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I've read lots of articles about Dario Silver thanks to google translate! Vincent

I like Ryder in it but find Hopkins to be ridiculously over-the-top and annoying. I always wanted Max Von Sydow to play Van Helsing in a DRACULA adaptation. Vincent

The Japanese UHD is being regraded to bring it in line with the earlier 2K restoration that Storaro actually supervised. Information and frame examples here (original article is in Japanese so use google translate): https://note.com/tokiolifetime/n/n764909b58f33 Vincent

Actually, the entire prologue on the 25th Anniversary release seems to have been scanned from a lower-generation source (maybe a textless IP?), and as a result looks appreciably less detailed than what we have on this new 30th Anniversary release, so it's not just the subtitles themselves. That...

THE BUTCHER BOY is great. SO underrated! Vincent

Shout's pre-release technical info on this suggested the additional unrated footage was still upscaled from 2K and then intercut with the new 4K negative scan of the theatrical cut. Did you notice any occasional "decrease" in image quality for any of the unrated cut footage, or does it mix...

No doubt there are exceptions across all formats. I was talking generally re: how I often find Ultra Stereo mixes to sound to me when decoded to surround vs. a lot of the Dolby mixes from back then. I even made the point that there were very aggressive Dolby matrix mixes at the time, so it...

The 5.1 would be a remix, no? Vincent

Yeah, I was using the DTS-X upmixer on my receiver, but also switched to Dolby instead and like the results better. The end credits for a lot of movies back in the day had a "Dolby Stereo Consultant" listed, and I suspect they were "steering" things during those mixes, so to speak, to keep...

This one really seems to split fans into love-it or hate-it camps, and I'm firmly on the love-it side. It was surprising to me and I loved that it went off in "different directions", so to speak, rather than being just a by-the-numbers slashathon. Vincent

I often find Ultra Stereo mixes to be "more active" than contemporaneous Dolby Stereo mixes. I think Ultra was trying to differentiate itself from Dolby, and Dolby kind of settled into being a more "subtle" format at some point (although there were exceptions and some filmmakers still got...

I'm curious, what was the 6.0 channel layout for HEAVEN'S GATE, and how does the 5.1 track on the various Blu-rays and DVDs handle it? I saw the fabled original NYC 70mm premiere print* of the long-version of HEAVEN'S GATE projected at the Library of Congress' Culpepper, VA campus in the spring...

Hey, give them a break, there's a death of actual straight love stories to adapt! ;) Vincent

It's a shame that 4.0 discreet SCARFACE mix hasn't been carried over to home video. The remix adds a bunch of new sound effects, and the "legacy" mix on the UHD (and I assume Blu-ray) is a matrixed 2.0 downmix. Vincent

I know the difference between full-coat mag as a professional format and 4-track mag on prints, but are you sure that there weren't any 35mm mag prints at the time of CLOSE ENCOUNTER's theatrical release? I swear I read that DePalma's SCARFACE had 35mm 4-track mag prints as late as 1982, and...