Search results

Edited.

So it was all a transfer mistake. Gladly the issue will be solved soon and, most importantly, we know for certain Brian De Palma remains as lucid as ever. :)

Next time a director will want to revise the image and present it upside down or even in pan-and-scan. If David Lean was alive, he might want Lawrence of Arabia shown in black-and-white. Some people would buy it anyway because, hell, "it's the director's intention"! Might as well jump off a...

Sorry, am I suppose to fall silent because of that? Mr. De Palma may be a filmmaker, but he is no god. If that vertically stretched image (only after the 21st minute, mind you) is his idea of a normal way of presenting things, then I'll stand by my refusal to accept it.

Exactly. And the results were disastrous, hence Criterion's response acknowledging the problem. Further proof that a "director's approval" might be a red herring.

Not "fat", normal.

Great movie.

Yes.

Neither the objects on the desk nor Allen's face look distorted in the first picture. Like, at all.

Criterion cultists.

You are suggesting that the evident stretching in the screencaps from both sites stem from mere "miscalibration".

I've seen screengrabs in two different sites. Evidence is abundant.

This is quite ridiculous. It's an impending release that has just been reviewed in two sites and is creating concern in potential buyers. Why censor an appropriate discussion instead of simply punishing offending members? Isn't that a discussion forum?

Exactly. That's why I noticed my Brazilian DVD edition of Muriel ou le temps d'un retour was stretched. I had never seen the film before, had read absolutely no reviews of the disc beforehand, yet there it was. No need to compare to other releases in order to detect (and be bothered by) such...

In the screencaps from Blu-ray.com it seems like scenes with Angie Dickinson are unaffected by the stretching. The problem isn't even consistent throughout, which makes it even weirder.

The previous transfers are not stretched because faces aren't inhumanly alongated, ovals are ovals and triangles are triangles. I'm baffled by the defenses this release has been getting on this forum. Is the alleged seal of approval of a director and Criterion's reputation so important that...

Vertical stretching was a style?

I'm sticking to the British Arrow release. Those Beaver screengrabs, if accurate, show the Criterion transfer as unholy.