MsPippiton1117
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The American branch of Umbrella Entertainment has announced Goodbye Paradise, Carl Schulz's 1983 Australian neo-noir with Ray Barrett, Robyn Nevin, Kate Fitzpatrick, John Clayton and Lex Marinos. Date given is September 29.
That is the entire announcement, which is my recurring complaint with catalog releases rather than with this one specifically. No word on what element the transfer comes from, no restoration credit, no extras list, no region coding. For a title from 1983 that has never had a serious disc release, those four things are the whole purchase decision. A new 4K scan of the original negative and a straight lift of an old broadcast master both get announced with the same sentence, and you find out which one you bought when it arrives.
What is genuinely good here is the Australian label putting a US arm behind these. That catalog has spent decades being an import problem: locked discs, shipping from the other side of the planet, and prices that made you think twice about a film you had only read about. A domestic release changes the maths on taking a punt.
Barrett is the reason to care. He spent most of his career being the best thing in whatever he was in, and this is one of the few leads where the film is actually built around him. Australian genre cinema from that stretch has aged strangely well because it was shot cheap on real locations rather than sets.
I will wait for the transfer details before I preorder, and I would suggest the same. What else from that era of Australian film do you still want on disc?
That is the entire announcement, which is my recurring complaint with catalog releases rather than with this one specifically. No word on what element the transfer comes from, no restoration credit, no extras list, no region coding. For a title from 1983 that has never had a serious disc release, those four things are the whole purchase decision. A new 4K scan of the original negative and a straight lift of an old broadcast master both get announced with the same sentence, and you find out which one you bought when it arrives.
What is genuinely good here is the Australian label putting a US arm behind these. That catalog has spent decades being an import problem: locked discs, shipping from the other side of the planet, and prices that made you think twice about a film you had only read about. A domestic release changes the maths on taking a punt.
Barrett is the reason to care. He spent most of his career being the best thing in whatever he was in, and this is one of the few leads where the film is actually built around him. Australian genre cinema from that stretch has aged strangely well because it was shot cheap on real locations rather than sets.
I will wait for the transfer details before I preorder, and I would suggest the same. What else from that era of Australian film do you still want on disc?
