It's a masterpiece, so great news about the quality, Matt. A friend of mine turned me onto it in VHS days. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
Met Marc Lawrence at the time Marathon Man was in cinemas. A kind, sweet nature that belied the looks that had him cast so often as a villain. Proof...
Muchas Gracias, Ramin.
Up to my neck at my local theater. Lot of catching up to do here.
Toby Roan is writing a book: A Million Feet of Film: The making of One Eyed Jacks. A search for the title will bring up his Facebook and Tumblr. pages. Some terrific behind the scenes pictures, including...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/film-archivists-confab-open-screening-919609
Article says faded blues had to be restored using a black and white archival element. The rest from the original negative.
Fiery redhead is right!
My friend Gil got invited to the set of The Rare Breed by Brian Keith. She'd been arguing with Andrew McLaglen so the first word he heard from that beautiful mouth as she approached them was a loud Anglo-Saxon F-bomb.
Hard to believe, but he said the cameras didn't do...
Rich-
A great resource for a history of Amazon price changes is camelcamelcamel.com. Just copy the Amazon URL and paste.
(Ironically, I tried to copy and paste the camel link for MFL here for you but it's not 'taking').
$27.99 as Raul shows.
(Just now saw Mike's post).
http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/stanley-kubricks-boxes/
'Stanley Kubrick's Boxes'.
Documentary at bottom of page was filmed at the director's home in England. The boxes were afterwards donated in 2007 to an arts college in London.
The reason I'm most proud to have met Gene Kelly was for what Jules Dassin had to say about him.
In his interview on the Criterion Rififi, Dassin recalls the time at a Cannes Festival when he spotted Kelly and, eager not to embarrass him, hid around a corner. He thought he was safe when he felt...
She was my first crush! Surreal meeting her in the early '90s with this in mind. Didn't mention it, of course. Mitzi is adorable.
Love every millimeter of every frame. Have yet to meet anyone who feels the same, but I also love the filters. For me, they add to the magical element attributed to...
Just got through watching The Searchers. Documentaries include the marvelous, 'A turning of the Earth', written, directed and produced by none other than...Nick Redman.
The one that made me fall in love with movies. Shown at our boarding school eons ago, we sat on benches without backs, the projector on a table behind us, noisily whirring away. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!
The Spanish reviewer in Douglas's link cites the AR as 1.77:1. I gave away the Entertainment One BD in 2011 after suffering through 20 minutes of it, but assuming it was 1.85, it would be interesting to compare the purported 1.77 captures (if native and not resized for the page) with it.
I was...
One of my favorite books from a hundred years ago was Calder Willingham's 'Eternal Fire', though I imagine the line, "Get up, you scum sucking pig" was the director's own contribution.... :P
No one has mentioned Mr. Kubrick's aborted involvement (or did I miss that?).
That's my friend's ex-wife he gives the ring to and later pulls off her finger. In addition to the leather piece I mentioned in the Spartacus thread, I have the first 'sides' Mina was given (it's buried away, but if memory serves, it's an early version of the script when it had the working title...
Imagine that in a few hundred years, Bond will be Universe-trotting instead of just Globe-trotting. Locations will include Mars, Pluto etc. Eon, of course, will be forced by The Martian Actors Union to employ locals.
Exactly! The first thing that came into my mind when drooling over the steelbooks. Dr. No is one of my three desert island discs. (Got to meet Connery and Ursula Andress on separate occasions. Brief one-on-ones in the mid-seventies and early eighties respectively).
Thanks to my (older, I'm glad to say) friend, I own the leather pouch Brando wore in One Eyed Jacks after getting his hand smashed in by Malden. His wife has a small part in it and both became friends with Mr. Brando.
Philip Rhodes, Brando's lifelong friend since before the Broadway Streetcar...
Thanks, Ramin, will look into that.
By the way, Paul Scofield's King Lear DVD is available from Amazon Italy for 7,30 euro (8,90 inc. VAT for Euro countries).
The argument in your full post has been made countless times in this forum since the outset of the format. Some studios took note (and enjoyed, or are about to enjoy, a double or triple dip as a byproduct of a remaster), but the 'hotel company' (as Dr. Griffin rightly called it in the 1960...
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Not all available on Blu, but The Horsemen and Tamarind Seed (doubled with the Burton/Loren remake of Brief Encounter) are on DVD. The others, of course, are on BD.