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  1. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review Nicholas and Alexandra Blu-ray Review

    Great film, and an austere and (mostly) accurate historical epic. Too many have compared it to Zhivago, which is ultimately a fictional story. Goldman's script for N&A is marvelous and any shortcomings are because Nicholas and Alexandra themselves were pretty boring. They were also coke-heads...
  2. 24fpssean

    1960s: What Titles Did You Vote For?

    THE LION IN WINTER
  3. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ This is Cinerama -- in Blu-ray

    Dave, this is wonderful! Looking forward to building my Cinerama collection!!
  4. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ This is Cinerama -- in Blu-ray

    Dave is a good friend and I love his passion for Cinerama! Way back on CONTACT, when I was working with his wife, Carin-Anne, Dave was making CINERAMA ADVENTURE, a wonderful doc on the history of the Cinerama process. It was fascinating, and inspiring, to see this documentary realized. Earlier...
  5. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ M -- in Blu-ray

    Anyone else have this problem with their BD of M? - After two years of no problems playing the disc, it now hangs up on chapters one and two, displaying a pale, frozen still from the menu. I have to turn my Sony BD player off to get it to snap out of it and then skip down to chapter three, from...
  6. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    I almost went to that screening, Bryan! Now I wish I had, because I would have seen it for myself! I was 22 in '88 and remember clearly the thousands of protesters swarming the hill at the time, up at Universal Cineplex. Funny to think there was no CityWalk then, and parking was in the dirt. I...
  7. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Raiders of the Lost Ark -- in Blu-ray

    The DCP I saw of Raiders earlier this year looked horrible, but that may have been the venue. Doug Slocombe's almost three dimensional cinematography is very contrasty, deep dark shadows, glowing highlights (Slocombe also shot The Lion in Winter), and projected digitally just made it look...
  8. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Last Temptation of Christ -- in Blu-ray

    Criterion did recycle the master used for the DVD. The end titles are the same as on the DVD. As I have stated countless times before, the original end titles of the feature film on 35mm film are white titles over an off-white cinema screen, not the tawny gold that it darkens to between the...
  9. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    Sorry Bryan for the late response. I've given up on HTF and moved on... then I noticed others had indeed seen the mess that is this Criterion BD. No, I did not see Last Temptation in 70mm. I was working at Universal Cineplex (now the AMC) as an assistant floor manager (a few years before I got...
  10. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Lawrence of Arabia -- in 4k/UHD Blu-ray

    I guess you misunderstood me: the ENTIRE balcony scene, of so much geeky legend, has not been restored, only the two minutes or so that exist in the film from the 1988 restoration. As for the missing frames, I had read that those frames were saved and could one day be scanned and cut back in...
  11. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About While we wait for A few words about...™ Lawrence of Arabia -- in 4k/UHD Blu-ray

    No, the balcony scene is not restored. Saw the 4k premiere at the Academy thursday night. It was pretty amazing. Also the missing frames from the recut neg aren't stitched in as well. Good looking DCP .
  12. 24fpssean

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    I understand packaging, since I'm in the industry and have been for twenty years. It wasn't a criticism I was stating, but a fact. The ROOM Blu-ray came from Warners/BBC and it is cropped. It probably goes deeper than that since cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts approved it, he may have been...
  13. 24fpssean

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    That's right, I remember getting an answer from Warners that the film was hard-matted at 1.85:1. Curious, then, why the HD versions would look as if TV Safe had been matted rather than the true matte. The BD of A ROOM WITH A VIEW from Warners/BBC is cropped to 1.78, rather than its original...
  14. 24fpssean

    Aspect Ratio Documentation

    And now back to EXCALIBUR. Does anyone know the INTENDED aspect ratio for it? VHS was of course full frame, DVD and HD DVD and Blu ray have what looks like sever crowding especially at the top where characters' heads sometimes move above frame. I remember seeing a PAL to NTSC VHS twenty years...
  15. 24fpssean

    Excalibur Blu-ray Review

    Yes, Boorman post dubbed the entire film. It was his style at the time. Think of it as a Samurai flick and it's actually pretty neat. The cropping is awful, there is something seriously wrong with how this BD was cropped. The UK letter boxed VHS was in perfect 1.85 and very comfortable. Wish I...
  16. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Last Temptation of Christ -- in Blu-ray

    Okay, this is a terrible disc. 59 minutes into the film the blocking and banding around Satan's pillar of fire is shocking. Universal clearly handed Criterion their twelve-year old HD master, which was generated for the Standard Def release back in 2000, and left it up to them to deal with the...
  17. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    Tried the disc on a friend's system (different equipment than mine) and the results were the same. His jaw dropped at what he saw, the blocking and banding, and he despaired that he had planned to buy Last Temptation but now couldn't. For the record, just watching the Monty Python and the Holy...
  18. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    All right, here we go again. I've finally had a chance to watch the entire film on Blu-ray (not just the end title sequence to prove my theory that the end titles had been darkened again, see above) and this is a God awful disc. Now those of you familiar with my tirades against Criterion's...
  19. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review Out of Africa (Universal 100th Anniversary) Blu-ray Review - Highly Recommended

    It was very difficult for Pollack and crew to make the film in Africa, even in the 1980's. Scorsese had the same problem on Last Temptation in Morocco. Location shoots, especially in exotic countries, add endless variables that can go wrong. Some of the roughness of Out of Africa (takes that...
  20. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    Just watched my BD and thought it looked and sounded very nice. I saw the film in 1988 (in fact I worked at Cineplex Odeon Universal during the 125,000+ protest against the film!) and I am very sorry that the integrity of the original end credits was not maintained. As I stated above, the film...
  21. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    That's too bad. Well, it's a difficult thing for even HD home video to reproduce. The effect in the cinema is really wonderful, leaving the viewer feeling as if what happened after Jesus' death was too much for mere film and therefore it was burned off of the screen. I remember everyone sitting...
  22. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Last Temptation of Christ -- in Blu-ray

    Robert, I was wondering about the end title sequence. Theatrically, on film, when Jesus dies the celluloid is literally blown off of the screen by the power of God and the bright white end credits are shown against an off-white cinema screen. All versions of the film on home video have darkened...
  23. 24fpssean

    Blu-ray Review The Last Temptation of Christ Blu-ray Review

    Nice review, Matt, I am eagerly awaiting my order to arrive next Tuesday! I'm curious about the end title sequence, though: When Jesus gives up the ghost and the film is "zapped" from the screen by the power of God, the end titles are bright white projected onto a simulated off white cinema...
  24. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    And yet the DET is still missing from DET SJUNDE INSEGLET, in the main title, on Criterion's BD.
  25. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    And I was vilified for wanting the "Det" put back into Det sjunde inseglet...
  26. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Tree of Life -- in Blu-ray

    Tree of Life does have narrative; all motion pictures do and it's silly to deny that. Even if you let the camera run on an empty room and released that as a film it still has narrative (the changing of the sun's position for an hour and a half is "something happening"). ToL begins with the news...
  27. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Tree of Life -- in Blu-ray

    I hope so! I'd love to see that version again. Jack is actually sent to a school, almost a bording school, because of his difficult behavior, which all seems to begin when he steals the neighbor woman's shimmy. Then that is interrupted by the loss of his father's job, so there is a sort of...
  28. 24fpssean

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Tree of Life -- in Blu-ray

    Wade, CITY GIRL is a wonderful movie! I have that BD and had the great good luck to have seen the film projected at LACMA several years ago. They announced before it started that they were sorry but they had been told the film had an optical track and that it didn't so they would have to show it...
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