Recent content by Richard Carnahan

DVDfile mentions that Far from the Madding Crowd has jsut been announced for uk. It says widescreen but MONO (which can't be right) ********************* No, the laserdisc is stereo surround.

I saw "Night of the Hunter" in Chicago about 2 years ago and at that presentation one of the people responsible for the film's restoration held a Q&A session. He mentioned during that session that Elsa Lanchester (Charles Laughton's Widow) had donated all of her home movies to the UCLA film...

I saw that Costco is now selling a Pioneer DVR 210, and when I compared all of the specs, it appears to be exactly like the 310. Costco's price is $329, but no rebate. At least the one at Costco doesn't have shipping charges. ************************************************** *** I bought...

I checked my Batman tapes and they carry a copyright by Columbia Pictures, with renewal. Goodtimes isn't strictly a public domain outfit.

I have those Goodtimes VHS tapes, too. Not only are they recorded in LP but the soundtrack of the original World War Two-era serial has been rather clumsily rendered politically correct. I'd like to see it uncut.

I saw the film at its premiere at FILMEX back in--what?--1980 I guess, and it was intended to be shown full frame.

It's too bad the original tapes of these shows weren't saved. All of Paar's shows--both TONIGHT (late 50s-early 60s) and the later Friday night program (early to mid 60s)--were originally in color.

I haven't seen THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT since 1970, but I remember it as being just awful.

'Spook' unearths a radical time capsule of a movie Pulled from theaters but now on DVD, the 1973 film imagines a black political revolution in the blaxploitation era. By Lewis Beale, Special to The Times When it comes to sticking it to the Man, there is no blaxploitation film more...

The problem seems to be with the source material rather than the tansfer. The quality varies from reel to reel, but some of it is pretty bad. (I watched the first disc last month).

HOLD THAT GHOST looks fine to these eyes. I've also watched ONE NIGHT IN THE TROPICS, PARDON MY SARONG, and part of BUCK PRIVATES. All look good. I look forward to the next batch.

This is a perfectly fine and representative photo.

I'm afraid the problem is with the existing elements and not the transfer. The laserdisc of GOODBYE MR. CHIPS doesn't look all that great either.

The estate of John Wayne has made a deal with Cinetech and Chace Prods. to update and restore two of the actor's 1950s hits, "The High and the Mighty" and "Island in the Sky."... -VARIETY

The pre-Code Warner bros. movie CONVENTION CITY (1933)--with Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, and Mary Astor--is a lost film. I believe there are several British films from the 1930s that are considered lost.