Technicolor Criterion releases? (1 Viewer)

Dane Marvin · Jan 30, 2005

Anyone know of a list of Technicolor films that have Criterion DVD releases? I've got a couple coming to me in the mail (Spartacus & Richard III), but anyone know of any others?

Robert Stanley · Jan 30, 2005

The Powell and Pressburger films "The Red Shoes," "Black Narcissus," "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (all photographed by Jack Cardiff) come to mind off the top of my head...

obscurelabel · Jan 30, 2005

Having a bit of time to kill I looked through the collection and cross referenced by IMDB, not the most reliable of sources of course, but these sounded right to me. I can't guarantee that it is complete, feel free to make corrections.

All That Heaven Allows
Black Narcissus
Charade
Contempt
Elena and her Men
French CanCan
The Golden Coach
Henry V
The Horse's Mouth
The Importance of Being Earnest
Juliet of the Spirits
The Leopard
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Red Shoes
Richard III
Spartacus
Summertime
Tunes of Glory
Written on the Wind

Gordon McMurphy · Jan 30, 2005

Dane, do you mean 3-strip Technicolor, exclusively, or also films that were shot on Eastman and processed by Technicolor?

Larry's list is pretty good, but only the following were 3-strip:

Elena and her Men
French CanCan
The Golden Coach
Henry V
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Red Shoes

The upcoming Criterion of Renoir's stunning, The River was 3-strip.

Robert Harris · Jan 30, 2005

The fact that something was, at one time, printed in dye transfer is irrelevant to DVDs or modern prints.

Many of the titles listed are Eastman Color.

RAH

Dane Marvin · Jan 31, 2005

Thanks for the info, everyone. Exactly what I was looking for.

DeeF · Jan 31, 2005

Black Narcissus is 3-strip Technicolor.

Kevin M · Jan 31, 2005

I don't think Spartacus was, it certainly has vibrant colors but it doesn't have that color "density" that most 3-strip films seem to have...I could be wrong.

Vincent_P · Jan 31, 2005

SPARTACUS was shot on Eastmancolor negative in the large-format Technirama (VistaVision with a 150% anamorphic squeeze) process.

Vincent

Kevin M · Jan 31, 2005

That was one of the the eastman stocks that had bad yellow shrinkage wasn't it?

Gordon McMurphy · Jan 31, 2005

Eastman 5247 and 5248 were the worst for fading and shrinkage - am I right on that, RAH?

That stock was used for years, wasn't it? early 50s up to the early 80s. E.T. shot on 5247.

Robert Harris · Jan 31, 2005

One of the wonderful things about Kodak is that they re-use film emulsion numbers.

Which means that 5247 is not 5247.

Simple.

RAH

Gordon McMurphy · Jan 31, 2005

"Oh", he said.

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