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Re: mysterious island 1973 mini series

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:09:55 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Jean-Pierre Boutin wrote:

> I also bought it but not receive it yet. The fact that there is no English
> version is a real problem and restricts the diffusion to French speaking
> people (my opinion is that you are such Garmt).

Yes, it's a shame. There's a difference between talking to francophone
people, when you can ask to speak a bit more slowly, and watching a movie
with background music, fast-speaking characters, etc.

I had the Decourt Strogoff miniseries on video, taped from TV5. Now TV5
has the useful habit of subtitling, in French, their films that are spoken
in French. Later I bought the DVD set, which didn't include subtitles. So,
even if DVD has the advantage of better image and sound quality, and easy
scene selection, in this case it did have one drawback as compared to the
video tape.

Do you know that series of animated Voyages Extraordinaires? You can
choose French, English or Italian language, and they have subtitles in
French and in English. These animations are quite well done, by the way,
and include some less famous stories like Etoile du Sud and Jangada.

> About the "Ile Mystérieuse" mini series, it's a very reliable adaptation
> of the JV novel but some comments say that it is somewhat tedious...

I'm looking forward to having a lot of free time (yeah right... as if that
will ever happen), so I can watch it...

> The same editor re-published also a movie from “Le phare du bout du Monde”
> featuring Burt Lancaster etc. There are 2 DVD, one with the French version,
> the other with the original (English) version.,”The light of the edge of the
> world”.

Yes, I saw it at amazon. How silly can you be, making two separate discs
with the same movie, only in a different language? Very strange...

But, despite all these shortcomings, we can be happy that a couple of
movies are now commercially available.

Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Thu 21 Jul 2005 - 12:10:03 IDT

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