I tend to feel Christoph really went hot around Beautiful girls 6 and Hardball 15, and supernova around BG 9 and EAH 19. However, given the delayed release of the EURO ANGELS discs and my not really liking the ones up till now (the camerawork/picture quality mainly), I'm wondering where EURO ANGELS as a series was up to when BG 6 and EAH 15 were released?
Is Christoph still planning to keep EURO ANGELS going past No. 30? Why don't we see some of the more recent volumes come out now, rather than chronologically trying to work through the back catalogue?
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DenverDon Benevolent
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Posted - Feb 10 2004 : 9:15PM
It's a dual effort from Evil Angel. When Christoph finishes a new one, they put it out with simultaneous releases VHS/DVD, and they continue on working on getting the back catalogue released on DVD. It's not only Christoph either, but all of their lines that have back catalogue that needs to be released on DVD.
Yeah, but every copy of HARDBALL 6 I've ever seen has that irritating transfer interference flickering shit happening at the top of the picture and it seriously steals from the overall power of the movie.
Agree that it's great for the sheer macabre beauty of Daniella Rush's anal play.
Evil Angel need to fix that DVD up. They won't, but they really do need to.
If ever a scene needs a performer's commentary, that anal invasion of Daniella does. I'd like to know just how she got that nasty, and how whether she was self-aware of the extent of her nastiness at that point.
Thanks Tricia. I'm guessing Christoph won't revive that series. It also means even the later EURO ANGELS work won't show Christoph really hitting his stride. Shame really.
I still think as incentive to a fan of his like me to pick up his earlier stuff (which even though I'm a fan I'm not THAT keen on) he could add a recently shot scene as an extra onto the EURO ANGELS films being released on DVD.
Can anything be done to improve the picture quality on those EURO ANGELS films such as 12, 13 and onwards to be released on DVD? That's one of the major drawbacks of getting them, knowing how crisp the images are now.
I wouldn't say that exactly. I think there's good stuff throughout the series, though your mileage may vary. I suppose it was always somewhat inconsistent. However, I do agree the increasing quality of Christoph's series in the last couple of years has certainly spoiled the newer audience - the clunky visuals of the older Euro Angels may come as something of a culture shock. That said, I do have mixed feelings now, as Christoph's work is slicker but is on something of a plateau as far as my interest in it is concerned. That is, of course, subject to change!
Well, I eased off after 10 or 11, I think ... only recently started checking the "Hardball" series out again ... #20 is superb! I love how stylized the camera moves are, locations, outfits, some of the girls are quite bubbly and/or amazingly nasty, and even when it looks kind of stagey, like the Sara Blue scene, it's so great 'cos she's so cute doing such nasty things (the gapes alone! OMG!). Well, I could go on and on but #20 is definitely a Top 10 for last year.
I wouldn't put it past them. EA has put some nice effort into their other titles, and if they see a payback in it I'm sure it would get done.
I think Christophe is currently releasing some of the best stuff out of EA, and I really don't know why it isn't getting more notice. I haven't cared for some of his early stuff, but the recent stuff I've seen from him has just as much of an anal theme as the rest of EA's stuff, and I think the chemistry in the scenes is going beyond what a lot of the other directors at EA are doing! After talking to him in Vegas I can't wait to see some of what he's going to come up with this year!
We're all taking him for granted a bit. I know I'm not - I almost walked away from buying porn, then I saw EAH 20 and I knew I couldn't do it.
I'd like to see him try some more atmospheric films like HARDBALL 14 - that would not correspond timewise with any of his EURO ANGELS efforts, but do any of the EURO ANGELS series contain that moody, fetishy, dark feel to them, combined with great costumes and seedy sex?