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He could rise to the occasion when challenged with an intelligent script and a good director. Check out KING CREOLE and FLAMING STAR.JohnMor said:That's a shame. While Elvis was no great shakes as an actor, it might have been a more compelling film with him.
Originally Posted by Bob Furmanek /t/324333/whv-announcement-a-star-is-born-1976-blu-ray-book#post_3986605
He could rise to the occasion when challenged with an intelligent script and a good director. Check out KING CREOLE and FLAMING STAR.
Was the 70mm version cropped or pillar-boxed? I'm assuming that it was a 70mm blow-up -- wasn't the the '76 Star Is Born shot spherically on 35mm and framed for 1.85?DP 70 said:Day 1 for me. Saw this in 70mm in 5 cinemas in london with some Dolby and non Dolby encoded 6-track prints.
That´s not correct! Elvis want to do the part desperately but The Colonel made demands that the Streisand camp refused to fulfill.Bob Furmanek said:Elvis wasn't interested but didn't want to turn down Streisand. She had pitched it to him backstage in Vegas and was very anxious for his participation. He instructed Parker to make so many demands that he would be dropped from the running.
He was not in a good place at that point in his life. Depression and pills had taken over. Sound familiar?
Bob Furmanek said:Elvis wasn't interested but didn't want to turn down Streisand. She had pitched it to him backstage in Vegas and was very anxious for his participation. He instructed Parker to make so many demands that he would be dropped from the running.
He was not in a good place at that point in his life. Depression and pills had taken over. Sound familiar?
Well now you've got me curious! Could either of you provide a source for the conflicting statements you've made?Mr. Pacino said:That´s not correct! Elvis want to do the part desperately but The Colonel made demands that the Streisand camp refused to fulfill.
All of the so called "Memphis Mafia" guys and Priscilla also said that Elvis was in a very bad mood after Colonel Parker didn´t accept the offer.
They said that Parker destroyed Elvis´s life by not accepting the offer.
That could have been a new challenge for Elvis and maybe changed his life away from drugs.
Your statement that Elvis instructed Parker not to accept the offer is pure nonsense and not right!
On a magazine article detailing the Lawrence Of Arabia 50th Anniversary restoration, Sony's Grover Crisp has already said there will be a 45th Anniversary restoration blu-ray release of "Funny Girl"in 2013, so part of your wish is already on the way...Sony's also releasing restored blu-rays of "On The Waterfront"(via Criterion) and "The Last Detail" next year...Originally Posted by Garysb /t/324333/whv-announcement-a-star-is-born-1976-blu-ray-book#post_3986943
Speaking as a Streisand fan who saw this at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC, God this was an awful movie. For anyone looking forward to this release I hope you enjoy it and it meets all your expectations.
I wish Columbia would open its vaults and release all their Streisand films starting with Funny Girl.and the Way We Were. I would love to see the political stuff put back into the Way We Were so that the ending made more sense. However the director, Sidney Pollack didn't want it in so I guess that makes it unacceptable to include