Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted November 6, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted November 6, 2006 http://www.amazon.com/Conformist-Extended-...=UTF8&s=dvd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member steve hyde Posted November 6, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted November 6, 2006 ...Yes! and Facet is also releasing more of Bela Tarr's films like "Damnation" and even the 7.5 hour "Satantango"... very good news.. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Paul Maibaum ASC Posted November 7, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted November 7, 2006 Pre-ordered that one! A truly jaw-dropping film in all aspects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted November 8, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted November 8, 2006 Awesome, I just placed several orders. Hey, the holidays are coming up! Previously I had to rely on a DVD that was a burn from an old VHS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fritzshall Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Holy Crap! :o Finally! I got to see this last year in 35mm. Truly spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Whitehouse Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Hey thats great news, it was never commercially available on VHS so there have been a lot of dodgy pirate copies out there and a lot of old beat up prints. I had a 5th gen vhs dub from PBS. As I understood it there was confusion about the ownership of the film and bertolucci has a belief that films don't hold meaning outside of the period of their release. New films for a new generation I guess. A true classic told/directed in an interesting and, surprisingly, never imitated style. The cinematography seems to have become the basis for the modern style of cinematography. Ive read a couple of digs relating to Storraro colour theories but I remember reading that he didnt think this film fulfilled a lot of those ideas. Truly ahead of its time. The scene in the forest with the handheld at the end is particularily striking as is the use of shadow to reflect some of the themes of the film. Fire light playing on the walls of a cave. One of my favourites. I would love to know what others think. Sasha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Bowerbank Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Awesome, it's already in my Netflix queue, I'm trying to see everything Storaro's done...this'll help :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Whitehouse Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Awesome, it's already in my Netflix queue, I'm trying to see everything Storaro's done...this'll help :) Has anyone seen the DVD yet? Whats it like? How's the transfer and the extras? Sasha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted February 20, 2007 Author Premium Member Share Posted February 20, 2007 Has anyone seen the DVD yet? Whats it like? How's the transfer and the extras? Sasha Transfer is great and there's some interesting interviews with Storaro and Bertolucci. Same with "1900". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Whitehouse Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Transfer is great and there's some interesting interviews with Storaro and Bertolucci. Same with "1900". Hah, I already have "1900" on a 4 disc laser disc box set (double sided) so no need to buy again on dvd. It is strange to think that Gérard Depardieu was a heart throb at one time. Great cast, I forget that donald sutherland was the facist. Good role. Sasha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Bowerbank Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Hey, just watched the DVD. Truly is a great transfer. I had some troubles in figuring out the sound, as I know it's a mix of Italian with French, but at times it was Italian being spoken over French moving mouths...so I had to play around a bit to get the right words coming out of the right mouths. Still, as gorgeous as ever...and to think, Storaro considered it more a "learning experience" film for himself. Well, he certainly was given a lot of room to experiment, it seems. The style I think foreshadowed the likes of "Brazil", I saw many similarities both in the cinematography and conceptual "fascist" design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. Whitehouse Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Hey, just watched the DVD. Truly is a great transfer. I had some troubles in figuring out the sound, as I know it's a mix of Italian with French, but at times it was Italian being spoken over French moving mouths...so I had to play around a bit to get the right words coming out of the right mouths. Still, as gorgeous as ever...and to think, Storaro considered it more a "learning experience" film for himself. Well, he certainly was given a lot of room to experiment, it seems. The style I think foreshadowed the likes of "Brazil", I saw many similarities both in the cinematography and conceptual "fascist" design. Yeah, I know what you mean in terms of brazil. Does it remind anyone else of the Orson Welles film "The Trial" Which even though its black and white has performance and direction similarities. I imagine a lot of that facist architecture is still around in Italy. I just wish more women like Dominique Swan still turned up in films. Pretty interesting learning experience, dutch angles, POV, Zooms, handheld. I hope one of the lessons learnt was to tape your gels down properly to the edge of the window so they don't flap. Always made me giggle while I watched it but only because I knew exactly what it was. Its in my online dvd list now aswell. Sasha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adam Frisch FSF Posted March 1, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted March 1, 2007 That's great! Let's hope a Euro-version will come along real soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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