Recent content by Brianruns10

Much like when studios junked their silent films thinking they had little future value, as Techicolor was perfected in the 1930s, studios saw little commercial value in the older films shot with the two color process. Furthermore, because Technicolor was a proprietary process, they were...

Greed. It's my number one most wanted silent film. It's never gotten an official DVD or a blu-ray release.

Man that big MGM fire is the burn that keeps on burning. Seems everything we miss now, the last surviving print was lost in THAT fire!

Why, if they have the OCN of "The General," are they relying on a struck fine grain for the restoration? Scan the OCN in 4K for a proper DI, and make a preservation master from that.

Wouldn't do much good. The 25 version is for all intents and purposes a lost film. It survives through murky 16mm "Show At Home" prints, no two of which seem to be alike, so what we have now as the 25 version is really more of a Frankenstein, cobbled together from bits and pieces of several...

All the debate over the merit of the film aside, and the rather unfair legacy it has had to bear being "The film that beat Citizen Kane," I must say, without hyperbole, that the the wedding scene, ending with that shot of Mr. Gryffyd standing in the distance in the church cemetery...is the...

I won't buy this one either, not until it is done right. And if anyone from Universal is reading this, I'd GLADLY pay criterion level prices, 40 bucks even, for a proper, full on restoration...I'm talking 4K scan of the O-neg, with Mr. Harris doing all that is necessary. But for half assed...

But the economy has changed a lot since that New Line DVD release. The estate had said they hoped to do a follow up box set with the surviving Lonesome Lukes, but nothing materialized. Six years hence, a Criterion release would be a pretty tasty proposition...they come with a fervently loyal...

The ultimate grudge match would no doubt be between RAH and whoever was in charge of storing that roadshow copy of "The Alamo"

I want to see Robert Harris in the ring with Rick Schmidlin. Kevin Brownlow could ref. It could be called "Fightrate in the Nitrate." No holds will be brared, no punches pulled, and the O-neg won't be in cans, it'll be in IV bags...this Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!!!

Hey All, I live in the States, and I just bought an Orei BDP-M2 player to play an MoC blu-ray I bought. It is advertised on Amazon as playing region A B C, and many reviews stated the same. The box even has a sticker that says, "Region Free." Yet on my player, when I attempt to play my MoC...

I recall reading somewhere that the very first shot of the film was a stolen one...Cimino wanted to open on that particular steeple, and he couldn't get the permission needed. So they did it on the sly early one morning, laying down the dirt to make the road seem unpaved, grabbed the shot, then...

This release will go down as Criterion's biggest what-if/missed opportunity. It speaks volumes of Cimino, who after all these years has lost apparently very little of his self importance, self righteousness and hubris. He has completely whitewashed over the vital historical context of the...

"Far and Away"...one of the last Hollywood produced 65mm films. I'd love to see a downsampled 8K scan of this.

If those five films still belong to the Hitchcock family, I would surely hope they would be induced to take them somewhere where they might be treated better. Bring them to the Film Foundation, or Warners, or Criterion...