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Great film, and an austere and (mostly) accurate historical epic. Too many have compared it to Zhivago, which is ultimately a fictional story. Goldman's script for N&A is marvelous and any shortcomings are because Nicholas and Alexandra themselves were pretty boring. They were also coke-heads...

THE LION IN WINTER

Dave, this is wonderful! Looking forward to building my Cinerama collection!!

Dave is a good friend and I love his passion for Cinerama! Way back on CONTACT, when I was working with his wife, Carin-Anne, Dave was making CINERAMA ADVENTURE, a wonderful doc on the history of the Cinerama process. It was fascinating, and inspiring, to see this documentary realized. Earlier...

Anyone else have this problem with their BD of M? - After two years of no problems playing the disc, it now hangs up on chapters one and two, displaying a pale, frozen still from the menu. I have to turn my Sony BD player off to get it to snap out of it and then skip down to chapter three, from...

I almost went to that screening, Bryan! Now I wish I had, because I would have seen it for myself! I was 22 in '88 and remember clearly the thousands of protesters swarming the hill at the time, up at Universal Cineplex. Funny to think there was no CityWalk then, and parking was in the dirt. I...

The DCP I saw of Raiders earlier this year looked horrible, but that may have been the venue. Doug Slocombe's almost three dimensional cinematography is very contrasty, deep dark shadows, glowing highlights (Slocombe also shot The Lion in Winter), and projected digitally just made it look...

Criterion did recycle the master used for the DVD. The end titles are the same as on the DVD. As I have stated countless times before, the original end titles of the feature film on 35mm film are white titles over an off-white cinema screen, not the tawny gold that it darkens to between the...

Sorry Bryan for the late response. I've given up on HTF and moved on... then I noticed others had indeed seen the mess that is this Criterion BD. No, I did not see Last Temptation in 70mm. I was working at Universal Cineplex (now the AMC) as an assistant floor manager (a few years before I got...

Bolt before prison. And flopped!

I guess you misunderstood me: the ENTIRE balcony scene, of so much geeky legend, has not been restored, only the two minutes or so that exist in the film from the 1988 restoration. As for the missing frames, I had read that those frames were saved and could one day be scanned and cut back in...

No, the balcony scene is not restored. Saw the 4k premiere at the Academy thursday night. It was pretty amazing. Also the missing frames from the recut neg aren't stitched in as well. Good looking DCP .

I understand packaging, since I'm in the industry and have been for twenty years. It wasn't a criticism I was stating, but a fact. The ROOM Blu-ray came from Warners/BBC and it is cropped. It probably goes deeper than that since cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts approved it, he may have been...

That's right, I remember getting an answer from Warners that the film was hard-matted at 1.85:1. Curious, then, why the HD versions would look as if TV Safe had been matted rather than the true matte. The BD of A ROOM WITH A VIEW from Warners/BBC is cropped to 1.78, rather than its original...

And now back to EXCALIBUR. Does anyone know the INTENDED aspect ratio for it? VHS was of course full frame, DVD and HD DVD and Blu ray have what looks like sever crowding especially at the top where characters' heads sometimes move above frame. I remember seeing a PAL to NTSC VHS twenty years...