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#203526
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Blade Runner HDTV (Released)
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Originally posted by: static14
yeah sure i could make a single disc cover. i have another (older) blade runner cover up at virtulaftershock.com

but i can absolutely make a single disc version of this cover as well.


i don't know if you guys have seen any of my older covers but i've always been a fan of classic simple designs Digitalfreak say hi to bunny for me i haven't talked with him in a while.
please drop me a pm and i can taylor the design to your requirements.


You're going to have to unlock the the pm feature first.

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#203415
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Blade Runner HDTV (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203415/action/topic#203415
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Originally posted by: static14
I just finished watching your 2-disc set. it's amazing how much better your re-master looks than the retail disc. I too noticed the repeated frame issue. The test clip you posted seems to run much smoother and have mildly improved PQ. I don't know why people were saying that they had a problem with the sound. The mix sounded great to me. I can't wait to see the whole film without the repeated frames.

I also designed a cover for the dvd's. (my first in quite a while )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/static14/BLADERUNNERpreviewimage2.jpg


If you'd like i can e-mail it to you.

Thanks for all your hard work. it is highly appreciated.


static14


My hat is off to you. I have to say I think it's a great cover design. Great job. Classic and simple.
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#200652
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Info: BLADE RUNNER THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200652/action/topic#200652
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Originally posted by: Raul2106
Dude, I totally agree with that. I edited Blade Runner Criterion.. my 8 disc collection is something I did for myself. and figured I would upload it to everyone. but since everyone seems to be mickey mousing around about the legality of the damn video game. I am totally losing interest in uploading the project. The Criterion looks nice but whatever.. people sure don't make it easy for new people on this thread. I would give credit to all my sources anyway.I am now working on a Robotech/Macross fan edit disc.. so maybe I'll come back with that when I'm done.


Not to open up a can of worms but I have to agree with you. With respect I don't think it's made easy for new people. Also dispite the time and effort and is put into these fan edits, key word bieng fan, as well as the time and effort to collect some of the stuff needed, some people forget the whole point. Why am I going to make a fan editon of a film, including whatever hard to find extras, make a stink about it, and then not share it?? are make it hard? or compete with others doing the same thing?

That bieng said, we all love films, we're all here for the same reason. And a very big thanks goes out to those who put forth the love time and effort for ALL of these releases. keep up the great work.
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#192410
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Idea: The Proposition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192410/action/topic#192410
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For those who ARE interested, the film has already become critically acclaimed. Here's a different review.



Making The Proposition was long, hot and hard but, as Nick Cave and John Hillcoat tell Stephen Dalton, it was one hell of an experience.

Life is cheap in The Proposition, the starkly beautiful revenge tragedy scripted by Nick Cave and directed by John Hillcoat. A tale of murderous violence and poisonous racial politics set in outback Queensland in the 1880s, this bushranger western took years to reach the big screen, and almost killed some of its crew and all-star cast in the process. But the wait was worth it. This is one of the finest Australian films ever made.

In The Proposition, Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is offered a Faustian deal by newly arrived English police captain Stanley (Ray Winstone): hunt down and kill his elder brother Arthur (Danny Huston) - a psychopath responsible for the rape and murder of a pregnant homesteader - and Stanley will spare Charley's younger brother Mikey (Richard Wilson) the noose. He has a little more than a week to complete the deed, with Christmas Day the deadline.

Featuring a sparse, elegant soundtrack by Cave and Warren Ellis (of the Bad Seeds and the Dirty Three fame), the movie is drunk on the same heady mix of poetic melancholy and Biblical violence that stalks the singer's musical hinterland.

"I always heard it musically, and I guess it's written rhythmically as well," Cave explains of his script when I meet him and Hillcoat in a crumbling hotel on the seafront in the English city of Brighton, just down the road from where both men live.

"It's very similar to the way my band operates. There are moments of intense violence and there are also moments of long, lyrical, quiet sadness."

The shoot took place in extreme conditions bordered on the violent themselves. Because funding for the $20 million film fell over just as shooting was about to start, it was October 2004 before filming actually began in the scorched desert near Winton. And that meant that summer was well and truly upon them by the time the filmmakers wrapped.

Cave was in Winton for the first week of rehearsals, but soon beat a sensible retreat to cooler climes, muttering something about an impending tour with the Bad Seeds.

"Nick was wonderful to have around because he's just such a straight talker," says Danny Huston, the son of legendary director and actor John Huston.

"If one got too concerned with motivation, his eyes would kind of roll. He and John have collaborated before, so there was a good shorthand there."

During the shoot, the cast were strapped into corsets and uniforms made of typical 19th century fabrics - heavy wools, crinolines, leather - while temperatures routinely topped 50 C.

"You were the local joke, really," Cave says to Hillcoat. "It kept sliding further into summer, and the locals were thinking it was going to be really funny watching these people try to make a movie under those conditions. Nobody could even open their mouth without a fly crawling into it."

In fact, these Biblical swarms of flies merit a special mention. The Proposition is so teeming with them that at times it almost looks like a sci-fi horror yarn about insect infestation.

"The poor actors," says Hillcoat, who was in fact born in Queensland, and whose grandfather grew up near where the film was shot.

"Most of the crew had hats with nets, but the actors, of course, couldn't do that. So everyone had a dose of swallowing flies.

"As the flies go down your throat, there's a kind of gag reflex," he explains helpfully. "If you're quick enough."

"I'd been in Kenya previously working on The Constant Gardener," says Danny Huston.

"And I'd been on safari and seen these beautiful lions with flies all around them. Working on The Proposition was like being one of those lions. But ultimately, once you got used to them, it felt like a feather stroking your face.

The shoot marked Ray Winstone's first visit to Australia, and he had no idea what to expect. "I landed in Brisbane, stayed there one night, then got a plane the next day straight out to the bush," the London-born star of Sexy Beast says.

"It was fantastic. That's the only way to go to Australia, to go straight out into the bush before you go to any cities. It's just such a magical place, a spiritual place."

Winstone had flown in via Dubai in the vain hope of becoming gradually acclimatised, but the jump to sauna-like conditions still left him frazzled and dazzled.

"There were days where you were cooking from the inside out," he recalls.

"For one scene I was on a horse, riding between two hills, and I just blanked. I didn't know what I was doing. I went off to somewhere else. From the heat."

All the cast suffered for their art on The Proposition, though perhaps none so much as Emily Watson. She had warned Hillcoat that she found acting uncomfortable beyond 30 C, not realising that on-set temperatures would reach almost double that.

To make matters worse, she spends almost the entire film dressed in high-collared dresses in the sort of fabric you'd normally expect to see only in curtains.

Danny Huston, weighed down by hair extensions and a heavy greatcoat, also felt the punishing heat. But he insists the discomfort added authenticity to the story. "It was hotter than hell," laughs Huston, who spends most of his time in the rather chilly environs of Ireland.

"It felt like our organs were boiling."

At one point, Hillcoat admits, he seriously feared for the well-being of John Hurt, who plays a bounty hunter and drunk in the film. Shooting a long scene with Guy Pearce inside a filthy sweatbox of a cabin, with rows of lights set up and the exterior blacked out by heavy black fabric, the temperatures soared to 57 C.

"We thought John was going to die," Hillcoat recalls. "To be fair on John, he was fine, but we were all having discussions - the medic included - about whether to stop. His face was bright red and the sweat was just pouring. We were afraid that we were going to push him too far."

Back in blustery Brighton, Cave and Hillcoat certainly seem a well-matched partnership. Communicating in the shorthand that Huston notes, they share a laconic humour, often finishing each other's sentences and dry one-liners.

They have clearly struck some kind of creative power balance over 15 years of collaboration. Indeed, Cave has already written another script that Hillcoat plans to direct, a contemporary drama, though they decline to give further details.

With his debut solo screenplay for The Proposition, Cave quips, he and Hillcoat have completed their men-behaving-badly trilogy. Besides working together on several Bad Seeds videos, the singer previously co-scripted and acted in Hillcoat's 1988 prison lockdown thriller Ghosts ... of the Civil Dead.

With fellow Bad Seeds Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld, Cave also composed the soundtrack to Hillcoat's 1996 tale of doomed romance set in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, To Have And To Hold.

Of the three films, Hillcoat rates The Proposition as their most successful collaboration to date. "I've got my reservations on all three but I'm most happy with this one," he says.

"There is a connection, I suppose, in that all three deal in extreme environments and characters under extreme conflict."

"I guess in all these films," Cave adds, "there is a sense that morality is a luxury that we can afford in less fraught times, but in extreme situations and extreme environments, morality becomes a very grey issue."

But while The Proposition emphatically takes place in Cave's apocalyptic moral universe, it actually began life a decade ago in another writer's hands.

Hillcoat initially asked Cave to write the soundtrack only, but eventually they agreed that the first screenplay was not sufficiently Australian in character and, frustrated by delays in Hillcoat's revisions, Cave took it upon himself to write his own version.

It took him just three weeks to complete a whole new script.

"For me, what we didn't want was the American-style hero," Cave explains.

"There's a certain incompetence, a humour almost, that exists in the Australian character today, which comes out of people being where they probably shouldn't be. And certainly this film is about an isolated community, people struggling in a place where they really have no right to be."

Despite Cave's involvement, The Proposition spent years in development hell. While Hillcoat and his producers struggled to secure financing, cast members dropped out and schedules were reshuffled.

"The whole thing was a struggle," says Cave. "So much effort was put into it, especially by Johnny. It's the most agonising, frustrating business to be in. Years go by trying to get something off the ground - one idea! It's unbelievable. The vision you have at the beginning is constantly chipped away at, and you haven't even filmed anything!"

Eventually, though, The Proposition came together relatively intact. And the result of this long, painful gestation may well be the most authentically Australian western ever made.

The sense of European frontier settlers stuck in a place they were never meant to be, suffering hellish conditions as a result, bleeds from every filthy and flyblown frame.

The ugly tangle of tribal tensions between colonial Brits and outlaw Irish, between white settlers and Aborigines, has never been so exhaustively explored on screen before. Meanwhile, the savage Eden of Queensland looks wilder and crueller than any American cowboy vista.

"I think for Johnny, Australia had its western story as well," Cave says.

"It had its wild west, and that hadn't been exploited cinematically at all. There weren't genre films being made about that period unless they were biopics of famous Australians - the Ned Kelly story, the Mad Dog Morgan story, or whatever. So this was a rich mine to plumb."

Cave claims the film's historical context was "hugely researched on Johnny's part", though his own background reading was minimal. "Johnny wanted a different take on the way Aborigines are usually treated in Australian films," he says.

"A different take to the liberal view that's thrust upon them, where they just stood around and allowed themselves to be wiped out."

With a large Aboriginal contingent that proves central to the plot, The Proposition certainly takes an axe to some pieties about Australia's past. "That was the thing that the indigenous actors were really pleased about," Cave nods. "To be in a film where they got an opportunity to fight back."

"And fight each other," adds Hillcoat. "Because black on black violence is almost taboo. There is that romanticised vision of them being peaceful people, nomadic, noble. Whereas they were actually tearing each other apart, as well as putting up a real battle against invading forces."

There's little doubt that The Proposition is a finely crafted film of high-minded intent. But there's also no doubt that to anyone unfamiliar with Cave's blood-soaked murder ballads, its jarring brutality and sexually charged carnage may come as a shock. It's certainly not the sort of costume drama Australian cinema was once renowned for.

But Cave resists any suggestion that he and Hillcoat deliberately set out to shock. "I don't think we were attempting to revolt anybody," Cave says.

"There are films that make me sick watching them, because they are basically just relentless body counts. But this is not like that at all. There are genuine sensitive moments, an intelligence to the script and the dialogue, and it is about an inhospitable environment."

Indeed, Cave insists he is no fan of screen violence.

"A lot of it I find tiring, boring. Almost as boring as sex on the screen. We made an attempt not to exhaust the audience through having to sit through some sort of horror show, blood and guts, for two hours. The violent episodes are necessary for the thrust of the story. They were really just punctuation points between a fairly meditative, slow kind of film.

"For the type of film it is and the period it's set in, I personally found the violence quite restrained," he adds. "It could have been pure carnage."

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#192392
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Idea: The Proposition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192392/action/topic#192392
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It’s down the road, and I’ve been busy with work and life, but I am planning a release of a wonderful new film called The Proposition. If you don’t know about this film, you will! It stars Guy Pearce, along with Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, David Wenham, and Danny Huston (in a wonderfully haunting part). The screenplay was written by Nick Cave.

How to discribe this film may not be easy, it’s basicly a Australian Western set in the late 1880’s. The film start with a lawman making a deal with a known gang member, a bushrider (Guy Pearce). He tells him that on christmas day he will hang his younger brother, unless he hunts down his older brother (Danny Huston), a hardened criminal and killer. There is a LOT more to the film then that but be me just say, it’s wild ride with great moments and a beautiful looking film.

Who’s interested?

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#186234
Topic
BANNED BOND: The Criterion Collection on DVD (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186234/action/topic#186234
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Originally posted by: FanFiltration
Originally posted by: suntech
It would sure be nice if I could get a copy of these. Been waiting for them to upload at my spleen, But with the recent announcement by the MPAA of cracking down on torrent sites I don't think they are going to make it.


I'm trying to see about getting a set of MP3 files of just the commentary tracks made for upload...

IMHO, Criterion / Janus Films would have to object to the sound files and sue.

With how Criterion feels about the ban in the first place, I don't think they would.
A copy of the film is another matter, and would involve MGM and EON I'm sure.

FF



I'm still unclear about something, do you have anything against putting these DVDs online?