We've seen the first two restored films (a restoration personally supervised by The Digital Bits' own Robert A. Remember last year, when Jahnke and I had that amazing movie experience, except we were sworn to secrecy about it, but we promised that you would all get to experience it yourselves eventually? THIS is what we were talking about. this new restoration looks simply FANTASTIC. The remastered films will also be available individually on DVD only (SRP $19.99 each). we've known that this news was coming for months now, but we're thrilled today to say that it's FINALLY official: Paramount has just announced the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Collection on both DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc on 9/23! The 5-disc DVD set (SRP $72.99) and 4-disc Blu-ray set (SRP $119.99) will contain all three films in the series, along with an archive of the previous DVD extras and all-new bonus material as well (the new material will be in high-def on Blu-ray). Release information from The Digital Bits. These are luddites who want to live with their memories of the past unaltered not realizing that once they become memories (or a ghost of their previous existence as happened with many of these films) they are altered by the ravages of time. are all minor blips when compared to the fact that we have a film that has had a facelift that was as unobstrusive as possible. Otherwise, we would have a film that would NOT have presented 'Vertigo' or 'Rear Window' with the power that Hitch had wanted. Would Hitch have approved of the changes? The fact that Harris went to both Pat Hitchcock and the late assistant director/producer Herbert COleman who worked on the picture to get their opinion says volumes to me.Ĭorrupted? Perhaps but it was corrupted long before Harris did his restoration all he tried to do was return it to its previous glory and he did a very fine job indeed. I tend to see it as a an attempt to reconstruct the original film as closely as possible to the intent of Hitchcock. Is it better to see a film ravaged by time and disrepair or to see it repaired and as close to its original vision as possible? I think I'd always go with the latter no matter the cost so those debating it need to reassess their priorities. It became a corrupted text the moment it began to degrade and fall apart. As a long time supporter of film restoration (and one who saw 'Vertigo' at the UCLA archieve prior to the 1980's re-release and then the theatrical re-release again prior to the upgrade), I think that those who feel that it is a corrupted text need to have their heads screwed back on again.

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