But we think it is because of
the DVD image transfer, which is too sharp, too clean?
Not exact matches
At the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Time Out of Mindexhibition (Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, 31 May - 2 September 2012), most of the moving
image exhibits were projected in bad
DVD transfers from film or video.
The 1.85:1
transfer is an improvement over the 2006 2 - disc
DVD presentation, offering a clearer, sharper
image and better consistency of colour.
DVD Extras The real reason to get hold of Halloween - 25th Anniversary Edition is the new high definition digital
transfer, which offers superb sound and an enhanced widescreen
image (2.35:1), but there is also an exhaustive (and at times exhausting) range of extras on this two -
DVD set.
Yet filmmakers like Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino have singled him out for praise, and recently
Image Entertainment released «The Mario Bava Collection» on
DVD, vanquishing the bastardized American versions of his films with digital
transfers of the original European releases.
THE
DVD Suspicion comes to
DVD from Warner in a crisp fullscreen b & w
transfer that beautifully preserves Hitchcock and DP Harry Stradling's stark chiaroscuro
images.
THE
DVD Released by Fox in a
DVD transfer that can only be described as low - rent and murky (excuses for this are perhaps provided by The Rats» origin as a telefilm), shadow detail within the 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen
image is incredibly soft and undefined.
THE
DVD Warner's 1.78:1 anamorphic
DVD transfer of Watership Down was definitely struck from a degraded source, though the
image is more than passable.
Any problems with Criterion's
DVD transfer are solved by this Blu - ray upgrade: Colour is still washed - out but a truer washed - out that seems purposeful rather than the product of sloth or inferior technology, while dynamic range is radically improved in the midtones, with daylight often adding a milky texture to the
image.
This
transfer has clearly been aimed at kids who supposedly hate letterboxing or people with a standard TV screen who can't seem to find out how to stop a widescreen
image from going all stretchy on their TV (use the set up key on your
DVD remote at stop mode and adjust the
image from 16x9 to 4x3 Letterbox if you suffer from this!)
THE
DVD Blue Underground reissues Zombie on
DVD in an apparently definitive 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation; this is one of those
transfers that won't be appreciated by newcomers to the film, but anybody who's had previous experience with Zombie on home video will marvel at the clarity of the
image.
THE
DVD Fox ushers The Ringer to
DVD in an unofficial «Special Edition» featuring 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and fullscreen
transfers on opposite sides of a flipper, the crisp, clear
image matched by full DD 5.1 audio.
First things first, the 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen
transfer is soft and lacking in deep blacks, giving off the impression of a LaserDisc
image rather than a
DVD circa 2003.
THE
DVDs by Bill Chambers Fox issues The Clearing on
DVD in a nice but erratic 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen
transfer: Although I wouldn't have minded the shifts in definition so much if they were more aesthetically grounded, sometimes the crispness of the
image varies between consecutive shots.
Universal's
DVD is a decent
transfer of the film - the soft focus cinematography yields a less - than sharp
transfer, and some of the night shots are slightly grainy, in spite of Schrader's deliberate use of in - camera opticals to preserve
image quality.
Amy Granat, Chemical Scratch (Return of the Creature), 2003 16 mm film
transfered to
DVD, sound May 24 — June 28, 2010 Arranged by Front Desk Apparatus Participating Artists: John Cage, Jesse Cohen, Quentin Curry, Philippe Decrauzat, Matias Faldbakken, Amy Granat, Gareth James, Jacob Kassay, Jutta Koether, Amir Mogharabi, Steven Parrino, Seth Price, Josef Strau, Andy Warhol Every
image is offered our gaze is only presented, in its very obviousness, by means of the disconcerting economy -LSB-...]
Image: Martha Colburn, American, born 1972; Triumph of the Wild (Part I + Part II), 2008 — 9; 16 mm film
transferred to
DVD; duration: 10 min.
Featured
images: Douglas Gordon — Untitled (I'm Not Sure This Is Working), 1997 - 2007, Wall text, telephone, audio recording, Courtesy the artist © Studio lost but found / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn 2017, Photo: Matthias Langer; Marina Abramović & Ulay — Breathing In, Breathing out, 1977, Single - channel video, b / w, sound, 10:49 min (looped sequence), LIMA — preserves, distributes and researches media art © LIMA, Amsterdam / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn 2017; Four stills from Rodney Graham's City Self — Country Self series, 2000, 35 mm
transferred to
DVD, 04:00 min (Loop), Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery © Rodney Graham; Yayoi Kusama — Infinity Mirrored Room — the Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, metal, glass, mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, wood, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, water, Collection HGN © Yayoi Kusama.