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directed
by Zacharias Kunuk
Canada 2001
Once every now and then
a movie comes along that distinguishes itself by its rare quality of uniqueness.
In 2001 one such movie won the “ Camera d’Or “ award in Cannes and is now a huge
success financially and artistically in Manhattan, especially in the art house
circuits. According to Nelson EDI, from its American opening on June 7, the
movie has grossed over $1.75 million dollars and as of July 11 the movie is
continuing to do extremely well in about 37 screens. “ It has been huge for
foreign language film“ states Jeff Lipsky of Lot 47 the American distributor for
the film. Albert Michael |
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DVD Comparison:
Alliance Atlantis (2 disc set) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Columbia Tri-Star - Region 1 - NTSC
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Distribution |
Alliance Atlantis Region 1 - NTSC |
Columbia
Tri-Star
Region 1 - NTSC |
Runtime | 2:47:35 | 2:41:10 |
Video |
1.85:1
Original Aspect Ratio 16X9 enhanced |
1.85:1
Original Aspect Ratio 16X9 enhanced |
NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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Bitrate: Alliance
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Audio | Inuktitut (Dolby Digital 5.1), Inuktitut (Dolby Digital 2.0) |
Inuktitut (Dolby Digital 5.1) |
Subtitles | English, French and none | Non Removable Yellow English subtitles |
Features |
Release Information: Studio: Alliance Atlantis Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2001 Aspect Ratios:
DVD
Release Date: January, 2003 Chapters 30 |
Release Information: Studio: Columbia Tri-star Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2001 Aspect Ratios: DVD
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Chapters 28
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Comments: |
I am asking for
someone at Alliance Atlantis to be fired. What a travesty! This is what
I was afraid of with these two editions. One has great Extra Features
but a sloppy picture and the other is bare bones, burned in subs and a
much better picture quality... arghhhhh. Ohh yeah, the Columbia is
6 minutes shorter... what gives. Is Criterion the only one who
takes pride in their work? True fans will have to get both but if you
only want to see the film then its the Columbia Tri-Star until I can
figure out what they have done with 6 minutes of the film. Somebody's colors are way of too... my guess would be Alliance. The captures below
more than adequately tell the story of the image quality and the extras
are all listed above. Alliance - Pan and Scan
The Straight Story',
Full Frame 'The Red Violin' and this... Great eh! <sarcasm> P.S. The Alliance looks horizontally cropped a little to boot... sheeeeesh - Gary W. Tooze ADDED - Aug - 04
Hi
Gary, I'm the producer/cameraman for Atanarjuat The Fast Runner and just
saw your comments on the DVD comparison between the AAC (Canadian) and
the CTHE (USA) DVD's HERE
. The digital transfer process from video (30 fps) to film (24 fps) at that time actually required a form of "stretching" which elongates the picture and sound imperceptibly but over the course of a long film actually added about 7 minutes to the length. So in fact, the video master of 161 minutes becomes a film of 168 minutes although the picture and sound remain (apparently) identical. Nothing is missing from the video version but instead the film version has extra frames added to it that no one can see. We urged both Alliance Atlantis and Columbia Tri-star to use the original video master for its DVD, knowing as good videomakers, that the electronic video original will look best when viewed on an electronic TV screen. The alternative choice - and the more conventional choice in the industry even now - would be to 'make' a video from the 35mm film version of the film, that is, a 'telecine' from the film interpositive, which itself was already a twice removed copy from the original first generation digibeta image. We knew that going from digibeta to 35mm negative to 35mm interpositive to telecine video master to DVD would give more 'film look' to the result, but that in fact this film look was really another term for describing a degraded picture four generations removed from the original. Alliance Atlantis chose the more conventional film look and used the telecine from the 35mm version for its DVD. Columbia actually tried the film look telecine as well but in their case it couldn't pass their quality control evaluation, which is understandable because the process of transfer-transfer-retransfer-transfer obviously imports more technical faults than simply showing the original first generation technically perfect master. When CTHE couldn't get the telecine past quality control we urged them once again to use the original video master which they did. That's the difference. I doubt if anyone from Alliance Atlantis was actually fired for their decision (it's Canada, after all) but I hope someone at Columbia got promoted for theirs. |
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