Switching over to the DTS-HDMA 5.1 French-dubbed track on the UHD demonstrates clearly just how lousy and botched the Atmos remix is on this. It's really unacceptable and along with the lousy authoring and compression, Lions Gate should issue a corrected replacement.
Also, the 2.0 English...
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Vincent
While perhaps the prints would have looked "better" had Kubrick lived, EYES WIDE SHUT was shot using Kodak's then recently discontinued 500 ASA 5298 filmstock, which was a grainier filmstock even when perfectly exposed and processed. Then, on top of that, they pushed the film TWO STOPS in the...
That review is wrong re: the music used in the Cannes cut:
" Interestingly, though, this version has only library music (The Goblins’ score was added later when the Theatrical Cut was complete)."
While the Cannes cut has more library music than the theatrical cut, it isn't entirely missing the...
Dario Argento's TENEBRAE was hard-matted at 1.85:1 in camera, aside from a small bit of footage shot in New York City and JFK Airport that's unmatted. I have some MOV clips (maybe 20 mins worth) from the 35mm print that Synapse scanned parts of for their Blu-ray and it's all hard-matted except...
It made sense to apply it to the negative in this case, since only certain scenes utilized the bleach-bypass process. If they had done that in the print stage, they'd literally have to splice those individual scenes into the each print, or break the film up into more reels than usual (although...
It was especially interesting that they applied the bleach-bypass process to the negative for those scenes, when it's usually only done to dupes or prints.
Vincent
I still remember Mr. Willis saying after the "secret screening" of the answer print of the restored THE GODFATHER at the Jacob Burns Film Center in 2008 that I somehow happened upon ;) that the color and look of the restored print that had just screened was "dead on" during the discussion...