Foreign Cinema in BLU

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by vdc530

Great thread Pro-B!

Any word on what cut will be on the Cinema Paradiso BD and are there any English subtitles?

There isn't any preliminary info yet. I have to go now but later tonight I will input all of the new titles including the German Tarantino discs.

Ciao,
Pro-B

[Bullseye]

pro could you confirm if these titles have English subs.

[*TIMMIE*]

Quentin Tarantinos Death Proof - Todsicher (BLU-RAY DISC) 07.01.2008

Bildformat: 2,35:1
Ton: PCM 5.1, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio
Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
Untertitel: Deutsch
Specials: Original Kinotrailer
Stunts on Wheels:
Die legendären Fahrer von DEATH PROOF:
StuntfrauZoe Bell,
Kurt Russel - Stuntman Mike
Quentins Mädels
Mary Elizabeth Winstead 'Baby, it's you'
Die Jungs von DEATH PROOF
Quentins beste Cutterin: Sally Menke
Verpackung Steelbook
Steelbook


That's no English subtitles for Deathproof

[Bullseye]

What about English audio?

[Blu-Style]

Originally Posted by *TIMMIE*

Quentin Tarantinos Death Proof - Todsicher (BLU-RAY DISC) 07.01.2008

Bildformat: 2,35:1
Ton: PCM 5.1, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio
Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
Untertitel: Deutsch
Specials: Original Kinotrailer
Stunts on Wheels:
Die legendären Fahrer von DEATH PROOF:
StuntfrauZoe Bell,
Kurt Russel - Stuntman Mike
Quentins Mädels
Mary Elizabeth Winstead 'Baby, it's you'
Die Jungs von DEATH PROOF
Quentins beste Cutterin: Sally Menke
Verpackung Steelbook
Steelbook


That's no English subtitles for Deathproof

No way Death proof doesn´t have English sub...

ALL German Blu-ray´s have English Audio & English Subtitles so far...

I believe it when I see it

[*TIMMIE*]

Quick one. Have to go actually.

Sprachen is languages. So yes, it has Englisch audio. Whether it is the PCM or DTS-HDMA or both; I don't know.

However; I would wait with it, until reviews appear, because German DVD titles can have forced subtitles when original language has been chosen (just like the French and Italian DVDreleases - something with owning rights to distribute). So only having German subtitles gives me a trigger. I don't know if they do it with HD-formats too, but I am carefull.

This is from areadvd.com, stated by the distributor. How come that you think it alwas should have English subtitles? Hero Director's cut and Pan's Labyrinth don't have them. Otherwise I would have bought both!

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by Blu-Style

No way Death proof doesn´t have English sub...

ALL German Blu-ray´s have English Audio & English Subtitles so far...

I believe it when I see it

Cool.

[Blu-Style]

Originally Posted by *TIMMIE*

How come that you think it alwas should have English subtitles? Hero Director's cut and Pan's Labyrinth don't have them. Otherwise I would have bought both!

I´ve never owned a DVD / Blu-ray Disc without English Sub/Language

But Hero and Pan does have English audio right ?

If not,.... this is sick!!!!
cause this is very unique actually...

[Bullseye]

What has the German Pans release been like. It looks like the UK release may not have a great transfer.

[*TIMMIE*]

Unfortunately; no. It are foreign movies. Pan's Labyrinth is Spanish and Hero is Asian Cinema.

But most titles have original soundtracks. English subtitles aren't that sure.

Pan: http://www.areadvd.de/index2.html
Hero (Same as Blu) http://www.areadvd.de/index2.html

[Bullseye]

How was the picture quality?

[mo_jt]

Is there any plans for a US release of Amélie? What a really good film.

[Amel]

I speak german fluently

subtitles are not something I need...

[Kyot]

I want to order this, http://www.playx.no/index.php?SCREEN...men&valg=0&w=2

but I have no idea where to begin as I cannot understand anything written on the page

[pro-bassoonist]

Hello,

You could order directly from AxelMusic.dk (I vouch for the vendor as I have personally promoted them at DVDTALK, for a reason). You could click on the very top, right corner, to get the English interface. The rest...you should be fine following the instructions in English. The vendor is located in Denmark. Here's a direct link:

http://www.axelmusic.dk/productDetails/5780758672702

Please keep in mind that this disc has been announced as region-B only and seeing that you are located in Canada I must point to you that you will need a region-B BR player in order to view it.

Unless of course I am proven wrong...but as of this very moment the disc is indeed marketed as B-region only!

Ciao,
Pro-B

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by mo_jt

Is there any plans for a US release of Amélie? What a really good film.

Supposedly a Canadian BR is in the making. Will update when more becomes available.

Pro-B

[pro-bassoonist]

Screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival Claude Lelouch's latest Roman de Gare is set to be released on SDVD and Blu-Ray on January 23 in France.

Official site:
http://www.lesfilms13.com/romandegare/

Variety review:

By SCOTT FOUNDAS
A popular crime novelist whose works may have been ghost-written by a serial killer is one of the main characters passing through Claude Lelouch's fanciful "Crossed Tracks," so it seems only fitting that Lelouch should have conceived and executed his latest feature under a pseudonym (Herve Picard), only revealing himself as the pic's true author upon screening it at the Cannes Film Festival. That said, the pic's glossy melange of suspense and romance, sportscars and speedboats and stories within stories, all set to the indelible chansons francaises of Gilbert Becaud, couldn't be mistaken for the work of any other helmer.

Self-financed pic, which opens in Gaul on June 27, won't do much to win Lelouch any new fans at home or abroad. But it should amply please the old ones, and definitely marks a rebound for the helmer following the critical and commercial disappointment of his ambitious "Le Genre humain" trilogy (which Lelouch aborted following the second installment).

Opening scene introduces writer Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) as she is being interrogated by cops in Paris' famed Quai des Orfevres police headquarters about her possible connection to a serial killer known as the Magician, so named for his habit of performing magic tricks in front of his victims. Cut to radio reports that the Magician has escaped from a high-security prison, then to a highway service station where hairdresser Huguette (Audrey Dana), abandoned following a fight with her boyfriend, finds herself approached by a mysterious stranger (Dominique Pinon) who seems a bit too keen to strike up a conversation. Could it be the deadly magic man himself?

From there, true to its title, "Crossed Tracks" zigzags back and forth in time, playfully toying with our notions of just who exactly these characters are and how they relate to one another. The plotting is typically elaborate on the surface, though all the twists and turns ultimately boil down to one of Lelouch's favorite themes: that fate has a funny way of making friends and lovers out of the seemingly least likely of persons.

Much the same could be said of "Le Genre humain," but those films' epic scale and cluttered casts sometimes seemed to overwhelm Lelouch, whereas the new pic's more intimate conception is a perfect fit for a director whose best-known film was, after all, the story of one man and one woman.

Pic gets an undeniable boost from the ace performance of the short, beady-eyed Pinon, whose unconventional leading-man looks and sly mixture of malevolence and heroic charisma are perfectly in keeping with Lelouch's conviction that nothing is quite as it appears to be. Ardant projects suitable glamour as the enigmatic, globetrotting authoress.

Production values are high, from the array of eye-catching locations along the French coast and countryside to the lustrous cinematography (HD video transferred to film) of Gerard De Battista.

Camera (color, HD-to-35mm, widescreen), Gerard De Battista; editors, Stephane Mazalaigue, Jean Gargonne; music, Gilbert Becaud, Alex Jaffray; production designer, Francois Chauvaud; costume designer, Marite Coutard; sound (Dolby Digital), Harald Maury, Jean-Charles Martel; assistant director, Do Combe. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (60th Anniversary Tributes), May 25, 2007. (Also in Moscow Film Festival -- closer.) Running time: 104 MIN.

Pro-B

[pro-bassoonist]

Updates for a few Italian discs:







1. My Name is Nobody
2. For A Few Dollars More
3. Tony Jaa's The Protector

Pro-B

[LeoneFan]

Any more info on For A Few Dollars More? Is it region free? I hope they used the previous German TeleFilms release remaster for this one.

[richard lichtenfelt]

Excellent list pro-bassoonist.
I really want The Illusionist. Since it's released on dvd by Fox in the U.S. I'm sure it will be out eventually.
Death at a Funeral is another must-have for me. I couldn't find who will be handling the dvd distribution for it in the states, but theatrically here it was MGM.