Posts by mike kaminski

So you think 1080p resolution is acceptable as an archival negative resolution? I find this strange, considering that the 35mm originals should resolve roughly 5 times that resolution, and considering double the resolution of 1080p has...

Jackie Chan's First Strike, actually, very fun, underrated film.

This is amazing news. I can't wait to see how this turns out.

Neither Coppola nor Murch ever said they recut it from scratch. The closest to that is what a journalist wrote. What they did was, instead of just dropping the deleted scenes in mechanically, they actually went back to the dailies,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Elijah Sullivan No offense, but that still doesn't make sense. Its actually not that hard to follow. The re-worked scenes number probably...what, a dozen? Across two disks. So you...

They didn't re-edit the entire film. The original cut took four or five people over a year to do. Certain scenes were just re-tooled. For instance, the surf board scene has new sections added to it, but some of the pre-existing shots...

Could the blu-ray boxset be far behind? I'd be surprised if there wasn't a 4-film boxset at least for DVD by Christmas--would be the perfect chance to put the films on Blu-ray as well. We know they already have the CGI-added HD Raiders...

I'm apprehensive they will complete the series. Here's why: This is being done as a tie-in with the remake. In the remake, the killer is Jason and he has the hockey mask. In the original film, it stars his mother and explains his...

It may be possible to do a joint New Line-Paramount complete collection. Studios have collaborated on box sets before. Here Paramount gets to make a buck by selling their property to New Line and getting the three New Line F13 films and...

Looking forward to the Mizoguchi set. He's very under-representated in Criterion, which is surprising.