Have been a fan of this classic since its release. Took forever for its release on DVD (and not that good of print). And now the movie comes alive on this beautiful blu ray! A little costly on TCM Shop (since its limited) but nowhere on Amazon is the blu ray listed. Brilliant masterpiece given a new life.
shareDoes the blu-ray have any extras? The DVD only had theatrical trailers.
shareThe only 'extra' it has is the 'isolated music score' by Jerry Goldsmith (along with the theatrical trailer). If you're a fan of the score like me, that alone makes the price of the blu ray worth it.
It contains the full score and interestingly enough, there's music in the isolated score that's NOT in the movie, but it's in the place where the score was originally supposed to be until it was apparently cut for the final film.
What's also interesting about the isolated score is you can here the 'take' number being called off before the cue and 'off the cuff' remarks in the studio after the cue. My favorite 'remark': 'Damn, that was good'. Not sure who said it. Maybe Jerry Goldsmith himself.
Whoa. An isolated music score... That does sound pretty awesome!
I think this might've been the only time Goldsmith ever composed a score for Robert Mulligan. I wish I could find an interview about their process of working together. I know Mulligan worked with Elmer Bernstein a lot but have no idea what his relationship with other composers was like.
This film honestly might have my favorite Goldsmith score. I can't help but even think the Academy gave him an Oscar for his Omen score as an apology for not even thinking to nominate him for this one.
Amazing how everyone thinks DVD and Blue ray is so great but the only thing amazing about it, besides the extras when they are featured, is a clear crisp quality. However, that sacrifices the tops and the bottoms of the screen at being completely cropped out compared to the full screen version we are used to seeing televised over the years.
I don't understand why they have to crop out 1/4 of the picture on our screens when they never did during any airings on television.
On DVD/BR, I feel like I am watching only a partial movie.
Actually, you're seeing the whole movie as it was intended with DVD/blu ray (not to mention laserdiscs). You got it backwards. VHS and TV airings cropped widescreen movies badly removing as much as half the picture in some instances.
As genursus has stated, you are very mixed up as it pertains to Blu-ray specifications. For example, "The Other" was filmed in an Aspect Ratio of 1.85:1 and released on BD at
1.85:1. You view what the DP saw through the lens as he was filming.
Sound is another huge upgrade on Blu-ray since most are now presented in some type of "lossless" audio technology.
You don't seem to be one that would watch many films in B & W but for videophiles, the high resolution is a revelation on a well-transferred classic title.
All pictures that were filmed in Technicolor are eye-candy on Blu-ray discs.
There is no "pan & scan" on Blu-ray!
The British (Region 2) release of the DVD had the continuity script included in the extras. I would have preferred to see a copy of the actual production script, but hey, it was something, right?
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I love the blu-ray, I just get it this weekend, it's amazing!!!
A region B blu-ray is soon to be released by French publisher Wild Side Video.
http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01GSGXHYU
If it's like their other releases, the movie will be offered with the choice of original English audio or French dub, with optional French subs. Menus will be in French, and extras in French won't be subtitled, but their may be extras in English. There's a 60 pages book in French too, as well as a R2 DVD of the movie.
http://www.wildside.fr/horreur--fantastique/lautre-2495.html
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to watch Interstellar.
Ha. That poster is hilariously over the top and gory. I guess that hand is supposed to be Holland's hand with the missing finger?
shareThe problem I have with the Blu-ray of The Other is it's just the 100 minute version of the film, whereas the DVD is the 108 minute version. I was a bit disappointed, as I was with Kino's Blu-ray release of Heart Of Midnight, being 10 minutes shorter than the version originally released in Europe.
shareI was not aware that there were two versions of the film with different running times. Do you know what scenes are cut or added?
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