I was there in 1968 and I can assure you that the public very much did expect a conclusion. Viewers and press critics were outraged and their reaction made McGoohan leave the U.K. for good! This U.K. made series wasnt like the typical US series that carried for more than one series with no...
The Blu-ray does look a lot better than the DVD (I have both) but for a film shot on 65mm film it should look substantially better. Goodness knows why there is so much grain and noise in the crucifixion scene. It didn't look that that on the Cinerama screen.
I saw it when first broadcast and just about everyone complained about the final episode. It showed contempt for the viewers who, from the advance publicity, expected a conclusion but it was just self-indulgent style above plot.
I certainly don't recall the look of the majority of films I've seen theatrically but there is the occasional exception when a film looked substantially better or worse than the average and they have stuck in my mind, even decades on. One example is Thunderbolt and Lightfoot which I saw when it...
There was a time when the Empire showed new MGM films which tended to change after screening them for about 4 weeks. I used to see them all because I loved going to that cinema.
I saw “I Was Happy Here” when it was first released. A very good film as I recall but I haven’t seen it since so I don’t know how it holds up today. It had very few showings in the U.K.
This was a meeting of the National Society of Film Critics at the Algonquin Hotel. The film had been press shown a few days earlier at the Ziegfeld. There’s an account of the event in Kevin Brownlow’s massive biography of Lean. Richard Schickel writes that he welcomed Lean, listed his past...
That appears to be exactly the same as the German Capelight version (see thread "The Greatest Story Ever Told renovation" above) but distributed by Altitude Films, who seem to specialise in arthouse films. It has a UK PG classification (originally a 'U' when first released) and is also available...
I think the critics were envious of David Lean’s success. Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, one after another, massive box-office hits. Critics loved to put directors down. Many of them also snobbishly hated big, expensive, epic films and thought Lean should have...
Yes but that is what someone has entered on My Movies based on the production history. As I said, Columbia and Sony are not on the actual packaging which would normally be expected for a release licensed from Sony.
The French release on the Wild Side label, has a distributed by Warner Bros logo but has no Sony or Columbia logos. It gives the copyright date of the film as 1965, renewed 1993 by Pax Incorporated. Very curious.
I bought all the tins containing material originally shown theatrically, including the True-Life Adventure tins but didn’t buy the majority of original TV material I did buy Dr Syn but didn’t care for it so sold it on
The problem nowadays is social media which has provided a voice and platform for those who seem incapable of appreciating the historical context of what they see and studios which are too ready to acquiesce to their misguided complaints.