Four Flies On Grey Velvet (Dario Argento, 1971)

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[WilsonBros]

I'll be doing my own fan restoration of 4 Flies - watch this space. 

Would be VERY interested in seeing what that would turn out like, Marc...

Kev W

[DjangoLi]

English subs for four flies, translated from the Italian audio are on my website now...

www.italianfilmtranslation.com

Hope you enjoy em'.

Now all we need is a composite!

(I'm v.glad to hear someone is already working on it.)

btw/ There are a couple of other new subs up, notably 'A Ciascuno il Suo' directed by Elio Petri.

[Raf A.]

Cool Django!
Cheers

[Jonny]

Cheers for the subs DjangoLi 

I haven't got the MYA disc as I'm waiting for the 01 release. Will it be easy to re-time them to fit the PAL release?

[DjangoLi]

I don't see why not - You can use a program like subtitle workshop, it's very easy to retime subs. The only snag might be if they ( 01 ) manage to find the missing snippets of footage - in this case it becomes a bit more problematic.

[Jonny]

I'll hold on and see how the 01 release turns out then. I have Sub Workshop so I'm sure if have a tinker with it I'll figure it out eventually.

[MarcMorris]

As the MYA master is missing 48s of footage I would wait for a reconstruction to turn up which will most likely have fixed English audio and English subs for the Italian track.

[K August]

As the MYA master is missing 48s of footage I would wait for a reconstruction to turn up which will most likely have fixed English audio and English subs for the Italian track.

If you release this Marc, I definitely want one. 

I'm not picky, but I'd like the option of both languages and the English subs.

[DjangoLi]

Well waddya know...

The following info is from an 'official announcement' in a newsletter from the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome. As you all probably know, it's owned/run by Dario Argento and Luigi Cozzi.

Pinched and plundered from the gentedirispetto forum - posted by dan880

Una buona notizia e una cattiva. La buona notizia è che il ricercatissimo film di Dario Argento 4 MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO è stato pubblicato finalmente in dvd negli Stati Uniti ed è stato annunciato in uscita anche in Italia a maggio in dvd a opera della distribuzione 01, che poi non sarebbe
altro che Rai Cinema.
La brutta notizia è che gli avvocati della famiglia Argento si sono già messi in moto per bloccare queste due uscite. Perchè? Ma perchè Dario e Claudio Argento, che sono i legittimi proprietari di questo film per tutto il mondo tranne gli Stati Uniti (lì la proprietaria è la Paramount), di questa uscita in dvd sono stati informati solo per caso: una non meglio
identificata società straniera ha venduto i diritti di 4 MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO alla Rai, ma Dario e Claudio Argento giurano di non aver mai ceduto tali diritti alla suddetta compagnia straniera e quindi, secondo loro, si
tratterebbe di un clamoroso caso di pirateria audiovisiva.
Sono quindi già partite le ingiunzioni e le diffide legali per impedire almeno quest'uscita di 4 MOSCHE DI VELLUTO GRIGIO in Italia. La Rai/01 ha conseguentemente annunciato di aver sospeso per il momento la distribuzione
di 4 MOSCHE, almeno finchè non si sarà fatta maggiore chiarezza sulla reale situazione dei diritti di questo film.
Vedremo che cosa succederà ancora...

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In ye olde Anglais...

Good news and bad news. The good news is that the much sought after film by Dario Argento, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, has finally been released on dvd in the United States and an Italian release was announced for May by the distribution company 01, (Who are none other than RAI Cinema)

The bad news is that lawyers working for the Argento family have begun proceedings to stop both releases. Why? Because Dario and Claudio Argento, who own all territory rights except for America (where it's owned by Paramount) were only informed of this release by chance. An unknown foreign company sold the rights to Four Flies on Grey Velvet to RAI, but Dario and Claudio claim they never sold the rights to this unknown foreign company, so, according to them, they regard it is a gross act of audio/visual piracy.

Injunctions have already been issued to prevent the release of Four Flies on Grey Velvet in Italy. In the meantime, RAI has announced they have temporarily suspended distribution of Four Flies on Grey Velvet, at least until the rights issue has been cleared up.

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(Dozey translation by Roky Erickson and the Aliens)

Looks like the MYA disc may well go up in price?

Also, it begs the question, how did they get hold of that master?

[Inspector Tanzi]

Decisions, Decisions....

If i don't get the Mya disc it will probably increase in value...

On the other hand if i do get it a better one will probably come out!

A catch-22 situation.

[Paul]

I say it's worth the risk to shell out for the Mya disc, mate.

[Inspector Tanzi]

I say it's worth the risk to shell out for the Mya disc, mate.

I'm skint, hopefully i can get one in a week or two.

Ebay is poor at the moment

[Paul]

I say it's worth the risk to shell out for the Mya disc, mate.

I'm skint, hopefully i can get one in a week or two.

Ebay is poor at the moment

I wouldn't leave it too long, mate. I'd get one of these before you order your next couple of Shaw titles, to be honest.

[Inspector Tanzi]

I say it's worth the risk to shell out for the Mya disc, mate.

I'm skint, hopefully i can get one in a week or two.

Ebay is poor at the moment

I wouldn't leave it too long, mate. I'd get one of these before you order your next couple of Shaw titles, to be honest.

I should do shouldn't I.

[DjangoLi]

It's worth noting that the issue with RAI 'waiting' for the rights issue to be cleared up puts Four Flies on Grey Velvet right back to square one. Unless someone passes some new laws in Italian parliament it's not going to come out any time soon.... (deja-vu!)