Under the special features section for Ikiru on the Criterion site (see URL below) there is a documentary listed, as follows: A Message from Akira Kurosawa (2000) a 90-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa productions and featuring interviews with the director on the set of his later films...
For anybody who is unaware of this, for some reason multi-disc sets (TV shows are a good example) are often a fair bit cheaper at amazon.ca than they are at amazon.com (if one does a price-conversion). I first noticed this odd discrepancy when Friends Season 1 came out and I found that it was...
For Canadians who don't know, HMV has a 2 DVD for 40 dollars (CAN) sale on right now and this represents an excellent price for several DVDs. Some of the DVDs you can get at this price are (from memory):
Being John Malkovich
Saving Private Ryan SE (non-DTS version)
Rush Hour 1 and 2
Dark...
I just bought this DVD (in Canada) and the aspect ratio is 1.78:1. Most sites indicate the movie is really 1.85:1. What the heck is going on here? Can somebody clarify what the real aspect ratio is...I might have to take this back.
kfa
There was an HTF thread about this (All in the Family DVD unavailable in Canada) that has since disappeared. Somebody determined that there is no Canadian distributor for this DVD set and that's why it's nowhere to be found.
Someone also mentioned that HMV in downtown Toronto might import some...