robotman

Does anyone here buy the Directors Suite titles put out by Madman? They
usually are Art-House type films, and feature directors like Michael Haneke,
Lars Von Triers and Wim Wenders(amongst others). Price wise, they are
usually in the $28- $35 mark(can be expensive), and sometime lacking extras
which are available on overseas releases.
Anyone bought a title from this range and found it to be average, and
decided to stick to the Overseas equlivent(R1, R2 etc)?

modern

robotman wrote:
> Does anyone here buy the Directors Suite titles put out by Madman? They
> usually are Art-House type films, and feature directors like Michael Haneke,
> Lars Von Triers and Wim Wenders(amongst others). Price wise, they are
> usually in the $28- $35 mark(can be expensive), and sometime lacking extras
> which are available on overseas releases.
> Anyone bought a title from this range and found it to be average, and
> decided to stick to the Overseas equlivent(R1, R2 etc)?
>

I've been getting the Criterion Collection, which tend to show up in the
university library. I'd be interested in what Wim Wenders films Madman
might have. I got Paris, Texas from America, as far as I knew the best
copy available.

robotman

"modern" <identity@position.net> wrote in message
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> robotman wrote:
>> Does anyone here buy the Directors Suite titles put out by Madman? They
>> usually are Art-House type films, and feature directors like Michael
>> Haneke, Lars Von Triers and Wim Wenders(amongst others). Price wise, they
>> are usually in the $28- $35 mark(can be expensive), and sometime lacking
>> extras which are available on overseas releases.
>> Anyone bought a title from this range and found it to be average, and
>> decided to stick to the Overseas equlivent(R1, R2 etc)?
>>
>
> I've been getting the Criterion Collection, which tend to show up in the
> university library. I'd be interested in what Wim Wenders films Madman
> might have. I got Paris, Texas from America, as far as I knew the best
> copy available.


http://www.madman.com.au/actions/dir...iew&labelId=62

Wim Wenders' Documentaries
The American Friend
Paris, Texas
Wings of Desire
Blues - The Soul of a Man (Wenders)
Blues Boxset (7disc DVD)
Land of Plenty
Wim Wenders on Film
Wim Wenders Road Movies


This is all the Wenders titles available through Madman, Until the end of
the world is available also, but not through madman, rather, Beyond Home
Entertainment(no idea on what the transfer is like for this release, it has
been out for a while now).

modern

robotman wrote:
> "modern" <identity@position.net> wrote in message
> news:g5qdc4$85v$2@aioe.org...
>> robotman wrote:
>>> Does anyone here buy the Directors Suite titles put out by Madman? They
>>> usually are Art-House type films, and feature directors like Michael
>>> Haneke, Lars Von Triers and Wim Wenders(amongst others). Price wise, they
>>> are usually in the $28- $35 mark(can be expensive), and sometime lacking
>>> extras which are available on overseas releases.
>>> Anyone bought a title from this range and found it to be average, and
>>> decided to stick to the Overseas equlivent(R1, R2 etc)?
>>>
>> I've been getting the Criterion Collection, which tend to show up in the
>> university library. I'd be interested in what Wim Wenders films Madman
>> might have. I got Paris, Texas from America, as far as I knew the best
>> copy available.
>
>
> http://www.madman.com.au/actions/dir...iew&labelId=62
>
> Wim Wenders' Documentaries
> The American Friend
> Paris, Texas
> Wings of Desire
> Blues - The Soul of a Man (Wenders)
> Blues Boxset (7disc DVD)
> Land of Plenty
> Wim Wenders on Film
> Wim Wenders Road Movies
>
>
> This is all the Wenders titles available through Madman, Until the end of
> the world is available also, but not through madman, rather, Beyond Home
> Entertainment(no idea on what the transfer is like for this release, it has
> been out for a while now).
>
>
>
The State of Things on Wim Wenders on Film brings back memories.
Paris, Texas appears similar to the American version I have, with the
same extras, but maybe released after or near when I bought mine which
was at a much lower cost. And I'm not keen on conversions from NTSC to
PAL if that is done, I'm not saying it was.
I might have seen Wings of Desire enough by now to not want to buy it.
The extended version of Until The End of the World would be a curio.

Matthew Kirkcaldie

In article <g5qhc3$qg2$1@aioe.org>, modern <identity@position.net>
wrote:

> Paris, Texas appears similar to the American version I have, with the
> same extras, but maybe released after or near when I bought mine which
> was at a much lower cost. And I'm not keen on conversions from NTSC to
> PAL if that is done, I'm not saying it was.

My copy from 6-7 years ago is absolutely ATROCIOUS quality - colour is
both flat and over-saturated, and the detail is fuzzy. Have they
re-released it?
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

robotman

"Matthew Kirkcaldie" <Matthew.Kirkcaldie@removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au >
wrote in message
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> In article <g5qhc3$qg2$1@aioe.org>, modern <identity@position.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Paris, Texas appears similar to the American version I have, with the
>> same extras, but maybe released after or near when I bought mine which
>> was at a much lower cost. And I'm not keen on conversions from NTSC to
>> PAL if that is done, I'm not saying it was.
>
> My copy from 6-7 years ago is absolutely ATROCIOUS quality - colour is
> both flat and over-saturated, and the detail is fuzzy. Have they
> re-released it?
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **


Yeah It has, It was re-released in 2006, under the Directors Suite
banner(the original wasn't). There is even a review for the re-release and
the original up at michaeldvd.

http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews...ws.asp?ID=7531 (2006 re-release)

http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews...p?ReviewID=504 (2001 release
of P,T).

modern

Matthew Kirkcaldie wrote:
> In article <g5qhc3$qg2$1@aioe.org>, modern <identity@position.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Paris, Texas appears similar to the American version I have, with the
>> same extras, but maybe released after or near when I bought mine which
>> was at a much lower cost. And I'm not keen on conversions from NTSC to
>> PAL if that is done, I'm not saying it was.
>
> My copy from 6-7 years ago is absolutely ATROCIOUS quality - colour is
> both flat and over-saturated, and the detail is fuzzy. Have they
> re-released it?
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Where is your copy from? I remember reading stuff like this a couple of
years ago. I'm pretty sure the American one was cited as better. The
local version seems to have the same labelled content, so this one might
be the same as the American one but in a different format. I can't find
it on DVD Pacific now, but Amazon says the release date was December,
2004.

anthony

On Jul 18, 8:44 pm, "robotman" <androiddre...@noemail.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone here buy the Directors Suite titles put out by Madman? They
> usually are Art-House type films, and feature directors like Michael Haneke,
> Lars Von Triers and Wim Wenders(amongst others). Price wise, they are
> usually in the $28- $35 mark(can be expensive), and sometime lacking extras
> which are available on overseas releases.
> Anyone bought a title from this range and found it to be average, and
> decided to stick to the Overseas equlivent(R1, R2 etc)?

I've found often that overseas-equivalent titles are better
(especially Criterion). For instance, the Criterion edition of The
Leopard included as bonus a different cut with English dialogue --
interesting in this case since the lead actor, Burt Lancaster, voiced
his own role in the English version.
The Directors Suite set of the classic movies of Jacques Tati fall
down in some instances too -- the French DVD of the first Ms Hulot
movie, 'Tour de Fete', features as bonus a different cut of the movie
in its original colour, instead of the black and white version -- it's
an interesting story in that the film was shot simultaneously in
colour and black and white, with the B & W used as a safety measure in
case the colour (a new French colour film stock) didn't work out too
well. It didn't work out at all ... no image could be struck from the
flawed negatives, hence the cinema release in black and white. Only
recently was digital technology able to be applied to the original
negatives to pull out the colour, to let the film be seen as Tati
intended.
The Madman edition of the classic 'Monsieur Hulot's Holiday' reverses
things in that the Australian edition carries, as bonus, the original
English-language soundtrack as well as the original French. Usually I
prefer the soundtrack of the country of origin, but 'Hulot' is
slightly different, in that there's almost no dialogue at all, and the
'English' soundtrack is vastly superior in its pure audio qualities --
crisper and better defined.
I have seen that some Madman titles are criticised for transfers from
NTSC to PAL rather than having a totally new transfer struck -- my
Madman 'Walkabout' does show some artefacts from that process,
although it is at least an anamorphic dub while my old Criterion
version was not.
Anthony

modern

Matthew Kirkcaldie wrote:
> In article <g5qhc3$qg2$1@aioe.org>, modern <identity@position.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Paris, Texas appears similar to the American version I have, with the
>> same extras, but maybe released after or near when I bought mine which
>> was at a much lower cost. And I'm not keen on conversions from NTSC to
>> PAL if that is done, I'm not saying it was.
>
> My copy from 6-7 years ago is absolutely ATROCIOUS quality - colour is
> both flat and over-saturated, and the detail is fuzzy. Have they
> re-released it?
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

I saw Paris, Texas for sale at Target for 14.95. It looks
like the newer one.

robotman

"modern" <identity@position.net> wrote in message
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> Matthew Kirkcaldie wrote:
>> In article <g5qhc3$qg2$1@aioe.org>, modern <identity@position.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Paris, Texas appears similar to the American version I have, with the
>>> same extras, but maybe released after or near when I bought mine which
>>> was at a much lower cost. And I'm not keen on conversions from NTSC to
>>> PAL if that is done, I'm not saying it was.
>>
>> My copy from 6-7 years ago is absolutely ATROCIOUS quality - colour is
>> both flat and over-saturated, and the detail is fuzzy. Have they
>> re-released it?
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
>
> I saw Paris, Texas for sale at Target for 14.95. It looks
> like the newer one.



Yeah it would of been, Target has had recently a dvd sale, including a whole
bunch of Madman stuff(including some, but not all Director Suite titles).