Happy Together (1997) - OUT OF PRINT

[SolutionbubbleS]

Hey,

yes I chanced my mind a little after checking out the comparison for the "old" and "new" version here: http://wong-kar-wais-love-odysseys.b...997-today.html

The skintones of the Feature Film (in the "Trailer Comparison") seem to match the changes WKW did for the new version! I guess the Beaver Review/Comparison will be really interesting on this one...

By the way: Really great Blog on WKW! Nice to someone that ethusiastic on a Director sharing its knowledge! Great Tanks for that!

[cool hand bluke]

Ashes of Time blu-ray is region free btw. Just looked at the back cover and it clearly says regions A,B,C. I noticed that it's missing from a few collections. Good price on Amazon uk. It's an incredible film. Only single layered disc btw.

[Zen_Amako]

Originally Posted by cool hand bluke

Ashes of Time blu-ray is region free btw. Just looked at the back cover and it clearly says regions A,B,C. I noticed that it's missing from a few collections. Good price on Amazon uk. It's an incredible film. Only single layered disc btw.

Ashes of Time Redux is region free but the extras are PAL. The special features play on my Sherwood but not on my PS3.

[depp91]

Originally Posted by SolutionbubbleS

Hey,

yes I chanced my mind a little after checking out the comparison for the "old" and "new" version here: http://wong-kar-wais-love-odysseys.b...997-today.html

The skintones of the Feature Film (in the "Trailer Comparison") seem to match the changes WKW did for the new version!

Yes, the color scheme of the two newly DVDs that contain the new version and the BD match!

Originally Posted by SolutionbubbleS

By the way: Really great Blog on WKW! Nice to someone that ethusiastic on a Director sharing its knowledge! Great Tanks for that!

Thank you very very much I really appreciate that!

[SolutionbubbleS]

What is yout take on the difference between the trailer and feature picture? Do you think missing "grain" is a choice by the director (by doing the new version of the movie) or was it filtered to get more of a "HD Apeal"?

[depp91]

Personally, I think they didn't filter any grain from the movie. I guess they would have filtered it from the trailer then too.
Looking at the trailers for Fallen Angels und Chungking Express, they both look inferior compared to the HD transfers of the actual movies. I think the look of Happy Together is fine and there is still enough grain there. One thing I'm not sure of is Fallen Angels, though. It sometimes looks as if there was some DNR applied, but I'm really not sure... But I wouldn't worry about Happy Together.
I'll probably post some more pictures for the trailer / actual movie comparison on my blog later.

And please remember that these are only guesses by a fan of WKW who owns many discs of his movies and who has compared them... I have only seen two of his movies in the cinema so far. Shame on me!

[depp91]

@SolutionbubbleS: I added some more screencaps for the trailer / movie comparison!

[SolutionbubbleS]

Big Thanks for that! This makes it much clearer that the feature locks better in total.
But if you look at those 2 pictures: http://i42.tinypic.com/2hwfnmh.jpg & http://i45.tinypic.com/20g16bt.jpg you see that the feature loses a lot grain, eventhough no detail. I personaly like grain, so I hope getting rid of it was a choice made by WKW and not one made by "Kino".
I do not know enough about picture processing, so mabe someone else knows if losing the grain structure is inevitable when "brightening" up the picture?

[SolutionbubbleS]

Beaver-Review/Comparison: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCom...pytogether.htm