John Landis Blu-Ray Interview

John Landis Talks about the upcoming blu-ray of An american werewolf in London and the HD transfert of Animal House. Recorded in January 2009

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Film & Animation

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• Landis
• Blu-Ray
• werewolf
• london

[RandomAccessMemories]

Finally. So many film studios just don't get it.

They destroy films with Digital Noise Reduction (the film grain is what captures the image, remove it, and you remove detail), as well as artificial edge enhancement, and contrast boosting.

Just transfer the film from a high quality original negative with extreme care, and leave it be.

[KahnBB6]

I love his take on how the technicians reacted to preserving the contrasty, grainy and darkened images from his films. Shouldn't they be preserved the way they were intended to be seen at the time of release?

[Maverick2012ish]

He's right about Blu Ray been far superior to HD cause HD can also mean 720p while Blu Ray is 1080p. In regards to charlie's concern about the sound. I heard that they made the sound with a combination of Elephant sound but I must be honest, I favor the sound in the analog broadcast on T.V. anyday over the DVD cause the DVD doesn't have that ommph one would like and so for some reason it sounds manufactured but it's still a fantastic cult classic for movie fans let alone horror ones.

[charliellorente]

does anyone know how did they do the howling sound in "ana mareican werewolf in London". I´seen lots of stuff about this movie, the makeup, the fx, but I can ´t find anything about the sound effects. I am fascinated by that howling sound, it´like a wolf howling sound played slower but there´s still a lot of attack in it, so it must me mixed with something else, I don´t know...

[burtonrules123]

the only film where they removed the grain and it looked 1000 times better was predator.

oh yeah and animal house is the WORST landis film. it was his first hit but his worst film and easily on my top 10 worst films ever. i really dont get its popularity.

[hotdave86000]

COOL

[bigfatbugface]

I love it the way he says "A thousand!" lol

[Unstoppable911]

Hes a Murderer. He should be in Jail.

[ibnYunus786]

I think when hes refering to high def his reffering to HD-DVD cos Animal House did come out on HD-DVD. There really wouldnt be any viusal difference between either format to be honest as both would be able to fit the movie at its highest quality seamlessley they just tend to add more extras to the blu due to space however for some bizzare reason you tend to find more DNR issues on blu ray than HD-DVD

[Nocturnaloner]

Thanks, Ash595 and the Forgotten Silver blog for this great interview, which, short as it is,  offers a lot of insight into the digital remastering process. I wish that we had more directors like Landis watching over their films' transfer to HD!

[vorpalproductions]

I think he meant it's much more crisp than broadcast/cable high definition, which it very well can be.

I don't think he's that old not to know that Blu-ray is HD.