Colorized Forbidden Zone at The American Cinematheque on 7/30

[Monsterhead]

Not sure how I feel about a colorized version of the film, but hey, there’s gonna be a Q&A following:

http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2008/Egyptian/specialevent_JULY_ET2008.htm#FORBIDDEN%20ZONE

[boingomusic]

I saw this a few days ago… I always thought Richard Elfman WANTED the forbidden zone to be in black & white, because it felt more esthetic. Apparently, he always had in mind to shoot it in b&w and then to colorize it, but since the movie never got famous enough at the time, they didn’t get the budget to do it…

I’m really curious to know who are the “various members of the mystic knights” that are going to show up at the screening…

Anyway, I bought recently a french version of the Forbidden Zone dvd, which is REALLY worth buying.
The encoding has directly been made from the 1080p High Definition Master, the DTS soundtrack is a 24bit encoded to 768 kbps (and not a 16bit like the us version). I’ve never heard a dvd sound THAT good in my life! THE BEST PART : it presents also the movie with the previous 2.0 sound mix (the one that was on the vhs, and a few songs appear in an older/different version than the ones in the final dvd.)
Another good thing is an extra interview with Marie-Pascale Elfman IN FRENCH.

The editor is “Le chat qui fume” (which means “The cat who smokes”)
Here’s the link : http://lechatquifume.com/index.php?Forbidden-zone

[boingomusic]

Just realized you can BUY the color version, signed by Richard Elfman here :

http://www.forbiddenzonethemovie.com/shop.htm

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