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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 31st Jan 2020		Vinyl Album Kate Bush - The Kick Inside	I am disappointed with this pressing because of the presence of sibilance on some of Kate's high notes, this is the first time I played the vinyl, and it was brand new from the sealed box set. Immediately afterwards I played my original UK pressing and there is no such problem on that version. The packaging tries to recreate the original UK version and has a high gloss finished cover, the original was laminated. The artwork has been slightly reworked, and photoshopped, colours might be slightly more vibrant but details have been lost (check the dragon on Kate's kite). The lyrics on the rear are whiter and easier to read, the song titles have different spacing. I've just noticed that on the front cover of many original worldwide pressings the thin black border before the brown border is missing.
albert 20th Oct 2019		Book Mark E. Smith - The Fall Lyrics	Fairly fragile book. Not something you would want to bend open and stick on a scanner for some random pest.
albert 25th Sep 2019		DVD Box Set Jean-Pierre Melville - Optimum World	Very good boxset, though I don't own it since I already had the individual titles. Somewhat annoying for me to see Le Cercle Rouge has the original French language with English subtitles since the separate DVD that I bought has a bad English dub.
albert 28th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Manilla Road - Metal	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
albert 17th Aug 2019		Cinema La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) (1969)	Also known as The Swimming Pool, or The Sinners. There are two versions of the film, one shot with mostly French dialogue and the other with English dialogue (with some nuances lost in the translation).
albert 17th Aug 2019		DVD La Piscine - M6 Vidéo	Really disappointed that this 2017 DVD was listed on Amazon as having English language options - it does not; the only option is French language. The DVD producers don't even provide French subtitles for the English dialogue bits in the film. Typical French lousiness.
albert 14th Aug 2019		Multi-Format Il Bidone - Eureka!	I wish that Eureka would stop putting out DVDs in the crappy NTSC format.
albert 14th Aug 2019		Cinema Stridulum (The Visitor) (1979)	I wonder what convinced all these big names to sign up for this film.
albert 11th Aug 2019		Cinema The Magic Roundabout (2005)	And I thought Dougal And The Blue Cat was bad.
albert 8th Aug 2019		Cinema Copy Shop (2001)	A very inventive short, it is included as a bonus on the 'Heller als der Mond' (Brighter Than the Moon) DVD. I would like to see more by director Virgil Widrich but it is difficult to track down DVDs.
albert 6th Aug 2019		DVD Tom And Jerry Golden Collection Volume Un - Warner Home Video	The uncensored Tom & Jerry Golden Collection has been available in USA for a few years and it doesn't look like it will ever get released in the UK, probably due to the PC brigade. Hurrah then for the French who did release it, and so far, from what I've seen, the cartoons are indeed uncensored. Now the thing about Tom & Jerry is that the extreme violence and the dangerous things the duo get up to (like with electrical sockets) are probably more objectionable than the racial sight gags and the smoking (which as examples are the scenes most often cut). Unfortunately it doesn't look like we will get any more volumes in the near future because objections about content have apparently been raised. The restoration on the cartoons does look great, there is a Blu-ray available in the USA and that should look amazing. The only problem I can see with the French DVD is that some of the titles are sized at 640x480 and some are sized at 480x360 and have a large black border (see screenshot of the 'Kitty Foiled' title) so I don't know what went wrong there. The French booklet gives the French titles (which true to form are some lazy and uninspired efforts) but the DVD menus will play entirely in English with the correct titles if your player is set accordingly.
albert 5th Aug 2019		Cinema Puss Gets The Boot (1940)	The first Tom & Jerry cartoon, or actually not, since they hadn't established an identity yet and Mammy Two Shoes calls the cat 'Jasper'. The title banner is "Puss Gets The Boot" coming after the MGM logo and Rudolf Isling credit, no "Tom & Jerry" banner.
albert 5th Aug 2019		DVD Tom And Jerry Golden Collection Volume Un - Warner Home Video	Titles on disc 1: Puss Gets The Boot The Midnight Snack The Night Before Christmas Fraidy Cat Dog Trouble Puss N’ Toots The Bowling Alley-Cat Fine Feathered Friend Sufferin’ Cats! The Lonesome Mouse The Yankee Doodle Mouse Baby Puss The Zoot Cat The Million Dollar Cat The Bodyguard Puttin’ On The Dog Mouse Trouble The Mouse Comes To Dinner Mouse In Manhattan Tee For Two Titles on disc 2: Flirty Birdy Quiet Please! Springtime For Thomas The Milky Waif Trap Happy Solid Serenade Cat Fishin’ Part Time Pal The Cat Concerto Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Mouse Salt Water Tabby A Mouse In The House The Invisible Mouse Kitty Foiled The Truce Hurts Old Rockin’ Chair Tom Professor Tom
albert 4th Aug 2019		DVD Box Set Meisterwerke Der Schwarzen Serie - Koch Media	German titles: Briefe Aus Dem Jenseits = The Lost Moment Die Blaue Dahlie = The Blue Dahlia Die Killer = The Killers [1946] Zeuge Gesucht = Phantom Lady Der Unheimliche Gast = The Uninvited [1944] Unter Verdacht = The Suspect [1944] Ministerium Der Angst = Ministry Of Fear Spiel Mit Dem Tode = The Big Clock Opfer Der Unterwelt = Dead On Arrival [1950] Der Mann Mit Der Narbe = The Scar [1948] (Hollow Triumph)
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format The Black Panther [1977] - BFI	I think they later released the same DVD master, on it's own, with different packaging.
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format Bronco Bullfrog - BFI	I think they later released the same DVD master, on it's own, with different packaging.
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format The Pleasure Girls - BFI	I think they later released the same DVD master, on it's own, with different packaging.
albert 3rd Aug 2019		Multi-Format Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - BFI	DVD later issued in a different packaging.
albert 18th Jul 2019		Cinema Au Bout Des Fusils (Gunpoint ) (1972)	Director Peter Graham and co-conspirator Walerian Borowczyk have ulterior motives in mind when making a documentary on game hunting.
albert 18th Jul 2019		Cinema Home And Away (1974)	A young boy is sent to a boarding school.
albert 18th Jul 2019		DVD The Silent Partner [1977] - Lions Gate	I wonder which idiot in Lions Gate's art department decided to add the Reservoir Dogs style suits to the front cover? - there is no such scene in the entire movie!
albert 18th Jul 2019		DVD Django Unchained - Anchor Bay Entertainment	Western hero with sunglasses!, photoshopped onto the cover image I note.
albert 18th Jul 2019		Multi-Format Pit Stop [1969] - Arrow	The newly commissioned 'artwork' by the talentless Jay Shaw, is so utterly crap and worthless that I saved the artist's embarrassment by not uploading it.
albert 17th Jul 2019		Multi-Format Blanche - Arrow	The first 5 Borowczyk Bluray/DVD titles published by Arrow were being offered in a limited boxset along with a thick book on the directors work, special pre-release order price £80 (I think), so I quickly placed my order and got the confirmation. However, the boxset was delayed, and the titles got released individually, and the boxset was still delayed, and the individual titles had been out a while and were starting to get discounted, and the boxset was yet still delayed, and the individual titles were now in danger of being deleted, and did I say the boxset was still delayed, and then the individual titles hit the Fopp shelves at around £8 each, and the boxset STILL hadn't arrived. I cancelled my order and bought the individual titles from Fopp, and just in the nick of time as they were getting deleted. But what about that boxset, the one that was supposed to have been available before the individual titles got released, ...well I did hear that it eventually got released and people now try to sell it on ebay for quite a few £££, but why shell out just to get a book.
albert 17th Jul 2019		Cinema Blanche (1971)	Possibly Borowczyk's finest work, the attention to creating the fine details in this period piece is just perfect. And there is hardly any nudity in it. [YouTube Video]
albert 16th Jul 2019		DVD The Big Heat [1953] - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Since this disc is already added to the database (twice), I feel that adding details again is just a duplication of work. The only thing that really changes on these European (region 2) DVDs from major distributors such as Sony is the slip, in this case with the text in English. When you put the disc in the dvd player it is going to ask you to select a country, of course it is, it's the same disc that is packaged whichever country you purchase it in!
albert 15th Jul 2019		Multi-Format Contes Immoraux - Arrow	The bonus features promises to include both versions of the scandalous documentary about vintage erotic artefacts "A Private Collection (1973)". Known as the Oberhausen cut the uncensored version includes animation/photos of banned sexual practices, however it seems that Arrow were unable to get this passed by the BBFC without censorship, so instead we are presented with the full length version but with a blanked out screen whenever an offending image is due to appear. Note: the accompanying bonus interviews and features reveal that many of the 'vintage' erotic artefacts are nothing of the sort because they were made by Mr Borowczyk himself, however he had such skill in craftsmanship that the items do actually look genuine.
albert 14th Jul 2019		Cinema El Sol Del Membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun) (1992)	Not really a documentary, more like an observation. Over a number of days/weeks Antonio López tries to make a meticulously accurate painting of the quince tree in his garden, people visit and there are discussions about art and life in general, and the weather causes him problems as he particularly wants to capture the patterns of sunlight. The painting never really gets finished but the artist seems happy just to be painting, the film is likewise.
albert 14th Jul 2019		DVD Robbery - Network	Robbery is restored from the original film elements and presented in the correct 1.66:1 picture format. The bonus film "The Great British Train Robbery" is the cut-down cinema release of the German TV mini-series Die Gentlemen Bitten Zur Kasse, it is the English dubbed version and is still watchable despite being in relatively poor shape (the original film elements are lost).
albert 6th Jul 2019		Live Music Helen Shapiro @ Empire Theatre	Were The Beatles second billing? the programme puts them in the middle of the early segment.

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