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Film Odyssey (1972) - 1 release (rest of project is 'on hold')

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This is a KCET motion picture anthology consisting of films from the Janus library. All films are presented in their original languages, with subtitles. As I currently cannot access the interviews that were broadcast alongside each episode, I’m doing them as vanilla with the usual PBS trimmings, including the Xerox sponsor tag, but as a bonus, I’m also doing them in their respective original aspect ratios, and including trailers for upcoming episodes of the anthology.

The episodes are as follows:

  • Jules and Jim (1:56:46) [TV-14 L] - available now
  • The Blue Angel (1:56:46) [TV-PG S]
  • Grand Illusion [TV-PG LV]
  • M [TV-14]
  • Seven Samurai [TV-14 V]
  • Beauty and the Beast [TV-PG]
  • Ivan the Terrible Part I [TV-PG V]
  • The 39 Steps [TV-PG V]
  • The Rules of the Game [TV-PG V]
  • Intimate Lighting [TV-PG DL]
  • Potemkin [TV-14 V]
  • Barrier [TV-PG]
  • Classic Shorts I [TV-PG]
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [TV-PG]
  • Orpheus [TV-PG]
  • Knife in the Water [TV-14 LSV]
  • The Overcoat [TV-G]
  • Our Daily Bread [TV-G]
  • Yojimbo [TV-14 V]
  • The Last Laugh [TV-G]
  • Sawdust and Tinsel [TV-14 DLS]
  • Man of Aran [TV-G]
  • L’Avventura [TV-14]
  • Classic Shorts II [TV-PG]
  • Two Daughters [TV-PG]
  • The Young and the Damned [TV-14 DSV]

Links will be made available via PM on request as they’re released.

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Jules and Jim will be made available sometime this week, most likely tomorrow.

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I’ve put this project on hold for the time being, while I do some accuracy research in light of a tape of Jules and Jim I’d received this past spring and some info I’d more recently in old newspapers about the subtitles being created specifically for the broadcasts. From what I’m aware thus far, only the 1984 Embassy release of Seven Samurai has the original broadcast subtitles, so that’s where I’m starting my investigation into how to create as accurate an experience as possible without access to any extraneous materials at all, let alone the best, from the original broadcasts (i.e. the original Film Odyssey titles, the Champlin host segments, and the featured Frame of Reference interviews).