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rabid kazook 
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Atlantian 
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 Posted - 04/05/2010 : 19:58:31
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Atlantian
Great Britain
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 01:55:25
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Right, there is a new issue to contend with.
I've lately noticed a lot of I.M.D.B. pages with English titles newly primary and Such-and-such (original title) in grey below. I thought they were just tidying up in some way, or had dropped their policy of the first-aired title being primary.
However, Romanzo criminale was released under that title in the U.K., absolutely definitely. (In contrast, Hidden was released as Hidden (Caché).)
So the upshot is that we should be more cautious of the primary title than previously. |
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demonic 
"Cinemaniac"
London, U.K.
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 11:54:14
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| This might be a bit of a bastard. When Benj updates the whole FWFR database in line with IMDB when the new website comes in it seems that a number of titles are going to change to English variations judging from your example, even if they are not known by that title here. For example I'm looking at the films of Antonioni on IMDB now and there's some confusion - L'Avventura is still that and not The Adventure, but La Notta and L'Eclisse are now listed as The Night and The Eclipse, something they are not officially known as in the UK as far as I'm aware. |
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BaftaBabe 
"The Big-Eye Am."
UK
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 12:46:33
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quote:
Originally posted by demonic
This might be a bit of a bastard. When Benj updates the whole FWFR database in line with IMDB when the new website comes in it seems that a number of titles are going to change to English variations judging from your example, even if they are not known by that title here. For example I'm looking at the films of Antonioni on IMDB now and there's some confusion - L'Avventura is still that and not The Adventure, but La Notta and L'Eclisse are now listed as The Night and The Eclipse, something they are not officially known as in the UK as far as I'm aware.
I'm not sure how complicated it would be within benj's inter-relational coding, but there might be a way to incorporate at least two alternatives to such titles, namely the film's original language title and the UK release title - possibly with the US release as well.
So if, in your example above, whether you searched for La Notta or The Night, you would get the right film.
I'm assuming that even if the imdb altered its priority, they'd still list the alternate titles the way they do now.
Wotcha reckon, benj?
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Atlantian
Great Britain
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 13:39:56
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| I would like multiple-title searching here too. Ideally it would be the original title and also any official English-language title (but with the U.K. one still primary). However, I suspect that this would be very difficult to achieve without also having to include a lot of unofficial titles. I know from experience that the variant I.M.D.B. titles are not listed too consistently, and for example a 'U.K.' title there might just be a literal translation (such as is the case with the film above). So titles to be used here would have to be based on 'includes UK but not literal' &c., and on top of that deal with all the cases not listed accurately. |
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Sludge 
"Conquistador of the Useless"
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Film title correction
