Recent content by Alan Tully

It's a mystery to me how WAC decide what to release. All those great TV series they have, & we get, Colt 45, The Alaskans & The Flash, all those great (& well known) movies still awaiting a Blu-ray release, & they release a lot of fairly obscure 39s & 40s films (not that obscure to some members...

Ha, yes I know I poked the bear with my ungrateful post :) Friends & family think of me as the movie guy, who knows about old films, but I admit I’m a beginner compared to many here. I also admit that apart from the Hitchcock, I’ve never even heard of any of those old b/w films, & I’m way...

Well at least The Flash gives us a splash of colour in this b/w bunch. I know there's a lot of people here who are happy with this latest set of releases, but personally I think it's the worse batch for a while.

The Alaskans rang a vague bell with me, but I can’t remember ever seeing it (if I did I’ve forgotten). It seems like a very strange choice to me. I hope Warner haven’t pressed a lot of copies, they may end up sitting on quite a few.

Ditto!

I was a bit bored by this, hardly any racing, mostly just Ferrari & mistress & his always angry wife. Obviously I was expecting a different film, so probably my fault. It did have a lovely look.

Ha, thank you. I was wondering how they could combine a timed dupe element with an untimed original negative. This has made me even more curious as to how they have achieved an (apparently) great picture from a badly faded negative, the technology for doing this stuff must have come on in leaps...

I'd love to know more about the restoration, which I'm sure I will do in time. I just couldn't get on with the current Blu-ray, which I believe was made from from the b/w separation dupes, the original negative being faded beyond use. I'm thinking this new restoration (I think we can safely call...

I'd be astonished if there was any CRT scanners still working. All of the Rank Cintel Telecine machines I worked on for years were thrown into a skip decades ago. I think there was a bit of a shortage of 65mm gates for film scanners, but I wouldn't think that's the case now. Ha, a reply three...

Yup, I've waited so long for this film, & I thought, well when it does arrive at least the picture & sound will be top notch with all the technical improvements over the last few years...& maybe it will be, I very much hope so, but it's only Warner Archive releases where I'm quite happy to buy...

With the average Warner Archive release now costing around $30 imported into the UK, $50 for a 4K doesn't seem so outrageous.

Yes, the same thing happens to me when I click any US Amazon link, it takes me to Amazon UK. It is annoying the general lack of technical info from the BFI regarding picture & sound on this release. I can just about remember noticing the stereo sound when I saw this in a cinema in London's...

The BFI are releasing The Music Lovers on Blu-ray on June 17th...

Well the first title I thought of was The Wild Bunch, & then Where Eagles Dare, & I think they're real possibilities. Thinking about other titles that I'd have to buy day one, I'm thinking about spectacles where a new 4K transfer would really shine (not so much Ben-Hur, I'd have to buy it, but...

I think it's a great remake. I've had the good looking German Blu-ray for some years now (Auf der Flucht), I see it's still available, & only 8 euros. There was some disappointment at the time of release that it was the censored version (the lovely Kim still gets her kit off, but not as much as...