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They're not my cup of tea, but at least you can actually access the discs unlike that Back to the Future box set fiasco.

When you see what we gain, this is barely noticeable (MattH reviewed the disc and we keep about 99% of the past extras and the new stuff sounds amazing; much of the material from the still-frame section from the laserdisc, which was transferred very badly to the Five-Star DVD, appears to be...

What about the extras? Has anyone yet described them in more detail, as to what's retained (and dropped) from previous releases, and the new material? I want to narrow my copies down to two (I'll keep the laserdisc for the book and the CD).

I preordered my box set from Amazon.

It seems that Daniel Truhitte, who played Rolf and later, I am told, opened up a dancing studio in or around Charlotte, NC, was not pleased about not being included in the Oprah show: http://www.tmz.com/2010/10/29/sound-of-music-actor-daniel-truhitte-rolfe-reunion-left-out/ I'm not so...

Robert Wise and Dick Zanuck tried to get her off the "Today Show" to avoid damaging the film's reputation as it was coming out (she didn't like the year's other big Oscar contender, Doctor Zhivago, either). Obviously she had little effect on the box office take. Pauline Kael (and I have to say...

At least it won't be any different than it was on DVD. Although if one considers that it was lossless on laserdisc, I agree they can do better. When I first saw the film in a theater, it was as part of the AMPAS's Best Picture series in 2003. I met Robert Wise (as well as Duane Chase, Debbie...

In all fairness the commercials were the fault of the theater, and not Fathom or NCM. But it is reflective if why I seldom go to the movies anymore and why 90% of my moviegoing is repertory.

I'm guessing that's what it was. I suppose they assumed people would think something was wrong with the projector and complain. What if I wanted nachos? And what if I needed to rehydrate, especially with Climb Every Mountain coming up?

I was about to post something similar, and I agree with you. No one could have done a better job of adapting the play for the screen with as much skillful craftsmanship and wit as Ernest Lehman did. He saw the show, saw its potential as a film, and understood the strengths and weaknesses of the...

I saw it at the Crossroads 20 in Cary, NC. Save for a little chromatic aberration, the projection wasn't bad. But as for the restoration, let me put it this way: It's amazing, it's stupendous, it's colossal, it's fantastic. And it's good, too. The color balance was perfect, saturated but...

I'll be at the screening tomorrow night. I'll let you know how it went.

I have seen Oklahoma! twice in 70mm at 30 fps (the Cinemascope version was 24 fps). On the THX laserdisc, it felt like the motion was more fluid and faster than in 24 fps. I didn't really notice it in the print, which was made in the 1980s and had a yellowish tint throughout except for parts of...

I saw the Grease Sing-A-Long this summer at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco, and I saw cue marks that suggested it was a 35mm print. It also looked like a smeary, overly DNR'ed 1080p transfer that was dumped onto film, yet they were calling it a "restoration". At least the singing covered up...

In the book "The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie" (did they do a poll?) by Julia Antopol Hirsch, she is quoted as being very proud of the film.

Of all the surviving cast members, Eleanor Parker seems to have been the least conspicuous. She retired, and disappeared off the face of the earth, not participating in any of the laserdisc or DVD supplements.