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It wasn't just some of the audience who didn't appreciate it. I knew two people involved in the making: One of the actors playing an ape and they were tediously kept filming until there was enough for an entire feature. And an electrician who made a great deal of overtime when the schedule...

I can't resist pointing out: Grammy Awards nomination: Best Original Score -Maurice Jarre Was it still An Original Score when he reused some of it in Passage To India? Sorry for the disruption as I do find the film oddly persuasive, despite its vulnerability to criticism, and would buy it on...

When David Lean protested he felt resentment that he'd not made the film in standard ratio black & white I feel it's a valid aspect of continuing controversy. It seems to me that the overhelming attraction most people have for this picture is how it looks in an ideal presentation, which I too...

Lest we become too accustomed to the title THE COPPOLA VERSION we should note that it is an adaptation of the Kevin Brownlow/Thames/BFI version that Kevin began when he was a schoolboy playing with a 9.5 projector.

My mistakes and cast offs go to my partner's church fundraising sales and I always felt guilty about this one as her church is a very nice one - undeserving of members of its congregation being reduced to mind-numbing bafflement. I can't remember how much of the Blu-ray I saw before being...

I think academy ampas members must be all hard of hearing when it comes to nomination voting. It's sadly true that you can't depend upon voting being on the basis of ideal cinema viewing. Here in the UK I know of a BAFTA member who works through a pile of DVDs of nominations on a sub-standard...

I'd have bought it if it was the Bob Dylan concert. But of course, what the world needs more is another violent thriller.

In addition to being an exceptionally nice man with whom to work he was also very knowledgable about Silent Cinema. When he was in a production of MACK AND MABEL in London the cast went to the NFT to see a Mabel Normand picture, which he introduced superbly. I was included in the invitation...

so I'm genuinely curious .... That's a very fair question and the answer is probably secret admiration allied to fatal fascination. Knowing the production story from FINAL CUT adds a dimension but it's also true that after seeing it for the second time, which was the NFT full length 70mm way...

HG was in short terrible. It doesn't work on this forum to dismiss anything, however dreadful you think it is. I agree about this film but you'll receive extremely rude answers from people who won't accept the reality of gross self indulgence from the director. If he'd been spending his own...

'I'll never buy MFL.' Many a long year ago, one of the great conductors of the day was assailed after a concert by a fearsomely pushy lady who was part of the coterie whose excessive money was essential to support the orchestra: 'Oh Maestro, I really enjoyed the concert, especially the...

If I were to see this film it would be at home so I'd be able to have as many intervals as I wanted. But the intense violence of Mr Scorcese's films (excluding THE LAST WALTZ and SHINE A LIGHT) makes that unlikely. In brief summaries of the film I've noted the phrase 'killing one by one'...

I've always heard it that there are three indisputable truths in life: (1) The sun rises in the east. (2) Water is wet. (3) It's a long way to Tipperary. (4) A man has to know his limitations.

As we're all agreed that this is a terrific film here's an anecdote about trying to see it with appropriate respect. At the time it was first issued I visited a friend away from Central London and we went to her local smallish multi, which was also showing either a new Star Wars or Harry Potter...

"I'll give you a few days, if I don't like what I see you're out". Oh - so that should have been the answer. If Mr Eastwood had produced his other films there wouldn't have been any nonsense with double/triple/quadruple budgets and vast overshooting and schedules.

Anybody interested in this thread needs to recharge their cynicism if attempting to understand the CM company's policies. Bearing in mind that Mr Mackintosh is the wealthiest theatrical producer that there's ever been, he didn't achieve that by neglecting any opportunities to make money so you...

Carl Davis wrote some marvellous scores for tv as well as for film (THE WORLD AT WAR, PRIDE & PREJUDICE) and even sometimes appeared if an in vision musician was required, such as in PRIVATE SHULTZ. He also wrote stage musicals and I was one of the sound operators on PILGRIM, which has...

IMAGINE IF YOU WILL: The Empire Leicester Square, August 1995, late one night after the audience, including me, has seen WATERWORLD. An announcement over the high quality, multichannel sound system: 'And now we have a very special treat for you - a far longer version of this interminable...

It would have been decent of the company to have put Roy Kinnear's name on the box.

It's never going to be a popular show here in the UK as the sport is foreign to us. I too saw the Jerry Lewis production when it played in the West End and it was notable for being monstrously loud. I'd operated a musical at The Adelphi and had never heard such outragous volume right from the...

Paul Panzer in a classic role ????? No, surely it's Gene Wilder in the Mel Brooks remake. Even the albatross is corpsing.

THE OTHER MALTESE FALCON I've just looked on UK Amazon and can't see the 1931 Bebe Daniels Ricardo Cortez version. For anyone who hasn't seen it it's well worth a search. It was loaned to me so I don't still have it.

I've never seen this film but during its making I had a now forgotten reason to be at MGM Borehamwood and saw a river bank set. Utterly vast and very very impressive.

A comment from a mainly retired recording engineer who never worked on features but on all kinds of tv productions. Actors love speaking quietly. They'll attempt it on noisy locations and when the mic is of necessity some distance away. They've been impressed by the close up very quietly...

The new WEST SIDE STORY has terrific sound and the opening is highly impressive. I've played the AMERICA sequence a few times to demonstrate my system of projection and 5.1. I don't have 4K and atmos. The first time I watched MASTER & COMMANDER, from DVD, in my previous home surrounded by...

I only have one to NEVER see again and it's not a criticism but because I was too thoroughly terrorised to face the ordeal a second time: DON'T LOOK NOW - aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh......................

Glynis Johns was in many British films of the forties, sometimes with her father, Mervyn. Try THE HALFWAY HOUSE. My favourite of hers from that period is MIRANDA, in which she plays a mermaid. As was said about Esther Williams: 'Wet, she's a star' She was the original Desiree Armfeldt in A...

Let's hear it for pedantry..... Without looking up dates I'm sure that IRON MASK had the digital track first as it was my idea to suggest a method of preserving full frame that Kevin Brownlow hadn't thought of. Sorry if research proves me wrong as it's not important, except this modern trick...

By coincidence I saw this film a few days ago on a disc loaned by a friend. It was copied from TCM and represented an exceedingly rough source so I look forward to buying this new issue. As it's quite obscure I'll add my recommendation for a terrific lively entertainment with marvellous...

If you look at the trivia for PAINT YOUR WAGON on IMDB you'll see that Alan Lerner claimed that he found and employed her. We've obviously read the same marvellous book, Andre Previn's NO MINOR CHORDS, and I believe his version. I had a curious experience with both of the huge Cinerama...