Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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I Flunked,
But . . .
(1930)
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This comedy-drama feature, directed by YasujirÃī Ozu, stars Tatsuo SaitÃī and Kaoru Futaba, with Tomio Aoki, Kinuyo Tanaka, IchirÃī Okuni, ChishÃŧ RyÃŧ, Kenji Satome and Goro Yokoyama.
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 British Film Institute
2011 DVD edition
The Student Comedies (1924), black & white, 316 minutes total, BBFC Certificate PG, including I Flunked, But . . . (1930), black & white, 99 minutes, BBFC Certificate PG.
British Film Institute, BFIVD927, UPC 5-035673-009277.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 320 Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 40-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; £19.95 (raised to £21.99).
Release date: 20 February 2012.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival 35mm print elements.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Ed Hughes with The Camilleri Trio and Richard Casey.
Supplemental material includes the surviving fragment of I Graduated, But . . . (1929) (11 minutes); the featurette âOzu: Emotion and Poetryâ with Tony Rayns; and a 40-page insert booklet with essays by Tony Rayns and Alexander Jacoby.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
I Flunked, But . . . (1930), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics, no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional? English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99 (raised to $15.49).
Release date: 202?.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions or pirating television network recordings to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other JAPANESE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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