Most of the visitors should have noticed it by now but lets announce it anyways. I have moved my spaghetti western dvd site to a different domain name and server… probably what… 4-5 months ago? All of the content from the old site should be here now. There are some empty movie pages for now, but they never existed in the old site. Just recently added them here, but without content yet. Oh well. There are some other stuff to fix as well.
All of you who have linked to me in the past, for which I am very grateful thank you, could you please replace the old address with this new one ( http://www.spaghettiwesterndvds.com ) when you have the time and if it is not too much trouble. Fortunately, at least for now and hopefully far into the future, I have redirects from the old addresses to this new one, so even if you don’t change the links, the visitors should arrive at the correct place. So no need for panic, especially for the good people at the SWDB and the multiple links from there. 
Anyways I might contact some of the webmasters separately and ask for the link change. Maybe. Someday.
Oh yeah one more thing… I made a twitter account for the site (link is at the top of the page), and my site should automatically tweet all of my blog posts into that account. For some reason there are already couple of followers (you know who you are… 
) but I don’t except this to be a big thing, especially because my blog posts might be the only content that ends up there. I’m just not a big fan of the twitter or facebook. I don’t have anything against them though. I should probably do a facebook page/group as well…
I have added some disc infos and screenshots in the last couple of months without mentioning them.
First one is a comparison between several DVDs and one Blu-Ray for the A Fistful of Dollars. As excepted the Blu-Ray is obviously superior to everything else as far as image quality goes. The UK and German DVDs discs look surprisingly bad to my eyes when compared with the older Italian DVD. I don’t (yet) have the newer Italian DVD but I except it will be better than all the rest (as it was made from the same material as the Blu-Ray).
A Fistful of Dollars screenshot comparison.
(Note that the Italian discs of A Fistful of Dollars, DVDs and Blu-Ray, do have English audio)
I have also added screenshots from Dorado Films’ Gatling Gun and The Three Musketeers of the West, SNC/M6’s French discs (only Italian & French audio) George Hilton Sartana, Night of the Serpent (comparison with the Global Video release) and Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die, and a comparison between the two unimpressive DVDs of the Moment to Kill. There might be some more but I honestly can’t remember for sure either way.
The Italian company MHE has just released The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on both DVD and Blu-Ray. The DVD is a special edition with small book/let included while that is missing from the Blu-Ray edition. MHE has released the movie previously couple of years ago as a very simple edition which left hoping for more. As far as I can tell this is from a new restoration of some sort… at least I hope so. The MGM Blu-Rays aren’t as good as I hoped they would be, so I’m really hoping this will be better.
Unfortunately according to Kultmedia and Videociak the discs have only one Italian track and nothing more. I realize DVD.it claims the Blu-Ray to have English audio but they also claim the aspect ratio to be 1.78:1 which can’t be correct so…
Anyways, I should have the discs (yes, both…) early next week and hopefully can put up some kind of comparison soon after that.
Sergio Leone’s Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo aka The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has finally been released on Blu-Ray. French disc has been available for over a week now and the German disc has just been released. I suspect they are both exactly the same and the US disc which will be released on 12th of May will most likely be the same. DVDBeaver has screenshots from the French disc and unfortunately it doesn’t look as good as I hoped it would be. Still captures won’t tell everything, but…
I hope this will get a release in Italy with a different transfer (other countries will probably use this same MGM transfer?).
And where are mono soundtracks?
Anyways, you can buy the disc from either Amazon.fr
or Amazon.de
. Or pre-order it from Amazon.com
Added info and screenshots for the Surf Video release of Per il gusto di uccidere / For the Taste of Killing (1966). Comparison reveals the Wild East disc to be much worse in image quality (screenshot from Wild East and Surf Video ) but the Italian disc suffers from more cuts and perhaps incorrect colors at some points. As usual the Wild East disc comes with only English audio track while the Surf Video has only Italian.
Italian company Medusa Home Entertainment has recently released Matalo! on DVD and the result looks very good. I was actually very surprised at the quality as I thought this kind of release might not be a possibility. I remember reading, although I’m not sure if it’s true at all, that Koch Media was going to release Matalo! at some point but they had to cancel it because good enough print wasn’t found.
I compared the Medusa disc to the older Wild East disc and have to say that the Italian disc is clearly superior in multiple ways. The only reason, and I admit it is an important one, there’s still room for the WE release is that as usual the Italian disc includes only Italian audio/subtitles. But fans might want to pick up this new disc anyways even if they can’t understand Italian (and already own another release).
Here’s one higher (1024x…) resolution image comparison which really shows what kind of difference there is. I have removed the black bars from the non-anamorphic image of the WE disc.
http://www.sundances.net/spaghetti/screenshots/wematalo.png
http://www.sundances.net/spaghetti/screenshots/medusamatalo.png
And click on the following links for
Medusa Home Entertainment & Wild East disc specs / and the rest of the screenshots
It seems DVD Drive-In is the first(?) site to publish a review of the new Navajo Joe disc. Anamorphic 2.35:1 image with English audio track. Three subtitles (English, Spanish, French) are provided. No extras.
Read the review here http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/navajojoe66.htm
The official release date is actually 13th of May, but DVDPacific has shipped my pre-order today. Don’t know if you can find the disc from any stores yet, but if you do get it, please let me know about the quality and aspect ratios (few good screenshots wouldn’t hurt either ).
Uploaded specs and screenshots for a couple of different discs:
Dio perdona… Io no! / God Forgives… I Don’t! (1968) Seven Sept France / screenshots
Il venditore di morte / The Price Of Death (1971) X-Rated Kult DVD Germany / screenshots
¡Viva la muerte… tua! / Long Live Your Death (1971) Fravidis France & X-Cess Germany / screenshots
Thanks to Pieter Boven for all the info/screenshots.
French readers might want to know that it turns out the Seven Sept disc of God Forgives… I Don’t is actually cut despite the claims by the cover.
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