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Best DVD version?

posted 16 years ago by paradeofsickos
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I have never seen the movie, but I've been intrigued by it for quite some time. I've had good luck buying animated movies just based off internet reviews (Grave of the Fireflies, POM POKO, Night on the Galactic Railroad, etc.) so I'm sure this will be no different. Eventually I will buy all the different versions I can get my hands on, but I want to buy the best version first. My plan is to slowly collect every version of the film, and take the best parts of all the different DVDs and edit them to one DVD using DVD Shrink or a similar program. Really the only features I am looking for right now is 16:9 widescreen and French and English dubs w/ removable subtitles.

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[–] hallogallo 16 years ago

The best version is the UK Eureka "Masters of Cinema" edition:

01 - Region 0 (ie no region encoding)
02 - NTSC format (ie plays at the cinematic 24 frames per second rate)
03 - Anamorphic 1:66 ratio image (ie correct cinematic ratio and 16:9 enhanced)
04 - Original French language and the not to bad English dub

and best of all

05 - REMOVABLE SUBTITLES ON THE FRENCH TRACK!

You also get a couple of really good bonus shorts and (audio only) complete rendering of the complete score. Plus a 20-odd page quality booklet.

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[–] blue_socking 15 years ago

Go for the Masters of cinema edition.

[–] guely55 15 years ago

The Accent Cinema edition contains:
DVD Features:

English Language version
Original Subtitled version
*Photo gallery
*Trailer
*Fantastic Laloux, the new 26 minute documentary on director Rene Laloux
*Short animated film Les Escargots (The Snails)
*An animated segment of Sean Lennon s music video for "Would I Be The One" , inspired by Fantastic Planet

[–] lbatista81 15 years ago

I believe Netflix offers the French version with English subtitles. From what I've read that is the best version.

[–] rpdevo-2 15 years ago

The very best version is the one from Anchor Bay studios, if one can locate it

[–] Woodyanders 8 years ago

The recent release by Criterion is excellent.

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