Statement concerning THE LAST EMPEROR (Criterion Collection) - Page 2

Man-Fai Wong · 02-05-2008, 02:29 PM

Wasn't the Apocalypse Now crop also director approved?

Anyway, it's apparently Storraro's view that the 2.0:1 crop is a good compromise between available resolution and OAR. Well, at least that's what was said when it was done for Apocalypse Now. Thing is I thought that was based on SD resolution, not HD. But it sounds like the crop is done on the HD master itself, so unless there's a new (re)master for an eventual HDM release, we'll probably be stuck w/ the crop for that too.

_Man_

Chris S · 02-05-2008, 02:51 PM

This is already being discussed in this thread: Statement concerning THE LAST EMPEROR (Criterion Collection)

Peter Neski · 02-05-2008, 02:55 PM

"this should be a 5.1 Dolby"

The french version is 5.1 Its also 2.35:1 and looks like the English
one which isn't 5.1,but has commentary Both look great

Brandon Conway · 02-05-2008, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong

Wasn't the Apocalypse Now crop also director approved?

Yes. As were the aspect ratio changes to other films for home video (The Recruit, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Good German, The World's Fastest Indian, to name a few.).

Peter Neski · 02-05-2008, 03:03 PM

"This is already being discussed in this thread: Statement concerning THE LAST EMPEROR (Criterion Collection) "

That talks about length,not about
2.00:1 (the statement from the producer"

"Maybe I should just buy the R2 16x9 PAL DVD and pass on the new Criterion DVD"
I would wait till we find out for sure,if the picture is cropped,at least there
is a fine 2.34:1 version out there.

Jace_A · 02-05-2008, 03:22 PM

Is this title coming out in HD, then? If so, I'd be the first to but the film.

Paul Arnette · 02-05-2008, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Jace_A

Is this title coming out in HD, then?

Not that I am aware of, which makes me wonder why this thread was started in this forum?

Man-Fai Wong · 02-05-2008, 04:29 PM

If this one is indeed 2.0:1 crop, then I may have to pass on it and maybe opt for the existing R2 PAL version. And to think one would have to shell out $40+ for that too. I hadn't realized before that there was a much better R2 version than the awful R1 version.

_Man_

John Hodson · 02-05-2008, 05:07 PM

Looks like the UK R2 SE works out at $22-$23 including shipping from HMV?