Bill Burns
Supporting Actor
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Here's one more coal for the fire of this thread:
At the risk of splintering this into two lines of questions and reasoning, I believe that Psycho was filmed in, and survives in, 35mm, correct? If this is a large format film, please let me know, but I've only heard of this film in a 35mm context. If that is the case, anamorphically enhancing and reissuing that title would be an easier, cheaper, and (presumably) immediately beneficial decision, and one distinct from the "is 65mm really worth it?" debate. Calling for a Psycho remaster may well, then, be an entirely separate consideration, in both its practicality and its universally (pardon the pun) accepted benefits, from the call for remasters of large format films, and one to which the studio could most readily respond (if perceived demand is sufficiently high).
I love the film, but I hark on Vertigo, Lawrence of Arabia, and My Fair Lady because I love 'em more, and because I have great respect both for their large format beauty and the restoration effort that went into each. Having seen Vertigo in theatres ... well, as said in a previous post, the memory of that is one of my most cherished filmgoing experiences. I'd love for WB to embrace a (or even offer their own) field sequential 3D viewing technology package on DVD and present Dial M for Murder next year as such, but that's another thread altogether (3D's already been debated to great lengths elsewhere on the forum).
So ... does anyone have info on Psycho's film format origins? Would a 35mm sourced anamorphic reissue of that title prove an easy and excellent first step in bringing the best of Hitchcock's film work fully up to snuff on DVD?
At the risk of splintering this into two lines of questions and reasoning, I believe that Psycho was filmed in, and survives in, 35mm, correct? If this is a large format film, please let me know, but I've only heard of this film in a 35mm context. If that is the case, anamorphically enhancing and reissuing that title would be an easier, cheaper, and (presumably) immediately beneficial decision, and one distinct from the "is 65mm really worth it?" debate. Calling for a Psycho remaster may well, then, be an entirely separate consideration, in both its practicality and its universally (pardon the pun) accepted benefits, from the call for remasters of large format films, and one to which the studio could most readily respond (if perceived demand is sufficiently high).
I love the film, but I hark on Vertigo, Lawrence of Arabia, and My Fair Lady because I love 'em more, and because I have great respect both for their large format beauty and the restoration effort that went into each. Having seen Vertigo in theatres ... well, as said in a previous post, the memory of that is one of my most cherished filmgoing experiences. I'd love for WB to embrace a (or even offer their own) field sequential 3D viewing technology package on DVD and present Dial M for Murder next year as such, but that's another thread altogether (3D's already been debated to great lengths elsewhere on the forum).
So ... does anyone have info on Psycho's film format origins? Would a 35mm sourced anamorphic reissue of that title prove an easy and excellent first step in bringing the best of Hitchcock's film work fully up to snuff on DVD?