Year Of The Jellyfish (1984) aka L'année des méduses coming from Cohen on May 10

[Zen_Amako]

I went ahead and ordered this and just finished watching it.

The subtitles are "burned in" to the video - in other words, the disc doesn't have a subtitle track. The subtitles are part of the video encode.

My impression of the disc is that Cohen did the bare minimum here. You get the film in HD on Blu-ray. The print has noticeable scratches and reel change marks in addition to the burned in subtitles. The subtitles have several typos. The only extras are trailers (and there are an obnoxious number of trailers you have to skip through when you first load the disc - you are locked out of going to the menu).

The movie itself was interesting. I had seen Valerie Kaprisky in Andrzej Zulawski's A Public Woman. Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri has stated that he based his comic strip character Druuna on Kaprisky, and it's not hard to believe. She is very beautiful and apparently quite uninhibited (at least in her younger days). She's constantly stripping off in this movie (along with practically every other female in the cast). Her character is actually something of a villain, delighting in the way men (and women) are attracted to her and making sure they are punished for it.

I would give the movie 3 out of 5 stars and the Blu-ray a 2 out of 5. I've seen worse, but there is definitely room for improvement. I guess this is one of those titles where we should just feel lucky we got a Blu-ray at all.

[slimjean]

Originally Posted by Zen_Amako

I went ahead and ordered this and just finished watching it.

The subtitles are "burned in" to the video - in other words, the disc doesn't have a subtitle track. The subtitles are part of the video encode.

My impression of the disc is that Cohen did the bare minimum here. You get the film in HD on Blu-ray. The print has noticeable scratches and reel change marks in addition to the burned in subtitles. The subtitles have several typos. The only extras are trailers (and there are an obnoxious number of trailers you have to skip through when you first load the disc - you are locked out of going to the menu).

The movie itself was interesting. I had seen Valerie Kaprisky in Andrzej Zulawski's A Public Woman. Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri has stated that he based his comic strip character Druuna on Kaprisky, and it's not hard to believe. She is very beautiful and apparently quite uninhibited (at least in her younger days). She's constantly stripping off in this movie (along with practically every other female in the cast). Her character is actually something of a villain, delighting in the way men (and women) are attracted to her and making sure they are punished for it.

I would give the movie 3 out of 5 stars and the Blu-ray a 2 out of 5. I've seen worse, but there is definitely room for improvement. I guess this is one of those titles where we should just feel lucky we got a Blu-ray at all.

Excellent observation. My next pick is Joy of Flying.

[agentalbert]

Originally Posted by Zen_Amako

My impression of the disc is that Cohen did the bare minimum here. You get the film in HD on Blu-ray. The print has noticeable scratches and reel change marks in addition to the burned in subtitles. The subtitles have several typos. The only extras are trailers (and there are an obnoxious number of trailers you have to skip through when you first load the disc - you are locked out of going to the menu).

Yeah. The only thing they seemed to have put any effort into is trying to force number of previews at the beginning, disabling the menu button, (have to skip forward a number of times) and disabling auto-resume, so if you stop the movie, you can't start back up at the same point.

I like the movie, though. That Chris, what a sociopath!