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It's almost impossible to avoid customs charges on something this heavy from amazon.com.
I bought it from deepdiscountdvd.com and was charged about 9 or 10 quid import duty and it still worked out cheaper than amazon.com's price.
Places like movietyme.com and cd-wow.com are best for avoiding customs charges in the UK (I think they even guarantee it) - but neither has the MORE TREASURES set. You could ask Movietyme to get it in for you I suppose, they're very good like that.
I bought it from deepdiscountdvd.com and was charged about 9 or 10 quid import duty and it still worked out cheaper than amazon.com's price.
Places like movietyme.com and cd-wow.com are best for avoiding customs charges in the UK (I think they even guarantee it) - but neither has the MORE TREASURES set. You could ask Movietyme to get it in for you I suppose, they're very good like that.
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I didn't have to pay customs charges when I imported my copy through EnterprisesDVD, there was no extra customs or postage payable, although I'm not sure whether £49.99 was expensive for the set.Subbuteo wrote: Help!
Has anyone bought this in the UK. I want to order it but wish to avoid custom charges if possible. I'm wondering whether I can get away with it by ordering through Amazon.Com!
Any suggestions?
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Not this time. I saw part of it on TCM and can't remember who did the score for it.ola t wrote:Ah, very nice. With music by Neal Kurz, perhaps?Ashirg wrote:Leaves From Satan's Book - 4/5
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From our own Forthcoming List:
Just call me "Fairy Godmother".WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964, Teshigahara) Milestone are saying that Criterion will release it in the next year (Dec 2003)
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http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AEBD-10103Tribe wrote:Is Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes out of print? Any info on whether any other company might re-release it in R1? And, assuming the above answers are yes and no respectively, is this Image version so dark (as reported at DVDBeaver) that it's hardly worth purchasing on eBay?
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Agreed, but I must say that the film and the quality of the transfer (I believe there are screenshots at dvdbeaver) has convinced me that my money was well spent. And Amazon.co.jp ships in 4 days:Gregory wrote:The Image release was indeed very dark. I sold my copy a couple of years ago, hoping for a Criterion release. If that doesn't happen after awhile longer I've been planning to order the Japanese Asmik release, but that link above is not very enticing: $46 and 3-4 weeks?
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 50-2289811
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Acquarello's take is here.Tribe wrote:Image apparently will be releasing a 1921 Dreyer film called Leaves From Satan's Book in April of this year. Never heard of this one...anyone familiar with it?
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I've viewed, briefly, screeners from Nordisk and Image - both different transfers, of different prints - and the Nordisk was about 30 minutes longer. I have a feeling that they were running at different speeds but I need to sit down and do a dual-screen comparison and see what's going on with them.
Nordisk are the original production company of the film and they are the owners of the original materials. Their screener was extremely good quality.
Nordisk are the original production company of the film and they are the owners of the original materials. Their screener was extremely good quality.
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I probably would have agreed with Matt until I happened across an unusual CD-ROM entitled Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films. It's a bilingual (Russian/English) CD-ROM covering in depth about 100 early films including Bauer's films. Film scholar Yuri Tsivian (who is a commentator on the R2 DVD) breaks the films down (using clips as visual footnotes) in great detail explaining why the use of lighting and editing, for example, were so groundbreaking at the time. It really changed how I viewed the films.
I haven't seen the R1 DVD but have heard that there is "ghosting" on it as a result of an improper PAL-NTSC conversion. While this seems to be a chronic problem for most Milestone and Kino releases mastered from PAL, it isn't such a problem here (as opposed to The Phantom of the Opera or The Iron Mask) as there isn't as much movement.
I haven't seen the R1 DVD but have heard that there is "ghosting" on it as a result of an improper PAL-NTSC conversion. While this seems to be a chronic problem for most Milestone and Kino releases mastered from PAL, it isn't such a problem here (as opposed to The Phantom of the Opera or The Iron Mask) as there isn't as much movement.
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My Name is Nobody - April 26, 2005
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum ... did=226320
About FRICKIN' TIME!!! Now if only Universal would have the brains and guts to license Lost Highway to Criterion...
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum ... did=226320
About FRICKIN' TIME!!! Now if only Universal would have the brains and guts to license Lost Highway to Criterion...