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been a hlm fanatic since long before the e video revolution began, yet even after my bought our first toploading VItSdeck in I rarely purchased or even recorded movies some time in late 1991. So why the long Rankly, being a snob of sorts. the mediocre

image and sound quality of YHS tape just didn't floatmyht(a&ivinginthe%mbnCiscoBay Areq I also had a number of art and revival theatres within easy reach)Sowhythechangeofheart?Themagic oflaserdisc,aformat I could not only accept on the grounds of raw technical specs but one which also offered i i h (finally!) in their native aspect ratios. No longer would Isuffer with such widescreen epics as 2001: A Space Odyssey presented in incoherent pan-and-scan forms --letter- box only for this guy. And the digital audio? It was pretty sweet on my (thencool) Prologic surround system

At the time, I was an editor at Threat magazine (now filmthreatcom) and we were supplied with plenty of free laserdiscs for review As I was the only staffer with an LD player (a gft from my *),I gottheassipments- a n d a l l t h e d i r c s f f p ~ a l 1 y t h e s ~ c ~ - fea-packedCriterion Collection tih, whichofferedsuchthen- unknown niceties as 'filmmaker commentaries," "deleted scenes" and "photo axchivesP (Istill have my threedisc set of John Woo's The I(ilerand their great H a l l o m special edition)

Today,astheDWrevolutionhashitfullstride,it'shardtoimag ine even the lowest-budgeted black-and-white Super 8 short 6lm being released on digital disc without at least two commentary tracks, a few extras picked up off the cutting room flwr 'and a q a h g - o f documentary that's longer that the movie itself. (Oh, wait I'm talking a b u t Red, the phonepranks movie I made with FihnThrPateditor ChrisGore overadecadeago-whichherecently

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Odorama is, then you owe me two.) More importanilly,however,I saw a passionthat night in the eyes

of the Criterion crew. Sure, we were all doing something silly but they were pulling out all the stops to make the best disc possible - a passion that endures t h y within DVD prcducen who just won't stop at one international teaser trailer when they know another is lurking out there somewhere. The people who won't settle for doing a digital transfer from a dupe neg when they know the A-B rolled camera original might be just a few hundred phone calls away. I'm talking about the Indiana Tonedike adventurers who wil l travel to Italy (flying coach!) with the hope of finding a first-assembly rough cut of an obscure, Zgrade zombie film, just because they how that includingit onaseconddisc ofsupplementalmaterialwouldbethe rightthing to da

It's to you, Mr. Intrepid-Eqod-all-Reawn DVD producer, that I dedicate this second issue of the CFQSpoitik-and don't ever stop trying to find that second assistant director you've been looking for, because I knoul hell have some awesome anecdotes for your next commentary nack

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released on DVD!) Not long after I jumped aboard Criterion's free-LD gravy train

(becoming their greatest proponent), I received a call h m one of their producers asking for some help with a particular title: "Could you mybe come fo our ofice in Sania M c a to giw us a hand on an upcoming title we're i y i n g tojnish ihis week?"

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an excerpt from his new book "Profundo Argento: The Man, The Myths H The Magic," published by Fab Pres A fan of all things undead. Jones recently travelled to Bucharat Romania, to visit the set of the upcoming

Great Britain's Storburst and is a film crific for the Radio Times. Other magazines and new5 papers he has written for include Empire GQ Vogue, WM, Preview. Shivers The Independent, TheGuardionand Prrmierr.

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GoTlwALD champi- oned sweral of his favorite DMS for this spffial i w e , including Conon the Barbarian (see page 76) Halloween

(page 651 and Gcupe From New Yorkbage 61). While most publishers just specialize in writing check Mark is a true, passionate genre fan. The head of Mindfire Entertainment. Mark is a h currenth, praducing two feature films: HouseoftheDeodZand A//%ukDoy. Where dces he find the time?

writer for more than 20 years published a number of her xi-ti and hormr shon-fiction work into a collection entitled 7he Graveride Companion" and has been working on a novel for "more years than is sane to admit" She loves to travel, &ally to unusual destina- tions and has bobbled around atop camels in Egypt. gone trekking on horseback in England and hiked the Na Fali cliffs in Hawaii. She holds a degree in philosophy and Wchology from the University of California and shares an Orange County "cottage by the %a" with her husband, Jim.

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