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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#376 Post by GaryC » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:15 am

domino harvey wrote:I'm confused on Heimat. If they're using a widescreen master for the full frame TV program due to its theatrical exhibitions, why then also use 1080i/50?
I suspect because it was shot at 25fps and there wasn't an alternative 24fps sound mix - it was simply just projected at 24 fps in cinemas. That would have added about 37 minutes to the running time. Most people (including me) didn't notice PAL speed-up when watching films on my television set, so most would not notice cinema/NTSC-slowdown either.

The BBFC cinema listing for Heimat from 1984 is something of a mystery as the running time matches the DVD certifications (the Tartan DVD, which I have, is definitely 25fps) and the footage count matches that running time if it were shown at 24fps. I didn't see Heimat in the cinema, but I wonder if the Glasisch recaps were intact in that version? Removing them would have shaved 35-40 minutes and the running times would then match.

That said, some London cinemas could show films at 25fps. I don't know if the Lumiere (where Heimat was shown) was one, but the Curzon Mayfair was - it was used for test-screening television material and commercials in the mornings and sometimes they didn't switch the projector back to 24fps before the public afternoon showings began. That happened at a couple of showings I went to, and I only found out because I'd stopwatched the film.

As for the Second Sight Blu-ray, I have checkdiscs here as I'll be reviewing it for The Digital Fix. It is 25fps and 1080i50.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#377 Post by TMDaines » Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:37 am

Apprently the subtitles are forced on Heimat too right? What a shame.

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#378 Post by EddieLarkin » Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:37 am

domino harvey wrote:I'm confused on Heimat. If they're using a widescreen master for the full frame TV program due to its theatrical exhibitions, why then also use 1080i/50?
Same logic as Dekalog 5 and 6. Hard matted widescreen because of planned theatrical distribution, but still shot and mixed at 25fps.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#379 Post by jsteffe » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:05 pm

Review of The Colour of Pomegranates by Lee Broughton on Cinesavant.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#380 Post by Lost Highway » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:55 pm

TMDaines wrote:Apprently the subtitles are forced on Heimat too right? What a shame.
You could always get the German Blu-ray. It’s also cheaper.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#381 Post by swo17 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:14 pm

Looks like Colour of Pomegranates has already sold out from Amazon UK.

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#382 Post by Adam X » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:37 am

Yeah, I ended up buying it from Diabolik.

The latest episode of The Projection Booth examines The Colour of Pomegranates, featuring interviews with Daniel Bird & James Steffen (it’s not yet listed at the above link).

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#383 Post by jsteffe » Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:39 am

Adam Grikepelis wrote: The latest episode of The Projection Booth examines The Colour of Pomegranates, featuring interviews with Daniel Bird & James Steffen (it’s not yet listed at the above link).
Thanks! Here is the direct link to the podcast.

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#384 Post by TMDaines » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:34 am

swo17 wrote:Looks like Colour of Pomegranates has already sold out from Amazon UK.
I bought it from Take Time Out the other day for £15.99 after I noticed it keeps disappearing on Amazon. Came well packaged in a cardboard mailer with a cardboard insert further protecting it.

http://www.taketimeoutentertain.co.uk/T ... th=blu-ray" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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#385 Post by Pepsi » Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:47 am

Looks like Colour of Pomegranates has already sold out from Amazon UK.
Back in stock at Amazon.uk (In stock on May 8, 2018).

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#388 Post by kekid » Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:36 pm

Why does the Blu Ray version of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" look so different from both the Criterion and the Second Sight's own PAL version? (based on DVDBeaver's screen-caps)

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#389 Post by MichaelB » Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:28 am

Aside from the characteristic heavy 16mm grain being much more visible (as you’d expect it to be), does it really look that different?

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#390 Post by Rayon Vert » Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:55 am

I had the same reaction - the difference, mostly in color/tint, is very modest to my eyes

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#391 Post by fdm » Sat Aug 04, 2018 2:19 am

I thought the blu-ray captures looked kind of dreadful, but perhaps it's just the jpeg compression. I'm curious to see other (uncompressed) snaps to see if they turn out differently.

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#392 Post by Adam X » Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:16 am

Aside from what looks like slightly elevated blacks (though my Macbook isn't calibrated, so not sure how true this is), I'd really love to see it outisde of those DVD Beaver screen caps, because the grain in some of them is verging on solarisation - especially the forehead of the guy in #6.
I've unforetunately not seen it before, but there's definitely something off with the Blu-Ray screencaps - even if it's just the process used by the site. Given Second Sight's recent history, I'd be giving them the benefit of the doubt over DVD Beaver's checkered history, but it'd be nice to have more to go on before buying the set.

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#393 Post by nitin » Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:30 am

David M did the encode, I place much more faith in that than in dvdbeaver caps.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#394 Post by MichaelB » Sat Aug 04, 2018 8:37 am

Adam Grikepelis wrote:
Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:16 am
Aside from what looks like slightly elevated blacks (though my Macbook isn't calibrated, so not sure how true this is), I'd really love to see it outisde of those DVD Beaver screen caps, because the grain in some of them is verging on solarisation - especially the forehead of the guy in #6.
Hand on heart, I'm not seeing this "verging on solarisation". The image is certainly fractionally brighter, but I can't see anything untoward about it.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#395 Post by Adam X » Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:51 am

Well, maybe solarisation isn’t exactly the right word?, but there’s definitely something off with the compression of those screen caps in regard to the grain; to my eyes anyway.

I dunno, I’m not trying to convince anyone they’re wrong though I’m surprised; maybe my internet provider’s recently started doing something weird. What I’m seeing looks nothing like anything I’ve seen that’s passed through David Mackenzie’s workstation.

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#396 Post by dwk » Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:12 am

Adam are you talking about the shot of the guy with the hat? Can't enlarge that one, because it links to the previous picture, but that does look off to me too. However, it is DVD Beaver, so it is a good chance that it is just a bad screencap.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#397 Post by nitin » Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:16 am

The caps do not great on my monitor either, I agree on that. I was just saying I trust David M’s work over dvdbaver’s caps.

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#398 Post by domino harvey » Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:18 am

I thought AG was crazy until I went back and looked at the cap he's talking about (click and drag the image to another browser window to see it full-size)

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What's going on with the shadow under the brim?

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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#399 Post by Adam X » Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:25 am

Glad I’m not (too) crazy, then. There’s issues in the others, but that’s the most obvious example. I’m still willing to believe the Beaver stills are dodgy; the Rewind review mentions Second Sight used an old master so maybe that’s involved too?

dwk, I just changed the number to 05 in the linked image to get the full-size version.
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Re: Second Sight Films (UK)

#400 Post by fdm » Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:39 am

Adam Grikepelis wrote:
Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:16 am
Aside from what looks like slightly elevated blacks (though my Macbook isn't calibrated, so not sure how true this is), I'd really love to see it outisde of those DVD Beaver screen caps, because the grain in some of them is verging on solarisation - especially the forehead of the guy in #6.
I've unforetunately not seen it before, but there's definitely something off with the Blu-Ray screencaps - even if it's just the process used by the site. Given Second Sight's recent history, I'd be giving them the benefit of the doubt over DVD Beaver's checkered history, but it'd be nice to have more to go on before buying the set.
The first one that caught my attention was the second set of scans, the headshot of Günter Lamprecht, just zoom in a little bit and see all the artifacts, particularly with his forehead, or the weirdness around his ear. The last one I was looking at just before posting above was the eighth set of scans, the headshot of Barbara Sukova, zoom into that one and look at the bottom of her nose and especially the lips and teeth for that set of artifacts. (Are these screen cap artifacts or actual artifacts of some sort?) And that hat shot too now that you remind me...

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