Recent content by Allansfirebird

I realize the poster I'm about to respond to is listed as being banned, but now that I've had a chance to thoroughly pour through the dialogue continuity of JLM's rough cut of Cleopatra, which included everything that was filmed and exactingly notes what Mankiewicz had in his cut, I can speak to...

To avoid cluttering up the thread, here's my top three, day-one titles: Cleopatra The Shoes of the Fisherman Fiddler on the Roof

Definitely gonna buy the 4K release of North by Northwest (and also an actual 4K disc player that I've been dragging my feet on getting). Something I wish I could find again was a short featurette that TCM put out in the late 90s/early 00s that was about the restoration of NxNW done at the...

I'm curious what this documentary will offer that Charles de Lauzirika's Superior Firepower: The Making of Aliens didn't cover? $99 is a lot of money for a documentary that's trodding over familiar ground.

"People ask me why I'm playing in this picture. The answer is simple: Money, dear boy. I'm like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I'm almost used up now and I can feel the end coming. That's why I'm taking money now. I've got nothing to leave my family but the...

My copy of the new blu-ray just arrived and I'm giving it a watch. I agree with Douglas, the transfer appears to be the exact same from the prior blu-ray. I wasn't expecting MGM to put a single shekel towards cleaning up the transfer, yet I still find myself disappointed. To have gone through...

I guarantee you Capelight would get complaints if they didn't. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The latter.

There's nothing really to "investigate." Stevens was massively behind schedule on the picture and had to bring in Lean to do all of the interior scenes with Claude Rains, and Negulesco for the Nativity and some scattered other shots early in the first act. The documentary He Walks in Beauty...

Is this the usual Paramount special of putting a new coat over the same old disc with the same old special features?

I've got my preorder locked in, so fingers crossed for at least something of an improvement of prior releases.

There's a UK 3-disc blu-ray coming out at the end of the month for TGSET. I just preordered it, though I have little hope it'll be a better scan than the previous releases.

Wow, so this version will be almost two hours longer than the Brownlow version that was released on DVD back in 2016? That's amazing!

I just bought that along with 10 or so other StudioCanal Vintage Classics discs earlier this month, so of course Criterion would announce this now... But hey, maybe this means Criterion will be getting other StudioCanal titles back, like The Third Man, Kurosawa's Ran, the Ealing comedies, etc.

I haven't had issues with my copy of Fisherman, and I play that one fairly regularly, a few times a year or so.