Good movie, good quality restoration, but no subtitles.
351810
'My Man Godfrey' is a refreshing screwball comedy from the 1930's. I'm not going to go into the show too much here since there are so many other reviews on that and the superb quality of the storyline speaks for itself.
The restoration quality is good and the colorization doesn't have the weird blue teeth so typical of the original ones done.
The reason I gave this product 4 stars is the false advertisement. The back of the box states it has English subtitles. This is a lie. I am very particular about checking products for this since my mom requires it.  I do not understand why the box would say it has subtitles when it doesn't.
3939081
Good story. Camera work pretty good. The problem is with the subtitles. This should be posted in the movie discription so movie watchers can know from the onset. This distracts from the story and was my only problem with the movie. thanks.
768012
Sadly, while Id like to evaluate the content of the film it, unfortunately, does not include subtitles (even though the box says it does) and my Spanish is not good enough to discern all of the dialog. Hopefully a Region 1 DVD will be available in the near future.
2261751
As others have written, this is an excellent production, well acted, and it is great to see the dynamics of the Globe Theatre.  My one problem with it (and I use it  in a college classroom) is that there are no subtitles.  The decision to use the B text means you listen to all the jokes and banter, and a lot of it is incomprehensible unless you have an open text in front of you, which you don't in a dark room.  Even the old BBC Shakespeare's have subtitles these days, and not including that feature was, I think, a mistake.
4008384
Good original story with decent effects. Big downer for me was the subtitles.  I'd almost rather it be dubbed over.
3968403
This movie is a milestone in cinema history - no need to question its directing, cinematography, or content - it's genius. Criterion's restoration of the picture is stunning. There's a restoration presentation feature which proves that they've certainly done a great job. A LOT of work has been put into the Bergman filmography as well - excerpts from other movies are included - it took me close to an hour to watch and read through it ...HOWEVER: these things seem quite indifferent when one actually tries to enjoy the main feature, the movie, where the audio and the picture constantly are out of sync. There are a few minutes at 45 minutes into the movie, and at 75 minutes into the movie where it looks OK, but for the most part there is, at least, a 0.25-0.5 second delay on either the audio or the film (it varies - in the first half of the movie the audio is late). It's really irritating to see someone speak a word or two (in silence) before the line in audio enters - especially for me, since my first language is Swedish. I'm highly disappointed in this - 11th - DVD production of Criterion. On some of Tartan's presentations of Bergman's films there are out-of-sync dilemmas, too, but not through whole movies.
Another star is lost by Criterion's subtitles; they're very inaccurate when it comes to swearing and sarcasm. If a Swede says "jvla(r)", "helvete", "satan", or "fan" (which are the strongest curse-words), SOME of them HAVE to mean either "f--k", "devil", "damn", "bloody" or even "AWFUL", but nope...the subtitles here are as "clean" as the language in the bible.
If you want to see an incredibly PERFECT presentation of a Bergman film on Criterion, I suggest buying "Wild Strawberries", where the restoration, sound, SYNCHRONIZATION, subtitles, commentary, and 90-minute documentary are perfectly presented and displayed. I'm not a very proud owner of this edition of "The Seventh Seal".
3676283
These movies were great, except there are no Sub-Titles.  I was upset when there were no ENGLISH sub-titles. And the DVD was a bit marked up but it played with no error.
3619240
I've been looking high and low for this movie for years on DVD.  For content alone it gets 5 stars.
But the problems I have are in the encoding job that was done.  My only assumption is that they didn't have a master copy, it looks like it was encoded from a VHS tape at a low bit rate, and the colors are largely washed out.  The sound is variable, starting off very loud in the opening score, then dropping back later.
3574890
The movie itself is excellent. My complaint lies with the formatting on the disc. Specifically, subtitles.

I am an English speaker, but I am also hard of hearing. I also live in an apartment, which means I share walls with other people and can't necessarily turn up the volume.

The only subtitle option was Spanish.

What a huge let-down.
1250469
Nice movie for children that love the Lalaloopsy franchise.  The downside, though, is that this movie does not have subtitles.  I can't believe that in this day and age, movie makers still make movies with no thought to those that cannot hear, especially a child's movie.
4013966
I bought one of the first early versions of this movie when it first came out, and loved it.  Its been along time ago, and now I need the sub titles.  Does any one know if this newer version has English sub titles????
4293972
Great film, good print EXCEPT no English subtitles!  Not helpful for the hearing impaired, unless they read Spanish or Japanese (!).  What were they thinking?
2729295
It played smoothly and i rent it at a good price. The problem? I live in a bilingual home, and we try to teach our children good Spanish, you know, for their own future, but the video does no give language option nor subtitle opcion. Big bummer, netflix let you change the movie language in many of their films.
222598
I find only one problem, the DVD doesn't have subtitles in english. I speak spanish and subtitles in english help me very much to understand what people say in the movie. The movie is wonderfull. Thanks and sorry for my poor english.
2175059
There are no subtitles. The movie is in English so the mouths don't move the same but you do get use to it.
2609517
In November 2010 RaiTrade finally released this title on 3 DVD's in PAL format. This is the first time the film is being released commercially. An edited 135 minutes version has been produced for cinema (presented at the Venice Film Festival in 1986), but that version has never been released on VHS or DVD.

Outstanding cast (Claudia Cardinale at her best), great cinematography by Luigi Comencini, deeply touching story based on a novel by Italian writer Elsa Morante, and presented in its full length (240 minutes)! The film was initially produced for TV in 1986, and divided into 3 episodes. Every DVD contains an episode. The outer box and the separate booklet is carefully conceived, but there's no interesting additional content on the DVD's. I think the picture quality could have been much better. I see no digital restoration whatsoever. And unfortunately the sound track is mono, just like the original TV-film. Maybe because the initial production was mainly focused on TV, the sound track was not recorded in stereo. At that time Italian TV wasn't (technically) ready to air TV-programmes with stereo sound for many years to come!

Furthermore there's another problem: the target of this release is mainly focused on Italy. So there are no subtitles in other languages. Strangely enough not even Italian subtitles are added, so impaired hearing Italians are neglected as well, quite bizar. Conclusion: if you don't speak or at least understand some Italian, you'd better skip this version, unfortunately. The Amazon description gives wrong information here. Let's hope distributors outside Italy buy the rights for this great film real soon and release it with proper digital restoration and subtitles in a few main languages.

Despite the problems with this Italian release, I still give it 4 stars, because I am so thrilled that 'La Storia' is finally available on DVD.
1727877
Please see other reviews about Denon's intent to correct the low quality DVD and no subtitle. I ordered from Amazon.com 1/22/06 and received the "updated" version. Picture quality is clear and crisp. There is also English subtitle added. Even if you receive the old one without subtitle, you can contact Denon to get an updated copy by going to their website.