Criterion en HD et UHD

[Mister Zob]

D'après le lien habituel, Tartan c'est pour l'instant tout du ABC.

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Interview en anglais du président de Criterion histoire de patienter.
Rythme de sortie Blu ray, 1 ou 2 films par mois.Il trouve que le noir et blanc en HD ça déchire (il a bien raison).Semblerait bien que les 7 samourais en BR ne soit pas une utopie .

The Criterion Collection has announced its first 13 Blu-ray Disc releases. Including classics like The Third Man, The 400 Blows, and Contempt, and more recent movies like Bottle Rocket and The Last Emperor (shown above), the first titles are due in October. Al Griffin talked to Criterion president Peter Becker about the company's Blu-ray plans.

Criterion took its time in announcing its first high-def disc releases. Was this intentional?
We're a small company, we think hard about everything we do, and it took quite a while for this market to shake itself out. But once the smoke cleared, we decided to start addressing the considerable number of customers who have been clamoring for us to get into the HD field.

At what pace do you plan to release films on Blu-ray?
It's going to be more in the realm of one or two a month, rather than the four or five releases per month we're capable of putting out on DVD.

Is there significant value for the average Criterion fan to having films made available in high-def?
Absolutely. There's a luminous quality to real film, and HD resolution captures that. I particularly love black-and-white [films] in HD. They're gorgeous, and that's one of the big secrets of Blu-ray: how good black-and-white movies look.

What sort of extras will we be seeing?
In many cases, the supplemental features will be the same ones as on the DVD. We don't have any more to say now about Seven Samurai than we did when we put out the three-DVD set. One big difference with Blu-ray is that the menu space exists in the movie space. Now there's a pop-up menu, which means our navigation is intruding into the world of film. And we've got very strong feelings about how one ought to behave in a theater! The interior of the movie theater is a sacred space, and we want our pop-up menu treatments to be respectful of that.

Does Criterion plan to use Blu-ray's BD-Live features or Bonus View PIP capability for commentary tracks?
Our idea has always been that the content needs to be well produced and well served. Where the bells and whistles of the medium help us to do that, we'll use them. We're interested in some of the ways Blu-ray offers us to annotate the movies and to update our releases. The online component is very interesting to us, but beyond that, there's nothing that has caused a eureka moment with these first editions.

[Ubik]

Zoné ou pas zoné, that's the fucking question.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Zoné ou pas zoné, that's the fucking question.

j'avais lu y a quelques temps une réponse dans un forum à une question posée par email à la team Criterion au sujet des zones : "I emailed Criterion and asked, if their Blu-rays will be Region free, or locked to Region A and they replied:

Quote:
The details of our Blu-ray releases are still being worked out, but I would be surprised if they weren't region A. I'm sure that as the debut of our BD releases draws nearer there will be more information on the website and in the blog/newsletter, so please keep checking back.

So, now would be a time to send them enough feedback to convince them to release blu-rays as region free, for us European customers."

[Ubik]

Papa noël, je voudrais une platine MZ. S'il te plaît.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Papa noël, je voudrais une platine MZ. S'il te plaît.

pour l'instant c'est juste une réponse par email à une question posée à l'équipe Criterion. Ils peuvent encore changer d'avis...
Mais s'ils utilisent la même politique de licence que pour les DVDs actuellement, il y aura des Blue-Ray zonés, et d'autres lisibles sur toutes les platines...
ça va être lourd car jusqu'à présent je ne m'intéressais pas à ce genre de spécifs vu que tout le monde enfin presque à une platine multizone pour les DVDs.
Pour les Blue-Ray ce sera une autre affaire...
Déjà je reste suspendu à l'annonce de Walkabout- je l'aurais (très) mauvaise si c'est zoné. Idem pour le Mépris de Godard (le DVD SD n'est pas zoné).
En plus si les bonus sont limités à certaines zones ça risque de compliquer les choses s'ils ne font pas des éditions 1 blue-ray pour le film + 1 blue-ray pour les suppléments (on pourrait alors avoir un blue-ray zoné juste à cause des suppléments). C'est déjà arrivé pour des Criterion d'avoir le DVD du film zone all et le DVD des suppléments zone 1 (Le festin nu de Cronenberg par exemple).

[Geoffrey Firmin]

C'est finalement le 18 novembre qu'arriveront les premiers BR Criterion:
Avec:
Le troisième homme et L'homme qui venait d'ailleurs le 18/11.

Le 25/11:
Chungking Express
Bottle Rocket
The Last Emperor

http://www.criterion.com/asp/browse_bluray.asp

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Le press release officiel:
DTS HD master pour l'audio et même tarif que le DVD.

BOTTLE ROCKET
Info
• Directed by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
• Starring Owen Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Armageddon, Wedding Crashers)
• Starring Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, 3:10 to Yuma)
• Cinematography by Robert Yeoman (Drugstore Cowboy, Rushmore, The Squid and the Whale)

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson and director of photography Robert Yeoman
• Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on Blu-ray)
• Commentary by director/co-writer Anderson and co-writer/star Owen Wilson
• The Making of “Bottle Rocket”: an original documentary by filmmaker Barry Braverman featuring Anderson, James L. Brooks, James Caan, Temple Nash Jr., Kumar Pallana, Polly Platt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Musgrave, Richard Sakai, David and Sandy Wasco, Andrew and Luke and Owen Wilson, and Robert Yeoman
• The original thirteen-minute black-and-white Bottle Rocket short film from 1992
• Eleven deleted scenes
• Anamorphic screen test, storyboards, location photos, and behind-the-scenes photographs by Laura Wilson
• Murita Cycles, a 1978 short film by Braverman
• The Shafrazi Lectures, no. 1: Bottle Rocket
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by executive producer James L. Brooks, an appreciation by Martin Scorsese, and original artwork by Ian Dingman

Title: Bottle Rocket Title: Bottle Rocket (Blu-ray)
CAT: CC1772D CAT: CC1777BD
UPC: 7-15515-03072-4 UPC: 7-15515-03342-8
ISBN: 978-1-60465-058-7 ISBN: 978-1-60465-092-1
SRP: $39.95 SRP: $39.95
Prebook: 10/28/08 Prebook: 10/28/08
Street date: 11/25/08 Street date: 11/25/08

CHUNGKING EXPRESS
Info
• Directed by Wong Kar-wai (Ashes of Time, In the Mood for Love, 2046)
• Starring Tony Leung (Infernal Affairs, In the Mood for Love, Lust Caution)
• Starring Takeshi Kaneshiro (Fallen Angels, House of Flying Daggers)

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack supervised by director
Wong Kar-wai (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on Blu-ray)
• Audio commentary by noted Asian cinema critic Tony Rayns
• U.S. theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from a 1996 Sight and Sound interview with Wong by Rayns
• More!

Title: Chungking Express Title: Chungking Express (Blu-ray)
CAT: CC1774D CAT: CC1778BD
UPC: 7-15515-03322-0 UPC: 7-15515-03332-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-090-7 ISBN: 978-1-60465-091-4
SRP: $39.95 SRP: $39.95
Prebook: 10/28/08 Prebook: 10/28/08
Street date: 11/25/08 Street date: 11/25/08

Visiblement les spécifications pour Le dernier empereur ne sont pas encore complètement connues:

THE LAST EMPEROR (BLU-RAY)
Info
• Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Le commare secca, The Conformist, Last Tango
in Paris)
• Starring John Lone (Year of the Dragon, M Butterfly, War)
• Starring Joan Chen (Twin Peaks, Heaven and Earth, Lust Caution)
• Starring Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, The Ruling Class, My Favorite Year)
• Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, Reds)

Title: The Last Emperor (Blu-ray)
CAT: CC1779BD
UPC: 7-15515-03372-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-095-2
SRP: $39.95
Prebook: 10/21/08
Street date: 11/18/08

[Mister Zob]

Criterion vient de confirmer, dans une pseudo-newsletter, que ses BR seraient zonés. Problème de droits, qu'ils disent...

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Criterion vient de confirmer, dans une pseudo-newsletter, que ses BR seraient zonés. Problème de droits, qu'ils disent...

Zut

[Swan]

En fait, c'est leur réponse bateau - "nous n'avons les droits que pour le territoire américain - et qui concernait déjà les DVD, il reste donc un - mince - espoir que certains titres ne soient pas zonés.

[Mister Zob]

Ouais enfin, plus ça va, plus je vois venir :
http://www.bluraymods.com/ourproducts-d ... asp?id=206

[Boubakar]

Ouais enfin, plus ça va, plus je vois venir :
http://www.bluraymods.com/ourproducts-d ... asp?id=206

Pareil, la raison pour laquelle j'attends avant de passer au BR.

[Coxwell]

Ou alors acheter une PS3 japonaise, pour 300 euros.

[Mister Zob]

La PS3 japonaise, elle sera bloquée en z2 pour les DVD (et zA pour les BR, of course... et elle lira pas les bonus PAL des BR).