The Wong Kar-wai thread!

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 28 May 2008, 19:23

Brad wrote:forums are full of disgruntled customers

When the DVD is perfect, there's nothing to discuss.
That's why most threads are filled with nothing but complaints.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 28 May 2008, 20:19

I reckon that if a film is good you could chop it up and have it reassembled by those Shakeapeare writing monkeys with no ill effect. I don't mind small changes, in truth I often hardly notice them. I'll be damned if I can easily tell the difference between the various cuts of Blade Runnner, and who cares of Han doesn't shoot first - it means nothing. I feel it does no hamr if a director decides they want to update their film or a little or has the freedom to return to a proejct they were never happy with, or had control over. We often discuss the diorectors intentions with DVD transfers, what's the difference here? It's green tint.

Of course you could all be going on about something else entirely but I'm not fucking reading anything that featuring Brad and post dissection.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 May 2008, 20:57

Lourdes wrote:I don't mind small changes, in truth I often hardly notice them.

Me neither.

Lourdes wrote:I'll be damned if I can easily tell the difference between the various cuts of Blade Runnner

The differences between the Theatrical Cut, Director's Cut and Final Cut are extensive. I cannot tell the difference between the International and American Theatrical Cut though.

Lourdes wrote:and who cares of Han doesn't shoot first - it means nothing.

It worked better how it was originally shown but agreed I don't particularly care.

Lourdes wrote:We often discuss the diorectors intentions with DVD transfers, what's the difference here?

Agreed. You raise a valid point.

Those are different though. Re-cutting/altering a film is often more drastic than different remastering processes.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 May 2008, 08:25

Brad I think the VHS is sourced from one Bruce-Leroy (?) gave me a while ago *cough*, it may be from TV, I'm not sure.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 May 2008, 16:35

If the subs are good I'd give it ago, fast forward it to the end to see how long it is too.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 27 Jul 2008, 11:51

Ashes of Time Redux - 3.5/5

A sumptuous visual and aural feast that demands to be seen in theatres. Frankie Chan's haunting score (that I was already familiar with, thanks to TheLostDragon.) fits every scene perfectly.

Leslie Cheung dominates this film. Ouyang Feng will definitely be a role that will come to the surface whenever I think about this actor, from now on.

The story itself is a series of connected vignettes about mostly lovelorn individuals... Wong Kar Wai by the numbers really. I found the Brigitte Lin story to be the most entertaining.

P.S. This is the only version of the film that I've seen.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Jul 2008, 11:12

AoT redux HD trailer here:

http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Jul 2008, 18:16

Brad I think the Bullet In The Head DVD with the longer cut is the Bullet In The Head Ultimate Edition (or something like that) by JS, not sure.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Jul 2008, 18:31

Did I ask?

. Thanks though.

tom2681 wrote:AoT redux HD trailer here:

http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/

Thanks Tom.

What is it with Asian servers and shit bandwidth. The 720p trailer is only downloading at 27Kb a second, at this rate it will take an hour to download a 100Mb file.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Jul 2008, 18:39

A few posts up Hung talked about the long cut of BITH on DVD and you said "What DVD is that?"

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Jul 2008, 18:40

Blimey, that was 2 months ago

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gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 29 Jul 2008, 19:23

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Jul 2008, 20:18

I've just checked out the trailer, it looks ace. I cannot wait to check this out. Hopefully it will get a cinema release here.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Sep 2008, 21:42

Ow Ashes of Time: Redux is getting it's UK release this Friday:

http://www.launchingfilms.com/releasesc ... &sort=date

It's an Artificial Eye release too, expect an excellent DVD.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Sep 2008, 00:23

There's no release date but Chungking Express (with disc spec.) is up at Criterion.com:

DVD: http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=453
BD: http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=20001

What excellent cover art!

I cannot wait to pick this up, it should look awesome!

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 06 Jan 2009, 21:44

Kino releasing Fallen Angels again

- http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.549 ... etails.htm

Great artwork, although maybe not final.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 06 Jan 2009, 22:33

yeah, I saw the link yesterday and also applauded the gorgeous artwork. Simple, but very powerfull.

I just bought Fallen Angels remastered R3 last summer though.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 07 Jan 2009, 00:52

Where's the BD? They're supposed to be releasing it on BD too. I'm guessing the DVD is just a re-release.

I used to own it and it's nowhere near as good as the Remastered R3. Yi you're not missing out.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 07 Jan 2009, 03:22

All the Kino WKW releases were interlaced IIRC. Their DVD SE is still the best AFFORDABLE release of Happy Together. Fuck paying $130 odd for the Taiwan/HK release with the lava lamp and boxers.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 07 Jan 2009, 13:41

I cannot believe that's still not been re-released without the LE crap for an affordable price.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 08 Jan 2009, 19:01

- http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.549 ... etails.htm

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jan 2009, 20:09

I only re-bought the R1 SE not long ago (when I sold my box set). I'd much prefer that cover art. Oh well, it's just cover art.

EDIT: Presuming the HKFlix listing is correct, this is more than just a new cover. Kino have added:

Happy Together:

# Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
# 2008 Documentary: "Wong Kar-Wai At The Museum Of The Moving Image" (44 mins.)

Fallen Angels:

# Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
# 3 Behind The Scenes Featurettes
# Christopher Doyle Interview

But they appear to have removed the DD2.0 from the previous SE. The 5.1 remixes for the R3 SEs of Fallen Angels and Chunking Express are decent, these maybe too.

I doubt Fallen Angels betters the R3 SE but I wonder how Happy Together fairs.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 08 Jan 2009, 20:15

Maybe these are the new remasters. Didn't they lack 2.0?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jan 2009, 20:17

Yep, correct.

The Happy Together HK LE has DTS and DD5.1 but no DD2.0. As do the Korean SEs of Chunking Express and Fallen Angels (I imagine the HK SEs are the same).

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 10 Jan 2009, 16:24

How does R3 SE compere to the Aus R4?