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Special Features:
Original International Roadshow Version (with Overture, Entr'acte, and Exit Music)
Includes 3 minutes of footage not shown in original domestic theatrical release
Vintage featurette - "LOCATION: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD" (1080p)
Original Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15794
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The Warner Archive will be releasing a Blu-ray of 1967's FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD on February 10th. Knowing the care that the Archive takes with its product, I'm sure that the aspect ratio listed at Amazon (1.77:1) is incorrect.
Na, Amazon has the aspect ratio wrong, as usual. It's 2:40, & I'm sure it'll look great, all the Archive releases do. Not one for me, but it's a good choice, & a good start to the year from Warner.
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Looking forward to this. It looked fabulous in 70mm - so good that I went to see it twice. I was surprised when I found out years later that it was shot in 35mm and blown up to 70mm.
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StudioCanal will add to its Vintage Classics Collection director John Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), starring Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, and Terence Stamp. The release will be available for purchase April 27.
Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer (Alan Bates), a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch), and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.
The restoration process of Far From the Madding Crowd was overseen by the film's cinematographer and acclaimed director, Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now). The Digital Film restoration was funded by StudioCanal in collaboration the BFI's Unlocking Film Heritage programme, Awarding funds from the National Lottery.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=16012
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The trouble with StudioCanal is that their Blu-rays are priced too high. It will be several pounds cheaper to import the Warner Archive to the UK, & it's released next week, not months away.
The question is--Is the Warner Blu-ray based upon the same restoration as the StudioCanal disc? And if it is, is it the same scan or a separate scan. It's possible that the two discs could look markedly different. An early review of the Warner disc by DVD Savant says:
"This transfer has a rich and satisfying appearance, especially the scenes in the fields that appear to reproduce famous paintings. But the scan colorists may have had to compensate for a faded negative, for some of the colors seem a bit flat."
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The trouble with StudioCanal is that their Blu-rays are priced too high. It will be several pounds cheaper to import the Warner Archive to the UK, & it's released next week, not months away.
The question is--Is the Warner Blu-ray based upon the same restoration as the StudioCanal disc? And if it is, is it the same scan or a separate scan. It's possible that the two discs could look markedly different. An early review of the Warner disc by DVD Savant says:
"This transfer has a rich and satisfying appearance, especially the scenes in the fields that appear to reproduce famous paintings. But the scan colorists may have had to compensate for a faded negative, for some of the colors seem a bit flat."
I reckon they are from the same master. Scanned at 4k and also showing in UK cinemas:
http://press.optimumreleasing.net/press/?id=831
As for colours seeming "flat", from my distant memory the colours were fairly muted.
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There shouldn't be any original negative fade problems from 1967. I think the problem fading Eastman stock went from mid(ish)-fifties to early sixties. I remember Warner had to make the The Searchers Blu-ray from b/w separation masters (usually made at the time for insurance), as the original negs were too badly faded to use. I think Doug is probably right in thinking Warner sent StudioCanal a file of the scanned original. It should be interesting to compare the two final products.
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