Recent content by Gonzalo Merchan

I've watched the new 2005 cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and I have to say like many others that I disagree with a number of the changes made. Most glaring to me is the mangling of the original opening credit sequence, certainly one of the best in any Peckinpah film. The freeze frame title...

Do you know the release date for the UK edition? I am so excited for this!

I saw this on DVD Beaver... http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASI...174096-8855428 I am so excited, this is maybe my most wanted release ever. But I suppose it is too much to ask for English subtitles? I see no mention of them on the site? Anyone know more?

When John K. of Ren and Stimpy fame was at the American Cinematheque recently he said he was trying to convince Warners to do a box set of all the Bob Clampett stuff called Bob Clampett and the Looniest Looney Tunes. I certainly hope this comes to pass.

Thanks for the update, I will stay far, far away.

According to this page: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/041014A.html The standard version is PAL and the Limited Edition Collectors Box Set is NTSC? Can anyone confirm?

The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Ride the High Country, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (2 Disc), and Wild Bunch (2 Disc) are coming out in 2005 in a Peckinpah box set as mentioned at the American Cinenamtheque Peckinpah retrospective this summer. I think a bunch of Val Lewton RKO films including Cat...

No subs but English dub? That is interesting, does Kiarostami do the dub or is it a generic English voice? At any rate I will order this immediately, thanks for your help.

I see in France they have a 2 disc version of Abbas Kiarostami's Ten which includes his documentary Ten on Ten which was at Cannes this year. I am dying to get this! The French Amazon site lists English subtitles on Ten but it's unclear if they are included on Ten on Ten. Does anyone know if Ten...

Many of Fellini's films are this way. There is a joke about it in Day for Night by Truffaut where an actress who worked with Fellini says sometimes he just had the actors count out loud and he would make up the dialouge later. I would guess it's OK.

I was able to catch Dusty and Sweets McGee not long ago at the Egyptian. WOW! Amazing film by Floyd Mutrux the same director. It's about heroin addicts in early 70's LA all played by real heroin addicts (except the dealers who didn't want to get arrested!). Would love to see this released...

Why indeed.

I have to agree with Rich on this. If they somehow can't manage to find decent 35mm elements for La Dolce Vita (which itself is a highly doubtful claim) then delay the release until you can find them. Are they really trying to tell us that somehow the elements are lacking on La Dolce Vita when...

Perhaps large portions of the feature are 'out of sync' because as with most(all?) italian films of this era none of the sound was shot sync? I know I would certainly prefer to hear the original 'out of sync' audio as Fellini intended and we have loved for 40 years? Depressing news all around.

Perhaps large portions of the feature are 'out of sync' because as with most(all?) italian films of this era none of the sound was shot sync? I know I would certainly prefer to hear the original 'out of sync' audio as Fellini intended and we have loved for 40 years? Depressing news all around.