My only knock against e-ink is that it is a transitional technology,
like laserdisc caught between VHS and DVD.
Filmed in 2.35:1 Panavision and originally released in four - track magnetic stereo sound (a rarity in 1975, a period in which nearly all movies were mono), the movie was all but impossible to appreciate on television and even subsequent superior home video formats
like laserdisc.
Not exact matches
Absolutely barebones for this disc, which looks
like it realistically could have been made in the time it took to convert the
laserdisc files to DVD.
Jarmusch spoke eloquently about his love of Janus film - makers
like Bergman and Ozu, and even the significance of the Janus logo, and he struck a resonant note for the assembled crowd of cinephiles when he discussed his stash of Criterion Collection
laserdiscs, even though his
laserdisc player is currently broken.
I upgraded through the years, first to a letterboxed Japanese
LaserDisc that improved the film immeasurably, given Carpenter's skills with «scope framing, and then to a snap - cased DVD from Image Entertainment that felt
like a gift from Heaven.
I was watching a movie with some friends last night and for some reason my eyes wandered their way from the television screen to my
laserdisc collection, which has never been as large as I would have
liked.
Sure, his earlier films
like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, or Dead Alive / Brain Dead will never reach a mainstream audience, but Frighteners was a fun little ghost story with a once - upon - a-star in it and it was released on
laserdisc in an incredible version so I am sure it will see the light of day.
Apparently there's a Poltergeist
LaserDisc box set with documentary footage of Spielberg giving the actors direction; shouldn't this particular controversy,
like the Warren Commission findings and the Nixon Tapes, have an expiration date for its Top Secret status?
Inspired by Stoic Studios Banner Saga, Ash of Gods follows in the same vein of interactive story telling who's stylistic and design routes can be found within the classic «
laserdisc» games
like Dragon's Lair.