An Extras podcast will be coming up soon to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Archive. They’re encouraging listeners to send voicemail messages talking about a specific purchase, what the Archive means to the sender, or a simple appreciation for Mr. Feltenstein (but NO REQUESTS). The...
Indeed. One other title outside of the Bronston epics I have to wonder about as to whether or not it’s also in this perpetuity aspect is The Thief and the Cobbler, which was released through Miramax in the US in a horribly butchered cut.
Fox would also do this with a select number of titles during the 50s such as The Robe, The Egyptian, Peyton Place, and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, to name a few. And some of their roadshow titles of the 60s like Cleopatra and Doctor Dolittle had their overtures conclude over the Fox logo.
It’s worth noting that a few weeks ago, Dave Strohmaier mentioned in another thread that the separation masters for the 30fps version of 80 Days was somewhat recently discovered when talking about a potential restoration.
I think Darkrock is referring more to its conspicuous absence from the TCM roster for next month than for any release (the MGM tributes seem to fall only on Mondays on examining the schedule posted above). As you mentioned, Oz already has a 4K disc so I doubt we’ll be seeing another release of...
I would expect a 4K North by Northwest sometime in the summer, since that was when we got the 4K editions of Rio Bravo and East of Eden last year following their respective screenings at the TCM Festival.
That’s actually for a 1934 adaptation of the story directed by someone named Robert G. Vignola and starring Colleen Moore as Hester Prynne, not the Lillian Gish version.
Bumping this thread to bring the news that a 4K restoration of the theatrical version will be screening at the Academy Museum on May 31st.
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/amadeus-018cfa80-ab0b-9c4e-9e6c-08e3b63fa8ce
I can’t answer for Random Harvest, but George Feltenstein has mentioned in past podcasts that there are elements issues holding up Prisoner of Zenda. I, for one, would definitely be all over a remastered Blu-ray of Zenda.
Sadly, I was born far too late to have experienced the Roadshow Era, but I’ve always been fond of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I’ll admit it’s not a perfect film, but it does have some lovely 65mm photography and some great Sherman Brothers songs, so I’ll definitely be behind a 4K UHD of the film.
Does the isolated score have the music intact? I can’t claim to be any kind of expert on this film as only saw it for the first time last year during a flight to Texas (I believe it was the theatrical version as I recall it ended with the burning temple) and while I don’t recall if the choir...
This post and the fact that Eureka Entertainment are now releasing films in the US (starting with the silent Cat and the Canary in April) raises the question of what other titles initially expected to come from Kino might be coming from these two labels (especially since Eureka released a number...
Sleeping Beauty is actually a unique case as far as Technirama films are concerned as it apparently started out as a CinemaScope production (hence the 2.55 AR), but switched to Technirama late in production to take advantage of its ability to be converted to 70mm. The negative is also...
Considering a new restoration of the film is going to be shown at the TCM Classic Film Festival this year, I think a 4K North by Northwest is pretty much guaranteed.
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films/north-by-northwest/
I think it’s a very good seller for Intrada, which they first released back in 2011, so when they did the reissue in 2022, they also made some adjustments to the sound and programming (such as including both versions of the overture on Disc I when the original was initially on Disc II). On the...
I find that somewhat odd, especially since it’s still readily available from Intrada Records for a pretty good price.
https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12614/.f?sc=16&category=23345
Shoreline Entertainment apparently have a clip of the film on Vimeo, which I assume will be the transfer they’ll be using. While the picture quality isn’t too bad, it’s not particularly good either.
So agreed on both counts. It’s probably not going to happen, but I hope WA include an option to play the film with the unused overture Rózsa composed for the film.
I don’t know if there’s a physical release, but I found a B&W print (like the Julie Andrews Cinderella, it was originally shown in color) on YouTube, including an introduction and some Chrysler commercials featuring a pre-Sleeping Beauty Mary Costa.
I’ve never seen this one, though your review does not sound all that encouraging.
On the subject of musical adaptations of the story, i think (with all due respect to Leslie Bricusse and the Muppets) my favorite musical adaptation is probably the Magoo version, where all the songs advance the...
I have to say I’m surprised that we didn’t get announcements for February this week (this being the third full week of the month). Then again, they may be waiting until after the holidays are over to announce the next batch.
The songs added to the butchered theatrical versions of Richard Williams’ The Thief and the Cobbler were absolutely dreadful and completely at odds with the spectacular animation that remained intact in the released versions (Williams’ original version took a 2001/Excalibur approach to the music...
More a question than a request which I’m placing here so as not to clutter up the Announcements thread. Warner released an animated version of The Nutcracker (titled The Nutcracker Prince) with a supporting role for Peter O’Toole in 1990, which I honestly found to be mediocre at best. What I’m...
The beginning and ending of this one did have original music by Miklós Rózsa, though I guess you could still say it doesn’t have original music in the main body of the film.
On that note, The Gunfighter also only has main and end title music.