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[Gary Tooze]

New...
MGM - Region 1 - NTSC "House of Games" vs. Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC
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Cheers,

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
Warner (Bunuel Box 1) - Region 2 - PAL "The Milky Way" vs. Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC
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Best,

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
Gaumont Columbia Tri Star (Collector's Edition) - Region 2 - PAL "Taxi Driver" vs. Columbia Tri Star (Collector's Edition) - Region 1, 3, 4 - NTSC vs. Sony Pictures (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Columbia Tri Star (Superbit) - Region 2 - NTSC
The new Sony looks very much like the Japanese SUPERBIT...
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Best,

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
Absurda / Rhino (2-disc) - Region 1 - NTSC "Inland Empire" vs. Optimum Releasing - Region 2 - PAL
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Cheers,

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
Paramount - Region 1 - NTSC "Face/Off" vs. Paramount (2-disc Special Collector's Edition) - Region 1 - NTSC
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Cheers,

 

[Gary Tooze]

FYI,
We have posted comparison captures of the black and white vs. the colorized version of Merian C. Cooper's 1935 'She' 2-disc DVD package released tomorrow.
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Best,

 

[Patrick McCart]

I don't like colorization on principle, but I'm impressed by She. Instead of looking gimmicky, all the samples look like hand-stenciled color you'd see on period lobby card photographs.

 

[rich_d]

I don't like colorization on principle, but I'm impressed by She. Instead of looking gimmicky, all the samples look like hand-stenciled color you'd see on period lobby card photographs.

Patrick,
Like you were reading my mind. Except I don't write that well.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Or like early 4 colour lithographs.

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
Criterion (2-disc) - Region 1 - NTSC "Stranger Than Paradise" vs. MGM (USA) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Kinowelt (Germany) - Region 2 - PAL
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Best,

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
IFC Films - Region 1 - NTSC "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" vs. Fox (UK) - Region 2 - PAL
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Best,

 

[Mark-P]

Regarding the DVDBeaver review of Mutiny on the Bounty HDDVD:

Quote:
If one is forced to find a flaw it was in the fact that there was no Mono presentation of the original recording available with this HD DVD purchase.
end quote.

Gary, Gary, Gary. I don't even know what to say to you.

 

[Gary Tooze]

Say it to the reviewer - Matthew Eizenga.
Cheers,
Gary
P.S. I'll see that he corrects it. I know - there was never a mono presentation. The film as originally presented was in 70mm ultra-panavision and magnetic six-track stereophonic sound.

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

It wasn't Gary who reviewed Bounty, it wasMatthew Eizenga. Also, why anyone would want to watch this film in mono, is beyond me. The original 70mm prints
were 6-track magnetic stereo and the 5.1 track approximates that mix. Most 65mm films had a 6-track mix and the sound was designed that way in pre-production; the mono mix was for the 35mm prints.

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
MGM (UK) - Region 2,4 - PAL 'Stardust Memories' vs. vs. MGM - Region 1 - NTSC
Some may also be interested in two new DVD reviews - a rare film by Godard and one by Mizoguchi (New York Film Annex - region 0 NTSC with Eng subs)
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Have a great, and safe, long weekend,
Gary

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
Sony Pictures (Special Edition) - Region 1,3,4 - NTSC "A Few Good Men" vs. Sony Pictures (SuperBit) - Region 0 - NTSC
P.S. In his review of the Blu-ray The Warriors Leonard has added 5 matching screen caps from Paramount (Original Theatrical Cut) - Region 1.
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Cheers,

 

[Gary Tooze]

New...
MGM (2-disc - 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition) - Region 1 - NTSC "The Graduate" vs. MGM - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Momentum (SE) - Region 2 - PAL]
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Cheers

 

[Gary Tooze]

FYI,
In our review of Fox's The Fly Collection - The Fly (1958), Return Of The Fly (1959) and The Curse Of The Fly (1965) we've compared a few screen grabs with the Double Feature disc (just The Fly and Return Of The Fly) that came out in 2000. There is improvement.
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Cheers,

 

[PaulP]

Gary, why do you still recommend the R2 of The Graduate over the new R1? It looks better to me, with more information and better color timing.

 

[Gary Tooze]

Actually if you read my comments Paul - I don't.

The bottom report card was left over from the first comparison - it has now been changed.

Regards,
Gary