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  1. lark144

    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    I saw it when it came out, at the First Avenue Screening Room. It didn't have much of a release. It's an interesting film, gritty in both style and substance and very 70's, also very DYI indie, closer to WANDA than ON THE WATERFRONT. The performances are loose and improvisatory, as is the...
  2. lark144

    Pre-Order The President's Analyst (1967) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    I loved it when it came out. Haven't seen it since, but I'll be picking this up as well. I saw it second run at the Bleecker Street Cinema on a double bill with Breathless, and got a huge kick during that scene in the film when Coburn is being chased in the West Village and runs past the...
  3. lark144

    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    As I stated earlier, I prefer both Cotton Club & Apocalypse Now Redux. I think the re-edits are much superior, a better expression of the original footage, in terms of both character motivation and structure. Also, for me, they're more watchable. They pull you right in, and keep you there, in a...
  4. lark144

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    Not to divert the thread, but I believe Portia was part of that as well.
  5. lark144

    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    I believe the UHD is all region. I have the Blu-Ray, which is Region B.
  6. lark144

    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    Studio Canal releases are in Region B, in the UK, France & Germany. They usually license stuff out in Region A a little later. I imagine this will eventually turn up in the US. Like you, I imported this because I wanted to see it right away. Most of Coppola's re-edits have been coming from...
  7. lark144

    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    Yup. Just got mine too. I'm going to watch the theatrical version first. I loved it when I saw it at Radio City, thought it was perfection, so I see no reason to "fix" it. THE COTTON CLUB, on the other hand, had all kinds of issues in its theatrical release, and I thought Coppola's "redux" went...
  8. lark144

    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    I've been waiting so long to see these! Maybe not exemplary masterpieces of cinematic art, the technical lapses of early sound film-making get in the way occasionally, but these are wonderful in so many ways.
  9. lark144

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    A funny line, considering the schedule and budget, but compared to TITANIC & AVATAR which followed, TRUE LIES is quite modest and intimate.
  10. lark144

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    When I was a kid, they had them in an arcade at Sylvan Beach. As I recall, there was quite a pronounced flicker.
  11. lark144

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Aliens -- in 4k UHD

    Managed the theater where it played in both a 70mm blow up as well as 35mm, and can confirm that. When we switched to 35mm at the end of the run, I thought the grain would be less prominent, but not so much.
  12. lark144

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - True Lies -- in 4k UHD

    I believe Jamie Lee Curtis, the co-star of TRUE LIES also says, "I looked it up", in A FISH CALLED WANDA.
  13. lark144

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Roaring Twenties -- in 4k UHD

    I watched this last night too. I was only checking to see what it looked like, and got completely caught up in the film. As Raoul Walsh notes in that brief interview excerpted as an extra, both Cagney and Bogart have this quality, that when the camera is pointed at them, it involves the...
  14. lark144

    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    It was intentionally cringeworthy. For me, it was the funniest and most charming part of her performance, because the character she played clearly adored doing it, the singing that is. Her character put everything she ever loved or cared for into that horrendous screeching, and though it might...
  15. lark144

    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    Yeah. I've been waiting for this one for a real long time. And yes, this is the film where Candice Bergen came into her own as a comic actress. But though Mr. Reynolds and Ms. Clayburgh may have less showy roles, I think they're amazing in it. The thing about slipcases, they puzzle me. They're...
  16. lark144

    The Official Disney Movie Club Blu-ray Exclusives Thread

    Unfathomable is closer to the mark.
  17. lark144

    Press Release Warner Archive Collection Press Release: The Boob (1926) and Why Be Good (1929) (Blu-ray Double Feature)

    It might have worked in Glorious Smell-O-Vision. Lots of opportunities for perfume and after shave, as well as whiskey breath.
  18. lark144

    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    I recall it being the MGM series, not Ford, though I may be mistaken. I remember it was supposed to be a 35mm Technicolor nitrate for the Ford series, but at the last minute, it was replaced by a 16mm Eastman color print, at least the screening I went to. A year or two later, it did show up for...
  19. lark144

    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    Probably just as well, for you know how long it takes them to release classic films on Blu-Ray that they license.
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    Press Release Warner Archive Collection Press Release: The Little Drummer Girl (1984) (Blu-ray)

    Loved the book but never saw the movie for that very reason. Park Chan-wook directed a miniseries based on the book in the UK in 2018 which I haven't gotten around to watching yet, but is probably a whole lot better.
  21. lark144

    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    Yes, THE LOST PATROL. Having another senior moment. I imagine I'll be watching it this Xmas as well, though I probably won't wait till then.
  22. lark144

    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    Ida Lupino is on fire in THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT. She absolutely incinerates the screen in a burst of passionate expression that seems less like acting than possession, a kind of female equivalent to Cagney in WHITE HEAT, also directed by Walsh. Though the film is brillantly made, tough as nails as...
  23. lark144

    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    I saw the Ford at MOMA decades ago in what might have been a three-strip nitrate archival print. Not at all a bad film, though the story is very old fashioned, with some dazzling sequences, very emotional, tender performances, especially eye opening deep focus compositions that manage to place...
  24. lark144

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu (Blu-ray)

    According to the press release posted at the top of this thread: 4K digital master of Floating Weeds, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack (Blu-ray); High-definition digital master of A Story of Floating Weeds, I bought a Blu from Masters of Cinema maybe 5 or 6 years ago of FLOATING WEEDS and...
  25. lark144

    International Pre-Order Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    As many others have done, buy an all-region player when your current one needs to be replaced.
  26. lark144

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Blu-ray)

    CEDDO is one of the most extraordinary films I've ever seen, whose beauty belies the tempestuousness of its narrative.
  27. lark144

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Peeping Tom (1960) (4k UHD Combo) (Blu-ray)

    I think a lot of us did. It has the same extras and master as the UK Studio Canal, except for the Laura Mulvey and Leo Marks, which are on the Criterion SD from upteen years ago, which I already have, so there seemed no reason to wait.
  28. lark144

    Solaris (1972) Blu-ray

    I first saw it as part of the NYFF in a special screening at the Ziegfeld in a 70mm blow up, probably in 1972. I was in my early twenties. It was mesmerizing. It reminded me of Michael Snow's THE CENTRAL REGION, which I had just seen at Anthology. I think I had already read the book. I was...
  29. lark144

    Solaris (1972) Blu-ray

    While I love Lem's novel, I find Tarkovsky's film much more positive, in the way it deals with memory and time. The framing plot, in which the cosmonaut returns to earth, turning the narrative of the novel into another memory, shows a way out of the loop of reminiscence; allied with the...
  30. lark144

    Solaris (1972) Blu-ray

    It helps if you read the book, which I highly recommend. Actually, Tarkovsky turns the thesis of Lem's novel on its head, and the film is missing the closure of the novel, which brought me to tears the first time I read it. The movie brings me to tears too, but in a very different way. The...
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