JIMI PLAYS MONTEREY seems like a odd choice for Criterion for me. Any thoughts? Criterion released The Complete Monterey Pop Festival as a three-disc set in 2003, comprised of Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey / Shake! Otis at...
Oh, no he's not. Watching it, it's pretty obvious that the whole thing is a put-on. A very well made put-on, granted, but it does fall off its razor's edge a time or too. No matter -- it's still hilarious.
For the FWIW dept. --
Can Racketeer Rabbit be had on DVD? Coincidentally, I stumbled across davemackey.com's "Warner Bros. Cartoon Releases - 1946" today, and it includes this about "Racketeer Rabbit":
Video: "The Golden Age Of...
Can you (or anyone who knows) comment on the scenes that were re-inserted into "The Public Enemy" after having been censored during the 1930's? Here's what Dave Kehr said in the New York Times:
Both "Little Caesar" and "The Public...
Fun Fact trivia: On location in Scotland, Ivanhoe's cinematographer Freddie Young, who later shot Lawrence of Arabia, made fine use of the countryside and Doune Castle -- years before the castle returned in its greatest star appearance...
In January '03 I saw a screening of a longer cut of Jersey Girl with Smith, David Duchovny, and others. (There's a long story behind how that came to be.) That cut was better than the version released theatrically and on the current...
in "Animal Crackers" is the line "I think I'd like to make her." still cut out?
It's still cut, darn it, as is Harpo putting his head in Thelma Todd's lap in Horse Feathers' chopped-up "ice man" scene. These are the same prints that...
In the FWIW dept., I received the set today and am now sitting at my workplace desk with Animal Crackers running on my laptop next to my office computer. I'm only at Chico's "If we don't play, that-a runs into money" bit, and already I...
From Dave Kehr's review in the New York Times (reg. req'd.):
The home video divisions of Universal and Warner Brothers seem to be in a tug of war over who can release the best-produced box sets of vintage material. This week the...
