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Double Life and MAcbeth, on to the Ophuls' please.

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A release date for Letter from an Unknown Woman would make me very happy indeed, though I'll hold onto all of the R2 Ophuls discs for the commentaries and Tag Gallagher video essays.

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WOW! And to think for the past month I have been trying to decide on buying an "Import" from Ebay!

Macbeth! YES! Now Olive, PLEASE! PLEASE! Get 1492 on Blu-Ray!

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I have the (legit!) Korean import. It's surprisingly good and rather inexpensive through several channels (I got a copy for ~$6), though it's obviously not worth your time at this point.

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Agreed.
But aren't there 2 or 3 different cuts of MACBETH out there?
And it had a long and eventful production. If there were ever a film that needed a "Making of..." documentary, it's this one.

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These guys have a lot of work to do to catch up.

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Who has a lot of work to do to catch up with what?

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At first I thought it was spam, but his other three posts seem to make sense.

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Importcds sale extended until 30/6, might be able to pre-order FOE and BOS with the code now (well next week anyway).

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I read in Blu-ray.com that Olive Films will be releasing Sion Sono's Love Exposure. I really hope this is true as North America hardly gets any these obscure but fantastic Japanese films unlike the UK or other regions.

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once again Olive are only using less than 15gb for their transfers of Invasion and High Noon. Screenies look good but why not just use more of the disc space?

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Via HTF, these titles will not be released by Olive:

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DVD Beaver on High Noon

The small file sizes bug me too, but I have yet to watch a transfer of theirs that genuinely displeased me.

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I don't know much about most of those, but I am disappointed to hear they won't be releasing The Savage Innocents and The Turning Point.

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More non-releases:

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Yeah, small file sizes really bother me, enough to not support them. Come on guys, kick that meter up to the 30s, and I'm in! It's as if they have a big yellow warning sign that says, WARNING: DO NOT RELEASE THESE FILMS WITH AVERAGE BITRATE ABOVE 20 MBITS/SEC!

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No need to be factitious - it was a mild and valid criticism.

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Ugh, reading that write-up of Johnny Guitar - "weird and wacky", "supposed subtext", "critics (and you know how they are)..." - reminds me why I usually skip the specious and simple-minded summary sections of their reviews.

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Uh, good one?

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Total bummer about "Shanks". At least we got "The Spirit is Willing" and "Project X".

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DVD Beaver on Johnny Guitar, Body and Soul and Force of Evil

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Why is EVERY ONE of Olive's releases encoded at exactly 22.00 Mbits/sec regardless of the length of the film? Very suspicious.

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Four George Sherman/John Wayne Westerns on 10/2:

Glad to give my wallet a rest for a bit.

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Now I can finally retire my Johnny Guitar and Samson and Delilah laserdiscs.

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I had forgotten that Overland Stage Raiders represents Louise Brooks' first HD appearance! She looks unrecognizable with her hair parted. It's a pretty routine programmer, but fascinating to watch for Brooksophiles:


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Pursued has been delayed until 9/4.

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Any word on Body Parts?

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Why are their 2 versions of Bound on one bd25? Unacceptable IMHO.

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Perhaps they use seamless branching? Someone correct me if you now otherwise, but I assumed the only difference between the two versions was in the lovemaking sequence. Depending on which cut of the film is selected, one or the other version of that scene could be played but the rest of the movie would be the same files.

Of course I don't have the disc yet; I'm just suggesting that would be the easiest way to encode two versions with fairly minor differences.

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According to this

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/dvdre...nd_blu-ray.htm

Olive used two separate transfers instead of streaming, and just 2.0 sound too. Rather disappointing.

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Lossy audio too? Really?

Olive, you are not Warner circa 2006-2008, I think.

Get with the program!

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And we're finally getting some Ophuls...

October 16th
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) (!!!)
Three Secrets (Robert Wise, 1950)
The Slender Thread (Sydney Pollack, 1965)
The Sterile Cuckoo (Alan J. Pakula, 1969)
Up Tight! (Jules Dassin, 1968)

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While the screen captures for Olive's release look quite good, IMO, it's disappointing that they didn't utilize the disc space well (by doing streaming branching, which could have opened up the space for a lossless audio track and some extras). Now I'm undecided on picking that one up...

I'll definitely have to take a look at Letter From An Unknown Woman. I was pleased with Olive's releases for High Noon and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, so hopefully Bound'll be the exception to the rule.

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holy shit Up Tight!
Dassin's remake of John Ford's The Informer. Just made my day.