DVD Realease
When will this terrifc movie be on DVD?
shareI have a feeling that the movie may never make it to DVD, or we may have to wait a *very* long time for it to appear on DVD.
I first saw the movie via a screening on UK television in the mid 1990s; I recorded the film, but the tape has long since disappeared. Recently, I've had an urge to revisit the movie, but as far as I can tell the only home video release the movie has ever had is via the long out-of-print US rental(?) VHS. I ordered a used copy of the tape from Amazon Marketplace, but I'd love to see the movie appear on some company's schedule of DVD releases.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).
Me too. From time to time I look it up, but sadly there don't appear to be any plans.
shareThere's a nice letterboxed version of the movie 'doing the rounds' in the Interwebs, from a television broadcast of the film. I'd never seen the film letterboxed before, and it added to my enjoyment of the picture.
Here's hoping the movie gets a DVD release in the future. It had a decent LaserDisc release in the 1990s, so I don't see why not.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).
I don't think the movie was shot in widescreen format. However it would be interesting to see it's transition. Please can you explain what the interweb is.
share"I don't think the movie was shot in widescreen format".
DELUSION was shot in Super 35, a 'flat' (rather than anamorphic) widescreen format, like a few other films of the period such as RESERVOIR DOGS, FALLING DOWN, TERMINATOR 2 and BLACK RAIN. Essentially, the prints sent out to theatres are masked to 2.35:1 or thereabouts (a ratio similar to traditional anamorphic widescreen formates such as Panavision and CinemaScope) but the image can be shown unmatted on a standard (4:3) television set. The TV broadcasts of DELUSION that I've seen seem to be of the unmatted variant, and the film's aesthetic in these TV prints has always struck me as quite flat and uninspired; but the widescreen framing in the letterboxed versions of the film are much more inspiring (and as per how the film was meant to be seen in cinemas), with the compositions being far more balanced and with much less 'dead space' at the tops and bottoms of the frame.
Some images from the widescreen version can be seen at the following links:
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4261/delusion4.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8366/delusion2.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7429/delusion3.jpg
"Please can you explain what the interweb is".
It's nothing special; just a sarky name for the Internet, a hybridisation of Internet and the World Wide Web.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958). share
I'm sure the letterbox version would give a more pleasurable viewing experiance. There must be a few prints left of this. The cut off of the picture form both sides would not give recognition to the movie that it deserves.
shareFalling Down was shot in real anamorphic.
CINNAMON THUNDERshare
Yep, you're right. It was shot in Panavision. (For the curious, it's listed here: http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/widescreen%20%28f%29.htm .) I could have sworn it was one of that wave of early 1990s films shot in Super 35, but then again it's not a film that I've really thought about since its cinema release: I've only seen it once or twice since then.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).
These days movies are not sot in 35mm. The latest HD craze has taken over. It doesn't look so good and natural.
shareAgreed. With a few exceptions, I'm not a big fan of HD video-shot films either, even when they've been processed to look like 'proper' film.
'What does it matter what you say about people?'
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958).