Recent content by garyrc

Lets try again on The Fall of the Roman Empire, please. Reasons: Precedent: some have been done again [re-authored onto Blu-ray] when the first issue was FUBAR: for instance, Patton and Spartacus. Shot in 70mm should look and sound good. Anthony Mann and Samuel Bronston also did El Cid ...

I saw it in 70mm and 6 channel (I assume we got all 6 channels -- it was multichannel, anyway) in San Francisco in 1971. The resolution and acutance were beautiful, as was the color. It had a bit of the "etched look" some people attribute to most, but not all, 70mm prints. I was taking my new...

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Ben-Hur holds up beautifully even when projected on our 130" wide Home Theater AT screen and very dynamic 5.1 sound, if one sits close enough. The splintering of the galley ship and the thunder and simulated earthquake during the crucifixion are not quite loud enough. It certainly does hold up...

"Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee." -- John Donne,

The movie version was not made until 1969! But: But, but, but .... was there another movie version earlier? But, but, but .... DVD was not invented until around 1996 and LaserDisks were first available to the public in around 1978. Moving right along, Paint Your Wagon was shown in...

Wyler did know a thing or two. He briefly studied violin at the Paris Conservatory. Later, in New York, I think, when he was poor, he would stand near his open, ground floor apartment window and play the violin. People would gather and throw coins through the open window. I hope I have that...

Agreed. The advertising was deceptive in that they changed the definition of Cinerama (probably for commercial purposes), but 2001 was advertised as being in Cinerama; a friend of mine's reaction was, "It's a fake." I must say that in San Jose, projected on a huge, curved screen (85 feet...

I agree completely. How the transfer of scenes from HTWWW from UP 70 turned out so bad, I don't know. They suffered greatly in comparison to three panel. The Orpheum installed a 70mm booth after their years of 3P Cinerama showings. The following films projected with distortion correction...

No, it's Ultra Panavision 70, I think, but it was shown in 1965 at the dedicated Cinerama theater (The Orpheum) on Market Street in San Francisco on the same deeply curved Cinerama screen that was there during the three panel days, and as I remember, it filled the screen. UP 70 was 2.76:1, and...

@Jeff Fearnside Is it fixed yet? Sometimes there is an automatic audio shut-off if the musical peaks are too high. On some equipment, the re-set is not immediate. If you just put the player on "pause," but do NOT turn everything off, is the sound back on when you put the player back on...

Thanks, Josh.