Martin 4K UHD (1977) from Second Sight

[Akijama]

Martin 4K Blu-ray Limited Edition

Martin 4K Blu-ray

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Special Features*

A Second Sight Films 4K scan and restoration of a 35mm dupe negative supervised and approved by Director of Photography Michael Gornick
4K UHD and Blu-ray discs both including bonus features
UHD presented in HDR10+
Audio commentary by George A Romero, John Amplas and Tom Savini
Audio commentary by George A Romero, Richard P Rubinstein, Tom Savini, Michael Gornick and Donald Rubinstein
A new audio commentary by Travis Crawford
A new audio commentary by Kat Ellinger
Taste the Blood of Martin: A new feature-length documentary including location tour
Scoring the Shadows: A new interview with composer Donald Rubinstein
J Roy - New And Used Furniture: a short film by Tony Buba
Making Martin: A Recounting
Trailers, TV and radio spots

Limited Edition Contents

Rigid slipcase with original classic artwork
108 page book with new essays by Daniel Bird, Miranda Corcoran, Travis Crawford, Heather Drain, Kat Ellinger, Andrew Graves, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Elena Lazic, , Stephen Thrower, Jon Towlson, Simon Ward and Tony Williams plus rare stills and behind-the-scenes images
Original Soundtrack CD by Donald Rubinstein
5 collectors' art cards*illustrated by Adam Stothard

Catalogue number: 2NDBR4168

Certificate:*18

Region: UHD Region Free / Blu-ray region B

Director:*George A. Romero

Starring: John Amplas, Christine Forrest, Tom Savini

A troubled young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and religious cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges after he falls for a lonely housewife, all the while his hostile cousin becomes convinced that the young man is actually Nosferatu.

[Show spoiler]Recently announced

***MARTIN UPDATE***
“Following a lot of discussions and some logistical delays over the past year we finally have more news on Martin. Originally intended as a Blu-ray only release we are now going ahead with a 4K UHD as well. This means going back to the original scan and a new restoration in 4K which will take some time. We hope for a late summer release and will keep you posted. Thanks for everyone’s patience on this one.”

[ste71]

Update:

*MARTIN* update
‘Just finished screening 1st reel and looks magnificent! Susumu, you've been doing some serious work on this project. Thank you! Kodak ECO, 7252 never looked so good’ Mike Gornick reports back to our colourist!

https://twitter.com/SecondSightFilm/...70646611435520

[Christian Muth]

Oh wow, so it looks like they found the 16mm negative! Now I'm really excited!

Chris

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Christian Muth

Oh wow, so it looks like they found the 16mm negative! Now I'm really excited!

Chris

Unfortunately not. Mr Gornick is just speaking about the look of the master in general. The reversal ektachrome 16mm original is nowhere to be found, the SS scan is from a 35mm interneg (despite the visible 16mm sprocket holes ). Some debate took place as to whether a 4K would even be viable, from both a financial POV and in terms of the quality that could be wrung from such an element, but SS decided to go for it. Yay!

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Unfortunately not. Mr Gornick is just speaking about the look of the master in general. The reversal ektachrome 16mm original is nowhere to be found, the SS scan is from a 35mm interneg (despite the visible 16mm sprocket holes ). Some debate took place as to whether a 4K would even be viable, from both a financial POV and in terms of the quality that could be wrung from such an element, but SS decided to go for it. Yay!

Who cares if the yields from a 4K scan in native 4K are minimal. It's all about dat grade.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

Who cares if the yields from a 4K scan in native 4K are minimal. It's all about dat grade.

Ah, but I didn’t mention resolution, did I? All such aspects were considered after looking at a brief 4K test reel.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Unfortunately not. Mr Gornick is just speaking about the look of the master in general. The reversal ektachrome 16mm original is nowhere to be found, the SS scan is from a 35mm interneg (despite the visible 16mm sprocket holes ). Some debate took place as to whether a 4K would even be viable, from both a financial POV and in terms of the quality that could be wrung from such an element, but SS decided to go for it. Yay!

Have there been any other 16mm 4K UHD titles? Dog Soldiers, The Evil Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, Maniac, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

[newtonp01]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Have there been any other 16mm 4K UHD titles? Dog Soldiers, The Evil Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, Maniac, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

mother! and First Man too. Feel like there's another one I'm forgetting.

[Geoff D]

It would be so much easier without all these contrafibularities.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

It would be so much easier without all these contrafibularities.

Be a lot better if we didn't have an entire industry that tries to dumb everything down to resolution.

[Christian Muth]

Ah, gotcha. Glad it's an IN instead of a CRI, at least, as CRIs are notoriously unstable.

Chris

[Joseph Goodman]

CRI's are internegs, in the sense that they are intermediate negatives...

[Christian Muth]

Originally Posted by Joseph Goodman

CRI's are internegs, in the sense that they are intermediate negatives...

Technically perhaps, but the CRI stocks were notoriously unstable. They're not the same intermediate stocks as INs.

Chris

[Joseph Goodman]

Originally Posted by Christian Muth

Technically perhaps, but the CRI stocks were notoriously unstable. They're not the same intermediate stocks as INs.

I know that they are a different stock than the usual neg/pos intermediate film (conventional interpositive/internegative stocks are a single stock, at the time of Martin it would've been Eastman Color Intermediate II Film 5243), they were essentially a reversal film. It was apparently a pain to manufacture to an acceptable standard for Kodak, on top of how sensitive it was to deviations in processing (perhaps a source of its notorious instability).

[ste71]

https://twitter.com/SecondSightFilm/...86573425029123

Colour grading complete, big thanks to DoP Mike Gornick for supervising and commenting - 'I’m certain if George could screen the current color grading of MARTIN, he would say-in classic Romero style-"Outrageous, man! It's f**k’n great!"'

[DAT_JB]

Is the style of the movie like in NOTLD and DOTD or something in between?
I enjoyed both a lot but I have to admit that it to took me a bit to get used to the very simplistic style of NOTLD.
Of course completely understandable considering the age of the movie + a pretty small budget.

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by DAT_JB

Is the style of the movie like in NOTLD and DOTD or something in between?
I enjoyed both a lot but I have to admit that it to took me a bit to get used to the very simplistic style of NOTLD.
Of course completely understandable considering the age of the movie + a pretty small budget.

Unlike Night, more like Dawn. Have you seen Romero’s other films between Night and Dawn? Because the style is a polished version of those. Martin is the true precursor to Dawn in Romero’s development as a director but Dawn saw Romero’s style develop beyond it.

I’d highly recommend it as it’s a minor masterpiece of indie filmmaking in the 70s. Even if I can hear Romero in my head saying “are you f***ing kidding me?!”

[Geoff D]

I can't stop saying "Nosferatu!" after seeing it.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I can't stop saying "Nosferatu!" after seeing it.

I hope with Tata Cuda's accent.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Darkstream

I hope with Tata Cuda's accent.

Damned right.