Foreign Cinema in BLU

[Kristin Simard]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

since were discussing ALL foreign cinema, anybody know if there is any BOLLYWOOD title(s) out or dated for release?

The day Bollywood goes blu is the day I'll eat my shoe. (Just a rhyme, don't take it literally) but it will be a day to pop the champagne cork and celebrate! There are some great Bollywood films that would look stunning on blu!

I can't wait!

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by Kristin Simard

The day Bollywood goes blu is the day I'll eat my shoe. (Just a rhyme, don't take it literally) but it will be a day to pop the champagne cork and celebrate! There are some great Bollywood films that would look stunning on blu!

I can't wait!

Which titles to do you like if i may ask

I personally can say the handful that are MUST OWN are Dhoom 2, DON, Krrish & Partner, there are other bollywood movies worth owning but the one's mentioned above will really appeal to western audiences more than the older bollywood movies as these are just more slick & modern

[Arecsa]

I'm hoping for more Korean releases to go Blu-Ray. Especially My Sassy Girl, Sunflower, Windstruck, Il Mare and the rest of the Vengeance trilogy.

Also hoping to see The Orphange on Blu sometime next year.

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by Kristin Simard

The day Bollywood goes blu is the day I'll eat my shoe. (Just a rhyme, don't take it literally) but it will be a day to pop the champagne cork and celebrate! There are some great Bollywood films that would look stunning on blu!

I can't wait!

This might be early next year. Yash Raj films one of the biggest studios in India that makes Bollywood movies is producing a movies with Walt Disney Films and it slated to release early 2008.
I am sure we should see a Blu release on this title and if its sucessful I am sure we will see more.

www.yashrajfilms.com.
I movie is call Roadside Romeo...
Its in the coming attraction section.

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Which titles to do you like if i may ask

I personally can say the handful that are MUST OWN are Dhoom 2, DON, Krrish & Partner, there are other bollywood movies worth owning but the one's mentioned above will really appeal to western audiences more than the older bollywood movies as these are just more slick & modern

I have some of these in dvds and they would look great in Blu they are many more I would get the sound and the colors would blow your mind.

[Satish Gounder]

Saawariya, A Bollywood movie produced by Sony Pictures will be released on March 11th 2008, surely many more will follow..,

Can't wait to get my hands on a copy alongwith ID4, due to release on the same day.

[crystal_sun]

So what's the population in India? 2 billion people? Can you imagine just a small percentage of that market to start buying blu-ray players?

How about China? How about Asia in general? It seems as though the US is dominant on the HD-DVD side, but Europe/Asia/Australia/etc seems to favor Blu-Ray more than HD-DVD.

We definitely need more Blu-Ray from Asia as I prefer buying hi-def than DVD now. Until then, i'll continue to buy DVDs from those countries.

[Kristin Simard]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Which titles to do you like if i may ask

I personally can say the handful that are MUST OWN are Dhoom 2, DON, Krrish & Partner, there are other bollywood movies worth owning but the one's mentioned above will really appeal to western audiences more than the older bollywood movies as these are just more slick & modern

Almost anything with Aishwarya Rai.

also Devdas
Asoka (great dance sequence, though most of the film is about battle)

I like Bollywood musicals and dance.
Great for Blu-ray

[Satish Gounder]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

This might be early next year. Yash Raj films one of the biggest studios in India that makes Bollywood movies is producing a movies with Walt Disney Films and it slated to release early 2008.
I am sure we should see a Blu release on this title and if its sucessful I am sure we will see more.

www.yashrajfilms.com.
I movie is call Roadside Romeo...
Its in the coming attraction section.

Yash Raj movies are usually quite expensive, hope they have some good prices if they go BLU !!!. They have a wide selection of major Bollywood hits.

[Satish Gounder]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

This might be early next year. Yash Raj films one of the biggest studios in India that makes Bollywood movies is producing a movies with Walt Disney Films and it slated to release early 2008.
I am sure we should see a Blu release on this title and if its sucessful I am sure we will see more.

www.yashrajfilms.com.
I movie is call Roadside Romeo...
Its in the coming attraction section.

Yash Raj movies are usually quite expensive, hope they have some good prices if they go BLU !!!. They have a wide selection of major Bollywood hits.

[Lost Johnny]

Originally Posted by Arecsa

I'm hoping for more Korean releases to go Blu-Ray. Especially My Sassy Girl, Sunflower, Windstruck, Il Mare and the rest of the Vengeance trilogy.

Also hoping to see The Orphange on Blu sometime next year.

The Host is out on Blu Ray.

[Satish Gounder]

Another very popular Bollywood hit movie OM SHANTI OM is going to be released on Bluray releasing Jan 22th.

But no Aishwarya Rai's movie as yet.

[pro-bassoonist]

Set to be released in Spain on February 26 by SONY (with optional English and Portuguese subs). Nominated for 14 Goya Awards, pre-selected for an Oscar by the Spanish Film Academy.

Official site:
http://www.las13rosas.com/

Variety:

It would be hard to imagine a theme richer in drama than the real-life detention, trial and execution of 13 young women by Franco's nationalist forces, which makes it all the more disappointing that the ambitious "13 Roses" largely withers on the vine. Helmer Emilio Martinez-Lazaro has opted for an uncertain treatment which convinces neither historically nor dramatically. Decently budgeted item looks splendid and features a couple of sparky perfs, but is further let down by its psychological superficiality. Business beyond Spanish-speaking territories looks thin.

Set in Madrid in 1939, pic begins with the entry of Franco's victorious troops into the city. Streetcar attendant Julia (Veronica Sanchez) and Red Cross worker Virtudes (Marta Etura) are two idealistic Republican militants. They spend their evenings in a nightclub watching musicians Enrique (Asier Etxeandia), husband of Blanca (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), and communist Canepa (Enrico Lo Verso) perform as the bombs fall.

When Canepa decides to leave, Blanca gives him some money to help him on his way. Meanwhile, Julia strikes up a relationship with dapper young nationalist soldier Perico (Felix Gomez).

It is rumored that there was a plot to assassinate Franco on his victorious entry into the capital, and the nationalists are seeking revenge. (Pic makes it quite clear that none of the the girls had anything to do with this.) The first to be arrested is Julia, who, before too long, is being sadistically tortured by cop Fontenla (Adriano Giannini). Virtudes' co-worker, Adelina (Gabriella Pession), like most of the others a member of a socialist group, is turned in by her well-meaning father.

One by one, the girls are arrested, and by the 75-minute mark, they've all been jailed. Oddly, they continue to look attractive, radiant and neatly made-up under the watch of uptight prison director Carmen Castro (Goya Toledo, implausible). At one point, they even enjoy a bit of tap-dancing (historically true but here risible).

Script juggles its several storylines with skill but, apart from perfs by Etura and Lopez de Ayala, character work is substandard. Despite the wise decision to focus on fewer than half of the 13 women, pic mostly fails to inhabit the heads of its uniformly angelic protags.

Visuals are superb, with some stunning period detail in the art direction, and fine digital f/x and lensing by Jose Luis Alcaine. Dubbing of the three Italian thesps into Spanish is not always persuasive.

Pro-B

[pro-bassoonist]

MK2 have announced Gus Van Sant's Cannes entry Paranoid Park for an April 24 release in France/Monaco. MK2 are distributed by Warner-France and so far there isn't an announcement for an HDDVD release. Will add tech specs as they become available.

Pro-B

[Quad]

Would love to see this in blu here in the US...




and from Bollywood...

[Blu-Style]

Originally Posted by Quad

Would love to see this in blu here in the US...

Classic!

[Kristin Simard]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Set to be released in Spain on February 26 by SONY Pro-B

Great! Thanks for the update

[Amel]

thanks for the updates guys

big fan of foreign cinema!

[Midnightsailor]

Hey guys...sorry if this has already been posted. I was wondering if you guys think some foreign films will be on Blu anytime soon? I specifically had Fellini in mind. I would love to see Satyricon on high def!

Edit: or 8½

[Deciazulado]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in Spain is releasing the first season of the Spanish TV series El Internado (The Boarding School) in Blu-ray Disc in March:

http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?n...icle&sid=13789

An imposing facade in the middle of a forest and behind its walls, professors and students live twenty-four hours together. This is the Black Lagoon boarding school. Each one who lives in the boarding school brings with him a story. The courses begin and the coexistence in the center fills the life of its inhabitants with new events. The past and the present come face to face in The Boarding School.

And the last movie from director Jose Luis Garci, Luz de Domingo (Sunday Light):

http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?n...icle&sid=13803

In an small Asturian town -Cenciella-, the aggravated fight between two political sides brings the misfortune to two kind and naive beings: the couple formed by Urban and Star (Urbano and Estrella). Although the secretary of the town's Council is a liberal and idealistic person, one of the political groups that considers him to be on the enemy's side decides to punish his neutrality by raping his fiancèe the Sunday before the wedding...