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Criterion is releasing Woman In Love on blu ray!!!!!!!!!

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Iain Fisher:
I got my copy.  Agreed A British Picture is poorer quality (in terms of restoration) but it is great it is on official DVD, and it is a good overview of his career.  I enjoyed watching it again.

Lots of extras, still working through them, and still to actually watch Women in Love again !!!

I hope Criterion do more of Ken's films, with extras.

Iain

Rosebud:
I just purchased my Criterion blu ray copy of "Women In Love" today.  Fantastic disc.  The film looks terrific.  Great interviews with Billy Williams and Michael Bradsell. A very interesting short Film, called "Second Best," was also a great addition.  My one disappointment with the release is that "A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible" was not restored.  The print appears to be transferred from a tape source, though it does look a lot better than my bootleg copy.  Still, that should not detour people from buying the disc.  If sales are great, more Russell films may follow!!!!!!!!!!!

Iain Fisher:
The details are:


* New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer
* Segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive
* A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible, Russell’s 1989 biopic on his own life and career
* Interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson
* Interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set
* New interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell
* Second Best, a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates
Trailer
* An essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams

willem:
wow, that is great news!

Rosebud:
2018 may be a good year.

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