Italian releases worth importing?

[Det. Bullock]

Off the top of my mind:

A Fistful of Dollars/Per un Pugno di Dollari (transfer faithful to the source with english dubbing and subtitles)
A Fistul of Dynamite/Down You Sucker!/Giù la Testa(crappy packing but english friendly transfer faithful to the source)

These are worth importing for sure being either the best edition worldwide or the only edition available worlwide (Giù La Testa).

PS: also, if down under you have the slightly censored version of The Avengers on BD like in the uk, the italian version is uncut.

[nitin]

Already Available

The Brothers Grimm
The Italian Job (2003) - same as Scandinavian releases
Reservoir Dogs
The China Syndrome
The Way We Were
Tootsie
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Wild One
As Good As it Gets

Pre-Orders

The Lady from Shanghai
Gilda

Also Amazon Italy, like Amazon Spain, sells discs from other EU countries,so you can also pick up German, French and Spanish/Italian discs from the respective sites, sometimes for cheaper than on that country's Amazon site.

[darklightzg]

Anyone import the IT House of Wax 3d blu? It's alot cheaper than most of other versions (US, etc) and looks like all the same audio options are in place in relation to the US release. Anyone?

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by darklightzg

Anyone import the IT House of Wax 3d blu? It's alot cheaper than most of other versions (US, etc) and looks like all the same audio options are in place in relation to the US release. Anyone?

The Italian disc is the same disc as the US Blu-ray, since the film is a Warner catalog release. If you feel it is cheaper to get than the US edition, have at it.

[marblearch]

Not sure about this one having watched a couple of nights ago.
The image is flat. Just not very inspiring. The DTS HD audio also lacks any real dynamic. Slightly disappointing for a Sony release of a film from 1995. Can be picked up cheaply already but maybe worth waiting to see if price falls.

Having said that when I finished watching I came across the same movie being broadcast in standard def on a freeview channel. Definition on the tv broadcast was really poor so at least in terms of detail there is some enhancement with the blu ray.

[Tom Monahan]

Any others? I'm going to import Gilda to the US but want other titles due to the high shipping.

Thanks,
Tom

[Dickieduvet]

Just a few I can think of:

Man Without A Face
The Departed
Insomnia (Prefer the look of this to Warner's)
I Spit On Your Grave (2010) (open matte, no harsh contrast)
The Shipping News
The Way We Were
The China Syndrome

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by Det. Bullock

PS: also, if down under you have the slightly censored version of The Avengers on BD like in the uk, the italian version is uncut.

If you are referring to the spear, it's not censored on the Australian disc.

[HuggyBear73]

Anyone get MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE or CEMETERY MAN? Curious to know about the transfers ect...

[Super Sonic]

Gomorra Stagione 1 with Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gomor...lu-ray/113928/

[Monroville]

Originally Posted by HuggyBear73

Anyone get MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE or CEMETERY MAN? Curious to know about the transfers ect...

MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE screen caps here.

CEMETERY MAN screen caps here.

[Funktion]

Originally Posted by HuggyBear73

Anyone get MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE or CEMETERY MAN? Curious to know about the transfers ect...

The Italian BD of Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man) is well worth it. It looks good, it has an English language audio track (no subtitles though) and hours of special features, although none of them really much English-friendly.

[HuggyBear73]

Originally Posted by Funktion

The Italian BD of Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man) is well worth it. It looks good, it has an English language audio track (no subtitles though) and hours of special features, although none of them really much English-friendly.

Thanks, def picking this one up.


EDIT: The screencaps for CM don't appear to be from the CineKult release. Is this an older release?