The Graduate 40th AE

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Jun 2007, 01:46

Awesome. Probably taken from the same master as the recent/upcoming BD.

From HTF:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay E
DVD Empire has "The Graduate" 40th Anniversary CE up for pre-order for 9/11.
Retail price is $24.98.
Here are the specs:
Features:
Commentary by Actors Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross
Commentary by Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh
Screen Tests with Video Introductions
Coming of Age: The Making of The Graduate
Would You Like Me to Seduce You?: The Seduction Scene Revisted
One on One with Dustin Hoffman
Behind the Scenes Documentary
Original Theatrical Trailer
Simon and Garfunkel CD
Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
ENGLISH: DTS 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles:
English, Spanish, French

Sauce= TheDVDF

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Jun 2007, 20:38

WOW, flipping amazing wow. Nice one, cheers.

I'll hold off for the BD though but still wow. Good to see Mono there. The 5.1 "may" work (the film does have an awesome soundtrack) but it's certainly risky.

Interestingly there is already a HD-DVD, but it's virtually bare-bones so definitely worth waiting for the BD:

http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/f ... ?fid=11202

p.s - Who has the R1 rights? The current DVD is so old it was released by Polygram.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Jun 2007, 20:49

bradavon wrote:p.s - Who has the R1 rights? The current DVD is so old it was released by Polygram.

An MGM film. So it's owned by Sony and handled by Fox.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Jun 2007, 22:02

Thanks

"Fox is the best that ever happened to MGM on DVD - Sony a decent too". It's a shame no one has bought out Paramount.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Jun 2007, 22:27

bradavon wrote:Sony a decent too".

No, not Sony. After Sony bought MGM they did nothing but sit on the library and did bugger all except re-release DVDs of more recent films. MGM were doing a better job on their own, they may've been releasing crappy interlaced non-anamorphic DVDs, but at least they were getting shit from all eras of upon the shelves unlike Sony. Fox is doing justice to the back catalogue, but if Warner's bid had been successful we'd be in an even better position. If the MGM catalogue was in Warner's hands we'd have dozens of remastered catalogue titles released and not just the high profile titles like The Graduate and Robocop.

It's a shame no one has bought out Paramount.

Paramount is fine. They've almost always given us consistently good anamorphic transfers and restored mono tracks, just that they've neglected the extras department. Extras are trivial compared to good transfers and audio.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Jun 2007, 22:39

On the plus side Fox support DTS. There's no excuse not to give us decent AV and extras, just like Fox, Sony and WB do. IMO Paramount are "the" worst of the big boys.