Darling (John Schlesinger)

[CinemaScope]

For the price they're asking, I don't think there should be any decent amount of print damage & white specs, that lot should have been cleaned up & fixed.

[Spiderwalk]

Originally Posted by CinemaScope

For the price they're asking, I don't think there should be any decent amount of print damage & white specs, that lot should have been cleaned up & fixed.

I bought my copy from Zavvi for £14.99.

[CinemaScope]

It makes you wonder what StudioCanal used for the Blu-ray. Did they scan the original negatives, if so I'm sure it could use a big clean-up, unless it was a wet-gate scan, which would get ride of about 90% of those marks, but wet-gate scanners could be a bit thin on the ground in the UK. A few years ago they could have printed a wet-gate fine grain positive & scanned that, & it would have needed hardly any clean-up...but how many printing machines are there in the UK (or Europe), all the film labs have closed down & printing & processing machines gone for scrap.

[Cinemach]

I watched about 15 minutes or so just to check the transfer the other day, and while I wouldn't say that it's top-tier for black & white titles I wasn't disappointed with it; there's slight grain and lines/specks appear, but that's preferable to waxing all that and further detail away with DNR. Really though, I'm glad that I finally have an anamorphic copy of the film. The only extra is the trailer.

[pro-bassoonist]

Darling Blu-ray REVIEW



A very stylish but very cynical -- for all the right reasons -- film that borrows quite a few things from Fellini's La Dolce Vita. (And I still think that Julie Christie is actually better in Petulia).

The technical presentation is fine. Big upgrade over the DVD. The transfer comes from a pre-existing master, but I'd much rather have what Canal have here -- if they aren't going to rescan the film -- than have them "repolish" it. (They have done some touch-up work).

Definitely worth picking up



Pro-B

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Darling Blu-ray REVIEW



A very stylish but very cynical -- for all the right reasons -- film that borrows quite a few things from Fellini's La Dolce Vita. (And I still think that Julie Christie is actually better in Petulia).

The technical presentation is fine. Big upgrade over the DVD. The transfer comes from a pre-existing master, but I'd much rather have what Canal have here -- if they aren't going to rescan the film -- than have them "repolish" it. (They have done some touch-up work).

Definitely worth picking up



Pro-B

Got it and watched it as well, pretty nice presentation short of a full "dirt and scratched" restoration.

Speaking of Petulia, any word of a release on that, in any region?

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

Speaking of Petulia, any word of a release on that, in any region?

I don't have any information.

I only have the Warner DVD. Unfortunately, unlike the other early Christie films, which Canal controls on the other side of the pond, this one I think is still with Warner.

Pro-B