The Vanishing (1988)

[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by JackForrester

Anyone had a quick video glitch (don't know if that's the right term) exactly at 1:23:43 to 1:23:44, when Saskia is paying for the frisbee?

yes me too!


The Vanishing of the frisbee...

just at the moment she gives the frisbee to the cashier at approx. 1:23:43 , a frame (or more) seems to be missing.
It's clearly not a "freezing" problem like on some other Blu-Ray releases (Walkabout, Days of Heaven).
I could see it frame by frame with my stand-alone blu-ray player and you can clearly notice that a frame is missing.

It's strange. I wonder if this missing frame(s) were already on the first release on the Criterion DVD.

since Sluizer seems to be a perfectionist- especially in editing - I don't think that it could have been deliberated unless this was perhaps intentional trick ": the frisbee vanished" - a missing frame.

I want to know !

by the way, the Sluizer interview was very interesting but way too short. This was a lovely moment to see a single picture of Julie Delpy in "Beatrice" with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (I really hope that one day this movie will come out on blu-ray ) (sorry I can't help to put everywhere Julie Delpy when I can)
this is the second time that I read or heard in a Criterion release that Stanley Kubrick was a fan of a movie. Almost a die-hard fan... He would have said according to Sluizer that Shining was a playchild movie in comparison (he was really terrified with this suffocated atmopshere in the Vanishing)
Recently I read it in the booklet of "Eraserhead".
So, what would be Stanley Kubrick 10 Criterion selection : The Vanishing, Eraserhead, etc...?

Johanna ter Steege was lovely, I understand S.Kubrick's insistance...

I found more connections with "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" (there's a kind of dark humour (the spider scene for instance) that will find later in this movie, although I have to admit that Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu is far more "impressive"- let's say.