Studio Canal / Kinowelt / Optimum

[pointless]

I'm All Right Jack (John Boulting, 1959) - due out January 19, 2015 (originally announced for November, 2014)

Special Features:

• Brand new Interview with Liz Fraser
  The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film
  Cinefile: Seller's Best

[pointless]

The Tales of Hoffmann 4K Restoration Trailer

British distributors Park Circus and StudioCanal have released an official trailer for the recent 4K restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann. StudioCanal will release the legendary film on Blu-ray on March 23.

Tales of Hoffman 4K Restoration Trailer

[zedz]

David Hare reports (having spoken to somebody who worked on the restoration) that the new Hoffman restores a large amount of the material that was cut before its Venice premiere (including "a duet between Antonia & Crespel, a duet between Crespel & Franz, and an aria by Franz. The curtain calls at the end of the film have also been reinstated"), boosting the running time by ten minutes to 134. Plus, if the trailer is any indication, the restoration now correctly and sensationally reflects the colour and detail of original IB prints.

[Finch]

Criterion BD to follow in May or June for sure.

[swo17]

Except that they lost the rights years ago.

[captveg]

Lionsgate BD to follow in 2020 or 2022 for sure.

[dwk]

Lionsgate BD to follow in 2020 or 2022 for sure.

You mean Amazon exclusive, MOD DVD-R to follow in 2016.

[Ashirg]

Lionsgate BD to follow in 2020 or 2022 for sure.

You mean Amazon exclusive, MOD DVD-R to follow in 2016.

...from the old print

[Dr Amicus]

The Maggie and The Captive Heart on their way, presumable as part of the Ealing Collection

I haven't seen the latter - however as it was directed by Basil Dearden and I'm generally an admirer of his it's on my to-watch list - but The Maggie is a fantastically sour Mackendrick comedy, like Whisky Galore but even more so.

[pointless]

Far from the Madding Crowd 4k restoration trailer

Restoration announcement on Blu-ray.com

The restoration process of Far From the Madding Crowd was overseen by the
film's cinematographer and acclaimed director, Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now).
The Digital Film restoration was funded by StudioCanal in collaboration the BFI's
Unlocking Film Heritage programme, Awarding funds from the National Lottery.

[FrauBlucher]

Bluray.com....Darling

[Aunt Peg]

Has there been any word if the up coming Far from the Madding Crowd will face censorship issues?

[ellipsis7]

Has there been any word if the up coming Far from the Madding Crowd will face censorship issues?

The new restoration of the Schlesinger version coming from Studio Canal which is uncut & gets a U Cert like so...

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Type of media Video

Approved Running time 160m 22s

BBFCInsight very mild violence, nudity

Genre(s) Drama

Director(s) John Schlesinger

Cast includes Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp, Fiona Walker, Prunella Ransome, Alison Leggatt, Paul Dawkins, Julian Somers, John Barratt, Fredie Jones, Andrew Robertson

Cut This work was passed uncut.

Details

Title
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Year
2015
Distributor(s)
Studio Canal
Classified date(s)
26/02/2015
Main language
English
Submitted run time
160m 22s
BBFC reference
GVF034380
Remarks
Precut version

...

[EddieLarkin]

Precut version

[britcom68]

Bluray.com....Darling

Running time listed as 122 mins. The Region1 OOP MGM dvd is 128 mins. Oddly though, you would think that this Region B version would be the uncut UK version, unlike the OOP MGM Region1 release. Does anyone else have any more details about just what version of Darling we are getting?

[EddieLarkin]

122 mins cannot be the actual runtime of this Blu-ray. The PAL speed of the uncut version is 122m 37s, as previously released by Optimum. Proper speed would put that cut at 128mins, which I'm willing to bet is the real runtime of the BD (since again it is a SC/Optimum release). Even if it was cut, it'd still be 126/127mins, not 122. It is more common than you'd think for UK/EU labels to copy over the runtime of their PAL releases to their 24p Blu-ray specs.

[britcom68]

Thanks for that EddieLarkin. I am region-locked so I have never really closely followed RegionB issues like compressed running time, etc from Optimum/SC.
Somehow I had a feeling that the specs would not be clear anyway, a lot of people aren't aware of the US-cut for Darling.

[tenia]

The runtime of the BD is 2:06:37.125.

[EddieLarkin]

Hmm, PAL runtime for the cut version is 121m 44s, which fits about right with 126m 37s. Of course, it could just be down to distributor logos etc. If you have the disc tenia, details of the cuts can be found here.

[EddieLarkin]

Confirmed uncut.

[eerik]

Newly restored The Third Man scheduled for July:
Standard Blu-ray edition
Limited 4-disc collector's edition

[domino harvey]

Four discs?!

[Arrow]

Is this a UK only release?

[hearthesilence]

Promising, but we'll see - they screwed up the last BD.

[eerik]

Is this a UK only release?

French pre-order is also up: http://www.amazon.fr/Troisi%C3%A8me-hom ... 00VU7NQGM/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;