After finishing Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories, I popped in the disc of A Holy Place (Sveto mesto, 1990), and, by damn, it has the same frame rate problem!
Just like with Ashkan, it drops a frame every second. What a waste of a beautiful transfer of a lightly-worn print.
I initially misread that as “one frame per shot,” which would have been no big deal. So, to see such choppiness really caught me off guard:
It’s really noticeable and distracting throughout the movie, though the hand-held shaky cam helped hide some of it.
If this is the best version, I have some questions. Why couldn’t the 25fps original be used? Does it still exist? The video that remains is basically slowed down; slowing the original down to 24fps would be effectively the same. Why couldn’t it be a 25fps->1080i60 conversion? What about the sound? Is it slowed or pitch-corrected?
I’m not thrilled with the video compression, but it could be worse:
A poor presentation. Whatever the price is for this four-disc set, it’s 25% too much.