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Is there enough resolution in the original negatives to take advantage of 4k vs. HD?

Didn't this film, as well as Marnie, use quite a bit of difussion? The images that come to my mind when I think of it always seem slightly hazy...

Just watched the movie yesterday at a local theater from a DCP. The quality overall seemed good, but every now and then, inferior quality shots appeared. Then the quality would get back with the next shot change, and then, sometimes the film used again the "bad looking" shot (of course, covering...

Reading here that the "Coppola Restorations" blu-rays were a little too red drives me crazy. I paid good money for them, and they were supposed to be the definitive edition, representative of a very careful restoration... Why the hell were they too red??? Do we have to buy the movie once again...

I recently bought and watched Kino's blu ray edition of Three Women, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. I really enjoyed the film! Because of some negative comments I had heard, I was expecting a minor or even boring Lubitsch, and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. I was entertained all the way...

Although the color timing seems correct in the Warner Blu Ray, where the Lionsgate disc was way too blue, I'd say that the shadow detail was better in the UK edition, dark areas don't look as crushed in it as they do in the US disc.

Here's a quote from Tom Racz's depiction of what's supposedly in the Hungarian print:

Here's a podcast show that includes an interview with the Hungarian alleged discoverer: https://www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/2018/09/episode-6-missing-marx-brothers.html

One Marx aficionado discovered that a print at Hungary's national film archive has a few bits of extra footage that aren't available anywhere else. Apparently he let WB know about this, but his discovery was met with total indifference. It's such a shame: if the extra footage is there, it would...

It's interesting, I liked the Director's Cut. I watched it before I watched the theatrical version, and the latter one seemed to me hollower by comparison, story-wise.

The first reel looked far worse than the rest of the movie in the DVD. Did they use a better source for that for this restoration?

Thanks a lot for your answer! I'm using the "normal" preset for gamma, the iris is stopped down to -6 and color saturation is at -10. The lamp is working in eco mode (I don't remember what the name of the preset was, but you know what I mean, it's the "saving energy" mode: since the projector...

Hello everyone! I have a JVC RS35 projector, and I'm very happy with it so far. My only complaint is that sometimes, when a single shot includes very bright areas next to very dark ones, the light from the bright areas seems to affect the darker areas, making them look slightly washed out. It...

I loved Cohen's blu ray of this (the transfer is superb), but I wonder about the aspect ratio. Was it originally conceived to be shown in 1.37:1? I mention this because in two different moments of the film, one can clearly see a boom mic in the lower part of the screen, it's quite distracting...

The Lobster restoration of Steamboat Bill, released on bluray by Kino together with College, doesn't have the exposure problems present in the other two releases.

I loved this release. However, precisely because it was so great in terms of colour and resolution, a couple of shots with problems stood out for me very prominently. It's the two last Cary Grant shots before his car stops, in the scene where he's driving drunk. Something happens to the color in...

I own the three US editions of Steamboat Bill Jr.: Cohen, Kino (standalone) and the Kino edition that comes with College. This last one, the Lobster version, doesn't have the exposure problems that the other two have; the differente in the way the shadows look is striking. Definition, however...

Isn't there a big contrast difference between the image of the silent version and the one from the sound version?

I'm not sure about Animal Crackers, but I think Cocoanuts is definetely cropped, the main titles at the beggining of the movie seem to have the original aspect ratio. Could you confirm that it wasn't possible to scan this film in its original aspect ratio because of the available elements?

Are the original aspect ratios respected? I understand that the image in both Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers should be narrower than 1,33:1. I understand that this won't make the films any funnier, but if we're talking about a restoration, it seems pointless to have the films cleaned up and...

I thought that around 1959 all american films where shot to be shown in 1,85:1. Whereas in Europe, it was 1,66. Am I wrong?

As far as I know, Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers (and according to IMDB Monkey Business too) had an original OAR of 1.20:1. In the old video transfers, only the credits were not cropped. It was announced somewhere that the new BRs would respect the aspect ratio of the movies. If it really is...

All the films in 1.33:1 OAR????? WTF??????????

Since there was such a big controversy over Dracula's restoration a few years ago, I would love to hear the opinion of a true expert. Did Mr. Robert Harris finally get to see the Blu-Ray?

I think the newer transfer has the color scheme right where the older was inaccurately blueish. This belief is not because I like my Playtime greenish better, but because of a book.When Playtime was restored and re-released in 2002, a book detailing the history of the film and the reconstruction...

I've always wondered what size of film they used to shoot this series. Looking at the images, they never look like 16mm to me, so my guess would be 35mm, but in many books it is stated that the first show to be shot in 35mm was The Sign of Four, something allowed by an increase in the usual...

OK, now I get it. Thank you very much!

Why on earth would they use an IP for the scan if the OCN was available?

I don't know about how correct the colour is in the BR captures, but in the Hammer blog, a guy named Bill Lettang wrote: Of course, we don't know how reliable he is as a source but, assuming he doesn't lie... is it possible that a faded print can look excessively blue-ish? Other questions that...