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Gravity! (Thanks!)

Now that I've spent some time with the various transfers (Opening's bluray; Arrow; Shout), and, in particular, now that I've seen the underlying transfer from which they were derived projected at the Cinerama Dome last month, I've formed some opinions, for what they're worth; perhaps no more and...

Well, it wasn't a graveyard ENDING... it would have landed somewhere after Beef's death, obviously, but well before the end, as Swan would still have been alive and taping the funeral for posterity.

No, the alternate takes and swan song outtake footage are on the bluray, not the DVD (despite what the packaging says), so they can be seen in hi-def.

I'm not expressing an opinion one way or the other about which transfer is most "accurate," or which I like better... But, as EddieLarkin points out, we have it from the horse's mouth that Arrow did nothing to what they got from Fox other than encoding (and it looks like they did a fine job with...

"I don't believe that Arrow didn't do anything to the transfer they were handed, since I've read on other boards that the gentleman who did The Fury also did this." Apples and oranges. The Fury was a new transfer done by Arrow from the original elements. On Phantom, Arrow just took the...

I don't think I'm particularly well qualified to answer this question, but offer the following anyway. :-) I saw the movie on 35mm in its initial release, and watched it countless times in the early 80s from an original studio 16mm print that I owned. Ahem. Despite those many viewings, I...

Some of the extras on the Arrow release ("Paradise Regained," and the Rosanna Norton piece, and William Finley's faux advert for the Phantom doll) originally appeared on the French release. (Though the version of Paradise Regained on the French release had forced French subtitles, and the...

Bradley - You're welcome! I hope the Arrow disc meets your expectations!

Criterion already released Sisters (at least on DVD...no Blu yet). http://www.criterion.com/films/377-sisters

VERY glad to tell you that the answer to the question at the top of this page is now "Yes," thanks to Arrow Video in the UK. Finally! See today's (November 27) entry on my site's News page for the details. -Principal Archivist www.swanarchives.org

Not sure why the site isn't letting me edit my prior post, but here's a corrected link: http://www.swanarchives.org/SceneByScene.asp

If I may plug for a moment, the site also has a huge new "Scene-by-Scene" section, which takes you through the film sequentially, kind of like a virtual commentary track. It starts here: http://www.swanarchives.org/SceneByScene.asp For all we know, De Palma *is* an advocate for a blu-ray...

The Blu Ray was released, in France, in December of 2009. There's plenty of info about it on my site, at http://www.swanarchives.org/Merchandising.asp Christian is correct: the film itself is viewable on a standard north american player, but the extra features are in PAL, and so only...

You guys might be interested to see that, last night, I added a few more newly-found clips to the site, on the Outtakes and Swan Song Fiasco pages. Enjoy....

The negatives were very faded after 35 years, and a lot of color correction was required.

Hi - The thought of you guys distressing yourselves over this is distressing me. Fox is aware of the footage. Brian De Palma is aware of the footage. Despite this, nobody's approached me about using it for anything -- and I don't make myself hard to find. They may yet; I hope so. If Mr...