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Originally posted by Lalala76 View PostHavent you heard about the BETAMAX revival? Symptoms on BETAMAX. Its the only way"Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.
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Originally posted by Dom D View PostThat would indeed be grand but I was actually referring to the most common way of watching movies these days: digital sans the media. My disc rippers packed up and I don't want to spend $100 on a new 1 for tech that's borderline obsolete anyway.
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Originally posted by Dom D View PostThat would indeed be grand but I was actually referring to the most common way of watching movies these days: digital sans the media. My disc rippers packed up and I don't want to spend $100 on a new 1 for tech that's borderline obsolete anyway.
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The 'Red Box' Ltd. Ed. of SYMPTOMS goes up for pre-order next Wednesday 03/30/16. http://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/pr...imited-edition
Exclusive Extras:
*Larraz on Larraz! Bonus DVD featuring a two-hour long archival interview with Jose Ramon Larraz! - Conducted in the late 90s and used as the basis for the Larraz episode of UK TV show Eurotika! (included as an extra on the main disc), the majority of this career-spanning interview has never been seen before.
*Exclusive booklet featuring a brand new essay from Writer/Critic Samm Deighan! - Samm is the editor of the Satanic Pandemonium blog, co-host of the Daughters of Darkness podcast, and the assistant web editor for excellent horror magazine Diabolique. She has contributed to Fangoria, Paracinema, and the book Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, and is currently writing a book about WWII and cult cinema.
*1000 numbered copies in the usual red case that you've all come to love, or at least tolerate.
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Having had a spin through the new transfer, I can confirm that the image is certainly croppable to 1.66:1 and even 1.85:1, but it looks very tight indeed (especially at 1.85:1).
The last time I personally had to make a framing decision when supplied with a 4:3 master was for Russ Meyer's The Seven Minutes, which was a total no-brainer - I've never seen so much headroom in my life, and when reframed in widescreen the compositions looked properly dynamic in a way that they emphatically didn't in 4:3.
But with this, it's pretty much the other way round, and so I can absolutely see why the BFI and Mondo Macabro endorsed 4:3. And these people are not philistines - I suspect this would have been discussed in considerable detail during production and authoring.
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Originally posted by MichaelB View PostHaving had a spin through the new transfer, I can confirm that the image is certainly croppable to 1.66:1 and even 1.85:1, but it looks very tight indeed (especially at 1.85:1).
The last time I personally had to make a framing decision when supplied with a 4:3 master was for Russ Meyer's The Seven Minutes, which was a total no-brainer - I've never seen so much headroom in my life, and when reframed in widescreen the compositions looked properly dynamic in a way that they emphatically didn't in 4:3.
But with this, it's pretty much the other way round, and so I can absolutely see why the BFI and Mondo Macabro endorsed 4:3. And these people are not philistines - I suspect this would have been discussed in considerable detail during production and authoring.
But as Michael points out above there is distinct visual information that would be compromised by matting to 1.85:1 or even 1.66:1. The film certainly wouldn't be ruined by going wide, but certain key scenes would be excessively tight.
You have to remember - most of the guys making films in the 70s grew up on films of the 30s and 40s, and that's certainly the case with Larraz. For a lot of them, widescreen was a commercial compromise.
Anyway, the proof is in the pudding. The disc will be out soon. I suspect much like our decision to go 4:3 on COUNTESS PERVERSE and HOW TO SEDUCE A VIRGIN, no one will say much about it after they take a look.
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