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If a film has been composed/shot in 4:3, and you then wish to convert that image to widescreen, that means one of only two things: 1. You either picture-box the entire frame, creating a black border around the entire image, including the sides. This is essentially silly (although I have seen it on o...

This is excellent news. All good things to he who waits.

I've had this for over a week now and still not had a chance to watch it. But I have skipped through a few scenes to check out the quality. As requested, here are my thoughts: Overall the transfer is pretty good for the film's vintage. Not stunning, but solid enough. It was produced by Studio Canal,...

Tony, this is the same 52-minute documentary that appears as an extra on disc two of the Criterion F for Fake . Btw, thanks to the WellesNet gods for putting the MoC DVD front-and-centre on the News page, where it belongs (albeit over a year since it was actually news). This is a strange forum at ti...

I don't have it in my hands yet, but it is on order.

According to IMDb the original ratio was 1.37:1, which equates to full-screen (give or take a few hundredths). I can't imagine it will be presented as anything else.

Store Hadji wrote:No thanks. Surfing hundreds of dvd sites doesn't interest me.

Best of luck staying informed, then.

Store Hadji wrote:Guess I should surf amazon.co.uk more often.

Or, you know, any of the other hundreds of film and DVD websites out there ....

You're a bit late, IvyMike. I bought the boxed set from Proxis two years ago, when it was already practically impossible to find. Your only chance now is the second-hand market. Or pray they resolve the rights issue on Chimes . The Studio Canal two-disc edition of The Trial should still be relativel...

Another new Welles release:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000Z63Z5G/

The colour trailer appears on the U.K. Masters of Cinema DVD as a hidden easter egg. To view the trailer, follow these steps: 1. Choose Commentary from the Main Menu 2. From the Commentary screen, press Right Arrow to highlight Main Menu 3. Press Up Arrow Twice. A ? symbol will appear in the lower r...

Do you know if Welles directed it? Given that all the footage is taken directly from Chimes , I think it's a safe bet to say he directed it! What you are asking -- correct me if I'm wrong -- is whether Welles edited the trailer himself, or had a creative hand in its construction. My guess is yes, h...

Correction: the Falstaff trailer on the Studio Canal boxed set is actually Spanish, not French. My apologies; I viewed it only once before, almost a year ago. I just played it through again, and I can tell you that it runs for four minutes, the audio is in Spanish (with forced French subtitles adde...

The Falstaff trailer is or was available on DVD. I don't remember if it's on the Spanish DVD or on the French, Canal+ DVD that has been only very briefly released as part of a set that also included The Trial and The Third Man . It is on the French Studio Canal boxed set, with a French audio track....

Let us hope it soon becomes available on Criterion. Nice thought, but highly unlikely. Journey into Fear is a Warner Bros. property, and Warners are known for not licencing their films to Criterion. Besides which, Warners have already stated that they will issue Journey into Fear on R1 DVD just as ...