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By September 22, 2009January 12th, 20266 Comments

Desert #4

This morn­ing at The Auteurs’, I dis­cuss why Antonioni and Blu-ray disc are two great tastes that taste great togeth­er; BFI’s won­der­ful high-def ren­der­ing of Red Desert is the top­ic of today’s Foreign Region DVD Report. 

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6 Comments

  • Tony Dayoub says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:30 am

    I wish I could see this film. It seems like it’s right up my form­al­ist alley. Too bad I don’t have a multi-region player.
    Great review.

  • bill says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Region-free play­ers are cheap, Tony. You should take the plunge.

  • Tony Dayoub says:
    September 22, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Bill,
    I haven’t seen any region-free Blu-ray play­ers for lower than $350. Not to men­tion the cost of the actu­al for­eign Blu-ray discs.

  • matt says:
    September 22, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Glenn,
    if you would­n’t mind, could you post which region free blu-ray you have and maybe a link. Does B&H carry it?

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    September 22, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    @ Matt: I would­n’t mind in the abstract, but in real­ity your ques­tion is rather loaded. My multi-region Blu-ray play­er is not SUPPOSED to be multi-region, it is made that by way of a sam­izdat firm­ware update that allows you to toggle between regions via a remote-fed code. I“ve got the machine per­man­ently set for multi-region SD and Region B Blu-ray play­back, as my Playstation 3 handles Region A and domest­ic SD. Region C has not yet become rel­ev­ant to my DVD needs. In any case, if I tell you the machine is from a com­pany whose name con­tains two of the same vow­els and two of the same con­son­ants, and is known as a multi-region friendly firm, and that it is the com­pany’s much-vaunted Blu-ray play­er, would that be use­ful? It’s more expens­ive than the multi-region Blu-ray play­er touted at DVD Beaver…but I like it!

  • matt says:
    September 23, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    oh jeez – my mind is blown! Just read­ing that has giv­en me a head­ache. i think i’ll just wait till Red Desert comes out Region A…i will not hold my breathe.