Posts by Rich Malloy

I've sold off a number of Kino releases to replace them with MoC's. Look, Kino may possibly be about to redeem themselves with this release, but I see absolutely no reason to expect that. Rather, I expect the same ol' same ol': a...

And did you see the amazing MoC "Nosferatu" cover? DVDTIMES has that up here: http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65908

Particularly as the new artwork is just terrible. Shame to hear about the noise reduction, and it'll be interesting to see whether it obscures any fine detail that's visible on the R2-Optimum.

Yes, but so far Universal has not really come through on this title with a transfer/digital restoration that's worthy of the film. The second release was much better, to be sure, and perhaps there's only so much room for improvement. ...

Yes, very interesting Ron. And you can tell that the earlier transfers also had the white levels set too high. My previous best version... the Optimum R2 ... is completely blown out in that shot of Ben in the church balcony framed...

I also feel this series has gone a bit off-the-track, but maybe it's all about the need to wrap-up the big season-ending cliffhanger (itself a nod to more conventional television). This show can't be all about the business, although I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Richard--W Has anyone here noticed the similarity of Inland Empire to Bob Dylan's Renaldo & Clara (1978) ? The two films have a lot in common in terms of surrealistic approach and visual...

Quote: Originally Posted by Patrick McCart As for terrible ... Marion Keane's commentary on Notorious. At least Criterion provided a second track with the always-great Rudy Behlmer. How can you be so right about...

I am blown away by this release, and this film. And thankfully Absurda had distribution rights in R1, because there's no way a major studio would lavish this sort of treatment on a film that certainly won't appeal to Lynch's more...

Felix, does the outtake re-edit ("More Things That Happened"?) have the full post-production gloss (no time codes, proper audio and all that), and is it anamorphically-enhanced? (You know, unlike the strung-together "DUNE" outtakes,...