{"id":592,"date":"2013-07-11T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:50:08","slug":"atom-egoyan-orange-and-teal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/atom-egoyan-orange-and-teal\/","title":{"rendered":"What did Atom Egoyan ever do to Orange and Teal ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atom Egoyan’s powerful, and often disturbing early work has just been released on Blu-ray. Unfortunately something more troubling than massively dysfunctional relationships lurks at the heart of these releases. I take a very quick look at these releases.<\/p>\n

I discovered Atom Egoyan in the summer of 2000. It was a very formative year for me, through work I had the opportunity to spend three months living in New York, soaking up the atmosphere at ground level in one of the best cities on the planet.<\/p>\n

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It was during this time that I first watched The Sweet Hereafter<\/strong><\/a> and was immediately hooked on it’s complex and free-floating narrative structure, and temporal disconnection. Russel Bank’s novel from which the film was adapted was equally moving. By chance I discovered that there was going to be an Atom Egoyan retrospective at the Greenwich Village Film Forum, as a result, that summer I gorged on Egoyan’s early work, Speaking Parts, Family Viewing,\u00a0<\/strong>The Adjuster <\/strong>and Exotica<\/strong>. Powerful stuff.<\/p>\n

For many years the only way to watch Egoyan’s early films on home video have crumbling VHS tapes. I was first ripped off on eBay trying to buy one of his early films on a used VHS tape. In 2001, Zeitgeist Films issued Egoyan’s entire back-catalog on DVD. The quality was pretty acceptable given the low-budget 16mm sources, and the DVDs are perfectly serviceable, but aren’t exactly reference quality.<\/p>\n

With the the video rights likely expiring after ten years (2001 + 10), in the past year there has been a rush of early Egoyan releases on Blu-ray.<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, a fan of Egoyan’s early works like myself would be over the moon, however:\u00a0I was crushed to discover that every single one of them has been Orange and Tealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now maybe I can understand the Sweet Hereafter and Exotica getting the treatment, they are pretty mainstream – but Family Viewing ? Seriously ? Can there be any way in which re-tinting Family Viewing is going to open it up to a mainstream audience ?<\/p>\n

Worst part of it is, according to at least one site<\/a>, some of these transfers are director approved.<\/p>\n

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Really.<\/p>\n

\"Family<\/a>

Atom Egoyan goes orange and teal.<\/p><\/div>\n

Notes<\/h2>\n

Some of the screenshots above are from the ever useful DVDBeaver<\/a> however the bitter commentary is entirely my own.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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