I just noticed that Spheeris' Suburbia is scheduled for release on Tuesday. [edit] Hmmm. I got that from Amazon, but this DVD clearly has been out for a while.
Why didn't you set your VCR? According to Yahoo, it was on BBC1 from 1:00 AM 'till 5:00 AM. (Man I love the internet. Find out what's on TV anywhere in the world.)
You can listen to an audio review of the new My Fair Lady DVD from February 24, 2004 at freshair.com . The reviewer includes an excerpt from an Ed Sullivan Show DVD which features Julie Andrews singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" I assume the My Fair Lady DVD will be fixed to remove the...
I just saw a 70mm screening of Playtime, and of course looked up the DVD. The Region 2 DVD (availabe at amazon.fr ) looks juicy. It even has David Lynch extra!
So can anyone veryfy if Harry Shearer is in any of the commentaries or extras on any of the disks? I listen to his radio program every week, and he seems to have real contempt for Rupert Murdoch and FOX.
Is Harry Shearer in any of the commentaries on the Simpsons DVDs? I'm a big Harry Shearer fan, and I didn't see his name listed in the extras on the box.
I flipped over the disk out of morbid curiosity, and looked at the "full screen" 4:3 side. It looks like they radically redid the movie for 4:3, repositioning the small windowed movies so that none of the important action would be missed.
In defense of those DVD producers, one reason for blurring the grain might be to make the movie more compressible. I imagine that a static scene on grainy film would appear as a riot of action to the compression software. Perhaps a solution would be adding "fake grain" after decompression (does...