International Blu-ray discs

[denti alligator]

Region encoding is fine, but forced subs??!

JMO : Les sous-titres seront-ils imposés ?

C’est aussi une clause contractuelle, ça se fera au cas par cas.

Does this mean Double Indemnity will have unremovable French subtitles?

[MichaelB]

Region encoding is fine, but forced subs??!

JMO : Les sous-titres seront-ils imposés ?

C’est aussi une clause contractuelle, ça se fera au cas par cas.

Does this mean Double Indemnity will have unremovable French subtitles?

No, it means that they'll look at it on a case by case (or "cas par cas") basis, but their hands might be tied.

[Tutut]

Does this mean Double Indemnity will have unremovable French subtitles?

No, it means that they'll look at it on a case by case (or "cas par cas") basis, but their hands might be tied.

Exactly.

[yoshimori]

Casanova, Double Indemnity and One+One from Carlotta are region B.

Do you know this because you've tried the discs? Or ...?

Updates on page 1.

added: French Connection (UK and France); Entre les murs, Scoop, Tin Drum, Desplechin's incredible Christmas Tale, and The Man Who Wasn't There (all France)

other clean-up includes two warnings: This Is England (UK) and Paris (France) are apparently region locked.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

I can't find a Norwegian e-tailer, but the Swedish release of Fanny and Alexander is due December 3rd. One shop (http://cdon.se/film/fanny_och_alexander ... y)-4044278 -- no hotlink because I guess the parentheses confuse phpBB) has back cover art, which is pretty low-res but seems to show a Region B icon. This isn't confirmation in and of itself, of course.

[Tutut]

Casanova, Double Indemnity and One+One from Carlotta are region B.

Do you know this because you've tried the discs? Or ...?

Because of the interview I was talking about on my post above.

JMO : Vos Blu-ray seront-ils zonés ?
Will your BR discs be region locked ?
Oui. C’est contractuel.
Yes. It's contractual.

• October 21
# MR 73 (BRD - Gaumont)

• November 5
# 36 quai des orfèvres (BRD - Gaumont)
# Chasseurs de Dragons aka Dragon Hunters (animation)(BRD - BAC vidéo)
# Angel A (BRD - Europa) Fox Pathé Europa=Region Locked
BAC Video (Chasseurs de Dragons, Scorpion, The Man Who Wasn't There, Wild at Heart, Dead Man) didn't lock their first title Caramel,
but nothing have been said about their future releases.

• November 18
# Requiem for a dream (BRD - Aventi)
# Golden Door (BRD - Aventi)
# La guerre du feu (BRD - Aventi)
# Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté (BRD - Aventi)
# Le déclin de l'empire américain + Les invasions barbares (2 BRD - Aventi)
# Fair Play (BRD - Avanti)
# Saint Jacques... La Mecque (BRD - Aventi)

• November 24
Lady Chatterley (Artificial Eye)

• December 2
House of Flying Daggers from Universal France will be region locked but uncensored (throat cut scene missing and some blood
digitally erased in the last scene on the US release)

• January 2
# Vampires (BRD - M6 vidéo)
# Ghosts of Mars (BRD - M6 vidéo)

[Fierias]

Does anyone know if the Un Conte de Noel Blu-Ray from BAC will have English subtitles?

I wish French DVDs were more English friendly, not that they have any reason to be.

[pro-bassoonist]

Does anyone know if the Un Conte de Noel Blu-Ray from BAC will have English subtitles?

I wish French DVDs were more English friendly, not that they have any reason to be.

It is not announced as English-friendly.

Pro-B

[yoshimori]

deleted Zodiac (x5) since the US disc is now announced ... along with Stone's Any Given Sunday.

[yoshimori]

Made some clean-up in first post on page 1. And added HK Sparrow.

In US news, amazon now has pages for the following: Raging Bull, Being There, French Connection, Pineapple Express, Burn After Reading.

Would love some help. If anyone knows [from personal experience or a reputable review] the region-coding and sub situation of the following releases please report. Thanks.

Japan:
Minnelli, An American in Paris [region A/0?]
Oshii, Avalon [region A/0?]
Wong, My Blueberry Nights [region A/0?]

UK:
Haneke, Cache [region B/0?]

France:
Cimino, The Deer Hunter [region B/0?]
Coens, The Man Who Wasn't There [region B/0?]
Fellini, Casanova [region B/0?] [language? subs?]
Godard, One + One [region B/0?]
Jarmusch, Dead Man [region B/0?]
Jeunet, Amelie [region B/0?] [subs?]
Lynch, Wild at Heart [region B/0?]
Schlondorff, Tin Drum [region B/0?] [subs?]
Wilder, Double Indemnity [region B/0?]

Hong Kong:
To, Sparrow [region A?] English subs

[Tutut]

Casanova confirmed Region B, subtitles removable through the remote once the film has started.
Sparrow confirmed Region Free.

[yoshimori]

Added: Ashes of Time Redux (UK), Control (Germany), Hero (France, region free, but are there English subs?)

[Tutut]

French subs only for Hero, the Dinner Game from Gaumont will be out on December 4 with english subs, nothing about region coding.

[perkizitore]

La grande vadrouille

[yoshimori]

French subs only for Hero.

Darn! But thanks for that. Duly deleted.

btw: Do you have it? Does it look marvelous?

[Tutut]

No, I don't own it but it seems the PQ is not great according to the screenshots from someone who's posting also here on the Criterion forum (petoluk).

From AVS Forum, see the post #75


The french House of Flying Daggers is uncut with english subs, but Region B.
I know someone had a trick to watch it on a region A Panasonic BD30 player, but I couldn't find the thread on the Highdefdigest forum.

Review from Dvdrama

[SalParadise]

Hero, director's cut, with English subs!!

http://www.amazon.de/Hero-Blu-ray-Jet-L ... 867&sr=8-3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[petoluk]

No, I don't own it but it seems the PQ is not great according to the screenshots from someone who's posting also here on the Criterion forum (petoluk).

Yep, the PQ is really atrocious - looks like the horrid German HD DVD with an extra sprinkle of DVNR...

Hero, director's cut, with English subs!!

http://www.amazon.de/Hero-Blu-ray-Jet-L ... 867&sr=8-3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well, if I'm not mistaken, this BR is just a port of the aforementioned HD DVD release. A quote from that Amazon link:

Nein, Ihr Gerät ist nicht defekt........
Die Bildqualität ist wirklich grausam und eine Negativreklame für High Definition.

(No, your equipment is not broken...
The PQ is really that awful, and is a negative advertisement for HD.)

And I don't think there are English subs on the disc either...

Cheers!
Peto

[Person]

La grande vadrouille

Sadly, this has no subtitles at all - not even French, which is idiotic in this day and age.

[SalParadise]

No, I don't own it but it seems the PQ is not great according to the screenshots from someone who's posting also here on the Criterion forum (petoluk).

Yep, the PQ is really atrocious - looks like the horrid German HD DVD with an extra sprinkle of DVNR...

Hero, director's cut, with English subs!!

http://www.amazon.de/Hero-Blu-ray-Jet-L ... 867&sr=8-3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well, if I'm not mistaken, this BR is just a port of the aforementioned HD DVD release. A quote from that Amazon link:

Nein, Ihr Gerät ist nicht defekt........
Die Bildqualität ist wirklich grausam und eine Negativreklame für High Definition.

(No, your equipment is not broken...
The PQ is really that awful, and is a negative advertisement for HD.)

And I don't think there are English subs on the disc either...

Cheers!
Peto

You 'think' there are none. But I 'know!' they are present.

[petoluk]

You 'think' there are none. But I 'know!' they are present.

And how's the PQ? Does it look the same as the HD DVD?

[yoshimori]

The region coding site linked on page one of this thread notes that the German Hero release is an "ABC" one. But it also says "only German subtitles". Maybe SalParadise could email him the correction.

I'd be curious to learn about the picture quality too, btw.

In other news, the French Wild at Heart (Sailor and Lula) is apparently region free.

[petoluk]

I'd be curious to learn about the picture quality too, btw.

Well, based on the comments @ Amazon.de, I'd say it's really just a port of the older HD DVD release = the PQ is crap!

Cheers!
Peto

EDIT: Googled a bit, and found this post by TLEFilms' Torsten Kaiser saying:

To cut it short: better than DVD: YES - however, a really good High Definition Master looks different (mainly due to the film print [used] & transfer)...

[bradass]

Artificial Eye's Zatoichi on Blu-ray may say region ABC on the back of the box, but my North American PS3 can't handle the menus and can't access the feature film. Unless there is some irony about a black screen and a blind protagonist?

[fdm]

Any (confirmed) word on Ipcress File? (UK)