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I have fond memories of this movie from childhood. I saw it in first release back in the late 1950s. Two things really stuck with me: the ending and Yma Sumac! After "Raiders," its sort of passe, but this mostly entertaining.

Regrettably, Cate isn't likely to win for this movie. "Tar" is WAY over the heads of the average Academy member, I'm afraid, and it's poor showing at the box office hasn't helped her chances. It's the year of the Asians, with Michelle Yeoh most likely to take home the Oscar. It was definitely...

A really terrible idea.

Preview for IMAX version showed the film in the proper aspect ratio.

I saw the trailer for the Labor Day release of "Jaws" last week at a screening of "NOPE." "Jaws been upgraded to IMAX but nothing in the trailer mentioned 3D, so I am sure it'll be shown flat, for one week only at IMAX houses. IMAX has avoided all 3D releases because of Covid transmission...

More on-line digging reveals it was Ford himself who wanted to film "The Searchers" in VistaVision. Warner was shooting its widescreen films in CinemaScope at the time (like the ill-fated "Mr. Roberts" from which Ford had to be removed as director just before starting "The Seachers.") "High...

What I have seen of Fathom revivals is pretty dreadful. Picture is usually dim and washed out, poorly focused and sometimes the color balances seems off. Of course, part of the problem could the theaters. Projection is rotten in most chain theaters. I usually try to catch a movie in IMAX because...

I saw "The Searchers" in first release and several times afterward in theaters. It's been a long while, but I recall some scenes seemed intentionally shifted to the yellow/red side to emphasize the dust in the Monument Valley locations. There's a scene indoor where two men are scuffling and you...

Hitchcock was familiar with VistaVision because he had to shoot all his films at Paramount in the process and apparently liked it enough to continue using it at MGM for "North by Northwest." I don't know why MGM, which was using CInemaScope for its widescreen productions during the 1950s...

Having just finished Glenn Frankel's incredible book on the making of John Ford's "The Searchers," I watched the Blu-Ray again. While it might have been a state-of-the-art transfer 20 years ago, it looks pretty sad today. Are any plans in the works for Warner Archive to remaster it in 4K from...

Apart from the musical numbers by the folks that introduced the songs, this Cole Porter bio flick is simply awful.

I saw him in "How to Succeed in Business" on March 16, 1963, and his star-making turn with "I'm Believe in You," over the men's chorus and hum of electric shavers, is engraved in my mind. Too bad the film really wasn't that good but the material really didn't lend itself to a movie. Hollywood...

Actually, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd wrote "A hundred million miracles are happening every day." Flower Drum Song. The restoration IS quite remarkable. So good to have all the major Cinerama released now available on video.

Kaufman's "Invasion" works so well because it successfully re-envisions the Siegel film (while giving it a loving wink or two). Veronica Cartwright attended a screening here a few years back and it was great to see the film again on a theater screen. The remake is very rooted in post-hippie San...

Blondell never got enough credit. Compare her work in "Gold Diggers" and "Nightmare Alley!" I was fortunate enough to have seen her on stage in the late 1950s or early 1960s in a touring production of William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and shared a moment with her as she kindly...