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This is all very helpful! I came to the right place! This is the videodisc that I had, and the black bars you mention, Mark B, really ring a bell. The shower scene is not cropped at the bottom for either the Canada '65 doc or the Schickel doc from '76 (the first place I saw the scene).

Title: Psycho Tagline: A new—and altogether different—screen excitement! Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Frank Albertson, Patricia Hitchcock, Vaughn...

Klute! Swing Time!

Only Angels Have Wings? That'd be a shame (in a way) since I already have the TCM Blu-Ray!

Hi, Mark... The only wording I see that might be what you're referring to doesn't mention music, per se. It's at the very bottom, in Braille-sized font, below the copyright info: "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been modified to fit your television."

Hi. I was one of the many fans who complained. If you'll pardon me for including a link to my blog, this is an easy way to A/B the original mix versus the 2000 5.1 mix. Although there are many, many instances of "awkward substitutions" (well put!), missing ambiences or major amplifications of...

Man. What's with Janet & Tony?

I don't mean to blow my own horn (especially since I already put this link on this thread before), but since I wasn't able to find anything in detail about that subtitling issue, I wrote about it here: http://peelslowlynsee.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/great-annie-hall-gag-dumbed-down/ And looking...

So true. This has bugged me about the DVD for eons. I even wrote about it at length here: http://peelslowlynsee.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/great-annie-hall-gag-dumbed-down/

I've waited FOREVER for this film. I was lucky enough to see a new print of it in 1997 at Anthology Film Archive in NYC, and I cried like a baby. I've only seen one other screening since--around 2000 at Lincoln Center for a McCarey retrospective. I've gotten the DVD and think it's wonderful...

I'm a late-comer to this thread, but as I've yet to see any mention of 1975's HEARTS OF THE WEST, I take it that's not a good sign. I hope Jeff Bridges wins the Oscar for a lot of reasons, and one of them is that it might make someone release this film on DVD. It's a gem, and according to the...

Sorry if it's off-topic, but I think Rubber Soul is the Beatles' Revolver.:D

Another great way of putting it. I do think the sense of humanity was more prevalent in his earlier work. I know it's like apples and oranges, but I care a hell of a lot more for the fate of Sterling Hayden's character in The Killing than I do for Malcolm McDowell's character in Clockwork...

I wish I had posted it sooner bec. you guys are articulating things for me better than I can! THAT--what you wrote above--hits the nail on the head. I own most of his films but the only ones I ever revisit are earlier ones. Which says a lot. The better comparison there is with music. Sure I KNOW...

Well put, which is something I failed to stress. I DO aspects, portions, even most of his later work--just not as much as I've been led to believe I would. But it's this weird feeling I used to have in my early 20s that NOT fully LOVING those films meant I was prob. not bright enough (especially...