therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:27 pm
Do we know which discs do not have SDH English subtitles? From what I've watched so far, only
The House That Jack Built doesn't (and stuff like
Europa doesn't either, if it already has English cc subs for non-English language, but that means the English isn't subbed)
Their newly encoded disc appear to have English subs for the foreign parts and the ones they reused are without subs. This and the occasionally strong difference in encoding quality compared to the excellent new discs makes them being lazy here a little frustrating. This is what I see in the set:
The Orchid Gardener - English Subtitles
The Element of Crime - no subs (fully English)
Epidemic - partial English Subtitles
Medea - English Subtitles
Europa - partial English Subtitles
Breaking the Waves - no subs (old disc)
The Idiots - English Subtitles
Dogville - English SDH Subtitles
The Five Obstructions - English Subtitles
Manderlay - English SDH Subtitles
The Boss of it All - English Subtitles
Antichrist - no subs (old disc)
Melancholia - English SDH Subtitles
Nymphomaniac - no subs (old discs)
The House that Jack Built - no subs (old discs)
Edit: Dogville and Manderlay are two new discs with English SDH. Maybe they’ll give these individual releases down the line or a two-disc set similar to their Wenders BDs after doing the collection. Instead of creating new subs, they could have simply ripped them from another DVD / BD or downloaded them online. I believe this is what they did for the Wenders films. I added English subs to the French Tokyo-Ga BD and ripped my Curzon BD from the set as I wasn’t sure those I downloaded were right. Turns out Curzon used the exact same ones I downloaded that were made for a DVD back in the day complete with a “subtitles by…” credit at the end of the film credits which matched the file I had.