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You may be able to d/l a VHS version, but the DVD version isn't going to happen. Don't blame Linklater blame WB.
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You may be able to d/l a VHS version, but the DVD version isn't going to happen. Don't blame Linklater blame WB.
"I just got pain in my chestle area"
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Im coming over to usa tomorrow, orlando florida. Can anyone help me with where i can track down a copy of suburbia (VHS) and first love last rites to buy while im there??? I would really appreciate everyones help.
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Um, in another thread someone said that Blockbuster online says that the DVD is coming soon, so I just looked on there and it actually says that it is AVAILABLE for rent, by mail, on DVD, and that it was released in May...
What's up with that? I KNOW it hasn't been released on DVD, but they actually have it down as not just coming soon, but available!
Could they have some bootleg for rent or something?
Or could (this is going waaaay out on a limb, I know) Warner Bros have test-released it just for rental at Blockbuster Online to see if there's interest for an actual release? Kind of like how MTV released season 1 of The State exclusively as an itunes download to test people's interest?
I'm not a member of Blockbuster online right now, but anyone who is- can you tell me what happens if you put the DVD of SubUrbia in your cue? Does it LET you and say that it will ship, or does it say that the disc isn't available yet?
And just for the record, to show that I'm not being an idiot here, it specifically says that it is the 1997 Richard Linklater film- I'm not just looking at the page for Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia and being stupid...
Blockbuster must have it confused with the 1984 film, or they have a bootleg. Trust me, it's not on DVD officially.
"Don't believe everything you hear on the radio." - Charles Foster Kane
Yeah, a bootleg is what I'm curious about...
On various sites I've seen a bootleg DVD that is advertised as the widescreen version of the film. If I could rent this DVD (which I know is tricky, since stores SHOULDN'T carry bootlegs, even if some sometimes do) I definitely would, but I'm a little skeptical to throw down $14.50 for it.
If it's a DVD transfer of a widescreen laserdisc, that would absolutely be worth the money. I have widescreen laserdisc-to-DVD transfers of Steven Soderbergh's Kafka and Wim Wenders' Until The End of the World (two more excellent, non-mainstream 90's films that have never gotten a US DVD release), and they are GREAT to have!
However, I'm afraid that some tool could have just chopped off the top and bottom of the VHS recording and called it "widescreen" just to make a few bucks- that would, of course, make the movie barely watchable!
That's why I'm kind of curious what this DVD that blockbuster has for rent is, just in case it could be this widescreen bootleg or something.
So if anyone has either tried renting it, or if anyone has bought/seen this bootleg DVD, let me know what it is! I'd pay to have a bootleg of SubUrbia in widescreen if it looks like we'll never get the real thing!
I've seen those widescreen bootlegs, and I bet they're dubbed from the widescreen LD. I found a torrent recently that features the film from a fullscreen VHS rip that was cleaned up with AVISynth. I managed to download it within three days (the download speed was absolutely atrocious), but it looks better than any video cassette tape that I've seen in my entire lifetime. It borderlines on being SDTV broadcast quality. I made a thread about it here..
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120238/board/nest/115677157
"Don't believe everything you hear on the radio." - Charles Foster Kane
I own the film on VHS, and converting VHS into DVD is really easy, especially with a mac (I do that with a lot of my rare VHS tapes, just to make sure they'll last), so I probably won't mess with the torrent, but if someone posted a torrent of the widescreen LD rip, that would be awesome!
Sooo, if anyone out there has the laserdisc, put it up as a torrent!
Until WB finally comes to their senses (if they ever do), a lot of people would be very happy to get that!
It's not just having a DVD copy, it's the whole package. The love Linklater put into his Criterion eds. of Slacker and Dazed and Confused should have also happened to SubUrbia. The commentary, behind the scenes, photos, interviews etc. that's what I'm talkin' 'bout. If anyone even gets near Linklater tackle him on it. PLEEZ.
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Oh, I believe that Richard Linklater is really trying to make this happen! I think that if he had his way, we'd have a Criterion-style 2-disc of this right now, and probably a special edition of Before Sunrise too!
The problem, I think, is that Warner Bros just seems to hate their independent films. There are a TON of indie films from the 80's and 90's that WB has handled TERRIBLY when it comes to DVD!
For starters, SubUrbia and Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World, and other films that I'm just not as familiar with, I'm sure, have never gotten U.S. DVD releases (Until the End of the World was also hacked down from its intended 5 1/2-hour miniseries form to less than half the running time- 2 1/2 hours- for the American release). Other films, like David Byrne's True Stories and Roman Polanski's Frantic (again, just two that come to mind because I like them), got terrible-looking DVDs that literally seem to be direct DVD copies of full-screen VHS tapes, with little or no remastering. We might complain about how we'd love a special edition of Before Sunrise, but considering how badly WB treated indie films in the early days of DVD, we sort of have to feel lucky that we even got a widescreen disc that doesn't look like it was copied from a VHS!
I thought that WB had started treating indie films a little better when they founded Warner Independent, released some great movies like A Scanner Darkly, and apparently decided to finally release SubUrbia, but now they've announced that they're shutting down Warner Independent and Picturehouse, and I greatly fear that hopes of a DVD of SubUrbia will die as well, since they are clearly continuing this long trend of mistreating independent films.
Let's just hope that Richard Linklater somehow convinces them to release it... it is, at least, a much more mainstream and accessible film than Until the End of the World, so I guess there's at least some hope that they could decide that it's marketable after all!
Linklater would love to put out a 2 disc Criterion ed. As you said a great deal of films don't leave their borders. I buy many US Indie flicks online(I'm in Australia), because of this. Not to mention the restrictive regional codes you have to bypass. Closing down Warner Indep. seems like the death knell for SubUrbia. I just wonder why the silence from Linklater, is he still fighting this behind the scenes?
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http://raretelevision.com/suburbia-1996-dvd-p_937.html
raretelevision.com is a fine little site. No doubt this'll be a decent VHS to DVD transfer (they usually are). I'm planning to trade for a copy soon.
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I'm sure you can get a DVD copy. I'm talking about the official DVD with special features and bonus material like Linklater's other movies.WB won't release it to CriterionDVD and it doesn't look as if they will ever release it.
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