Recent content by Keith Paynter

The title is back on iTunes, with a buy or rent price of $4.99 across the board in Canada. It just played Tuesday (22nd) on Hollywood Suite with replay scheduled for Wednesday.

It blows my mind how someone could make music from dialogue timing of Torin Thatcher’s delightfully hammy delivery, and give it to none other than Thurl Ravenscroft. His recording session must have been a nightmare! “We have failed, master! We have failed!”

Kino Lorber announced in December on their Facebook pager that JTGK will be issued (remastered) on Blu-ray in 2018 - BOTH VERSIONS!! Thurl Ravenscroft sings again!

I've just woken the dead... Jack, you're insight and knowledge of 'Phantom' is superlative as usual, but I have to believe that the 'Lantern Man' footage in the Eastman House print is 24fps, as screened in 16mm Blackhawk and Griggs prints...the movement is far too fluid to be a 1925 holdover...

Yes it does, Mr. Harris, however, Universal saw fit to stretch the triptych vertically to get more image vs black bars on the screen. Even some title cards were grossly distorted. Hopefully, with the resolution of Blu-Ray and the proliferation of 50+-inch HDTV's, BFI's release doesn't repeat...

A few years back I took my Universal laserdisc and edited into a widescreen format with Adobe Premiere Pro correcting the tryptich aspect ratio (made slightly taller so it could still be watchable on standard definition televisions back in the day) so that images such as the revolving earth...

The concert is amazing, the travelogues are interesting, but as presented, I did find myself saying, "get on with it", waiting for the concert to resume. Thanks to some readily available conversion tools (which I will not name here), I was able to re-edit the film to feature the concert...

Per the Betamax case, a copy for personal use only is considered legal.

Make MKV is a great tool, but it does not always convert content 100%. My Criterion 'M' DVD is converted, but I can't do the Blu-Ray of the German version, just the included UK English version...

Wow, I've been away for a long time... While I have bought physical titles with the ability to download digitals from iTunes, I've resorted to using MKV converters and Handbrake, simply because I also have the ability to encode multiple language tracks (original mono, multiple commentaries...

Man, when you fall out of the loop for a while, news like this is pretty cool. Congratulations to Mr. Harris on finally getting the chance to restore this film after...what, ten years? I just hope I don't kick the bucket before this comes out...

To be fair, the restoration documentary referenced "how much do we clean up"? Artifacts that reflect the presentation, such as dirt in the footage in the opening title sequence, were considered elements that should have been left alone. It's not about "Han shoots first", it's about removing the...

Last night's episode was on the money, and, while I'm probably late to the party on this one, I expect the wrongful termination lawsuit, mentioned in a typical exchange of overlapping dialogue in the season premiere, comes from Jerry Dantana, who's really been angling for a moment in the sun...

A few years ago, one of the branches of our public library had a Korean DVD of The African Queen, as advertised for sale on Amazon. I posted a negative review on Amazon stating that this was in fact a bootleg, and that any potential buyers should steer clear. They also had a DVD-R of Melody...

"Intermission" "End of Intermission; Part 6A - Later that evening..."