Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!feed.news.tiscali.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Dan Rempel Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,alt.asian-movies Subject: Re: RASHOMON Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:58:41 -0800 Organization: Organization is overrated Message-ID: <28096a9ac803f0326e28f2a48825927c@grapevine.islandnet.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1108439605.544379.140890@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1108494324.426111.190890@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1108533030.049366.323350@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1108562438.531278.84810@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <10405526a398e8a6c5a98654a63449ed@grapevine.islandnet.com> <1108570577.790871.284420@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1108648561.168086.232610@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1108648561.168086.232610@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Tracking: 4214BF3256CD712F42DA78675ACC6402008B3A740B9122721C8A256205892C770B X-Report-Abuse-To: news@islandnet.com X-NNRP-Cache: Grapevine 2.0 -- http://grapevine.islandnet.com/ X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 25 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25285 John W. wrote: > Dan Rempel wrote: > >>I think you must have some early ones; the ones I have (e.g. Yojimbo) >>are quite clean, good contrast, and I don't remember any serious >>streaking/film damage. In fact, to check, I just dug out "The Hidden >>Fortress," and there were a couple of streaks in the first few > > minutes, > >>then pretty much as above. The subtitles are white on black below the >>actual film, and quite legible. I guess YMMV. >> > > Now I'm going to have to go buy them, dammit. The only reason I haven't > is because the version of Seven Samurai I have was disappointing. But I > suppose in order to regain that excuse I'm going to have to go out and > buy a couple (I really like Red Beard; it's a good story, IMHO). Haven't seen Red Beard, but I'll look for it. As for the Criterion stuff, before you spend a bunch of money you might want to check them out in rental; I may be full of it. In fact, I'll try to find a copy of "The Seven Samurai," and see if it's as crappy as you describe. Dan