shadow of a doubt dvd remastered in 2000

We can envisage fewer opportunities to watch obscure films on screens in the future, but, perhaps more at home on our digital screens.Īrguably, the most significant developments over the decade have been technical ones. I was told that I could buy “anything” in China, and, seeing 20-film box sets of Oshima and Godard (probably not sub-titled in English), I wouldn’t be surprised if that statement is close to the truth. On a recent visit to China, I was amazed at how easily available hot festival films like Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist were, in pristine DVD copies, beautifully packaged, costing $2 each, tops, and being sold, even at on-campus, college stores. customers can get just about any film or TV program that has appeared legally on DVD or Blue Ray disk, from Netflicks, through the postal service. The availability of minority interest films is enhanced by a distributor like IFC going simultaneously online with theatrical release or directly online (Festival Direct) and by new initiatives like The Auteurs attempting to disseminate art cinema, online, all over the world.

More and more historical film titles are being remastered and released on DVD by companies like Criterion (US), Masters of Cinema/Eureka (UK) and Carlotta (France), although the Blue Ray market (in North America, at least), seems confined to Hollywood fare, mostly. Unfortunately, small North American distributors who specialize in “art films” are suffering, with New Yorker going out of business and Kino (NY), being taken over by Fox Lorber after downsizing, both in 2009. Although there is clearly a problem on the “bootleg” and downloading fronts, even these tendencies allow rare films from around the world to become available to all, with no likelihood of them ever being distributed in overseas territories. With many countries emulating Hollywood in making popular films for their own people, the global box office continues to thrive. Although a lot has gone wrong in the world over the first ten years of the new millennium-with the political situations of the Middle East (or, more correctly, “West Asia”) looking to be unsolvable, with the near-melt down of Capitalism, and with (disgustingly) very little action being taken to delimit “global warming”-“Cinema” looks to be in relatively good health.

Shadow of a doubt dvd remastered in 2000