Which is a shame. There are many worthy Indian films that are not Western style art house cinema and not part of a Western critics canon but deserve proper restoration and presentation. What is available from Indian commercial sources is usually digitally overprocessed remasterings of classic...
No negatives and no 4K resolution. Don't see why this was prioritized for a 4K release over doing some more desperately needed restorations of Indian films where most classics are in very poor shape. The current Apu BDs are really sufficient for now.
That's interesting that they seem to finally start restoring more Indian films in India. Till now very few Indian classics have been restored on a quality level that allows the term restoration instead of more or less clueless digital remastering (one horror example is "Mughal E Azam"). There...
I got goose bumps at that moment. 99.xx % of films you start watching are by the book, variant 3a, subsection 12... Tar is not. It references greats of the past for sure, but does its own thing.
Even the greatest directors are just human beings and can behave very questionably at times. I wish Hitchcock had not parted with Herrmann as he did...
Watched it last night. What a frustrating experience to see this classic film, ahead of its time, in a succession of 35mm quality, DVD quality, 35mm quality, DVD quality, 35mm quality, DVD quality... Don't get it why Stevens would put up with this abomination.
Only for 2D. I compared a still from both versions and the 1080p 3D with some sharpening was a sharp as the 4K from one eye. With both eyes it looked sharper to me.
The 3D version was derived from the 4K DI without filmout acording to AC magazine. I think this 4K DI is more or less finished or could easily be finished if required.
Dune was shot on Arri Alexa LF with a 4.5K Bayer sensor. So there is barely 4K detail there. Then filmed out and rescanned with a final image with probably 3K detail to achieve a film texture and add film artifacts to the image. It looks rather soft for a 4K production. Why no 65mm film? The...