New After Life DVD

[Jacqui Chen]

Someone claiming to be the producer for Afterlife DVD wrote on Amazon.com:

Reviewer: Daniel Bird from New York
I am the DVD Producer who authored "Afterlife." I can understand the
reviewers complaint about the
subtitles being in the video, not as a menu driven feature. This was the
only version of the
master that was available for the DVD. I certainly would have loved to have
a new digital master
from a pristine print without the subtitles and a DVD subtitle feature, but
it just wasn't
possible for this release, given the timetable and budget constraints. One
of the problems with
DVD releases of "Indy/Art" films ( and I don't mean that in any kind of
negative way) is that
availability of masters specifically for a DVD are hard to come by. We had
to use the master that
was created for the VHS release in the USA, which was created with the
subtitles. I hope that this
doesn't detract too much from the film, because it's a great film and I
think that anyone that
buys the DVD and watches the film will feel that they got their money's
worth. At least I hope so,
even though in an ideal world I would have loved to do this film justice
with a new, pristine
master created specifically for the DVD release.

hope this helps,
jC

--- drainer at mpinet.net wrote:
> The specifications I came across were full screen.... apparently the
> true
> aspect ratio of the movie (?)
>    I got it from netflix.com, and they list the same... (and they're
> usually
> correct in the ratios...)
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>  df
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> Michael E. Kerpan wrote:
> >
> > I just got the new US DVD of After Life --and encountered a mystery.
The
> > package claims the release is letterboxed, but the actual movie plays
(on my DVD
> > player) only in full screen mode.  A couple of the trailers included on
the DVD
> > do play in widescreen mode, however. An inquiry to New Yorker Video has
yielded
> > no response yet. Has anyone else had any experience with this DVD yet?
> >