Recent content by Rich Malloy

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. But the Masterpiece Collection, while welcome, is certainly...

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 against the large window. So, is there a hi-def release of...

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 suppose credit is due for really playing out the potential...

Unfortunately, I've never seen "Renaldo & Clara", and don't know of any source at present. But, in a similar way, "INLAND EMPIRE" reminded me more than a little of Rivette's "Celine and Julie Go Boating".

How can you be so right about Jodo, and so wrong about Maro? ;) Freudian analysis is certainly passe, except in those instances where the director and the film are so thoroughly and irrevocably Freudian. And I'd also go as far as to say that Marion's commentary for "Notorious" is also a great...

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 mainstream fans. Not even "Eraserhead" is this unrelentingly...

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, for example.) Also, I've heard that Best Buy has already got...

This is one of the worst new transfers I've seen in a long while, and I'm very glad to have only rented it. There needs to be a major improvement in transfer quality for the upcoming releases, as the current one is very disappointing.

Offtopic, sorry... Meil, is that a Pixie-Bob cat in your signature? I have one, and I'm absolutely nuts about them. She completely won over our older cat who otherwise doesn't take too well to unknown animals, and now the two are inseparable (although she took a few beatings in the process)...

I think it's all but certain that any "remastering" Kino does will be limited to improperly converted PAL>NTSC transfers of those films it's not yet released... and the same transfer for the others. Why would I say this? Because of every other Kino disc I've ever owned or seen. Some good...

But Kino has done a typically worse job than its R2 counterparts on all the other Haneke titles they've previously released. As per usual from them, each are non pre-converted PAL>NTSC transfers with the usual ghosting issues. The prior transfers for "Code Unknown" and "The Piano Teacher" are...

The very first R1 DVD release included both mono and stereo. The mono was dropped after that in each of the reissues. Also, the anamorphic R2-PAL release only has the stereo track. I'm not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD capable yet, but isn't there a hi-def release of "The Graduate" that's out or coming out?

It's the "tree of life", at least as Izzi describes it in her part of the story. It also becomes a metaphor for Izzi herself in Tom's portion of the story. And, in both instances, it's a metaphor for the element derived from the tree that "real Tom" is testing for a cancer treatment (and, by the...

Ah, I see. I considered the end of Izzi's portion to be where the story left off after Tommy had spent the night reading it (which I believe ended at the initial encounter between conquistador-Tom and the Mayan priest). I took Tommy's part to include all of that portion depicting his...