Region 1 DVD coming on August 30, 2011
Olive Films is releasing this film on DVD at last in August. You can pre-order aleady on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0052SO0ME/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nos im
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WHY ? Because Paramount, in their infinite stupidity licensed the film to sh*tshow "OLIVE FILMS" instead of Criterion.
shareHey, you idiot, the TV version isn't available ANYWHERE, not in Sweden, not in France, not in Japan. There aren't any bootlegs. There is nothing of it out there. If the Swedish rights holders haven't done anything with it then it's unlikely that anyone else is going to get at it.
Also, Criterion most often works from the efforts of other people (BFI, Gaumont, Svenskfilmindustri, etc.) so let's not pretend they do everything right of their own accord. Have you ever seen a lot of their laserdiscs and early DVDs, many of them were/are very unimpressive. Today, they no longer hold a monopoly on excellent video transfers - they actually never did - the evidence is abundant.
Olive Films has been doing exceptional work bringing rare titles, titles Criterion probably wouldn't release or would take ages to get to, to DVD and Blu-ray in good editions - the more companies we have doing stuff like this the better.
Idiot? Why is the poster an "IDIOT"... because YOU don't agree ? The Olive Films version of F to F is a DISGRACE and should not have been released. Criterion (while not perfect) would NEVER have released Face to Face without looking for a better print and then doing extensive video and audio restoration. The end result may not have been perfect, but it would have been a vast improvement over this shameful DVD. There are plenty of prints of this film floating around. Taking the first one given to you by the American distributor (Paramount) is NOT the answer. Also, Criterion does NOT "most often" use transfers done by others. Get your facts straight before opening your big know-nothing mouth... and calling others childish names.
shareCan you read your own post - "sh*tshow" - is that not a childish attitude?
"Criterion (while not perfect) would NEVER have released Face to Face without looking for a better print and then doing extensive video and audio restoration."
Then why is their edition of Ozu's Good Morning the way it is? It's because they're using pre-existing masters - actually, it's their ancient analog tape master, which they only tried to color correct (disastrously) instead of getting a fresh new master from Shochiku in Japan (which is what they now ordinarily do. Their copies of Late Spring, Tokyo Story, Early Summer, et al. are simply contrast boosted takes of the original Japanese masters with digital clean-up.) So it's okay for Criterion to mess things up but when another company who mostly does superlative work dissatisfies you, the world is suddenly coming to an end? Sounds quite childish to me.
"Also, Criterion does NOT "most often" use transfers done by others. Get your facts straight before opening your big know-nothing mouth... and calling others childish names."
Except Criterion themselves note this - All of their Eclipse discs are from pre-existing masters, sans their digital work, from whoever they are licensing the films from. It is well known that they use the same masters used to produce earlier discs from Gaumont, Studio Canal, BFI, and other companies (various Godards, Red Desert, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus - these all originate overseas and there are many, many more like them.) The Seventh Seal came directly from Svenskfilmindustri; they did the actual film transfer, whoever released the disc in each country worked from the digital master produced by SI in Sweden. Criterion's "restoration" work is mostly digital post-processing, they don't do photo-chemical stuff. The recent Blu-ray of Bigger Than Life was created by Fox (Fox does this for everyone - Masters of Cinema in the UK, the French Frank Borzage Blu-rays - it's Fox's work.)
Criterion often do have unique, original transfers, and they are good, but a large portion of the time they are working from pre-existing masters shared with various other companies - everyone does this, everyone has to do this if they want a viable business.
Perhaps you should get your facts straight and knock off this nonsense.
Firstly, I don't see how personally insulting a Poster is in any way comparable to calling Olive Films a "Shi*show" (Which based on what I have seen, is an apt description) I have seen no work from them I would describe as "superlative". Perhaps you should take a look at "Face to Face" before making any comparisons to any Criterion release. As I have said, even their WORST transfer is far superior to this sub-sub par DVD.
Secondly, Since the cost of "photo-chemical stuff" (meaning a REAL restoration) is far beyond the realm of economic possibility for a small company like Criterion, I think they do the most with what IS possible and have improved as new elements and techniques have become available.
And NO, my world is NOT "coming to an end" but based on your over the top response to MY response, yours clearly should.
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