Some recent arrivals at sunny Club
Bayswater this week, via Oz Post. Both titles have cried out for good Blu-ray
transfers and Special Editions.
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| The Quades, the Keach's and the Carradines The Long Riders |
THE LONG RIDERS being easily the better of the
two and another superb Blu-ray release from Kino-Lorber. For Western buffs
there's a short but extremely funny interview with director Walter Hill
reminiscing about the time he made a joke at the expense of Sam Peckinpah...and
the "old iguana" wasn't amused! Priceless stuff...!
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| Andy Lau, Wu Chien-lien A Moment of Romance |
A MOMENT OF ROMANCE (Benny Chan,
Hong Kong) is a terrific Canto film from 1990 and
for years has suffered poor quality releases through various digital forms.
This new, fine looking Blu-ray edition hails from South Korea and offers up
quality packaging with excellent supplements including a specially struck
series of stills from the movie, and a 30 plus page booklet about the film.
Great looking photos in the latter but with the text in Korean. Only one major
problem, the transfer is really bad and looks to have been taken from a HK
laser disc of the 90s. So close yet so far.
I continue to be amazed at the way this
particular film has been treated and all releases have suffered the same problem:
a piss-poor source print/DCP. Somewhere in Asia there must be a good/very good
print of this movie. About 10 years ago, I watched helplessly as staff from
Melbourne's Chinatown Cinema threw nearly 100 35 mm prints into an industrial
rubbish bin. Some of these titles were in excellent condition, and one was A
MOMENT OF ROMANCE.
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