tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post115256619156275696..comments2024-01-02T15:27:47.049-05:00Comments on I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND: A "Hidden Gem" from Jess Franco now on German DVD...Robert Monellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06309327472702575547noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post-1152650834296971552006-07-11T16:47:00.000-04:002006-07-11T16:47:00.000-04:00Welcome to Uwe and Adam and many thanks for the ad...Welcome to Uwe and Adam and many thanks for the additonal info on this set. I'm especially please WICKED WOMEN has English subs. Franco's films seem to work best for me in French or Spanish because of his cultural predilictions. Special thanks to Adam for the kind of visual analysis which we strongly favor here. At his most interesting, Franco's compositions can be endlessly fascinating and certainly unique, evoking his encyclopediac knowlege of cinema history and sophisticated aesthetic sense, which is why all the old fuzzy video presentations are not a way to form a valid judgement of his work. I'm sure a single disc of this presentation will happen sooner or later.Robert Monellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06309327472702575547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post-1152621101286103902006-07-11T08:31:00.000-04:002006-07-11T08:31:00.000-04:00Hi Bob, some notes about the Galileo set: The same...Hi Bob, some notes about the Galileo set: The same masters as with Dietrich's Jess Franco Collection (VIP) were used. One difference is the Galileo set is in PAL while the VIP discs are NTSC. Another difference is that the Galileo set is completly bare bones (Sazuma is wrong in mentioning extras). Language options are German & English only (no French, Italian or Spanish options like on some of the VIP discs), exept for WICKED WOMEN, which is in German with English subtitles only (not a bad thing, I would say). Greetings from Germany.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30886366.post-1152634244003945952006-07-11T12:10:00.000-04:002006-07-11T12:10:00.000-04:00This boxed set, which folds out in a most unwieldy...This boxed set, which folds out in a most unwieldy way, uses the same transfers as seen on Dietrich's "Official" releases. However, none of the bonus features are present on this set. WICKED WOMEN is just as tack sharp as the other films, revealing a great amount of care in the lighting. The first scene in the psychiatric ward is stunning in its use of color and depth, with the rows of beds covered in pale green blankets leading to two arched windows displaying a bright blue sky and plastic-looking trees. This DVD is so vivid that shots using a shallow depth of field look three-dimensional in their separation of foreground and background. A scene in the ward at night uses what looks to be a high-angle crane shot--- an extravagance rare in Franco's films. And with the endless mirrors in the head doctor's bedroom, the Douglas Sirk comparison is spot-on. <BR/><BR/>As for the rest of the film, I found it to be enjoyable but missing a certain emotional resonance that I look for in Franco's works. Perhaps it is the German line-deliveries (is this the best language to see this film in?) that have a detached quality. With the black-cloaked killer, missing diamonds, and red herrings WICKED WOMEN felt like a throwback to the pulp-mystery of the Edgar Wallace krimis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com