Anyone pick this up yet? Anamorphic and, hopefully, bright colors, as opposed to the toned-down pseudo-"black&white" version John Badham engineered for the last (first) DVD issuance, as well as the version I saw on TV last weekend. I can't find any reviews yet, though.
This is the Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier version.
http://www.dvdreview.com/html/breaki..._9-27-98.html:
Yet, another good example, or maybe even the best of them all, down these lines is, when director John Badham literally mutilated his own 1979 film “Draculaâ€. Badham tried to achieve a sad and somewhat bleak look for his film, somewhat reminiscent to the stylish black and white classics. Badham decided to desaturate the film’s colors alltogether and the result is, well, let’s call it, very bleak. It get’s to the point where the film loses all its charm and atmosphere whereas the untouched film was rich in colors with fantastic atmospheric lightings. All these attributes were sadly lost in Badham’s director approved version, mostly because the cinematography was designed with rich colors in mind and doesnt’ work too well in this undersaturated version. This version of the film is available on DVD from Image Entertainment if you’re interested to see how a really good film has been single-handedly devalued by its own creator.
This is the Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier version.
http://www.dvdreview.com/html/breaki..._9-27-98.html:
Yet, another good example, or maybe even the best of them all, down these lines is, when director John Badham literally mutilated his own 1979 film “Draculaâ€. Badham tried to achieve a sad and somewhat bleak look for his film, somewhat reminiscent to the stylish black and white classics. Badham decided to desaturate the film’s colors alltogether and the result is, well, let’s call it, very bleak. It get’s to the point where the film loses all its charm and atmosphere whereas the untouched film was rich in colors with fantastic atmospheric lightings. All these attributes were sadly lost in Badham’s director approved version, mostly because the cinematography was designed with rich colors in mind and doesnt’ work too well in this undersaturated version. This version of the film is available on DVD from Image Entertainment if you’re interested to see how a really good film has been single-handedly devalued by its own creator.