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Lets try again on The Fall of the Roman Empire, please. Reasons: Precedent: some have been done again [re-authored onto Blu-ray] when the first issue was FUBAR: for instance, Patton and Spartacus. Shot in 70mm should look and sound good. Anthony Mann and Samuel Bronston also did El Cid ...

I saw it in 70mm and 6 channel (I assume we got all 6 channels -- it was multichannel, anyway) in San Francisco in 1971. The resolution and acutance were beautiful, as was the color. It had a bit of the "etched look" some people attribute to most, but not all, 70mm prints. I was taking my new...

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Ben-Hur holds up beautifully even when projected on our 130" wide Home Theater AT screen and very dynamic 5.1 sound, if one sits close enough. The splintering of the galley ship and the thunder and simulated earthquake during the crucifixion are not quite loud enough. It certainly does hold up...

"Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee." -- John Donne,

The movie version was not made until 1969! But: But, but, but .... was there another movie version earlier? But, but, but .... DVD was not invented until around 1996 and LaserDisks were first available to the public in around 1978. Moving right along, Paint Your Wagon was shown in...

Wyler did know a thing or two. He briefly studied violin at the Paris Conservatory. Later, in New York, I think, when he was poor, he would stand near his open, ground floor apartment window and play the violin. People would gather and throw coins through the open window. I hope I have that...

Agreed. The advertising was deceptive in that they changed the definition of Cinerama (probably for commercial purposes), but 2001 was advertised as being in Cinerama; a friend of mine's reaction was, "It's a fake." I must say that in San Jose, projected on a huge, curved screen (85 feet...

I agree completely. How the transfer of scenes from HTWWW from UP 70 turned out so bad, I don't know. They suffered greatly in comparison to three panel. The Orpheum installed a 70mm booth after their years of 3P Cinerama showings. The following films projected with distortion correction...

No, it's Ultra Panavision 70, I think, but it was shown in 1965 at the dedicated Cinerama theater (The Orpheum) on Market Street in San Francisco on the same deeply curved Cinerama screen that was there during the three panel days, and as I remember, it filled the screen. UP 70 was 2.76:1, and...

@Jeff Fearnside Is it fixed yet? Sometimes there is an automatic audio shut-off if the musical peaks are too high. On some equipment, the re-set is not immediate. If you just put the player on "pause," but do NOT turn everything off, is the sound back on when you put the player back on...

Thanks, Josh.

Question: Does streaming now equal the quality (Picture and Sound) of ordinary Blu-ray? Are some providers reliably better than others? Some streaming providers present some 2.39:1 aspect ratio films in approx. 1.85:1 (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Apartment). Anybody know why? Anyway to predict in...

IMO, the first one was the best. We, too, saw it in 70mm. Fantastic!

I agree on: Raintree County -- one old release has hilarious mistranslations of the dialog. It would be nice to have a version that does Camera 65 "Window to the World" justice. They need to use some Windex. Porgy and Bess -- Great music and sound. Dandridge, Peters excel. "Todd-AO in...

Their political satire was always great! About 1968, after being repeatedly censored, Tommy wandered through an art gallery in which there were portraits of the Founders (we said Founding Fathers in those days, having forgotten the Mothers). Each Founder depicted came to life and quoted...

Wow Roland! What a collection! Thanks for posting. I miss 70mm at the dear old Coronet (before they reduced the screen size and curvature, and some dim bulb asked that dim bulbs be put in the projectors). I guess nearly everyone abandoned carbon arc. My friends and I would take the N bus...

80 days played well into its second year in San Francisco, in 65/70mm (I don't know if the print was 65 or 70mm; it is beginning to sound like, in San Francisco at least, it ran in 65mm with a second strip of 35mm magnetic full coated for the 6 sound channels. That was the rumor at the time...

Robert, this is the first time I've ever, ever, disagreed with you! The Alamo is O.K., a touch of jingoism aside, but 80 days had several kinds of humor including satire (on the poor British, the wintery Mr. Fogg and others), slapstick, pseudo-mime, etc., and some real suspense near the end...

The (American) Decca album was a best seller, BUT the quality of the vinyl disc couldn't hold a candle to the original theatrical 6 channel (5 channels behind the screen where almost all the music was) magnetic tracks. I went through (I think) 3 mono versions and 2 stereo versions, ending up...

IMO, if possible, it should be from one of the two original color 65mm negatives (30 fps, 24 fps, or both if necessary) and from the best 6 channel sound sources, maybe from a 35mm 6 channel magnetic sound source. In the theater, when the band at the beginning marches off the screen to the...

Measurement folk (psychologists, psychometrists, etc.) often prefer two features: An odd number of choices in rating, starting at 1, so something that is seen as typical would get the number in the middle, e.g., 3 in a 5 point scale, or 5 in a 9 point scale. No greater than a 9 point scale...

Same here. We have common height projection, as well, (as do the better commercial cinemas -- all but one in our metro area), and the usual 70mm shape, 2.20:1, (really 2.21:1) is great! I wish Nolan would just forget about changing aspect ratios! Maybe, since he was born about the time 70mm...