119 The Triple Echo

Discuss releases by Indicator and the films on them.

Moderator: MichaelB

Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

119 The Triple Echo

#1 Post by MichaelB » Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:08 am

Image
THE TRIPLE ECHO
(Michael Apted, 1972)
Release date: 18 March 2019
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)


Preorder here

Michael Apted made his feature-film debut with this distinctive drama based on the novella of the same name by H E Bates. Reuniting Glenda Jackson with her Women in Love co-star Oliver Reed, the film also stars a young Brian Deacon (Vampyres, A Zed & Two Noughts).

When a young soldier (Deacon) deserts his outfit and hides in a remote farm, the farm owner (Jackson) and he fall in love. But their idyll is shattered by the arrival of a boorish, violent army sergeant (Reed) searching for his AWOL recruit.

Unconventional and superbly played, The Triple Echo is one of the finest British films of the 1970s. Long overlooked and unjustly neglected, this powerful drama is now ripe for rediscovery, and is presented in a brand new 2K restoration from the film’s newly rediscovered original negative.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• New 2K restoration by Powerhouse Films from the original negative
• Original mono audio
• Interview with director Michael Apted (2019): the award-winning filmmaker discusses The Triple Echo in this new and exclusive interview
• Interview with actor Brian Deacon (2019)
• Interview with composer Marc Wilkinson (2019)
• Interview with editor Barrie Vince (2019)
• Interview with costume designer Emma Porteus (2019)
• Neil Sinyard on ‘The Triple Echo’ (2019): a new appreciation by the author and film historian
• Super 8 version: original cut-down home-cinema presentation
• Theatrical trailer
• Teaser trailer
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Pasquale Ianonne, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• World premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
• All extras subject to change

#PHILTD119
BBFC cert: TBC
REGION B
EAN: 5037899071755


Preorder here

User avatar
eerik
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:53 pm
Location: Estonia

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#2 Post by eerik » Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:03 pm

Wow, the trailer really grabbed my attention.

M Sanderson
Joined: Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:43 am

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#3 Post by M Sanderson » Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:15 am

Great that they’re initiating their own restorations, as not all of the intriguing movies - in particular, British - Indicator have had access to have benefited from state of the art restoration jobs. I’m very glad to see them take on this responsibility, and for the company to develop.

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#4 Post by MichaelB » Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:56 pm

I'm very happy to confirm that this has Indicator's strongest batch of original interviews since Charlie Bubbles last November, and their combined running time isn't that far short of the main feature.

This sort of thing is always pot luck, because even if you can track the relevant people down at all (assuming they're still alive) and persuade them to appear on camera, there's no guarantee that they'll remember much about a nearly fifty-year-old film - but everyone here has excellent recall, possibly because they all seem genuinely proud of their work on it. Although Brian Deacon makes working with Oliver Reed sound absolutely petrifying both on camera and off, not least because Reed downed half a bottle of vodka before filming their big set-piece scene (no spoilers, but those who know the film will know exactly what I'm referring to).

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#5 Post by MichaelB » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:11 am

Final specs:

Image

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#6 Post by MichaelB » Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:50 pm

Beaver:
Indicator bring Michael Apted's debut film "The Triple Echo" to Blu-ray with a new 2k restoration from the original negative. The film is housed on a dual-layered disc with a completely maxed out bitrate. The 1.85:1 image looks very clean, with an appropriate amount of grain. The restoration work here is outstanding, with a strong contrast in darker scenes, still showing lots of detail without any crushing blacks. This film is shot by cinematographer John Coquillon, notable for also lensing "The Changeling" and "Straw Dogs", and his work looks stunning thanks to this immaculate transfer. Indicator are really at the top of their game.

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#7 Post by MichaelB » Fri Mar 08, 2019 5:50 pm


User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#8 Post by MichaelB » Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:08 am


User avatar
swo17
Bloodthirsty Butcher
Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:25 am
Location: SLC, UT

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#9 Post by swo17 » Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:32 pm

Wow, this did a great job of ratcheting up the tension throughout, so subtly that it takes a minute to realize things are off, but still so inevitably that it can't help but end in an explosion. It's perfectly cast as well--I don't think I've ever enjoyed Jackson or Reed as much as I did here, and Deacon is just the right type to be able to pull off his delicate pivotal role. It's crazy that the U.S. tried to sell this as a comedy!

Image

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#10 Post by MichaelB » Sat May 04, 2019 4:24 pm


M Sanderson
Joined: Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:43 am

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#11 Post by M Sanderson » Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:14 pm

Superlative transfer. Colour, detail, black levels, grain intact; everything is of the highest standard. As with the other restoration job Indicator did, Immaculate Conception. These releases deserve our support, they get mine fully, and I hope for plenty more gems receiving this treatment.

Triple Echo is a fine, intriguing chamber drama. Intriguing interplay between Jackson and Deacon as they come into conflict, both trying to control the image and the identity of the female persona Deacon is to take on. Horrible feeling of entrapment as Deacon goes to the dance with Reed. Reed really is magnificently loathsome, here.

User avatar
therewillbeblus
Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#12 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:57 pm

The power of the tense social suffocation and dissolve of identity is only at their unbearable extremes because of the airy scenes of limitless freedom and harmonious bliss our leads bask in during the first act. Their laughter and playfulness mimics that of Eden, innocent and safe, until they’re not, and the fleeting serenity is violated with darkness, as the mise en scene becomes full of literal mud and brown shades of murkiness, and the smog of anxiety clouds up the very spaces that were clear and clean, flooding stress that strains a previously gleeful union. The film would not have functioned nearly as well without so much generous time and effortless emphasis given to the priceless unobstructed happiness that freedom grants, and too many lesser films have taken the same route without the consideration to set the stage with the patient or intelligence for a mindful wind-up. The pacing and attention to detail are so exquisite in their expositions that the elliptical nature swallows up the gifts that were dangled at the start. The fragility of identity and the flexibility of limits are tested against the grain of the confident foundation of two self-actualized souls, and reveal the relative nature of man’s adaptability, compromise, hostility, and disintegration in the face of threats to such freedoms.
SpoilerShow
Jackson's final act of shooting Deacon to spare him, coldly and confidently from an elevated distance without communicated termination, contrasts with their reciprocal warm intimacy from the beginning, but with equal confidence and oddly synonymous with the ultimate declaration of love (after a long middle act of angst and resentment). It's truly powerful in its journey back to closing the loop, and even optimistic at its core that was thought to be swallowed in the shadows of realism.
Another superb discovery from the label. It's amazing that a film this lean can feel so full, as it seemingly trudges through every micro-stage from loose comfort to strangulating total crisis.

User avatar
swo17
Bloodthirsty Butcher
Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:25 am
Location: SLC, UT

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#13 Post by swo17 » Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:18 pm

The UK release is "very low stock" but this is getting a new limited run for US/CA, being described as "an exact port" of the UK edition. Also, this movie is great

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#14 Post by MichaelB » Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:25 pm

Yes, aside from minor cosmetic localisation issues on the sleeve and disc (no BBFC certs, for instance), the US edition will be identical to the UK one, including the machine-readable side of the disc.

User avatar
swo17
Bloodthirsty Butcher
Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:25 am
Location: SLC, UT

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#15 Post by swo17 » Tue Nov 16, 2021 2:32 pm

Can they change the cover to the original U.S. poster art? [-o< [/joking]

User avatar
Pavel
Joined: Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:41 pm

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#16 Post by Pavel » Tue Nov 16, 2021 7:46 pm

Hopefully US reissues will help me get some of the OOP titles I missed [-o<

User avatar
MichaelB
Joined: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:20 pm
Location: Worthing
Contact:

Re: 119 The Triple Echo

#17 Post by MichaelB » Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:54 am

Specs for the US edition (whose disc is identical to the UK one, but the wording at the end has been tweaked slightly to acknowledge the US print run).

Image

Post Reply