À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (Jean-Luc Godard 1960) comes to Blu-ray Disc

Pecker · 04-11-2009, 1:31 PM

Amazon have this French New Wave classic up for release next year on the 15th of February.

Steve W

k-spin · 04-11-2009, 10:04 PM

Excellent

Hope Pierrot le Fou's not too far behind (the US Criterion release is region locked and I'm limited to region B for the moment).

John Hodson · 04-11-2009, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by k-spin

Excellent

Hope Pierrot le Fou's not too far behind (the US Criterion release is region locked and I'm limited to region B for the moment).

Also listed as coming February from Optimum with The Ladykillers [1955] & The Go-Between [1970].

bosque · 05-11-2009, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by John Hodson

Also listed as coming February from Optimum with The Ladykillers [1955] & The Go-Between [1970].

Optimum are responsible for the Ran Blu-ray release - not to mention the problematical Deer Hunter release - so IMO it would be better to wait for the US release of these two movies on Blu-Ray.

Pecker · 05-11-2009, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by bosque

Optimum are responsible for the Ran Blu-ray release - not to mention the problematical Deer Hunter release - so IMO it would be better to wait for the US release of these two movies on Blu-Ray.

I've had my eye on Optimum and the problem discs for quite some time.

What I've found is that, if a new film arrives, their discs tend to be very good.

If it's an old film, it depends on who created the master. I'm not sure that Optimum has ever created a bad master themselves. As an example, there are problems with Leon, but these aren't anything to do with Optimum - the disc looks the same the world over.

Then there's Dead Man's Shoes in 1080/50i. I presume it was in 1080/50i for one of two reasons - either it was shot at 25fps (very unlikely) or a TV company co-funded the master (or had the master made in advance, and Optimum bought it off them).

Ran, I have no idea where that came from, but I'm not sure optimum ever make their own masters apart from new titles (I'm not sure that they can afford it, being a small company) - everything else they seem to source in.

The Deer Hunter looks like a pretty good disc. There's a problem getting the subs on the documentary, but you can get them. There's also a pitch problem, but I can't think of a studio that hasn't put out a disc with a pitch problem over the years.

Steve W