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Flinty
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Posted - Jan 22 2001 : 3:02PM
I really like the look of Andrew Blakes DVD's but I don't know which ones I should start with.

Could someone give me some recommendations. I was thinking of getting Secret Paris and High Heels...Are these okay?

Thanks

Flinty

Saki
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Posted - Jan 22 2001 : 3:07PM
Well, I don't think you can go wrong with Andrew Blake's DVDs, but I really wasn't that impressed with High Heels . Personally, I liked the Pin-Ups movies. Also, don't get any of his early movies on DVD--they are some of the worst-mastered DVDs ever; make sure they are released by Blake's own Studio A.

Saki

Diesel
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Posted - Jan 22 2001 : 6:50PM
Saki is right: Andrew Blake's early works have been treated appallingly on DVD. That being said, I still recommend NIGHT TRIPS 2, perhaps my favorite porn film of all time. You also cannot go wrong with HIDDEN OBSESSIONS.

Review of Hidden Obsessions

HoustonDon
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Posted - Jan 23 2001 : 8:02AM
Flinty, I've been watching his movies for a long, long time and have made at least one observation. People either love him or hate him. All of the older titles released by a lame company look lousy. I hadn't seen any of his latest stuff from Studio A until the other day. I watched High Heels.

With all due respect to Saki, I thought it was hot and looked great. It had some black and white scenes, much of it was in widescreen, and it was shot in Rome, Italy. The four women in it haven't been "over exposed" by making hundreds of movies each too. (it claimed to have a few debuts and only one of them had made more than a dozen films before this was shot)

I finished my review early this morning and it should be posted later today. The bottom line, for me, was that any fan of Blake's work should buy it.

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Flinty
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Posted - Jan 23 2001 : 3:05PM
I've just sent off for Secret Paris....to test if I like his work.(?)....

Thanks for the advice guys

Flinty

Diesel
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Posted - Jan 23 2001 : 7:53PM
Uh, oh...I hate to tell you this, but SECRET PARIS is definitely NOT one of his better works. Yes, it looks great, but it suffers from too much prettiness, not enough sex. I thought it was very disappointing, although my overall review of it was good.

SECRET PARIS REVIEW

Again, please give HIDDEN OBSESSIONS or NIGHT TRIPS 2 a try before making an overall judgement on his work, which I believe is (usually) exceptional.

spesedy
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Posted - Jan 27 2001 : 6:26AM
I'm also thinking about buying my first Andrew Blake DVD. It's a shame that his earlier works aren't published by Studio-A. Anybody knows if there's a chance the earlier films are going to be republished by Studio-A in the future ? Any hints when this might be possible ?
I guess the other company has got the rights on these films for a certain time ? Any enlightenments about the law-point-of-view ?
Diesel
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Posted - Jan 27 2001 : 10:06AM
Mr. Blake was kind enough to take a few minutes to talk to Adult DVD Empire during the AVN Expo, and a brief summary of that discussion will be posted in next week's article.

But basically, Studio A does not have the rights to release his quartet of earlier works (SECRETS, NIGHT TRIPS 1 and 2, and HOUSE OF DREAMS). He does not have the ownership interest in them as he does with later titles like HIDDEN OBSESSIONS (which originally was released by Ultimate Pictures, than Blueframe, and now Studio A), or LES FEMMES EROTIQUES, or other post-Caballero studio work.

Before Caballero begin releasing their mediocre DVD editions of the four videos, DaVid Video originally put out NIGHT TRIPS, SECRETS and HOUSE OF DREAMS in the digital format, and their work was also mediocre at best. Only NIGHT TRIPS 2 is available on Caballero, and the packaging is all screwed up (pictures of NIGHT TRIPS 1 are imprinted on the DVD and the back cover) and there are chapter and time-code problems galore. Don't get me wrong; the DVD editions are better than the tape versions, but that's about it.

At this time, he has expressed to me that he has no immediate concerns over getting these videos back to Studio A, preferring to leave "the past behind."

Saki
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Posted - Jan 27 2001 : 10:27PM
HoustonDon: I have High Heels on VHS, and I still think that it's not among his best work. That doesn't mean that I didn't like it--just that it's not one of my favorite Blake films. And maybe I'm biased: I really like Blake's male-female films more than a lot of his girl-girl efforts. In that regard, despite his genius, I think I'm leaning more toward Cameron Grant or Michael Ninn as my all-time favorite director since they follow Blake's sylistic lead while showing an ample amount of sex of all types. Anyway, I think that even his worst film is better than 99.9% of the stuff that's being produced today.

Diesel: Too bad to hear that Blake's giving up on his early works...they are among the best adult films of all time. They definitely seemed to rescue an industry that looked like it would never again spend money or effort in producing a real film. Considering all of the crappy shot-on-video features of that same era, I shudder to think what we'd be watching if it weren't for Andrew Blake.

Saki

Edited by - Saki on Jan 27 2001

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Posted - Jan 28 2001 : 3:27PM
I guess everybody have their own taste.
Diesel
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Posted - Jan 28 2001 : 4:16PM
Saki --- I agree that the early works of Andrew Blake are significant in terms of influence and stature. I doubt that Caballero will ever even thing about remastering them, because they may not realize, or care, about how his first four films should be preserved on disc. Although there have been imitators like Philp Mond's ZAZEL and other successful filmakers like Cameron Grant, nothing can touch what Blake has wrought.



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