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swedish DVD

posted 16 years ago by thedeathshiphadanewcapta
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anybody have this? i should have bought the japanese DVD when they were all over ebay but now it isn't but there is this new dvd.

http://www.atlanticfilm.se/showMovie.aspx?id=1870&cookie_test=true

it's 4:3 though. thats not right is it? if it isn't then it's probably not worth £22

[–] Nuclear_LNK 16 years ago

I have it.

[–] Trp1985 16 years ago

it's 4:3 though. thats not right is it?

No, it's not. The correct ratio is 1.66:1, and the Japanese DVD is the way to go. It has a beautiful anamorphic transfer in the film's OAR, 1.66:1.

Oh, and it's still available at ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/DROWNING-BY-NUMBERS-JPAN-ONLY-DVD-SEALD-PETER-GREE NAWAY_W0QQitemZ320352692754QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray?ha sh=item320352692754&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7 C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

If not, you can always go to Amazon (Japan).

Note: the price is hefty, as with all Japanese DVD's. But as of now, it is the only version that has 'Drowning By Number' in it's correct aspect ratio.

[–] Panurg 15 years ago

I got it recently, by Amazon.
The aspect ratio seemed to me 14:9-ish, and I cannot remember the proportions in the last TV rendition, which is quite a while past.
The colour seemed to me somewhat "faded", or "hazy", as if contrast had been set very low at rendering. I helped it up a little by pushing up contrast ans saturation on my TV (Panasonic flatscreen). But still, it wasn't very greenawayish, as one knows he is a painter of hefty reds and greens (cf. "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover", or "The Belly of An Architect").
Or does anyone remember the theatralic original's colour saturation, an contrast?

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[–] chester-copperpot-1 15 years ago

I have an italian DVD, in 4:3. And the colors seems hasty there as well. I have seen "Drowning by Numbers" on cinema, so I know what it should look like, and it shouldn't look like that.

[–] Trepxe-oediv 14 years ago

thedeathshiphadanewcapta, try this:

http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?title=drowning%20by%20numbers&media=VIDEO:DVD

(copy and paste)

[–] RGS-3 14 years ago

Just got the Swedish version yesterday. Would love to get the Japanese widescreen one but at $46ish + whatever heinous shipping charge Amazon.jp would levy I decided to go for this instead.

This is one of my favorite movies. I think I've seen it once in the theater and if memory serves, the color even then was muted overall. I have it on VHS and it's about as good as you'd expect with that. The full screen Swedish version really isn't all that bad. I watched it on an LG widescreen using a Pioneer Blu-ray player. If I didn't mind futzing with the TV controls I would get good color during daytime scenes in vivid mode, and standard or cinema modes made the nighttime scenes look the best (nothing I did made the blacks look really good but they weren't so awful that it bothered me). Standard mode had colors in nighttime scenes looking good; cinema had the blacks looking best but the colors more muted/faded than worth it for the most part.

I've been waiting for a long time for this movie to go to DVD and finally decided it wasn't worth waiting any more: I'd rather have an OK DVD version than just the lousy VHS one. Some day there probably will be a better version that's affordable and I'll "upgrade" to that then.

[–] gorgsharpy 13 years ago

Mine seems to be 4:3. It's the Scandinavian version. I watched it last night. Tried everything. Those artless MFers.

http://www.fona.dk/default.aspx?m=2&i=81&itemnumber=7319980067 556&sa=3

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