Has anyone bought this release yet?
My copy has a vertical brown line appearing in the right hand edge,in 2 of the last 3 chapters, during the film, and also when these sequences are shown as clips in Ronald Neame's interview. Anyone else have this problem. I will be contacting Criterion.
Otherwise, excellent quality of picture, and Ronald Neame's interview gives a wealth of info. about the film's birth.
Alan Robertson
I watched it last night and had the same problem. It was rather distracting so I pressed 'Zoom' on the remote and the Widescreen disappeard and the space with the line went with it. Not really ideal I know but there wasn't much else to do. Did you have any luck contacting Criterion?
Crisso
I have this release and looking at dvdcompare
i found this on there comparison page
There is a vertical translucent stripe at right of picture, running from 90m35s to 98m25s, which Criterion say was inherent in the film elements used for the transfer and could not be removed using their digital restoration tools. Special thanks to Rewind user Paul Moran for providing these specifications.
Such a pity really.
T of G is my all time favourite fim.
I watch it on VHS tape...so much relaxing !
MCG
I'm not sure if they should have released this if they couldn't get better elements.
On the one hand I'm thankful to have the film; imo it is one of the 10 best British films I've seen.
On the other hand the brown line is very obtrusive and takes me out of watching the film.
How did it get to be one of your favorites if the brown line takes you out of the movie? It's been there every time I've seen the film for the last ten or more years. The DVD release cleaned it up a lot compared to what used to show on cable and what was available on VHS.
The problem is, the movie itself is unfortunately too obscure. They wouldn't make enough money to fiscally justify fixing it. (That's my opinion, nothing officially stated; I'm quite sure that, given unlimited money, they could fix it digitally, but it would no doubt be expensive.)
I have a copy on VHS and it is totally fine and very watchable.
Somehow I got a good copy. Tunes is one of my favorite films too.
It gets better every time I watch it. I admit to being somewhat nuts
for all things Scottish (it's my ancestry, must be in the genes I guess).
"Stop smoking that thing like a ruddy debutant! Draw it IN laddie!
Smoke it! SMOKE IT!"
(Sinclair)
Presumably the original elements have been lost, and all that remains is a single interpositive? As this film appears to have been made by an independent, the negatives could have gone missing.
shareI can live with under eight minutes of this glitch in order to have such an otherwise fine version on DVD at last.
shareI saw it on TV today and it had the same problem on transmission
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