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From Lady Oscar (1979), arguably one of the finest cavalier boot movies ever made. It's going to be a pain in the ass to trim down and I just made this test clip to make sure I could get the English language track and keep the proper AR. Looks pretty good. Now to set aside a whole day to trim down the complete movie.
Of course as I was prepping this I found that VLC and WMP both defaulted to the Italian audio AND while it plays correctly in three players, the still caps from MPC had a screwed up AR. Oh, well the picture looks ok.
BTW-several crappy looking versions of the entire movie are on youtube. Sadly, the few I've sampled all had the Italian dialog track.
Wow...there is a french film, similar to this, with Sophie Marceau acting as the daugther of the famous d'Artagnan. She wore superb brown ''musketeer'' t-h boots nearly all the movie.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109798/
I've recently acquired an HD version of "d'Artgnan's Daughter" (it's easier for me to call it that rather than the proper French title or the video release title which misses the point completely by not mentioning Sophie's character). It's a fine movie, but I think that by my imaginary boot quality metric (square inches of boot shaft multiplied by minutes of screen time), Lady Oscar would come out ahead.
DeleteWell as you say is a good period film + the boots + Sophie Marceau in her best period, I just love that movie. But the Lady Oscar seems really good on the boot aspecto, yes.
ReplyDeleteI certainly didn't mean to disparage or criticize Sophie and her great movie. It's a classic and I like Sophie a lot. If I had 100 hours in a day both movies would already have been featured on my blog.
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