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A trip to the Moon Blu-ray SteelBook
G2 USA Exclusive - Limited to 4k world-wide - Ships world-wide.
Order link - flickeralley dotcom (cant post direct link due to post count)
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Order link - flickeralley dotcom (cant post direct link due to post count)
WINNER! 2011 National Society of Film Critics - "Best Film Restoration" Award
Flicker Alley is pleased to bring the original hand-painted color version of Georges Méliès' masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon (1902), to home video 110 years after its first release.
Georges Méliès, one of the celebrated heroes of Martin Scorsese's new movie Hugo, was a master of cinematic invention and enchantment.
Packaged in a limited-edition, SteelBook case, A Trip to the Moon also features The Extraordinary Voyage, a fascinating documentary directed by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange about the life of Georges Méliès and the magic of film history and preservation.
Flicker Alley is pleased to bring the original hand-painted color version of Georges Méliès' masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon (1902), to home video 110 years after its first release.
Georges Méliès, one of the celebrated heroes of Martin Scorsese's new movie Hugo, was a master of cinematic invention and enchantment.
Packaged in a limited-edition, SteelBook case, A Trip to the Moon also features The Extraordinary Voyage, a fascinating documentary directed by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange about the life of Georges Méliès and the magic of film history and preservation.
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Ordered.
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release date?
edit: found it myself.. http://www.bluraysteelbooks.com/2012...united-states/
March 27th
I preordered this as I felt the limited pressing would make it nice. And I needed to get in before some people order a couple hundred of these.
edit: found it myself.. http://www.bluraysteelbooks.com/2012...united-states/
March 27th
I preordered this as I felt the limited pressing would make it nice. And I needed to get in before some people order a couple hundred of these.
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I really enjoy watching a lot of Melies' films, but $30 does seem like a lot for a 14-minute short film, no matter how lavishly packaged.
With that said, I'll still buy it. It'll be a nice complement to the big Melies set they released, and plus I want to support Flicker Alley (who have been pretty consistently great at releasing high-quality editions of silent films.)
With that said, I'll still buy it. It'll be a nice complement to the big Melies set they released, and plus I want to support Flicker Alley (who have been pretty consistently great at releasing high-quality editions of silent films.)
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
The material for A Trip to the Moon is sourced from a restored color version that had been considered lost for several decades and is presented with an original soundtrack by the French band, AIR.
In 2010, three experts in worldwide film restoration - a private collection Lobster Films, and two non-profit entities, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage - launched the most complex and ambitious restoration in the history of cinema, over 12 years, using advanced digital technologies to reassemble and restore the fragments of the 13, 375 frames.
The restoration print premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and made a worldwide tour of international festivals including Telluride, Pordenone, Rotterdam, and the MoMA Festival of Film Preservation.
Now, one of the most technically sophisticated and expensive restorations in film history, A Trip to the Moon can thrill home video audiences in its original 1902 colors.
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011)
The Extraordinary Voyage chronicles the journey of A Trip to the Moon from the fantastical Méliès' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993, to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
The story of Moon's restoration to its original 1902 colors unfolds as Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange acquire a severely damaged color print from the Filmoteca de Catalunya in 1999 and then begin the tedious task of peeling off and unrolling the nitrate prints to be able to digitize them. It took two years to discover the images on those fragments, which were then stored on a hard drive for 8 years as the technology available at the time did not allow Lobster Films to continue the landmark restoration.
The documentary includes interviews with contemporary filmmakers, including Costa Gavras, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Méliès' enduring significance to cinema.
Bonus Features
This limited-edition 2-Disc BD/DVD SteelBook Edition also contains A Trip to the Moon in a beautifully restored black and white edition from original 35 mm elements with two separate audio tracks of music: An orchestral score by Robert Israel with the original English narration written by Melies; and a second track produced by Russell Merritt consisting of a troupe of actors voicing the various characters as performed in the U.S. in 1903, with piano music by Frederick Hodges. There is also an interview with the group AIR on the restored soundtrack, and two lunar-related shorts by Méliès - The Eclipse and The Astronomer's Dream.
Please Note: Due to our licensing arrangement, this release has been encoded for Region A: East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas and their dependencies.
The material for A Trip to the Moon is sourced from a restored color version that had been considered lost for several decades and is presented with an original soundtrack by the French band, AIR.
In 2010, three experts in worldwide film restoration - a private collection Lobster Films, and two non-profit entities, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage - launched the most complex and ambitious restoration in the history of cinema, over 12 years, using advanced digital technologies to reassemble and restore the fragments of the 13, 375 frames.
The restoration print premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and made a worldwide tour of international festivals including Telluride, Pordenone, Rotterdam, and the MoMA Festival of Film Preservation.
Now, one of the most technically sophisticated and expensive restorations in film history, A Trip to the Moon can thrill home video audiences in its original 1902 colors.
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011)
The Extraordinary Voyage chronicles the journey of A Trip to the Moon from the fantastical Méliès' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993, to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
The story of Moon's restoration to its original 1902 colors unfolds as Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange acquire a severely damaged color print from the Filmoteca de Catalunya in 1999 and then begin the tedious task of peeling off and unrolling the nitrate prints to be able to digitize them. It took two years to discover the images on those fragments, which were then stored on a hard drive for 8 years as the technology available at the time did not allow Lobster Films to continue the landmark restoration.
The documentary includes interviews with contemporary filmmakers, including Costa Gavras, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Méliès' enduring significance to cinema.
Bonus Features
This limited-edition 2-Disc BD/DVD SteelBook Edition also contains A Trip to the Moon in a beautifully restored black and white edition from original 35 mm elements with two separate audio tracks of music: An orchestral score by Robert Israel with the original English narration written by Melies; and a second track produced by Russell Merritt consisting of a troupe of actors voicing the various characters as performed in the U.S. in 1903, with piano music by Frederick Hodges. There is also an interview with the group AIR on the restored soundtrack, and two lunar-related shorts by Méliès - The Eclipse and The Astronomer's Dream.
Please Note: Due to our licensing arrangement, this release has been encoded for Region A: East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas and their dependencies.
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I thought I posted this before, but apparently not:
Can anyone confirm whether they charge when you place the order or when it ships?
Can anyone confirm whether they charge when you place the order or when it ships?
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When you order. They send out an automated email afterwards saying that you've been charged now, that the preorder won't ship for a couple of months, and that you can request a refund if you're unhappy with that.
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The email I got said 3/27/12...never got the 4/10/12 email. Wonder when I might get it.
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Review copies have already gone out, for whatever it's worth. Of course, there have been a handful of other titles where review copies went up but the retail release was delayed, but that's rare. I'd expect that everything's on track for 3/27.
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Per the email I got when I ordered, it said, "...although charged to your account now, will not ship until on or before the release date of April 10th, 2012."
So at minimum, we won't see ship emails until the first week of April at the earliest I would imagine if that is in fact the release date.
So at minimum, we won't see ship emails until the first week of April at the earliest I would imagine if that is in fact the release date.
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Steelbook Review:
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I can't get over how filthy the table is that he is setting the steel on. You can hear the scraping as he moves it around. what a tool.
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I received my steelbook today. The packaging and booklet are very nice, but I won't have a chance to actually watch it until later.
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Ditto, same here. And one word of caution fot those of you who get this, if you want to remove that backpage stuck to the steelbook, go very slowly when doing so. They used scotch tape to put it on there, not that sticky stuff.
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I hope I get mine today...what's the running time, around 15 minutes?
Edit: Just got it, and to answer my own question, yes.
Edit: Just got it, and to answer my own question, yes.
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