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The Cure in Orange
Angrysun Laserdisc transfer and DVD authoring
Running Time: 1:49:39
The Cure Live at Theatre Antique D'Orange, Orange Provence, Cote D'Azur, France on August 9th 1986 - Shot in 35mm
In the fall of 1986 The Cure played a string of festivals and concerts in Spain and France. The last, on Saturday, August 9th at The Theatre Antique D'Orange a Roman Amphitheatre in Cote D'Azur, France, was filmed in it's entirety by Director Tim Pope. A few neat little known facts; Due to the tight budget (which limited the number of cameras used) all the live audience footage & stage long shots were filmed the day of the concert but the majority of the close-ups were really shot the day after as not to disrupt the live show the night before. The video may seem to drop in and out of sync at times during the film this is present on all known prints (U.S. LD, Japanese LD, and both PAL and NTSC VHS tapes) and seems to be have been caused by the editing of both the live and staged footage.
- Angrysun Release BLAX23
- 1 DVDr
- Fan Preservation of OOP Laserdisc
- Source: 1987 Elektra Entertainment U.S. Laserdisc
- Widescreen
Tech Specs
- 3.76gigs
- Video: 4.6 Mbps (average bitrate)
- Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 Kbps)
- DVD-Rom: MP3's (Soundtrack, 4 live concerts), wallpapers and more
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On the Edge of Blade Runner - ANGRY/CITIZEN version
Citizen VHS transfer and Angrysun DVD authoring
Running Time: 52 min 14 sec
Produced in 2000 by Nobles Gate Ltd. for Channel 4 was directed by Andrew Abbott and hosted/written by Mark Kermode, and will be included in the Special Edition. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.
The documentary then details the test screenings postproduction editing/changes (voice over and happy ending, deleted Holden hospital scene), special effects, soundtrack by Vangelis, and the unhappy relationship between the filmmakers and the investors; which culminated in Deeley and Ridley being fired but still working on the film. The question of whether or not Deckard is a replicant surfaces. After being a "disaster" in the box office (a financial loss initially) Blade Runner was reborn in the video rental market, and a great reception of a chance screening of Ridley's workprint at the Fairfax Theater, Los Angeles, in May 1990 led to Warner Bros. having the "Director's Cut" done by film archivist Michael Arick.
- Angrysun Release BLAX24
- 1 DVDr
- Fan Preservation of OTA Broadcast
- Source: Home VHS recording
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Tech Specs
- 3.62gigs
- Video: 8.5-9 Mbps (average bitrate)
- Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 (224 Kbps)
- DVD-Rom