Off-topic I know (at least in the case of EL CID), but does the Insider or anyone else know why Anchor Bay/Pinewood were able to put out great Blu-Rays of Bronston's CIRCUS WORLD and 55 DAYS AT PEKING in 2014, and stopped there. I would have thought that EL CID and THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE...
I'm trying to remember if THE WIZARD OF OZ has ever been broadcast on TCM. I'm thinking that it might not have been, given how widely licensed the film has been to other stations and streamers.
As I recall, a couple of years ago there was mention of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging acquiring a 65mm film scanner. With the exception of the Christopher Nolan films and the second Wonder Woman film, I am unaware of any recent WB films shot even partially on 65mm film. I presumed the new...
While we're at it, I suspect there was no 1928 version of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", and if there were, the subject of an interracial marriage would have REALLY been controversial.
We point these out because we love.
I think social media is a factor, but you also have to add helicopter parenting and the devaluation of the humanities, especially history, in the American education system.
Perhaps future generations will find the violence in many of today's films to be equally problematic, and will attach...
Speaking of film clips (although this is probably off-topic), I was challenged last year to decorate a four-foot Christmas tree with movie-themed decorations. My garland was a length of film from a faded 70mm print of the infamous "Gone With The Wind" blowup. Thank you, eBay.
Perhaps Wes is disheartened because so many of the newer Warner Archive classics are advertised as being from a scan of the original camera negative. Of course, these films were made long before modern editing techniques, where the concept of a digital internegative didn't even exist as a step...
Sadly, marketing for movies in theatres has changed drastically over the years. Display ads in the Sunday paper are non-existent, and newer theaters don't even bother to submit their listings to the Movie Directory in the Washington Post. (I once wrote Alamo asking why they only listed their...
Fun trivia: Scenes for NO WAY OUT were filmed in the Old Post Office building in Washington, DC. It contained the government offices where I worked at the time. In the film, Costner (as I recall) takes the DC subway from the Old Post Office to Georgetown. Neither locations actually have...
The confirmation from Kino:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/kino-lorber-insider-announcement-thread-read-guidelines-post-3.355034/#post-4548319
Good point. I would happily make a donation even without the "perk" of a disc copy. However, my experience with such fundraisers is that a copy of the final product is included above a certain contribution level, so I incorrectly assumed that was an unofficial "standard" for such things.
If you ever did decide to use a crowd funder, and a copy of a resulting disc was offered as an incentive to contribute, I would just see it as a way to buy an advance copy of your work as well as helping to support its existence.
(P.S. I hope TCM paid a generous rights fee for last night's...
THE LAST DINOSAUR is a fun pic. The scene where Falcon Crest's "Valene" reacts to being pulled from the swamp covered with leeches ("Yeccch!") never fails to crack me up. In fairness, I also saw Joan Van Ark in Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real" at DC's Shakespeare Theatre, so I know she can be...
Think how much more entertaining the second part of the film would have been if Myrna Loy went into full "flibbertigibbet" mode as Billie Burke. (or even better, if they had hired Billie Burke herself for the role).
Yes, there is one discreet cut in the "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" number. But that doesn't diminish the technical achievement of the world's largest wedding cake.
(I still prefer the rooftop garden dance numbers that open Act Two.)
This film, LAND OF THE PHAROAHS, and some film about a...
Like "Around the World in 80 Days" which is being discussed on another thread, I don't look to movies like this for characterization or plot. I enjoy this film for its spectacle. The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" is an over-the-top sequence which reminds me of the Radio City Music Hall...
I agree that 80 Days isn't a good film, at least in the normal definition of a movie, but I find it to be good entertainment. It's a cross between the technical achievement you mention (indeed, the widening of the screen at the rocket lift-off is as impressive as the roller coaster scene in...