Pre-Order Under Capricorn (1949)(Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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https://www.amazon.com/Under-Capric...65953&creativeASIN=B07C53ZZXY&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

[Jimbo64]

I’m definitely in for this release!

 

[Robert Crawford]

I’m definitely in for this release!

Same here.

 

[Trancas]

Boosting this thread because the blu-ray is coming on June 19!

I don't think anyone has posted this from Kino Lorber's Facebook page:

"Kino Lorber Studio Classics: We acquired the film from CBS. BFI handled the 4K scans of the original negatives and we're doing additional color corrections and DRS."

So this has been scanned from the original B/W Technicolor camera negatives?!!
I didn't think that Kino Lorber did much restoration on the titles that they released. Things have changed?

 

[richardburton84]

Boosting this thread because the blu-ray is coming on June 19!

I don't think anyone has posted this from Kino Lorber's Facebook page:

"Kino Lorber Studio Classics: We acquired the film from CBS. BFI handled the 4K scans of the original negatives and we're doing additional color corrections and DRS."

So this has been scanned from the original B/W Technicolor camera negatives?!!
I didn't think that Kino Lorber did much restoration on the titles that they released. Things have changed?

Well, it says right there that the BFI did most of the heavy-lifting on this film (one of the few Hitchcock films I’ve yet to see). However, Kino is becoming more involved in the transfers of some of their titles. In addition to color correction and dirt removal on this film, they’re supervising a new transfer of The Big Country which will be out next month and are helping finance a new transfer of For a Few Dollars More and have some control over the color timing on that transfer.

 

[Trancas]

This is supposed to be the slipcover for the blu-ray. A peculiar image that doesn't reflect the film at all. However that Hitchcockian swirling curtain in front of the open window certainly is to his taste.

 

[Trancas]

Wouldn't the blu-ray's front cover have been a little more effective with a black background?

 

[Lord Dalek]

Oh good, this and Jamaica Inn were always kind of orphaned as far as Hitchcock films go (both in public response and general availability). So its nice to see a lot of work is going into 'em.

...that said, how did CBS wind up with the rights?

 

[Trancas]

Oh good, this and Jamaica Inn were always kind of orphaned as far as Hitchcock films go (both in public response and general availability). So its nice to see a lot of work is going into 'em.

...that said, how did CBS wind up with the rights?

Apparently when CBS acquired King World in 2000. It was originally co-produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein for their production company, Transatlantic Pictures. Filming was at MGM British Studios Borehamwood(UK), Warner Ranch (Calabasas), Canoga Park High School, and the L.A. County Arboretum. Hitchcock said (in the Truffaut interview) that Under Capricorn was such a failure that Bankers Trust Company, which had financed the film, repossessed it, making it unavailable until the CBS network television premier in 1968.

 

[Mark-P]

The beaver has screencaps up. It doesn’t look too promising. There are some rather egregious color mis-registration issues.

 

[Trancas]

The beaver has screencaps up. It doesn’t look too promising. There are some rather egregious color mis-registration issues.

Looks like crap! Why would BFI bother with a 4k scan of that? Did the same exec. that worked at Fox during the "lets junk the old nitrates" era also work part-time with the former owners of this property (but with even poorer results)? I think Kino is just a bit mistaken about using the "4K scans of the original negatives" stuff.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/2006/under_capricorn_blu-ray_/large/large_under_capricorn_06_blu-ray_.jpg

 

[Lord Dalek]

The beaver has screencaps up. It doesn’t look too promising. There are some rather egregious color mis-registration issues.

Three strips are probably long gone so registration errors aren't a bug, they're a feature.

 

[Jimbo64]

It still looks better than it ever has so I’m in!

 

[Dick]

Boosting this thread because the blu-ray is coming on June 19!

I don't think anyone has posted this from Kino Lorber's Facebook page:

"Kino Lorber Studio Classics: We acquired the film from CBS. BFI handled the 4K scans of the original negatives and we're doing additional color corrections and DRS."

So this has been scanned from the original B/W Technicolor camera negatives?!!
I didn't think that Kino Lorber did much restoration on the titles that they released. Things have changed?

Much as I dislike this film, I think I'd have enjoyed it more in black and white. Costumes aside, the film is too opulent for its story and the atmosphere it was going for. MHO.

 

[Mark-P]

Three strips are probably long gone so registration errors aren't a bug, they're a feature.

Believe it or not, even baked-in registration errors can be eliminated through digital cleanup these days. For instance, Warner Archive no longer uses the expensive ultra-resolution process, but instead manages to restore IPs of some of their Technicolor films. Nevertheless I wouldn't expect anything like that from Kino. Of course I'm still buying the disc because I must have ALL Hitchcock, no matter the quality.

 

[Robert Harris]

Three strips are probably long gone so registration errors aren't a bug, they're a feature.

I believe orig negs are fine. All it’s needs is funding. It was a beautiful production

 

[Trancas]

I believe orig negs are fine. All it’s needs is funding. It was a beautiful production

If the original camera negatives still exist then we need to start a gofundme and get Martin Scorsese and the Film Foundation involved. Get this film restored before the nitrate negatives become unusable!
I mean come on people ….. this is an Alfred Hitchcock film (his second Technicolor film!) , lensed by the legendary Jack Cardiff (isn’t this a unique, one-time pairing?) …… starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton!
Can you imagine how this film would look in crisp resolution with fully restored Technicolor? It might trigger a critical reappraisal!

 

[Allansfirebird]

It might trigger a critical reappraisal!

As much of a Hitchcock fan as I am, I truly doubt it. It's visually opulent and gorgeously shot, but it's dreadfully dull and uninvolving.

 

[verneaux]

With this release all Hitchcock films from his relocation to Hollywood are available on Blu-ray with the exceptions of Stage Fright and Mr & Mrs Smith. Plus at least four of the films from the earlier British period. Surely this makes Hitchcock the director from the classic studio period to be most represented on Blu-ray. Nearly his entire canon.

 

[johnmcmasters]

I watched the new Kino blu-ray last night. It seemed pale and washed out -- sort of like a pastel watercolor/etching that had been left out in the sun -- with red/orange and pale yellows dominating. I have no idea if that's how the film looked when released -- and the disc does have more detail than I've ever seen before. Is this even remotely close to the look that Hitchcock and Cardiff intended?