A Room With A View -New Anamorphic Reissue Due (1 Viewer)

[Paul_Scott]

from DVDFile


i finally broke down and picked up the old Image disc this past summer since i found it for $5 unopened.
it would probably fly on a smaller direct view set, but on a FP its pretty bad.
which really hurt as i was able to realize what had made me break down and buy it in the first place- i love this movie (hadn't seen it in probably 10 years)!

the new disc sounds wonderful.
i just hope the BBC label will be committed to high quality A/V, and not be a slack off label like New Yorker.

all that i need now is a date and i can do the D.L. Happy Dance™

 

[Henry Gale]

Good news, one of my favorite films.

 

[Jeff Ulmer]

I am somewhat surprised this isn't an HVE/Criterion release, given their tight production with M/I on their other films. Room With a View is in dire need of a proper transfer, as the Image disc was nothing but a port of the LD master.

 

[Paul_Scott]

looks like April 6th is the street date for this.

Jeff, i remember hearing in 2002 that Criterion had acquirred the rights and would be releasing RWAV in conjunction with some of the other M/I's, but that was the first and last i've heard of it.
everytime i see a thread announcing new upcoming Criterions i expect to see it listed.
oh well.

 

[Jeff Ulmer]

These aren't being branded as Criterion titles (so far), as this is a three way collaboration. It was Howard's End that I'd originally heard was coming from Criterion, but HVE has been releasing the M/I discs as the Merchant Ivory Collection. There are four out already (The Bostonians, The Europeans, Bombay Talkie, Heat and Dust) with Maurice and Quartet coming in February.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

Count me as excited on this one. I just remember how horrendous and dirty the old VHS transfers looked. The Image disc was good for what it was, but a new anamorphic transfer has me marking 6 April on the calendar.

 

[RafaelB]

I sincerely hope they follow this up with the other M/I Forester films, notably MAURICE, which hasn't had an R1 release yet.

Rafael.
(still hanging onto his widescreen laserdisc of Maurice until something better comes along)

 

[Mark-W]

RafaelB-

Maurice is coming out on DVD in February.



Mark

 

[RafaelB]

Thanks Mark. The way I read it, I thought it was talking about R2 for some reason. :b

Rafael.

 

[Mikel_Cooperman]

I was looking for this online the other and saw that it was discontinued so I thought something might be up.
Glad its coming out!