The Studio Canal Collection UK Blu-rays in September - Updated
16-09-2009 13:28 | 9116 views | Dave Foster | Show Backlinks
Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of several titles under the banner of The Studio Canal Collection. Arriving on 28th September 2009 are: Le Mepris, Belle De Jour, The Elephant Man, Last Year in Marienbad, The Deer Hunter, Ran and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.
All come in special packaging with booklets.
Le Mepris
Belle De Jour
The Elephant Man
Last Year at Marienbad
The Deer Hunter
Ran
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Extras listed with (NEW) next to them indicates the content is new to the UK but not necessarily new worldwide.
With the exception of Le Mepris, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Ran (which we have discs for and have already confirmed) the other titles may have additional audio options not listed above. Ran and Le Mepris for example are only listed as having Japanese and French audio respectively on the press information, but the discs have several other audio options.
All 3 discs we tested (Le Mepris, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Ran) played on Region A and B machines.
All come in special packaging with booklets.
Le Mepris
- 1080P Widescreen
- French, English, German and Spanish (Castilian) 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Subtitles: English, German, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese
- Colin MacCabe introduction (5mins, NEW)
- Contempt, Tenderly - Documentary about the film (31mins, NEW)
- Once upon a time there was...Contempt (52mins, NEW)
- The Dinosaur and the Baby: classic interview between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard (53mins)
- Conversation with Fritz Lang (14mins, NEW)
- Trailer
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by Ginette Vincendeau, Professor of Film Studies at King's College London and acclaimed author (NEW)
Belle De Jour
- 1080P Widescreen
- French 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
- The Last Script (1hr 34 mins, NEW)
- Commentary from Spanish Cinema expert: Professor William Evans
- Story of a Film documentary (29 mins)
- Theatrical trailer
- A Story of Perversion or Emancipation: Interview with a sex therapist (28 mins, NEW) (HD)
- BD Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis of the movie by Derek Malcolm, film critic of the Guardian for 35 years and now critic of the London Evening Standard (NEW)
The Elephant Man
- 1080P Widescreen
- English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese
- Joseph Merrick: The Real Elephant Man Featurette
- The Air Is On Fire: Interview with David Lynch (Cartier Foundation)
- Interview with John Hurt / Interview with David Lynch
- Conversation with David Lynch by Mike Figgis
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by Tom Huddleston, writer and critic for Time Out London magazine (NEW)
Last Year at Marienbad
- 1080P Widescreen
- English 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Subtitles: English German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese
- Introduction by film critic Ginette Vincendeau (18 mins)
- Dans le Labyrinthe de Marienbad documentary (33 mins)
- Documentary on Alain Robe-Brillet (48 mins, NEW)
- Trailer
- Toute La Mémoire du Monde: short film by Alain Resnais (20 mins, NEW in HD)
- Le chant du styrène: short film by Alain Resnais (13 mins) (HD)
- BD Live (DynamicHD)
- TBC Interview with M. Mann via BD Live
- Booklet: Introduction to the movie by Jean-Louis Letrat (Paris La Sorbonne) (NEW)) & Filmographies
The Deer Hunter
- 1080P Widescreen
- English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese
- Audio commentary by director Michael Cimino
- Realising the Deer Hunter: Interview with Michael Cimino (23 mins)
- Shooting the Deer Hunter: Interview with Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (15 mins)
- Playing The Deer Hunter: Interview with John Savage (15 mins)
- Unknown Images: Documentary on the Vietnam War (47 mins, NEW)
- Introduction by Mickey Rourke (2 ½ mins, NEW)
- Trailer
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by Ryan Gilbey, film critic of the New Statesman (NEW)
Ran
- 1080P Widescreen
- Japanese 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Japanese, English, French, German, Spanish (Castilian) and Italian 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish (Castilian), Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish
- Art of the Samurai: Interview with J.C. Charbonnier (41mins, NEW)
- The Epic and the Intimate: Documentary on Kurosawa (50mins, NEW)
- Interview with Kurosawa by Catherine Cadou (13mins, NEW)
- AK documentary by Chris Marker (70mins)
- The Samurai (52mins, NEW)
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet:
- Analysis by David Jenkins, writer and critic for Time Out London magazine (NEW)
- Excerpts from an interview with Paul Verhoven (NEW)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- 1080P Widescreen
- German 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
- English, French, German and Japanese subtitles
- Memories with Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta and producer Eberhard Junkersdorf (51mins, NEW)
- Antigone: Episode from Germany in Autumn, directed by Volker Schlondorff based on a story by Heinrich Boll (15mins)
- Original Trailer (HD)
- Photo Gallery
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Introduction by German journalist Willi Winkler (NEW)
Extras listed with (NEW) next to them indicates the content is new to the UK but not necessarily new worldwide.
With the exception of Le Mepris, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Ran (which we have discs for and have already confirmed) the other titles may have additional audio options not listed above. Ran and Le Mepris for example are only listed as having Japanese and French audio respectively on the press information, but the discs have several other audio options.
All 3 discs we tested (Le Mepris, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Ran) played on Region A and B machines.
Comments
The Duck
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OMG! These look amazing. I'm so pleased I never got around to getting The Elephant Man HD-DVD.
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For Merpis, Marienbad and Ran - pick up Criterions - no way they could be improved.
Elephant is a difficult choice, but if one can afford - the Lynch box includes an extra disk of documentary and that's the way to go.
I would like to see improvemt in AE edition of Belle, but I suspect this will be exactly the same disk with diffrent design (and maybe some more pages in booklet).
Bottom line - the only disk to watch will be Belle...
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It seems to be common for 2 disk DVDs sets to be replaced by one BD and keep all the extras, so not surprising that Deer Hunter is one disk. That's assuming they include the extras of course!
The Duck
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The French Studio Canal HD-DVD release of The Elephant Man has sourced for a PAL master complete with the audio speed up. I wonder if this will use the same master.
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The French Studio Canal HD-DVD release of The Elephant Man has sourced for a PAL master complete with the audio speed up. I wonder if this will use the same master.
I'd bet money on it - they wouldn't exactly have raked in a fortune on the HD-DVD, so I doubt they'd be inclined to make a brand new HD master.
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This is my mistake - so used to associate BDs with the blue banners at the top and bottom of cover art that I took this disks for SD DVDs...
So, if Deer Hunter carries on all the extras from DVD and transfer is decent, this will be a definitive BD - what sort of extras Universal could put in their edition of BD (when and if they issue it) one could judge by their Legacy series DVD.
For Marienbad Criterion is the first choice.
As far as I know Criterion has no plans of issuing Mepris on BD...
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So, if Deer Hunter carries on all the extras from DVD and transfer is
decent, this will be a definitive BD - what sort of extras Universal
could put in their edition of BD (when and if they issue it) one could
judge by their Legacy series DVD.
Exactly. From an extras point of view this is likely to beat the USA Universal BD. That has only a few extras, whereas the UK R2 SE got loads.
Ran and Elephant Man for me, although I am happy with my Ran Criterion. It's not one I'd rush to upgrade.
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The 3 discs we've got all open with a list of countries to choose from which determines what studio logos are played, what piracy warnings you see and of course the language the menu is displayed in. I mention this because it's worth noting that Ran and Le Mepris both have a 'USA' option which leads to the Lionsgate logo suggesting you'll see some of these released in North America through them at some point.
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Where are the British filmmakers?
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All 3 discs we tested (Le Mepris, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Ran) played on Region A and B machines.
FANTASTIC! I was seriously considering buying a Region B machine to play Le Mepris, but now I can stick to my region A player!! Le Mepris is one of my favourite films of all time, and the thought of seeing it in HD (as well as finally seeing Il était une fois... Le mépris), is very exciting indeed.