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This TCM article explains Wilder's agreement with the changed ending: Our Town

Can this discussion not be separated into its own thread, as it now seems to have no relevance to the actual topic?

Yes, I don't know why I still associate del Toro's name with that trilogy. In any case, I never read anything that suggested any of the four films in question had any HFR content other than at 48 fps. And unlike the two HFR films Ang Lee made, that rate isn't a part of any current home video...

I thought this film, like Del Toro's The Hobbit trilogy, only used 48fps HFR at most?

Apologies, I missed the part where this film was cited even though it wasn't competing in the same year as "La Grande Illusion." A true non-sequitir...

...And it is neither a foreign language nor an international film, being a Warner Bros prestige film from 1936. As for "La Grande Illusion," there was no award for a foreign language film until 1956, although there was a special honorary award presented between 1947 and 1955 (except for 1953)...

By this map it appears that the only showings of 2001 in Montreal are at 2K on a screen just about 50 feet wide. As a small anecdote the one time I was able to see this film theatrically was as part of a University film society program at Concordia in Montreal some time in the 1990s. This...

It may be original to this 1967 staging of the play...

Warner themselves only released Barry Lyndon and Lolita as essentially bare bones Blu-rays (certainly compared to previous Kubrick Blu-ray releases) so the commitment to those titles was a bit suspect.

According to the Widescreen Museum, Super used spherical lenses and Ultra used anamorphic lenses.

The film isn't questioning the actions of the military, it questions the attitudes and opinions of almost everyone else who wasn't there.

Speaking as one who only saw it in a theater with HFR (local theaters did not offer any 3D option for the film) and likely only 60 fps I can still appreciate the difference it created in my perception after a lifetime of watching 24fps. Without the perceptible stuttering of lateral motion and...

A rather typical function of films or comics (or WWE wrestling, let's face it) with eventual team-ups would be for established characters to meet as adversaries or at least be highly contrasted in some or many ways (personality or technique, all part of the mix); if there is an initial conflict...

In trying to maintain a temporal balance, I'll suggest four films dating from only as far back as 1990, all already making the Sight and Sound Critics Poll top 100 films of all time (two of them also made the Directors Poll top 100), and all in a way forgoing both the classic and modern...

Jacques Rivette has passed away.

I believe the wider shot also represents a flashback, though it's also been indicated that the shot goes wide merely to accommodate the length of the zheng, or zither. As to the transfer of the US Blu-ray, I also noticed the fades to black left the academy ratio area a milky gray rather than...

I've seen two different B/W versions of the first part of the film, and in one it had the look of a heavily duped print, with blown out whites and little subtlety in the blacks, much like the WWI film trailer that divides the film. This means I never knew which was the right presentation, but...

This sounds like a question directed at the wrong people, unless it's merely rhetorical.

The Tree of Life

The use of a freehand animation style (much like the late Frederic Back's short film work) draws attention to the texture of the drawing in a startling way. Even in motion some frames can burn the detailed linework into your eyes. Here's a strange anecdote from former Ghibli Head Toshio Suzuki...

My recollection was that the version on the DVD set was the first version that actually aired, but not necessarily in the US. During the series' initial run it aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and I think it may have aired one day earlier, or at least earlier in the evening...

I thought those sequences didn't have a sepia tone to it (as, say, the old Sea Hawk DVD had for the jungle sequences), but what Powell hoped would be a 'pearly' tone? My first viewing on TV I seem to recall it looked like no monochrome I had ever seen before.

Well, not Gregory Peck's Johnny Ringo, but that may be an exception.

So, by the announcments at one time or another that the upcoming blu-ray would have one aspect ratio, then the other, but (maybe) not both it seems to be clear that digital masters exist of both versions. What I would be curious about is what difference there would/could be in both picture...

R & H appear to have been bought, though not by India's Prime Focus Group, the original corporate suitor.

Former President Carter apparently first made these comments back in November as well as on CNN last night. I still haven't seen Argo yet but the two films may be mostly complementary, if only because there seems to be nearly no overlap of the events shown. Most of that film dealt with the time...

There was a 1981 TV movie titled Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper that could be used as a possible counterpoint or alternate view of the same events, but as it was made for Canadian TV I'm not sure it is readily available for viewing; certainly I haven't seen it since it first aired. The...

The frame in my set is from the same scene, but I believe it is from the very beginning, with Allenby at the far left and Lawrence at the far right. Yours is after the camera has moved into a tight closeup of Lawrence, then? Much closer to the chilling line, "I liked it." One thing I've...

The DVD with Age of Consent and A Matter of Life and Death was released by Sony in 2009. Even then I think we had lamenting they didn't release it to Blu-ray...