Films (Almost Entirely Surround)

[4-earredwonder]

From the Digitalbits website.....Upcoming Criterion BD~V/UHD4K June releases including John Water's delightfully TRASHY PINK FLAMINGOS on BD~V!!!!!!!

Now then, the big announcement news today is that our friends at The Criterion Collection have officially revealed their June release slate, which will include an updated version of Michael Powell and Emeric Presburger’s The Tales of Hoffmann (Spine #317 – Blu-ray) on 6/7, Ekwa Msangi’s Farewell Amor (Spine #1128 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 6/14, Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (Spine #1129 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Gordon Parks’ Shaft (Spine #1130 – 4K/Blu-ray and Blu-ray) on 6/21, and Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World (Spine #1132 – Blu-ray and DVD) and John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (Spine Z#1131 – Blu-ray) on 6/28. Note that Shaft is a new 4K digital restoration and will include Dolby Vision HDR. You’ll find the cover artwork for all of these titles below, and you can read more details about each release here on the Criterion website.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Blu.ray.com's further amplification on Criterion's June 2022 releases:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=30326

 

[DuncanS]

Emeric Presburger’s The Tales of Hoffmann (Spine #317 – Blu-ray) on 6/7,

Did they do a Tales of QQ?

 

[~dave~~wave~]

...Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World...

Been seeing rave reviews for this one, found it on Ammo Prime and streamed it last night.
We both enjoyed it, good date movie, even in Danish with subtitles.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Did they do a Tales of QQ?

Absolutely, Dunc:

 

[4-earredwonder]

Available May 10th from IFC FILMS, Independent filmmaker Jim Cummings third film THE BETA TEST. Previous Cummings films were Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow

 

[~dave~~wave~]

Watched the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards last night.
We managed to catch a few of these masked, in near-empty theaters, between pandemic surges.
Reminded me to add some others to the streaming watchlists.

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/movies-for-grownups/info-2022/movie-awards-nominations.html

 

[timothyemerson]

Available May 10th from IFC FILMS, Independent filmmaker Jim Cummings third film THE BETA TEST. Previous Cummings films were Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Looking forward to this! Trailer looks great. I've enjoyed Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow multiple times. This dude's up there with Moorhead and Benson (Resolution/Spring/The Endless/Synchronic/Something in the Dirt - where's the trailer for this?!) for incredible new talents.

 

[4-earredwonder]

For the wide eyed child in all of us, ClassicFlix presents Volume 3 of The Little Rascals restorations culled from original 35mm nitrate elements. 7 Volumes in all are planned.

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/little-rascals-classicflix-v3-2021-bd

And Volume 4, as well

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/little-rascals-classicflix-v4-2022-bd

 

[4-earredwonder]

Blu.ray.com's review of the Native UHD4K release of Shout Factory's THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER {HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1/2.0}

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Sword-and-the-Sorcerer-4K-Blu-ray/307294/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

Until a domestic version becomes available, Tony Scott's TRUE ROMANCE from ARROW VIDEO in Native UHD4K will be available from AmazonUS on April 1st [HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

https://www.amazon.com/True-Romance.../ref=tmm_frk_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

 

[4-earredwonder]

According to Arrow Video, John McNaughton's WILD THINGS [steelbook Native UHD4K edition] will be available on May 24

https://www.arrowvideo.com/blu-ray/...a-hd-steelbook-includes-blu-ray/13675344.html

 

[kfbkfb]

To remember the 41st anniversary of the (USA) introduction of the RCA CED videodisc on 1981-03-22, I got out my RCA SJT300 stereo CED player and watched both Body Double and Cat People.

I watched them using my basement surround sound system, I wasn't in the center listening position often since I was reorganizing some things in my basement.

Occasionally, during Cat People, it sounded like a sound was coming from outside my house rather than in the basement (more than once, it caused me to double check to see if it was an outside sound).

The Cat People CED, released in 1983, states on the jacket "THIS VIDEODISC HAS A MATRIXED SURROUND SOUNDTRACK", this was about 1 year before the 1st official Dolby MP/Surround sound decoder was marketed (SSI-360).


Kirk Bayne

 

[4-earredwonder]

To remember the 41st anniversary of the (USA) introduction of the RCA CED videodisc on 1981-03-22, I got out my RCA SJT300 stereo CED player and watched both Body Double and Cat People.

I watched them using my basement surround sound system, I wasn't in the center listening position often since I was reorganizing some things in my basement.

Occasionally, during Cat People, it sounded like a sound was coming from outside my house rather than in the basement (more than once, it caused me to double check to see if it was an outside sound).

The Cat People CED, released in 1983, states on the jacket "THIS VIDEODISC HAS A MATRIXED SURROUND SOUNDTRACK", this was about 1 year before the 1st official Dolby MP/Surround sound decoder was marketed (SSI-360).


Kirk Bayne

What a blast from the past, Kirk. Surprised they even play anymore as those CED discs were heavily lubricated and the lubricant was known to dry up and affect playback as it would 'gunk' up the CED stylus.

How was the video portion?

Just noticed they are still selling RCA SelectaVision CED discs on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2550349468...1291&msclkid=b46228c4ccf9136208704afe15baf5ca

 

[4-earredwonder]

Kino Lorber's BD~V release of BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ based on the acclaimed novel by Alfred Döblin.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Berlin-Alexanderplatz-Blu-ray/292900/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Kino Lorber's Native UHD4K release of Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Apartment-4K-Blu-ray/304948/#Review

 

[kfbkfb]

The CED videodiscs - both are mostly good (about a good as CED ever got) and both have some skipping and some "video virus" (wavy color and no sound), but both of my players have systems to skip the stylus ahead until a stable picture (frame counter) is found.

The CED discs don't show any signs of getting worse, I play some of them about once a year.

More about the CED system:
http://www.cedmagic.com

Kirk Bayne

 

[cdheer]

That is truly nostalgia-bate for me. I don't have a CED, just a Pioneer Laserdisc player. I got it during the earlier days of DVD when some movies weren't available that way (and a few, like Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis, seemed like they never would be; paid over $100 for that one on LD).

 

[timothyemerson]

Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Kino Lorber's Native UHD4K release of Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Apartment-4K-Blu-ray/304948/#Review

Shirley MacLaine rules. I watched The Possession of Joel Delaney The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) | Via Vision Entertainment the other night and she was superb and still a knockout.

 

[kfbkfb]

That is truly nostalgia-bate for me. I don't have a CED, just a Pioneer Laserdisc player.

(this may be too OT for this thread)

I bought a Laserdisc player in 1981-11 and a CED player in 1984-10 (after RCA cancelled CED), I could rent new CEDs where I was living in 1984, I bought several CEDs for the novelty of having some artifacts of the RCA CED fiasco.

I also have a few VideoCDs, the (USA) DVD of "Never Say Never Again" had several minutes missing, so I bought the VideoCD of it (the Blu-ray is complete).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD
IIRC, Roger Dressler (quoted in Video mag) said that the VideoCD MP2 digital audio would adversely affect Dolby Surround, but not very much (I may try my "NSNA" VideoCD w/my upgraded DS home theater).

I also have 1 MovieCD, and 1 Philips CD-i Digital Video disc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieCDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i
Although the movie on the MovieCD had a stereo soundtrack, there's no mention of stereo on the MovieCD package.


Kirk Bayne