Found: Season of the Witch and lost Romero movie There's Always Vanilla on 1 DVD! [Archive]

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SymphonicX

14-Aug-2008, 10:53 AM

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEASON-OF-THE-WITCH-1973-George-A-Romero-R1-DVD_W0QQitemZ270264248178QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item2 70264248178&_trkparms=72%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318

Just won this auction - maybe some hardcore Romero completists would be interested in getting this DVD? Has anyone here got it? I'd never heard of it!

MinionZombie

14-Aug-2008, 10:56 AM

Yeah man that came out a while ago, it's been on my Wish List for a while now, I just keep forgetting to get around to it. I will one day though. :)

SymphonicX

14-Aug-2008, 11:07 AM

There's also a re-packaged Knightriders that's come out but can't seem to find the extras details on Amazon....

bassman

14-Aug-2008, 11:42 AM

Yeah...that's been around for a good while now. There's several copies at my local Best Buy for 9.99, but I still haven't picked it up...

MinionZombie

14-Aug-2008, 11:53 AM

Ah yeah, a new Knightriders DVD...I forgot about that. I got the original Anchor Bay DVD a while back, and then I remember a new DVD being mentioned...yeah, I've got the 2000 DVD, and then 2007 rocks up and brings a new version of the DVD.

I got my 2000 copy in like 2004 or something.

Yeah I can't find any info on the new DVD...hmmm.

SymphonicX

14-Aug-2008, 12:11 PM

I think it's just the movie sans anything else - TBH the original Anchor Bay dvd hardly had any extras on it either, which is a shame, it's a beautiful movie...

MinionZombie

14-Aug-2008, 12:12 PM

I think it's just the movie sans anything else - TBH the original Anchor Bay dvd hardly had any extras on it either, which is a shame, it's a beautiful movie...
Oh well if that's the case, then I'm sorted. :)

axlish

14-Aug-2008, 02:18 PM

The original Knightriders DVD has plenty of features on it, including a commentary with Tom, George and Chris the Greek, as well as Amplas who bails after a few minutes. It also has a long reel of silent film from the set. The only thing it is missing is a making of featurette but those often just end up being rehashes of the commentary.

Whats more, I recently found out that the original DVD is anamorphic as well, so unless the new DVD did a stellar clean up job (jury is still out on that, but I doubt it), the rerelease offers nothing that the original disc did not.

As far as the Season of the Witch/ There's Always Vanilla DVD... welcome to 2005 :)

SymphonicX

14-Aug-2008, 02:39 PM

No ****er told me this was on DVD..........:angry:

The original Knightriders DVD has plenty of features on it, including a commentary with Tom, George and Chris the Greek, as well as Amplas who bails after a few minutes. It also has a long reel of silent film from the set. The only thing it is missing is a making of featurette but those often just end up being rehashes of the commentary.

Whats more, I recently found out that the original DVD is anamorphic as well, so unless the new DVD did a stellar clean up job (jury is still out on that, but I doubt it), the rerelease offers nothing that the original disc did not.

As far as the Season of the Witch/ There's Always Vanilla DVD... welcome to 2005 :)

Actually yeah there was a commentary - but really that was all that was notable, the home video stuff was a bit poo - really there needed to be a full length doc on it, some stills, press releases, outtakes etc etc...but there's obviously not a lot available for this movie which is a real shame.

Bub666

14-Aug-2008, 03:37 PM

SymphonicX

14-Aug-2008, 04:08 PM

I've already got them both on VHS, love TAV, Season of the Witch is good too, but TAV is excellent for a love story...

axlish

14-Aug-2008, 10:33 PM

I like them both a lot as well. The highlights of each film is the performance of Raymond Layne. Seems like he was a really cool guy. R.I.P.

Bub666

15-Aug-2008, 04:00 AM

I thought TAV was a really good movie.