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8th October 2007 ZETA MINOR NEWS Many newly-announced titles have been added to our forthcoming releases database, Incoming, this week, as well as additional details for many titles, and many more etailer links. Please use the links to support Zeta Minor! DVD NEWS
The two-disc set features a brand new, tinted "definitive fully-restored" version of the film on disc one. The film is accompanied on this DVD for the first time by Hans Erdman's original score (the previous Eureka! edition had a modern industrial grunge score; the BFI edition had a score by Hammer maestro James Bernard). The film is accompanied by an optional commentary track, by silent cinema specialist R. Dixon Smith and film journalist Brad Stevens. Disc two features a new fifty-odd minute documentary, The Language of Shadows: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and His Films, and a short (and rather vague) restoration demonstration. The set will be accompanied by a ninety-six page book, featuring essays on the film. The RRP is £22.65. Menu screens and sample frame grabs from the two discs can be found here. Reviews of Eureka's previous DVD edition, and the BFI edition can be found here. HAMMER DVD NEWS
Neither of the new discs compares favourably. Showbox, a company more used to releasing titles like Girls Gone Wild – All New Dormroom Fantasies 2 and Playboy’s Lusty Latin Ladies, have chosen to release both titles in 4:3 format. In the case of The Brides of Dracula, this means considerable cropping at the sides of the image. With The Evil of Frankenstein the un-matted presentation reveals extra information at the top and bottom of the screen (largely 'dead' space), but it loses picture information from the sides. See for yourself, here and here. The Evil of Frankenstein disc has theatrical trailers for both films. The Brides disc has the Brides trailer. There's a gallery on the Evil disc, but it only amounts to about half a dozen images. Details of both discs have been added to the relevant section of the Hammer DVD Guide. EVENT NEWS Kevin Smith will be signing copies of his new book My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith at the Forbidden Planet store in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on Tuesday October the 16th, between 5 and 6pm. Copies of the book will be sold for £7.99, £2 less than its RRP. Signed copies can be ordered by post, from the Mail Order department, on 020 7803 1900. Former Doctor Who assistant Anneke Wills, who also starred in the ITC crime series Strange Report, has recently published the first volume of her autobiography, which charts her career as a busy actress in the swinging sixties. She is promoting the book, Self Portrait, with a signing tour, which will include... October 20th - Tenth Planet, Barking November 18th - Doctor Who Day, The Kennet Centre, Newbury, Berkshire November 24th - Memorabilia, NEC, Birmingham November 30th - Beccles, Suffolk (with Elisabeth Sladen and Terry Molloy) December 1st - Norwich Library More details at her official website. Last week's Zeta Minor News can be viewed here. Previous Zeta Minor News entries can viewed here. |
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