It would appear that news of turds travels fast!

[gap]

Finally! Hopefully it's a good release - Jeunet's (with Caro) best film by far.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Dougling

It would appear that news of turds travels fast!

Lower bitrate than the JP disc and reports of DNR.
Plus its a stereo mix

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Lower bitrate than the JP disc and reports of DNR.
Plus its a stereo mix

On the amazon site, someone mentioned that the English subs pop up sometimes. Can anyone confirm this?

[rapta]

Might be my favourite Jeunet (although MicMacs and Delicatessen give it a run for its money). Hope they do it justice! Could just be yet another expensive but barebones upgrade from SC but we'll have to wait and see...

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by rapta

Might be my favourite Jeunet (although MicMacs and Delicatessen give it a run for its money). Hope they do it justice! Could just be yet another expensive but barebones upgrade from SC but we'll have to wait and see...

I should hope not. Canal produced many of the European DVDs--including the UK and French ones--so I would hope they have access to all of their DVD supplements for the UK BD, including Jeunet's French-language commentary, which was presented with English subtitles. That, along with, obviously, presenting the film with a French (and perhaps even English): DTS-HD MA 5.1 track (and providing the French-produced SD video extras at the proper 25 fps speed), would make the Canal release obviously superior to the Sony one.

I will be pre-ordering this ASAP, as it has the potential to be the definitive release of the film.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Canal produced many of the European DVDs--including the UK and French ones--so I would hope they have access to all of their DVD supplements for the UK BD

Unfortunately with most of their back catalogue titles they've not carried over DVD supplements, often replacing them with new ones. For example Casque D'Or doesn't include the home movie footage of the shoot, audio interview with Serge Reggiani or trailer from their original French DVD, Le Jour Se Leve doesn't include the interviews with Jean Gabin and Alexandre Trauner or the trailer, their French BD of the 1976 King Kong doesn't include all the deleted scenes from their DVD, their Three and Four Musketeers disc has no extras at all where their French release includes all three films, all the extras from the old Anchor Bay DVD and new ones specific to that set as well and their BD of Red Sun doesn't even include the trailer from their French DVD.

Their policy generally seems to be only new extras or none at all for BD upgrades. Even new titles barely get any extras.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Unfortunately with most of their back catalogue titles they've not carried over DVD supplements, often replacing them with new ones. For example Casque D'Or doesn't include the home movie footage of the shoot, audio interview with Serge Reggiani or trailer from their original French DVD, Le Jour Se Leve doesn't include the interviews with Jean Gabin and Alexandre Trauner or the trailer, their French BD of the 1976 King Kong doesn't include all the deleted scenes from their DVD, their Three and Four Musketeers disc has no extras at all where their French release includes all three films, all the extras from the old Anchor Bay DVD and new ones specific to that set as well and their BD of Red Sun doesn't even include the trailer from their French DVD.

Their policy generally seems to be only new extras or none at all for BD upgrades. Even new titles barely get any extras.

I know there are a lot of different Canal BDs, not to mention DVDs, so it's really impossible to tell, which titles will get shared discs, and which will get country-specific releases. You are right, too, that Canal often seems to replace DVD extras with new HD extras for Blu-rays. Still, there are a good number of titles which carry the film-specific extras over, including most of the StudioCanal Collection line, of which Jeunet's previous film, Delicatessen, was a member.

We shall see what happens to their extras for The City of Lost Children, but I am hopeful that the fact that the English-friendly DVDs were consistent, and did not make use of licensed or third-party content (e.g. documentaries with clips of other films), means it's more likely they will be ported over, unless Canal make new ones. I know that, for example, Canal only used the DVD extras for King Kong in certain countries where they released it on DVD. And for whatever reason, Red Sun is another such title, where the extras on Canal DVDs were different across various countries.

It would be great to get everything, but honestly, as long as we get the French commentary and lossless French 5.1, that alone would make me happy. At worst, I would expect that we get some decent new extras to replace the old ones, as Jeunet is well-respected in Europe, and this film is recent, and quite important in his filmography.

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Lower bitrate than the JP disc and reports of DNR.
Plus its a stereo mix

"Reports" of DNR?

You haven't seen the disc yet you continue to talk about what a travesty it is.

I, on the other hand, have seen it. From the caps alone, it look similar to the JP. And that's probably the only master there is.

[McCrutchy]

Now available to pre-order:

[dvdmike]

How ****ing much????

[rapta]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

How ****ing much????

Will drop in price...to £15.99 most likely. Still too high for me.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

"Reports" of DNR?

You haven't seen the disc yet you continue to talk about what a travesty it is.

I, on the other hand, have seen it. From the caps alone, it look similar to the JP. And that's probably the only master there is.

Where did I say it was a travesty?? I am disappointed in the US disc and someone in the thread said it had DNR..............