Athanor / Warner Home Video
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:17:00 AM
| | Label: Athanor / Warner Home Video (Czech Republic)
| Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: None
| Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 6.80 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:57:31.19*
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.16 / 4.60 / 8.23 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 / 192 kbps Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 448 kbps Czech DTS 5.1 / 1,509.75 kbps
| Subtitles: | Czech, English, French, German & Spanish
| Menus available in: | Czech & English
| | Special features: |
- "The Making of Lunacy" (14:19, in Czech with optional Czech & English subtitles)
- Trailers
- Short (1:09) & long version (3:03, in Czech with optional English subtitles)
- Photogallery
- 20 stills from the film (1:19)
- 20 on-set photographs (1:19)
- 4 publicity stills (0:15)
- Poster (1 page)
- Filmographies (in Czech & English)
- Cast
- Jan Tříska (5 pages)
- Pavel Liška (1 page)
- Aňa Geislerová (3 pages)
- Martin Huba (2 pages)
- Jaroslav Dušek (2 pages)
- Pavel Nový (4 pages)
- Stano Dančiak (3 pages)
- Creative team
- ATHANOR (1 page)
- Jan Švankmajer (2 pages)
- Eva Švankmajerová (1 page)
- Jaromír Kallista (2 pages)
- Juraj Galvánek (1 page)
- Veronika Hrubá (1 page)
- Ivo Špalj (2 pages)
- Marie Zemanová (1 page)
- Martin Kublák (1 page)
- Bedřich Glaser (2 pages)
- "Jan Švankmajer - The Decalogue" (4 pages,
in Czech, English, French, German & Spanish) - "Dominic's Cards" (0:52)
- DVD-ROM section with an introduction & the synopsis (PDF,
in Czech, English, French, German, Spanish & Russian) - Production & distribution notes (10 pages, in Czech & English)
| Notes: | Quite surprisingly for a film released in '05, the print frequently displays slight damage:
| Frame 23156 | Frame 72153 | Frame 153277
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*2 different video "angles" are provided for the first 3:06 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (1:53, in Czech, resp. Czech with English voice-over) & the opening title sequence (1:13, in Czech, resp. English). The choice depends on the selected menu language |
Athanor / New Wave Films
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:17:00 AM
| | Label: Athanor (Czech Republic)
| Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: None
| Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 6.91 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:57:45.06*
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.67:1 anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.16 / 6.48 / 9.49 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 448 kbps
| Subtitles: | Czech for the hearing impaired, English, French, Spanish & German
| Menus available in: | Czech & English**
| | Special features: |
- Making of (14:19, in Czech with optional Czech & English subtitles)
- Trailer 1 (1:08) & 2 (3:03, in Czech with optional English subtitles)
- Photogallery - Movie (1:19, 20 stills)
- Photogallery - Making of (1:19, 20 stills)
- "Dominic's Cards" (0:52)
- "Jan Švankmajer - The Decalogue" (4, resp. 5 pages,
in Czech, English, French, Spanish & German) - Poster (0:30)
- Synopsis (6 - 8 pages, in Czech, English, French, Spanish & German)
- DVD-ROM features
- Hi-res poster
- Synopsis (PDF, 3, resp. 4 pages,
in Czech, English, French, Spanish, German & Russian)
| Notes: | Only available in "The Films of Jan Švankmajer" 6-disc set, together with:
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Ahhhhh, why do these things still happen in this day and age...? A newly restored master (in 2K, from the interpositive), and they (Athanor?) use some kind of crappy resizer to downscale it to DVD resolution - aliasing & moiré reign... ;-( Here's a sample frame from UPP's promotional video clip [" Jan Švankmajer's Movies Restoration;" UPP - the guys responsible (in a good way ;-)) for this - restored all his feature films + some of the shorts] vs. the same frame from this and the older DVDs - note especially the stripes on the pyjamas of the man on the right:
| Jan Švankmajer's Movies Restoration | Athanor | Athanor / Warner Home Video
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So much for my initial joy of seeing the movie in its OAR...
*2 different video "angles" are provided for the first 3:19 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (2:06, in Czech, resp. Czech with English voice-over) & the opening title sequence (1:13, in Czech, resp. English). The choice depends on the selected menu language (French, Spanish & German default to English) **despite the fact that the disc starts with a selection of 5 languages [flags], the menus are only available in Czech & English (although the choice made here does affect the pre-selected subtitle track and the text-based extras) |
Athanor / New Wave Films
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:17:00 AM
| | Label: New Wave Films (UK)
| Region: 2 | RCE protection: No | Copyright protection system: None
| Disc type: DVD9 (the data occupy 6.92 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:57:45.06*
| Video: PAL | Aspect ratio: 1.67:1 anamorphic |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.16 / 6.48 / 9.49 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 448 kbps
| Subtitles: | Czech for the hearing impaired, English, French, Spanish & German
| Menus available in: | Czech & English**
| | Special features: |
- Making of (14:19, in Czech with optional Czech & English subtitles)
- Trailer 1 (1:08) & 2 (3:03, in Czech with optional English subtitles)
- Photogallery - Movie (1:19, 20 stills)
- Photogallery - Making of (1:19, 20 stills)
- "Dominic's Cards" (0:52)
- "Jan Švankmajer - The Decalogue" (4, resp. 5 pages,
in Czech, English, French, Spanish & German) - Poster (0:30)
- Synopsis (6 - 8 pages, in Czech, English, French, Spanish & German)
- DVD-ROM features
- Hi-res poster
- Synopsis (PDF, 3, resp. 4 pages,
in Czech, English, French, Spanish, German & Russian)
| Notes: | Argh! Money well spent, this DVD; I hoped I'd get a better encode of the new "Lunacy" restoration, but - with the exception of Video Title Set 11 containing the trailers, which is a slightly larger encode with different colorimetry (see below) - this is exactly the same disc as the one available in the Czech " The Films of Jan Švankmajer" collection... ;-(
| Athanor | New Wave Films
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*2 different video "angles" are provided for the first 3:19 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (2:06, in Czech, resp. Czech with English voice-over) & the opening title sequence (1:13, in Czech, resp. English). The choice depends on the selected menu language (French, Spanish & German default to English) **despite the fact that the disc starts with a selection of 5 languages [flags], the menus are only available in Czech & English (although the choice made here does affect the pre-selected subtitle track and the text-based extras) |
Athanor / Blu-ray
Reviewed by dvdfreak
Last modified on Friday 20th March 2020, 12:17:00 AM
| | Label: Athanor (Czech Republic)
| Region: A, B & C (?) | RCE protection: n/a | Copyright protection system: AACS
| Disc type: BD25 (the data occupy 21.95 GB)
| Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 2:02:39.15*
| Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001 | Aspect ratio: 1.66:1 |
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Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 19.99 / 40.35 Mbps
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Audio: | Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 640 kbps
| Subtitles: | Czech for the hearing impaired, English, French, Spanish & German
| Menus available in: | Czech & English**
| | Special features: |
- Making of (14:56, in Czech with optional Czech & English subtitles)
- Trailer 1 (1:12) & 2 (3:11, in Czech Dolby Digital 5.1 / 640 kbps with optional English subtitles)
- Photogallery - Movie (1:22, 20 stills)
- Photogallery - Making of (1:22, 20 stills)
- "Dominic's Cards" (0:54)
- "Jan Švankmajer - The Decalogue" (4, resp. 5 pages,
in Czech, English, French, Spanish & German) - Poster (0:35, MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001)***
- Synopsis (6 - 8 pages, in Czech, English, French, Spanish & German)
(Unless noted otherwise, all extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 720p24/1.001, DD 2.0 / 224 kbps.)
| Notes: | Only available in "The Films of Jan Švankmajer" 7-disc set, together with:
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This Blu-ray collection was one of the perks for the supporters of Švankmajer's Indiegogo campaign intended for co-financing his ultimate film, "Hmyz" (" Insect"), and it's not commercially available at the time of this writing. |
To see the screenshots in glorious , click here. |
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*2 different video "angles" are provided for the first 3:28 of the film. They consist of an introduction by Jan Švankmajer (2:12, in Czech, resp. Czech with English voice-over) & the opening title sequence (1:16, in Czech, resp. English). The choice depends on the selected menu language (French, Spanish & German default to English) **despite the fact that the disc starts with a selection of 5 languages [flags], the menus are only available in Czech & English (although the choice made here does affect the pre-selected subtitle track) ***I failed to locate the hi-res version of the poster advertised in the clip:
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