[REL] La Passion Béatrice (1987)

[ghost]

It was actually available for free on Prime Video. I just had to deactivate my VPN.
[Code] Don't expect a HD picture.

[David32441]

It was actually available for free on Prime Video. I just had to deactivate my VPN.
[Code] Don't expect a HD picture.

Thanks for posting it - it's a lot better than we had, and watchable - but for a recent HD release from a company as big as Amazon I was expecting more - and also for that many GB! The film stock seems to vary in quality a lot. There's a scene with a tree and the sharp branch edges have terrible halos and it looks like it was filmed with 16mm cameras! The rest of it lacks so much something - like a bad AI upscale. I've heard it stated that 1980s film stock aged quite badly. Seen a doc when they said the blacks of Star Wars had faded to purple on the original negatives. Maybe if the director was still alive, or it was a huge film then it would have had a remaster and a bluray release. Surprising it's listed on Amazon as HD - but still looks like this.

[Night457]

George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and their film buddies actively campaigned against the crappy color film stock of the 70s and 80s (and I think it even started being used back in the 60s) and supposedly succeeded in pushing to get it improved. (Before the switch to digital!) Of course restoring films that used the old stock is a challenge. One of the reasons Scorsese filmed "Raging Bull" in black and white is so that it would not have any problems with color fade.

[ghost]

BTW: Amazon doesn't encode or upsacale the video files by themselves. They stream what they get.

[Night457]

That matches what many but not all BluRay labels do. They license the releasing rights for a digital file from the studio that owns it and make no changes. I don't think Bezos can afford to fund film restoration work. ;|

[Gag]

yeah looks like DVD era Telecined SD master. It would need full rescanning and restoration, probably not happening anytime soon.