
You can read my review of Old Romances here.
Like its predecessor, Old Romances gets its release on a Region Free DVD (PAL Format), with a key difference - not having television broadcast in mind, this film is presented in its original widescreen format, in an anamorphic transfer, so that's great for many of the widescreen television sets these days. For consistency, this release also sports a similar DVD menu design and function found for Old Places, kept simple with a small preview window that shows clips from either of the 6 chapters that can be selected individually - and clicking it again will bring you to the point in the film proper, or you can use the Play All function to watch the film in its entirety. The chapters do not bring you back to the menu once they're over though, it'll just continue onto the next, until the end of the film.
Even the packaging is kept consistent, done in a very old school style without the usual keepcase, with the DVD disc and 9 thick cardboard postcards when attached together, spells "Old Romances" against a kaleidoscope of nostalgic tile designs.

While the Old Places DVD was relatively bare-bones, Old Romances DVD has a Behind the Scenes (7:08) segment, presented in an anamorphic widescreen format, subtitled in English, and shot in black-and-white, containing interviews with the three directors, and a behind the scenes look at their on-location shoots with the various collaborators and crew. Though short, I think there's probably enough material out there somewhere, where a documentary about the making of Old Places / Old Romances would be extremely interesting, sort of like a documentary about the documenting process. I'm also quite sure there's a lot more material shot that didn't make the final cut of the finished film. A photo-book would also probably not be out of reach, and having them all packaged together - photo-book, documentary, the films proper, would be quite a blast in some ultimate-edition type of release with full bells and whistles.
So Objectifs, what do you think? :-)
Related Links
- Facebook Group
- Q&A Session
- Purchase Old Romances from ObjectifsFilms here.
1 comment:
Dear Sir/Madam,
On behalf of the National Library Board (NLB), we would like to invite you to pledge your blog to the Singapore Memory Project as part of efforts to collect memories that are already manifested in existing online channels.
The Singapore Memory Project (SMP) is a national initiative to collect, preserve and provide access to Singapore’s knowledge materials. Spearheaded by NLB, the SMP aims to build a national collection of content in diverse formats (including print, audio and video), to preserve them in digital form, and make them available for discovery and research.
By pledging your blog to SMP, you are affirming that every memory matters. Whether your posts are an account of your daily life, or an expression of your thoughts, the SMP hopes to find a home for your memories so that it can help build towards an understanding of Singapore. You will also receive a badge that you can display on your blog in recognition of your contributions.
Contributors to this blog pledging initiative will be listed on Singapore Memory portal’s blog pledging webpage. All blogs pledged to SMP will archived using NLB’s web harvesting software, in addition to images of each blog’s landing page.
If you are keen to pledge your blog to SMP, simply fill up our response form at this following URL: http://singaporememory.simulation.com.sg/Public/Pledge.
You may find out more about this initiative at http://www.iremember.sg/?page_id=2822.
We are looking forward to your contribution.
|Simulation Software & Technology (S2T) Pte Ltd 583 Orchard Road #14-02 Forum The Shopping Mall S(238884) w: www.simulation.com.sg
Post a Comment