Recent content by Jean-Michel

It's not only the arrows: http://caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergleiche/index.php?art=part&x=270&y=179&action=1&image=2&vergleich=gladiator#vergleich This is just absurd.

In which case I would think he deserves at least the blame for the In the Land of Don Quixote footage that is liberally used throughout the film, even though that was a completely separate project and nobody has claimed otherwise. One can forgive Franco with the excuse of "extenuating...

I didn't buy that explanation when it first surfaced after the original BFI release, and I don't buy it now: the use of the Gottfried Benn poem (which amounts to all of three lines) is more than defensible as fair use, other copyrighted works (e.g. Pound's Canto XCIX) still appear in the...

Criterion says the missing scene doesn't appear in the interpositive or in any of the archival material they checked, including the Pasolini Foundation's prints -- which would make sense, given that it isn't in the negative either. They don't explain why the UK version ended up with the scene...

Masters of Cinema uses NTSC where no PAL or format-neutral (e.g. 24p) master is available -- mostly Japanese titles (Scandal, Kwaidan, Funeral Parade of Roses, etc.) but a few others as well (Salesman, Grey Gardens, Sunrise, Abhijan). In their case it has nothing to do with sloppiness or...

Sorry, got the two mixed up -- Nostalgia was formerly Hollywood's Attic (cf. their website). As for the question of quality, given that they also sell the movie on VHS, I wouldn't be shocked if it's just an old tape master burned onto a DVD-R.

Hollywood's Attic is a bootleg outfit (formerly known as Nostalgia Family Video).

They're inconsistent about it, but their other New Line titles (Shoot 'Em Up, Rendition, Hairspray) are all Region B, so I'm guessing this will be too. They're also inconsistent about doing proper 1080p24 transfers.

Who has the original elements for this one? I doubt Criterion would bother with a PD title unless they could get their hands on those, or at least something of similarly high quality -- The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps are both PD, but Criterion still licensed them from Granada/Rank so as to...

That list covers most of the major titles, but it's far from comprehensive -- go to IMDb for a more extensive list, although bear in mind that a lot of these films (especially the early releases from the '60s and '70s) aren't with the company anymore.

American sitcom character, maybe. Peter Sallis has been playing the same character on Last of the Summer Wine since 1973.

The local Hollywood had dozens of Eragon and Happy Feet available for rent on the street date.

The IMDb is wrong. That said, I was wrong too -- WB handled all theatrical distribution of Letters (U.S. and non-U.S.), although Dreamworks/Paramount still has the non-U.S. DVD rights.

And Letters was most definitely a WB release in the U.S. The studios did indeed split them up, with Dreamworks/Paramount getting the U.S. rights to Flags (and the international rights to Letters) and WB getting the U.S. rights to Letters (and the international rights to Flags). It's not an...

I believe DVD Bitrate Viewer includes all tracks on a given title (video, audio, subtitles) in its calculations, so the higher bitrate on the mk2 can probably be chalked up to the French dub and subtitle tracks not included on the Cinema Club edition. Indeed, I'm almost certain that's the case...