Posts by Jim_E

Sounds good (apart from 'To Kill a Mockingbird loses the appalling graininess in a courtroom closeup.') Hopefully that's just the writer of the article overstating things. Would love Vertigo, and especially Spartacus to be in the 'some...

100 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL - RESTORING THE CLASSICS Runtime: 9m 11s Should be interesting. Not sure it takes that long to explain the practice of using an outdated master and cranking the DNR knob up to 11...

I'm not lucky enough to have been around to see the original Planet of the Apes in 1968, but that film and it's sequels were a big part of my filmic education when I was growing up. Despite my connection to them I thought this was an...

There are definite issues with this release that could be overlooked on a smaller screen, or with a less discerning eye. I too wonder why Lucasfilm focused on the fixes that were only partially (to be charitable) made during the press...

I was at Empire Magazine's 'Big Screen' event here in London yesterday and we got to see some bits and pieces from the special features discs from Episodes 1-3, and 4-6. The presentation was from Anthony Daniels, and a couple of guys...

OHMSS for me too - an excellent film. It would have been interesting to see what Connery would have done if he'd played Bond in it, but the criticism Lazenby has come in for is somewhat unjustified.   I saw the restored...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lord Dalek  I don't know why they keep relying on the 2000 mix for Superman: The Movie. As I mentioned earlier, the film's original 70mm mix was a 5.1 track so I can't see why WB just...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Reuben      If that's true, that would make this the same master as the Alliance release from August 2010 -- a date that is hardly...

I'd have to agree with the opinion that this is an older master. It looks to me like the Canadian release from last year so probably derives from the same source. It's not utterly awful, but, in my opinion, it has a harsh digital...

Interesting that the colour timing is so different. It seems like they're saying that the 2001 colours weren't faithful to the original dye-transfer prints and that Storaro had altered them at that time, along with mandating his 2:1...