Recent content by david hare

I spent up big and bought the Pathe boxset last year. The Pathe release is flawless. The restoration is a stunner, and Pathe’s encode is without blemish. It’s that encode I hope Criterion will use, without recourse to their now commonplace low pass filtering, DNR and other shockers.

I think we can be confident about an Indicator Bluray of this new 4K early next year. That doesn’t account for Region “A” of course. I frankly gave up on Criterion years ago, they should simply relinquish their option.

I have a rio of that 1080p from two years ago. It’s no more than an uprez IMO. As far as I’m aware the new 4K restoration was completed in 2023.

This will very clearly be the Weir-approved grain free shocker. Don’t bother.

I've played my 4K disc on an otherwise "A" and a "B" friendly player (oppo 203 and Panasonic 820.) The 4K disc plays on both players. What are you playing it on? Nobody anywhere has reported a region locked 4K UHD.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The Italian Raro 4K disc is region free, SDR encode and has English subs. The 1080p disc is region coded “B”. Please get your information/advice right.

Back in 2018 when we launched the first Cinema Reborn retrospective in Sydney our plans to include the newly restored Cotton Club were thwarted by the copyright holder. Coppola responded very kindly by sending us his personal 35mm print of One from the Heart which we screened only once. It was...

Yes, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.

Remy, I bought the Italian UHD earlier this year only after reading about the Japanese rightsholder’s intervention regrading the Ritrovato yellow biased color grade which they returned to neutral. In the process they determined to give the disc an SDR709 encode. Their fine tuned grading was...

Agreed and thanks greatly to your own terrific work on this restoration. Man who remake has always been a major league Hitchcock to me, more than the equal of Vertigo. As Glenn says in the Ebert review the core of the film is a marriage that might collapse, and indeed the scene of Stewart...

Although it’s not yet officially confirmed, the Lionsgate uses the same encode as the Studio Canal, along with DV grading. So it needs mentioning that while the restoration of this is absolutely superb, can’t be faulted, and it goes back to DP Raoul Coutard’s unsuccessful twelve year old...

They re both tken from the 2022 4K restoration which itself is superb. The problem arises from Canal’s encode which swings from flawless to dreadful. I would like to think Lionsgate did its own encode and didn’t flub the compression. If they do I’m double dipping.

The MoC was encoded by FIM so, whatever else that other review dite says it will by optimal.

I’ve seen several premiere screenings of the Ritrovato restorations in DCP at Bologna over the years where conversations often turned to the original cranking speed. The universal feeling is it was 20 fps from Three Ages onwards. As for natural movement can you cite an instance in the features...

Robert these were all done through Ritrovato and given the diverse sources and cranking speeds of early materials and Rohauer era Safety revisits I think they were working on 20 fps. It varies from film to film but Keaton himself wanted “natural” movement through all his movies. I think there’s...