Saturday, January 29, 2011

Such a shame Mother of Tears didn't look like this...

6:09 PM / Cinema / Comments10 Comments

Amer

Amer

Amer

A few stills from the most visually striking sequence of AMER, taken from Anchor Bay's new BD. Click the images above to enlarge them to full size.

 
10 Comments

1. Neil said:

Such a shame Amer didn't look like that all of the way through... :)

(Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 7:22 PM)

2. FoxyMulder said:

Looks grain reduced to me, this was filmed Super 16mm and i don't think the grain structure of Super 16mm shot films look like that.

(Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 9:13 PM)

3. Author Profile Page Michael said:

Neil:

I would agree, if it had specifically been a tribute to SUSPIRIA or perhaps Bava's colour films. As something intend to evoke Italian horror and gialli as a whole, though, I think it's appropriate that it has a range of different looks.


Foxymulder:

I suspect part of it is the intense colours in these shots. Remember that colour information on BD is stored at half resolution, and when basically your entire image is primary colours, it's not surprising that definition suffers.

(Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 9:54 PM)

4. ChuckZ said:

Two things on the agenda:

1) Perhaps it's just my monitor, but there appear to be streaks in the dark portions of the first capture

2) Your site was inaccessible to me last night. Were you having host issues?

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2:32 AM)

5. Neil said:

My point was, that I enjoyed the first third significantly more than the remainder. :) I certainly wouldn't own a film based around the Lolita middle segment, despite loving the shot with the ant. It's akin to the build-up of certain European porn films that I have previously viewed. As a holidaying 14 yr old kid, in a single hotel room in Northern Italy - I dread the thought of my father receiving the bill - think he may have been charged for that. Good as porn build up but not much else. The improved last segment helps the film but even then, it's nothing extraordinary, meaning that it's certainly very difficult to scratch out the memory of the first superior part...in short, the first part is amazing and therefore the rest is subsequently bound to disappoints. The lack of a plot works for a witchcraft/magic segment, especially if beautifully shot. Porn build ups are totally pointless if they don't deliver. And the generic black gloved 'real or not' killer segment suffers due to comparison with better and older genre flicks out there. This feels more like an extremely well-shot student project rather than an actual film. btw Don't get me wrong, the first part truly is fantastic...

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2:48 AM)

6. Neil said:

"Perhaps it's just my monitor, but there appear to be streaks in the dark portions of the first capture"

It isn't your monitor. They are highly noticeable when viewing the disc, that effect is present during the majority of the dark sequences.

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 3:41 AM)

7. FoxyMulder said:

I took the first pic and put it into photoshop and increased the brightness of the shadow areas, those streaks are very bad, are they visible on a calibrated projection setup though. ?

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 9:02 AM)

8. Author Profile Page Michael said:

I'll find out when I (hopefully) watch it tonight...

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM)

9. Author Profile Page Michael said:

Neil:

I must admit I preferred the second segment to the third (although obviously the first reigns supreme). I found it by far the most visceral of the bunch, particularly in terms of the sound design. The bleached-out visuals were excellent too - I could practically feel the stifling heat.

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM)

10. Author Profile Page Michael said:

Chuck:

Hmm... no issues to the best of my knowledge. I suppose it's always possible it was down for a while, but I certainly had no problems whenever I tried to access it.

(Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2:51 PM)

 
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