Actually, the region 2 releases of FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, SUSPICION and MR AND MRS SMITH and actyally fairly weak - CORRESPONDENT is acceptable, but is in now way anything other than average - SMITH is pretty washed out and SUSPICION is sort of OK, except that a - gulp - "colorized" version is...
Gordy, Rick Schmidlin's presentation of the four hour version is a magnificent effort - I saw it at the NFT (Digital projection - it wasn't done on film) and turned a great film into a stone cold masterpiece. I would pay a lot to have this on a 2-disc set curtesy of those nice people at...
John, you beat me to it! I just received exactly the same email (except the value was in Canadian dollars). And there I was thinking it was my persuasive email skills! Still, it is a nice gesture to offer a full reund and now I will go and order the special edition from PLAY. How...
Well, I'm another UK customer and I got a fairly useless reply from AMAZON.CA with regards to them sending out the wrong version of HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY: Here's the waffle I got sent: ---- "The only information we can give you about particular titles is what we display on the product...
There's an excellent review of this disc over at DVD Journal. Incidentally, the documentary is not by the BBC, but is an edition of The South Bank Show on ITV (and a very good one at that).
"one of the chief criticisms of the original SUPERMAN is that the tone DOES vary all over the place"
I agree with you on this Mike - Lester is fairly stinging about it in the Soderbergh book as well - I suppose I should have said "of intention" - it does fell episodic, like three different...
I can confirm that the new Region 2 release of PSYCHO has none of the extra features advertised by some web retailers. This is a major disappointment - I am trying to return my DVD to PLAY at the moment...
I have bought FOREIGN, SUSPICION and MR AND MRS SMITH - the best transfer is FOREIGN which is not on par with the Criterion REBECCA, but is otherwise excellent. SMITH is really washed out and a major disappointment - it's acceptable, but is no better than a cheap VHS. I got the fright of...
A good review and excellent screen grabs can be seen at THE BIG PICTURE at:
http://www.thebigpicturedvd.com/cgi-...nset_Boulevard
Apparently the work by LDI is as good as always
I ordered my copy from PLAY for £ 14.99 though I shan't get it until the 16th at the earliest...
One than no one has mentioned yet is the Criterion WILD STRAWBERRIES, which may be the finest 1950s black and white transfer I've ever seen, although THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL comes close. In addition I would nominate the 1933 LITTLE WOMEN which is another fine job at Warners (courtesy of...