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albert 29th May 2024		DVD The Singing Ringing Tree - Network (2007)	Filmed in a widescreen eye-popping saturated colour palette. During a trip to Berlin many years back, and while looking for rare DVDs, I discovered that this is just one of at least 2 dozen 'fairytale features' made by the same East German production company (DEFA Stiftung) in 1950s-1970s. I would have bought many of the available DVDs but unfortunately only 3 had an English language option, including The Golden Goose and The Devil's Three Golden Hairs.
albert 29th May 2024		DVD Box Set Look At Life Volume 8 : People And Places - Network (2021)	Volume 8 is the largest in the Look At Life series and rounds up the remaining titles that were not pigeonholed onto the other 7 volumes, (and in that respect is the most varied and, dare I say, most interesting of the series). I do own volumes 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Note that since Network went bust last year all volumes are likely to become sought after collectors items.
albert 1st Aug 2023		DVD Eurotrash - Network (2022)	This is the one I know you have all been waiting for, (c'mon admit it!). But you'd better be quick because, last time I looked, the publishers Network have gone bust and copies are now getting scarce. Check ebay for inflated prices, £300+ anyone?. ...I have just noticed that they have edited some of the content for "contractual reasons", hopefully this is to cut out some of the tiresome minor celebrities who occasionally got interviewed, and not any of the hilarious stuff.
albert 4th Jun 2023		VHS Yellow Submarine - MGM / UA (1987)	If you click the link to the feature film details you can see a youtube clip which describes the differences. It is likely that the Hey Bulldog segment is in all recent worldwide blu-rays, whereas the 'Beatles to battle' segment found on this VHS will be chopped.
albert 26th Apr 2022		Blu-ray Phantom Lady - Arrow Academy (2019)	More ridiculous cover art from Arrow.
albert 19th Aug 2021		Blu-ray Box Set Yellow Submarine - Apple (2012)	Some fairly 'un-special features' are included as bonuses, (eg 30 second 'interviews'). They did not include finished scenes cut/deleted from the UK version of the film but originally seen in the USA theatrical version, which would have been nice to have.
albert 19th Aug 2021		VHS Yellow Submarine - MGM / UA (1987)	Unconfirmed, but this probably shows the original USA film, which does not have the 'Hey Bulldog' scenes, but does include some scenes that were excluded from the UK version.
albert 12th Jul 2021		Multi-Format Thundercrack! - Synapse Films (2015)	Hyped and much delayed Blu-ray release of this cult 'arty porn film'. The original 150 minute camera negative was not found so they had to embark on an extensive restoration project. Only five prints were ever made, one was seized by Canadian officials and most others were trimmed or lost, the version we get on this Blu-ray is 120 minutes in length and includes a 10 minute intermission with music. There have been bootleg DVDs of a very battered 90 minute print, which also cuts out most of the talky bits, so this Blu-ray renders all bootleg copies obsolete. The film is low budget and suffers from technical problems, the most obvious being with inaudible or missing dialogue, so you may want to switch on subtitles, or then again you may find the dialogue tiresome, which it can be. When searching for additional content they did find good copies of outtakes, auditions and other elements and these have been included on the bonus DVD, which also contains interviews and a number of short films by Curt McDowell. The special features on the Blu-ray include subtitles, an interview with Curt McDowell (which plays as a film commentary), and the documentary 'It Came From Kuchar' about the famous underground film makers.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Radiohead: The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time - Radiohead Television (2004)	This was released by Radiohead for a limited time, I no longer own my copy so I cannot give full details. As far as I remember it came in one of those DVD jewel cases and included a booklet with info, the image I have uploaded came from the booklet, it is not the actual cover of the DVD case. Apparently Radiohead were approached to create a television show and so they made some promo videos and requested fans to submit their own work - which resulted in a deluge of clips. They put together a few completed episodes but ultimately they got rejected and the show got shelved. This DVD was instead created so as to at least have some record of the work done. I did own a copy of this DVD but I have to say that the content was very much hit and miss and really not that entertaining - really miserable might be a better description but lets not try to upset anyone.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD The Child [1977] - Something Weird Video (2001)	1 feature film and 2 short films are included in the special features, hopefully I have linked the correct ones: I Eat Your Skin The Outsider The ABC Of Babysitting (alas I could not find the last one)
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Australia After Dark / The ABC Of Love And Sex: Australia Style - Umbrella Entertainment (2016)	The picture quality of Australia After Dark is fairly rough, and is letterboxed into a 4:3 frame. The ABC Of Love And Sex has better picture quality and is in a proper widescreen format.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Blue Sunshine - Synapse Films	This special edition included a separate soundtrack CD and came housed in a shiny outer slipcase. As far as I can remember, inside the slipcase was the regular edition of the DVD packaging, except that it had a double DVD case. I don't own this DVD anymore so cannot supply additional info.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD Carry On Cabby - Optimum (2008)	Four individual DVD discs, but I think there are no special features, and yet Studio Canal demand relatively high prices (as usual).
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD The Longshot • They Went That-A-Way And That-A-Way - MGM (2002)	This is a 2-sided 'flipper' disc. These are slightly thicker than normal DVDs and are prone to faults, or difficulty making them work in some players.
albert 12th Jul 2021		DVD The Haunted Palace [1963] - MGM (2003)	This is a 2-sided 'flipper' disc. These are slightly thicker than normal DVDs and are prone to faults, or difficulty making them work in some players.
albert 11th Jul 2021		DVD MGM Midnight Movies Double Feature - MGM (2002)	This is a 2-sided 'flipper' disc. These are slightly thicker than normal DVDs and are prone to faults, or difficulty making them work in some players.
albert 11th Jul 2021		DVD Box Set Still Game The Complete Series 1-6 - 2 Entertain (2008)	I think that the publisher is 2 Entertain, licenced from BBC Scotland.
albert 4th Jun 2021		Blu-ray The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (2020)	Review The film itself is a classic as everyone should already know. This review is for the technicalities of the Blu-ray presentation. Unfortunately it seems that someone made the decision to saturate the colour palate so now the action seems to take place on Mars, with orange-skinned men and Clint 'Blondie' now having much darker hair than before. I think possibly there may have been some tweaking on the soundtrack, much to the story's detriment eg no clinking of the spurs at the hotel shootout ....(maybe it was pushed over to some satellite speaker behind the viewer on a surround sound system which is useless when watching in mono). 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 21st Apr 2021		Blu-ray Street Mobster - Arrow (2018)	Some include a 24 page booklet.
albert 21st Apr 2021		Multi-Format An Actor's Revenge - BFI (2018)	The bonus shorts are fragments of footage taken from early newsreels: Oriental Splendour, 1927 Japan Pays Homage, 1928 Japan. To Rid Their Souls Of Evil, 1929 In Old Japan, 1930 In the days before budget travel, these were the only glimpses of Japanese life that most of the Western world would likely have ever seen.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Wizard Of Oz - Warner Bros. (2014)	In 2014 there was this 2 Blu-ray set and a special edition 2 Blu-ray & bonus 3D Blu-ray set to choose from. The 3D disc was the only difference between the two sets, they both included a download code. This 2 Blu-ray set was repackaged in 2019 using a new card slipcase, the 2 discs and case slip are from 2014, but note that the download code expired 3/11/2017. ------- There are so many special features on this set that they spread over onto a second disc, they are not fully listed on the original cover nor the repackage cover slip. The bundle includes several early versions of The Wizard of Oz including short silent versions, many featurettes and documentaries, cast and crew profiles, interviews, appreciations, special effects, history, background info... the list goes on and on.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Wake Up And Die - Arrow (2015)	UK title is "Wake Up And Kill", which is what it says in the cover, but typical of the 1960s there are several alternative titles.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Blu-ray The Wolf Of Wall Street - Universal (2014)	Repackaged 2018 with same disc, same cat number and barcode, but does not include the download.
albert 18th Apr 2021		DVD Videodrome - Universal (2002)	The disc itself is probably the same one found in most of Region 2, with only the text on the cover slip changing. Sorry, I just noticed it states Region 2 & 5, which explains the additional subtitle options.
albert 18th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Videodrome - Arrow (2015)	There are so many extras on this disc that I gave up on writing the notes. It is the 'unrated' version running time 89 minutes (Blu-ray) it states.
albert 18th Apr 2021		DVD The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Complete Collection - Fabulous Films (2015)	Also available as separate sets: Season One: FHED3315, barcode 5030697031136 Season Two: FHED3316, barcode 5030697031143 Season Three: FHED3317, barcode 5030697031150
albert 18th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Sacha Guitry Four Films - Arrow (2018)	Titles of the films are: Le Nouveau Testament [The New Testament], (1936) 100 mins Mon Père Avait Raison [My Father Was Right], (1936) 98 mins Faisons Un Rêve... [Let's Make A Dream], (1936) 80 mins Remontons Les Champs-Élysées [Let's Go Up The Champs-Élysées], (1938) 103 mins
albert 18th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Sacha Guitry Four Films - Arrow (2018)	They commissioned someone to come up with new artwork? Well it doesn't look like much of an effort was involved by using publicity stills with attached 'spot'... Badly thought out too, since the covers are printed both sides, (one for each film per Blu-ray case), hence you need to open the case to see the details of one of the films.
albert 17th Apr 2021		Multi-Format Lunch Hour - BFI (2011)	Includes a booklet and special features are bonus short films by James Hill: Skyhook, (1958) 17 mins Guiseppina, (1959) 32 mins The Home-made Car, (1963) 28 mins
albert 17th Apr 2021		Blu-ray Two Thousand Maniacs! - Arrow (2018)	Alternative artwork scrapes into an OK pass, though the artist shows trouble with facial expressions.

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