Comments on: Harry Lachman’s Inferno http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/07/28/harry-lachmans-inferno/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/07/28/harry-lachmans-inferno/comment-page-1/#comment-116656 John Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:20:48 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=5768#comment-116656 To give them the slight benefit of the doubt, I got the Kino Paradjanovs several years ago so they may have found better prints. But it's a gamble... All I can tell you is the ones I bought were worse prints than copies I taped from Channel 4's TV screenings. They also had big yellow subtitles burned into the picture which were littered with spelling errors--the worst moment referred to the poet subject of <em>Colour of Pomegranates</em> at one point as a "peot". As products they're only worthwhile if you can't find the films anywhere else at all. There's also a DVD of Paradjanov's <em>Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors</em> available which is slightly better but still not as good as a decent print (faded colours again). These films really do deserve the attentions of the BFI and Criterion, not companies who buy up titles no one else has bothered with. To give them the slight benefit of the doubt, I got the Kino Paradjanovs several years ago so they may have found better prints. But it’s a gamble… All I can tell you is the ones I bought were worse prints than copies I taped from Channel 4’s TV screenings. They also had big yellow subtitles burned into the picture which were littered with spelling errors–the worst moment referred to the poet subject of Colour of Pomegranates at one point as a “peot”. As products they’re only worthwhile if you can’t find the films anywhere else at all.

There’s also a DVD of Paradjanov’s Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors available which is slightly better but still not as good as a decent print (faded colours again). These films really do deserve the attentions of the BFI and Criterion, not companies who buy up titles no one else has bothered with.

]]> By: Wiley http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/07/28/harry-lachmans-inferno/comment-page-1/#comment-116605 Wiley Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:48:43 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=5768#comment-116605 This film is actually available on TrashPalace.com under the Unclassifiables in the DVD-R section. Brian has 'a lot' of strange cult, giallo, exploitation, spaghetti westerns, and other whatnot in that section as well as the webstore in general. The picture is always nice, at least its always been with my purchases, but everything else is done cheaply, and I've no idea how they end up with the rights to these movies, but they insist it is completely legal. I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt because I first heard about Trash Palace on a review at amazon.com regarding some movie that hadn't gotten any widespread DVD release in the States. Actually, it was several people, all reliable seeming enough, and they all spoke just as highly of Brian (I'd forgotten, the webstore owner) as I do now. So I am guessing it is all honorably done, otherwise one citing his business's name on such a high-traffic site would have landed them in trouble by now. Its funny because I was just about to email him, since he 'publishes' many old/lost movies by popular or interesting request. I trust your judgement enough to be hesitant to purchase them from Kino, so I was going to ask if Brian had ever heard of Sergei Paradjanov. This film is actually available on TrashPalace.com under the Unclassifiables in the DVD-R section. Brian has ‘a lot’ of strange cult, giallo, exploitation, spaghetti westerns, and other whatnot in that section as well as the webstore in general. The picture is always nice, at least its always been with my purchases, but everything else is done cheaply, and I’ve no idea how they end up with the rights to these movies, but they insist it is completely legal.

I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt because I first heard about Trash Palace on a review at amazon.com regarding some movie that hadn’t gotten any widespread DVD release in the States. Actually, it was several people, all reliable seeming enough, and they all spoke just as highly of Brian (I’d forgotten, the webstore owner) as I do now. So I am guessing it is all honorably done, otherwise one citing his business’s name on such a high-traffic site would have landed them in trouble by now.

Its funny because I was just about to email him, since he ‘publishes’ many old/lost movies by popular or interesting request. I trust your judgement enough to be hesitant to purchase them from Kino, so I was going to ask if Brian had ever heard of Sergei Paradjanov.

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