Carlotta: Fellini's Casanova
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What to make of THIS LINK? 148 minutes.
The distributor, Fremantle, apparently puts out tons of history of football dvds.
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And now at AMAZON UK TOO.
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release date now 4/11
The distributor, Fremantle, apparently puts out tons of history of football dvds.
Edit:
And now at AMAZON UK TOO.
Edit edit:
release date now 4/11
Last edited by yoshimori on Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
- The Digital McGuffin
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Less enthusiastic review of the Carlotta edition here:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=55660
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=55660
- Subbuteo
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UK R2 - Fremantle Home Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Fellini's Casanova for 3rd October 2005
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58119This 2-disc set includes a 53 minute documentary ‘The Magic of Fellini' and a 46 minute never-before seen interview with Donald Sutherland recorded exclusively for this special edition DVD, ‘Fellini, Casanova and Me'.
- mingus
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JFYI:
Kinowelt (Arthaus), Germany also releases Fellini's Casanova on October 18th.
It's a bit cheaper than Freemantles edition although the documentary is also present but it's listed as one disk right now.
It 's got german, english, italian and french 1.0 soundtracks and 1,78:1 anamorphic image.
Kinowelt has close ties with the bfi and momentum pictures in the UK but i would asume that they also use the same transfer as Freemantle.
Here is a link to the cover: Arthaus' Casanova
Kinowelt (Arthaus), Germany also releases Fellini's Casanova on October 18th.
It's a bit cheaper than Freemantles edition although the documentary is also present but it's listed as one disk right now.
It 's got german, english, italian and french 1.0 soundtracks and 1,78:1 anamorphic image.
Kinowelt has close ties with the bfi and momentum pictures in the UK but i would asume that they also use the same transfer as Freemantle.
Here is a link to the cover: Arthaus' Casanova
- jorencain
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I hope they do; I'm really looking forward to seeing a good version of this. I hope Gary can get a comparison of all 3 editions up at dvdbeaver as soon as possible.mingus wrote:Some bad news: I have just heard that the R2 Kinowelt DVD will be NON-anamorphic 1,77:1 (letterbox) !! [albeit it's still not official ...]
So Freemantle in the UK are the only hope left to deliver the goods...
- Lino
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Here's a review of the UK Fremantle disc:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58949
Looks like the best presentation yet on both A/V. But I need to see some comparison captures!
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58949
Looks like the best presentation yet on both A/V. But I need to see some comparison captures!
- Lino
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- antnield
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Oopds. Sorry, I thought it was clear. Yes, it is www.dvdtimes.co.uk
- Lino
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- antnield
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Comparison between the R2 Carlotta edition and the R0 Fremantle release can be found here:
http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=55660
http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=55660
- Gordon
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Top work, antnield! Much appreciated.
Quite an improvement over the Carlotta. Excellent work from Fremantle, who can be hit or miss at times, but the colours look gorgeous and the brightness/contrast levels seem far more accurate than the Carlotta.
Play.com shipped my copy today, so I should have it by saturday.
Quite an improvement over the Carlotta. Excellent work from Fremantle, who can be hit or miss at times, but the colours look gorgeous and the brightness/contrast levels seem far more accurate than the Carlotta.
Play.com shipped my copy today, so I should have it by saturday.
- zedz
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I'm not so sure. I've only seen the film once on the big screen, and I don't remember it being as garish as the Fremantle (nor as drab as the Carlotta). To me, neither of these transfers looks right, but let us know what you think when you get the discs.Gordon McMurphy wrote:Quite an improvement over the Carlotta. Excellent work from Fremantle, who can be hit or miss at times, but the colours look gorgeous and the brightness/contrast levels seem far more accurate than the Carlotta.
- zedz
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Agreed. I've seen brand-spanking-new prints of the film, and the Freemantle caps make me want to cancel my amazon.co.uk order. I'm hoping the disc is not in fact so artificially contrasty.zedz wrote:When I saw it, the colours were certainly rich, but the colour in these screen captures seems over-bright, rather than rich, with the golds, for example, looking like dayglo yellow. The skin-tones in the Fremantle seem way too pink as well, considering how heavily powdered everyone was.
- Dylan
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I did a quick comparison of one shot in the theatrical trailer of "Casanova" and a shot from the print Carlotta released on DVD in France. Needless to say, the trailer blows it away. Somebody seriously needs to restore this film to its visual potential. How does the same shot look on the UK edition?