From Digital Bits: In announcement news today, Warner Home Video has just set Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America for Blu-ray Disc release on 1/11/11 (SRP $24.98). The film will be presented in its full, uncut length of 229 minutes. Extras will include audio commentary by film historian and critic Richard Schickel, the making-of documentary Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone, a Photographic Memories still gallery with 96 images and theatrical trailers. The release will also be issued as a 2-disc DVD Special Edition that same day (SRP $19.97). Unfortunately this is just the same 2003 DVD release transferred to Blu Ray - avoid! Shame on WarnerBros From previous post on September 6th: For fans in the UKFilm 4 HD 22.50 Monday 6th September - first time showing in HD as far as I know. On again on Sunday 12th 23.20 - in case you miss it.Will report back on how it looked. OK Unfortunately OUATIA looked quite poor in HD - In fact there didn't seem much difference from it showing on HD Film 4 & it showing on standard Film 4 (the same night) the picture quality wasn't particularly sharp & already the print/master/DVD Film 4 were using (2003 I think) is already starting to show signs of wear & tear (lots of dirt evident). Hopefully Warner Bros will be looking at a brand new remastering of this film for Blu - Ray, otherwise its going to be a very disappointing release.A clean up & release along the same lines as the Godfather would suffice. Oh well looks like that was too much to ask Warner Bros
Dollars Trilogy Blu-ray selling at amazon.com for $27.99: http://www.amazon.com/Man-No-Name-Trilogy-Blu-ray/dp/B003EYEF2S/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1283130149&sr=1-1
As posted in the other thread, I highly recommend you figure out how to use that website (caps-a-holic.com) I linked to in the other thread. They have comparisons of MGM vs Mondo/RHV (Italian) for all the dollars films. Use the lossless PNG files for all comparisons instead of lossy JPG.In all cases the Italian BD's are superior to the MGM BD's.
So, now that you've seen them, what's your assessment of the picture quality of the BR discs? (Please specify whether the version you saw is the American or a different one.....)
The Italian RHV release of FOD is vastly superior to the MGM one and, unlike the Mondo releases of FAFDM and GBU, has English audio. Check out the screen caps below and note, even regardless of image quality, how much more actual image you get:http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare10/for_a_few_dollars_more.htm