Thanks for a great article. I can't agree about something though: I have just bought a 4 disc set released by Second Sight in UK and the translation is really horrible - on many occassions I had no clue what they were talking about, some dialogues seemed to have been translated by a google translator and not by a human being. Big shame really as it's the only complete DVD edition and I can't borrow it to people saying "look at this masterpiece" as the translation is ruining it Wonderful article!
I've been watching through the Mubi set as my first viewing of The Kingdom and it does look spectacular! Perhaps the strange, kinda processed look of the first two series you mentioned has to do with how the film was chemically processed - according to the restoration notes in that included booklet, the original film elements were bleach bypassed.
If you look up that process and examples of what the results look like, you'll notice a lot of similar qualities with the first two series of The Kingdom. Beyond that, I really wouldn't blame them doing a little bit of digital work to try and bring out as much detail as possible from the material.
It looks like it was shot on the highest-speed Super 16mm film Trier could get his hands on at the time, and it almost doesn't have enough visual information to make it to p! Still, some purist part of me wants to track down that Second Sight DVD set just for completionist's sake haha. All pitch compensated audio I've ever heard mostly from the US Doctor Who blu-rays which do the same thing applies a weird unpleasant tinniness to certain voices or frequencies.
The UK blu-rays don't have this issue, so I spent the little extra money to import it haha. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom.
