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Topic: And the Golden Bear goes to "Spirited Away"
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
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From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 09-18-2002 03:50 PM
Places confirmed to run the subtitled version can be found at:http://nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/theaters.php Spies for Nausicaa.net will be reporting in as SA and Sen hit the screens  If anyone here gets to handle the subtitled print, could y'all please confirm the sound formats on that print? Over at FI&TA Jeffry Johnson noted the English-dubbed version only has Dolby SR/SR-D EX. In Japan, the prints came with DTS-ES as well. Just curious. Regards, Paul
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
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posted 09-18-2002 07:26 PM
Claude, I'm sure at least one screen in the Honolulu area will play Sen in Japanese. Looks like theatres in areas that have large JA or arthouse demographics are doing that. A big "thank you!" (and numerous bangings of head into tatami floor) goes out to Disney for making subtitled prints available this time (Miramax refused to do so for Princess Mononoke a few years back).I'm surprised that the old iMac played DVDs from other regions. Must've slipped through the cracks. But I imagine one could flash their present DVD drive using something like RegionKiller or install DVDGenie to achieve the same capability. Me? I was using an all-region Apex standalone DVD player until it died a few weeks ago. Sure wish I could find a job and get crackin' on my HTPC project. For everyone, I ended up with two copies of the R2 double-disc DVD. So, if anyone here would like to buy one, I'll offer it up here first--$50 US (DVDs in Japan are expensive) including shipping and insurance. Contact off list... Regards, Paul
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
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From: Albuquerque, NM
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posted 10-04-2002 01:46 PM
For Claude and anyone else from my spiritual (second) home islands Spirited Away opens October 11th at the Dole Signature and Varsity Twin theatres. Can't find any info on sub vs. dub but I have to assume at least one of those screens will show the sub. No word on SA playing here yet. The one theatre that I thought would play it has decided to pass on it.  Ah well, we'll probably be screening it sometime this semester at the anime club here--after I cobble together a sound system that will do the Japanese DTS-ES tracks justice. Mata ne, Paul
SoCal, Hawaii, Japan--the job quest continues...
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 10-13-2002 01:20 AM
Oh well. Spirited Away will drop off all screens shortly anyway, swept away by the flood of new titles slated to open in the next few weeks. Despite overwhelmingly great reviews, The Mouse maintained its slow rollout pace, thereby losing the advantage of the good reviews and WOM, and combined that with no advertising push, the result being that SA has now probably peaked at under 200 screens and will now die quickly. It's playing on two screens here this week and I will try to catch it on both--my first and last chance to see it on film, on a big screen, at the correct color temp, with Joe Hisaishi's music on a big sound system, and with an English dub that many say flows better (dramatically speaking, by western audience standards anyway) than the original Japanese. Hopefully the R1 DVD, rumored to be coming in early 2003, will not have the screwed up color temp. of the Japanese R2, and will have the subtitled Japanese tracks. (The R2 is shaded to look correct at 9300K, but I'm not willing to mess up my monitor's grey scale just to watch one film--even if it is a great one.)On the plus side, at least we can look forward to three other Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli titles coming out on DVD here over the next few months. Fox is releasing My Neighbor Totoro (pan & scan and English only, dammit), and Disney is planning on *Castle in the Sky--Laputa and Kiki's Delivery Service before the end of the year, assuming The Mouse' suits don't overrule John Lasseter. These, along with Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies (probably the saddest animated movie ever made, now out on a beautifully remastered 2-disc DVD collector's set from CPM) and the too-limited theatrical run of SA, will actually make 2002 a year to remember for Ghibli films in the US. Ja ne, Paul
Member, SMPTE Hollywood Section
Member, OOF Otakus Over Forty
Chou Sutajio Jiburi Otaku--Super Studio Ghibli fan
* Castle in the Sky--the film that started my Ghibli fixation
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