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- bad future
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Nice! I remember they mentioned on Facebook in 2016, regarding their lavish DVD release, “DCP and blu ray are next on the agenda.” I sent them a message a few months ago to ask if a blu release was still in the works, and they said something to the effect of “we’re trying, but it’s very expensive.” Now I see what they meant!
- ianthemovie
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Question about the Shoes Blu-ray: the package says that there is a 13-minute short film, The Price, as one of the bonus features but I can't find it anywhere on the disc. Am I missing something?
- Gregory
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Milestone put it up on Vimeo in lieu of including it with Shoes.
- ianthemovie
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Thanks! Sad to learn that it was dropped from the Blu-ray but glad to know I wasn't crazy for not being able to find it.
- theflirtydozen
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According to an email and from Facebook, it seems Milestone has been working on Filibus, which I'm over the moon about! One of my favorite discoveries from the most recent round of the pre-1920s list. Says it was a 2k scan so hopefully a blu-ray coming?
- Saturnome
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Holy smokes, that's amazing news. It seems ever since I've stumbled upon it in 2015 (for a comic on 100 years old films I was doing back then) it only got more and more exposure. It's been restored and screened at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival last year.theflirtydozen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 4:41 pmAccording to an email and from Facebook, it seems Milestone has been working on Filibus, which I'm over the moon about! One of my favorite discoveries from the most recent round of the pre-1920s list. Says it was a 2k scan so hopefully a blu-ray coming?
- Gregory
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I liked a thing that Rodney Sauer of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra said about it at Nitrateville:
The response depended on the audience member: some found it primitive and low budget (which it is) and others found it fascinating and audacious (which it also is).
- solaris72
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed, November 13
Content and Special Features:
HIGH-DEFINITION RESTORATION featuring original color tinting and toning
Documentary feature about the director (60 min)
Vintage commercial (1921)
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The Secret of the Marquise (1921)
The Flying Coffer (1921)
Dr. Dolittle: Lion s Den - German and English versions (1923)
Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa (1923)
Dr. Dolittle: Cannibal Land (1923)
The Death-Feigning Chinaman (1928)
The Caliph Stork (1935)
The Magic Horse (1953)
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (1954)
The Star of Bethlehem (1956)
The Lost Son (1974)
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Thanks for the mention of Filibus! EYE has actually re-rescanned the film so the tints and toning are really more authentic to the original nitrate and there's really lovely detail in it. Also, EYE went back and re-translated the intertitles and then we (including our intern Austin Renna) refined them further. We also discovered the Italian's original name for the Detective was Kutt-Hendy, not Hardy, so that's been replaced. Lastly, we purchased the new 1915 font designed by Allen Perkins to use in our release of Filibus. It all looks incredible and the Mont Alto has done a really beautiful job in improving their already terrific score. The premiere will be in Turkey next month if any of you want to see it first! (Then, of course, it'll play in the US and elsewhere.)
You can read about the new intertitles here: https://milestonefilms.com/blogs/news/r ... a-reports
Dennis
Milestone Films
You can read about the new intertitles here: https://milestonefilms.com/blogs/news/r ... a-reports
Dennis
Milestone Films
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Two articles regarding Filibus (1915) @ Silents, Please! and Thick thighs and bad guys. Really looking forward to this!
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Thanks for putting up the reviews of FILIBUS here! We had a great double-world premiere in Bangkok and Amsterdam last Friday and both audiences had a great time watching the film. It truly has been a huge amount of fun putting out this film and discovering the wonderful talents Valeria Creti 103 years after the fact. American theatrical to follow in the fall!
Dennis
Milestone Film & Video
Dennis
Milestone Film & Video
- htdm
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Looking forward to it! When is the BD coming?
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Theatrical first! Then we decide on the release. However, most of the bonus features are in.
- htdm
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Whatever happened to a blu-ray release of I Am Cuba?
- Caligula
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We had six restorations going on at once this year, a big theatrical premiere on September 6, and I had a big project with AMIA (Archival Screening Night Roadshow coming to a cinema near you this year). As a two-person company, oftentimes releasing DVDs and Blu-rays have to come second. Sorry! We have BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS coming out first and then I AM CUBA will get done.
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- brundlefly
- Joined: Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:55 pm
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Billy Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts is now available on DVD through the Milestone shop.
Trailer.A key masterpiece of the L.A Rebellion, Bless Their Little Hearts distills the social concerns and aesthetics of that trailblazing movement in African American cinema. Billy Woodberry’s film showcases his attentive eye, sensitivity to the nuances of community and family, and the power of the blues.
Searching for steady work, Charlie Banks (Nate Hardman) views his chronic unemployment as a kind of spiritual trial. But day work and selling a few catfish can’t sustain a family of five. While his wife, Andais (Kaycee Moore), works to support them with dignity, Charlie finds comfort for his wounded sense of manhood in an affair that threatens his marriage and family.
At the heart of this devastatingly beautiful film is the couple’s agonizing confrontation – shot in one continuous ten-minute take – that ranks as “one of the great domestic cataclysms of modern movies.” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker)
Named to the National Film Registry, Bless Their Little Hearts features contributions by two iconic American artists: Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, To Sleep With Anger), who wrote and shot the film, and Kaycee Moore (Daughters of the Dust), whose powerful performance as Andais Banks remains a revelation.
Film restoration by Ross Lipman with Billy Woodberry at UCLA Film & Television Archive. 2K Digital restoration by Re-Kino, Warsaw. English captions and Spanish subtitles.
Bonus Features
Audio commentary by New York University professor Ed Guererro
New 2K restoration of The Pocketbook (1980): Billy Woodberry’s first film
Workshop with Billy Woodberry: video courtesy of Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive
Billy and Charles: Ross Lipman’s interview
Interview with Ed Guererro
Bless Their Little Hearts behind-the-scenes photos courtesy of Billy Woodberry
Booklet with essays by filmmaker Allison Anders and Cornell University professor Samantha N. Sheppard
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So uh, where's the Bluray?
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They've got one available for institutional purchase!
I've been waiting for this forever, so I'm very disappointed if it's just a DVD in this day and age.
- brundlefly
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I asked yesterday, and they said, "I’m afraid this one is DVD only. It does look amazing and we felt that as it was shot in 16mm, a Blu-Ray would not look very different from a DVD."
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I'm sorry to say, but the finances of a Blu-ray release just don't add up these days. Between commercial streaming (Amazon, etc), academic streaming (like Kanopy and Alexander Street Press) and buyers demanding deep discounts for physical discs, it's difficult for a small company to pay the $6000 for the authoring and compression, the cost of a yearly blu-ray license and the per-disc licensing fees. That and most of our business is overseas where they do not want Blu-ray. We will continue to on some prestige items, but the smaller titles are not being supported financially.
Dennis, Milestone Films
Dennis, Milestone Films