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When will Criterion release this film on blu-ray?

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I figure they simply don't have the means of making this look any better than it already does on DVD. They really did clean it up quite a bit. Did you see the restoration process video on the DVD?

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I take that back. I've since discovered that this exists on Blu-ray in the UK. I've heard rumors on Criterion releasing it on Blu-ray in the US, but no official word as of yet.

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In the UK we have it as part of the 'Masters of Cinema' collection. It is truly a fantastic little box, one of my favourite Blu-Ray release that I own! (I also collect Criterion)

Here's a picture:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjU73f7XURo/UrxnMEvHqqI/AAAAAAAABIE/mqWREoTN Ozc/s1600/Joan+IMG_1854.JPG

Special Features:
-Exclusively restored high-definition master presented in the film's original aspect ratio, in 1080p on the Blu-ray
-Presented in both 20fps and 24fps playback speeds
-Optional audio tracks: a piano score performed by Japanese silent film composer Mie *beep* (for the 20fps option), and a radical accompaniment by esteemed American avant-garde musician Loren Connors (for the 24fps option)
-Newly translated optional English subtitles for Dreyer's original Danish intertitles
-The complete "Lo Duca" version of the film - the version (featuring an alternate edit and soundtrack) that circulated in France and around the world for decades before the rediscovery of Dreyer's "director's cut"
-Extended illustrated booklet featuring the words of Dreyer, rare archival

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What I NEED is the HD director's cut with the Richard Einhorn/Voices of Light soundtrack.

Explain to me how the HD version is 1:36 duration while the SD version is only 1:22 despite that the SD version has longer intro credits (Criterion release.) Does 24 versus 30 fps really make that much time difference?

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Hey Null,
You probably have your answer by now, but the UK Blu-ray incorporates the full original cut at two different frame rates, to represent modern film speeds and the speed it was documented as shown at, at the time it was first released. (It also has an edited version of the film, released in the 1950s, which for years has been the only readily-accessible version.) The different frame rate, of course, accounts for the difference in running time.

It really is a wonderful release, so it's a pity there hasn't (yet) been an equivalent version in Regions A or C.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

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And the steelbook is so beautiful!

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