Blade Runner Final Cut

[Blue Velvet]

Ingmar Bergman died today. You didn't see him going back to redo his final cuts of his films.

He had more say over final cut than these huge studio pictures do with test audiences and so forth.

I love Dune (the book series) and David Lynch, but I'm still baffled as to which Dune film to watch to get the full experience.

The theatrical cut. Although the whole production and post-production was a messy affair he's stated that he's not going back to it to recut it. I don't even think it's in his hands... he's been tied up with Inland Empire, supervising the second season transfer of Twin Peaks to DVD and other projects. I'd love to see every single film of his carefully re-transferred to whatever HD format comes out king.

For more Lynch discussion: http://www.dugpa.com/

 

[Mavimao]

I'm pretty sure they're not going to touch that, given that it's one of the most famous scenes in the film.

If anyone picked up this month's issue of Empire magazine (the one with Matt Damon on the cover), they have a 10 page special dedicated to Blade Runner. They talk about the Final Cut version and for this particular scene, they brought in the original actress and scanned her face and pasted it on the face of the stunt person. So they are retouching it up a little bit. They're also erasing the wires from the flying cars that are visible in the older versions, and redoing the photograph that Decker zooms in on. I guess the woman in that photo was the stunt actor as well. They also brought Harrison Ford's son in to reshoot a few shots - although they never specified where in the movie.

 

[megfilmworks]

I'd love to see every single film of his carefully re-transferred to whatever HD format comes out king.

For more Lynch discussion: http://www.dugpa.com/

Do you know of a good transfer of "Eraserhead"?

 

[RedTomato]

Thanks Telcomm and BlueVelvet for the gentle application of the clue stick, and yes, the wikipedia section does clarify the issues around the 'Directors Cut' - especially given that it was a very early DVD release and thus of low quality.

I'll wait till the Final Cut comes out then, especially as many early DVDs don't have subtitles, so the Director's Cut may well not have them / poor quality subtitles only. (and I hate faffing about with sub files off the net and trying to synchronise them with the movie file without hearing any dialogue).

 

[Blue Velvet]

Do you know of a good transfer of "Eraserhead"?

The existing transfer to Region 1 was remastered by David Lynch, according to Wikipedia. Given it's overall image quality, I don't think we're going to see much better... but "rumours have circulated that a new DVD may be released in mid to late 2007 (2007 being the film's thirtieth anniversary)."

Check out dugpa.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead

Let's try and keep this thread on topic, though.

 

[Mavimao]

Do you know of a good transfer of "Eraserhead"?

The Region 1 disc that bluevelvet talked about is a transfer of the original negative that was cleaned and supervised by Lynch himself. I have it myself and it is a great picture quality. You can find it in the UK pretty easily and I think it's from the same transfer session.

 

[MRU]

I was hoping this would come to HD-DVD or BluRay soon, so I'm glad they are releasing this new 'old' version

 

[megfilmworks]

The existing transfer to Region 1 was remastered by David Lynch, according to Wikipedia. Given it's overall image quality, I don't think we're going to see much better... but "rumours have circulated that a new DVD may be released in mid to late 2007 (2007 being the film's thirtieth anniversary)."

Check out dugpa.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead

Let's try and keep this thread on topic, though.

Thanks, that film is one of a kind. By the way, I'm slow but now I get the username!!

 

[RedTomato]

The Region 1 disc that bluevelvet talked about is a transfer of the original negative that was cleaned and supervised by Lynch himself. I have it myself and it is a great picture quality. You can find it in the UK pretty easily and I think it's from the same transfer session.

Could you please let me know if it has subtitles / closed captions? (and for bonus points, if any extras / commentaries are also subtitled?)

Amazon.com /co.uk have it, but doesn't say anything about subbies.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Could you please let me know if it has subtitles / closed captions?

Just popped my disc in. This is the Universal UK release. No subtitles, no closed captioning... sorry.

Huge sections of it don't have any dialogue but that's no consolation, I know.

 

[RedTomato]

Thanks BlueVelvet back to fiddling about with fansub files for that one. I'm getting better at it, but it's still a pain. (and thankfully the new release of VLC fixed some rather severe subbie bugs)

 

[Zigster]

Do yourselves a favor and...

see the "Final Cut" IN A THEATER. DVD just ain't the same. It will be a thing of beauty.

Hell, I'm going to LA to see Final Cut.

 

[ModestPenguin]

I just watched this for the first time tonight.

stunning.

cant wait to get my hands on the final cut.

tasty.