Recent content by david hare

I have the strong fedling it will get a UHD if Indicator in the UK has a look in. Although he can't speak for Uni/NBC HO Mike Baard was adamant the licensing for disc is wide open.

From the program notes:World premiere of the 4K restoration. For this restoration, Universal Pictures primarily used a 35mm nitrate comp fine grain. The picture element was dry gate scanned in 4K on an ARRI film scanner for a 4K workflow. Universal applied digital processes to improve flicker...

I don't have the printed program Robert but I recall it refers to "surviving nitrate elements." There are no more than two very brief monents of emulsion damage which would only be appsrent to extreme visual perfectionists like us in two separate reels which have bern left more or less intact...

Attended the world prem public screening of Leisen's masterpiece last night at the Cinema Reborn Festival in Sydney. For those of us whi have been patiently waiting the sixteen years since the picture was released on a fairly perfunctory DVD I can only say fhe wait's been worth it. The new...

I spent up big and bought the Pathe boxset last year. The Pathe release is flawless. The restoration is a stunner, and Pathe’s encode is without blemish. It’s that encode I hope Criterion will use, without recourse to their now commonplace low pass filtering, DNR and other shockers.

I think we can be confident about an Indicator Bluray of this new 4K early next year. That doesn’t account for Region “A” of course. I frankly gave up on Criterion years ago, they should simply relinquish their option.

I have a rio of that 1080p from two years ago. It’s no more than an uprez IMO. As far as I’m aware the new 4K restoration was completed in 2023.

This will very clearly be the Weir-approved grain free shocker. Don’t bother.

I've played my 4K disc on an otherwise "A" and a "B" friendly player (oppo 203 and Panasonic 820.) The 4K disc plays on both players. What are you playing it on? Nobody anywhere has reported a region locked 4K UHD.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The Italian Raro 4K disc is region free, SDR encode and has English subs. The 1080p disc is region coded “B”. Please get your information/advice right.

Back in 2018 when we launched the first Cinema Reborn retrospective in Sydney our plans to include the newly restored Cotton Club were thwarted by the copyright holder. Coppola responded very kindly by sending us his personal 35mm print of One from the Heart which we screened only once. It was...

Yes, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.

Remy, I bought the Italian UHD earlier this year only after reading about the Japanese rightsholder’s intervention regrading the Ritrovato yellow biased color grade which they returned to neutral. In the process they determined to give the disc an SDR709 encode. Their fine tuned grading was...

Agreed and thanks greatly to your own terrific work on this restoration. Man who remake has always been a major league Hitchcock to me, more than the equal of Vertigo. As Glenn says in the Ebert review the core of the film is a marriage that might collapse, and indeed the scene of Stewart...

Although it’s not yet officially confirmed, the Lionsgate uses the same encode as the Studio Canal, along with DV grading. So it needs mentioning that while the restoration of this is absolutely superb, can’t be faulted, and it goes back to DP Raoul Coutard’s unsuccessful twelve year old...