There's nothing really to "investigate." Stevens was massively behind schedule on the picture and had to bring in Lean to do all of the interior scenes with Claude Rains, and Negulesco for the Nativity and some scattered other shots early in the first act. The documentary He Walks in Beauty...
There's a UK 3-disc blu-ray coming out at the end of the month for TGSET. I just preordered it, though I have little hope it'll be a better scan than the previous releases.
I just bought that along with 10 or so other StudioCanal Vintage Classics discs earlier this month, so of course Criterion would announce this now...
But hey, maybe this means Criterion will be getting other StudioCanal titles back, like The Third Man, Kurosawa's Ran, the Ealing comedies, etc.
Funny you mention Titus the Moneylender, because he was already omitted from this first cut. I even have a letter that Walter Wanger sent to Currie in September 62, apologizing that they had to cut his scenes in the film.
Apologies for necro-posting this rather old discussion, but I've recently added a "smoking gun" document to my Cleopatra collection that made me think of this thread. I happened to discover an auction for a complete dialogue continuity for the original assembly cut, with markups for lines to be...
I'd be curious if any of the deleted scenes survive in any form anywhere? A few years back, I did a bunch of digging in Gregory Peck and William Wyler's collections out here in LA and discovered just how much material was filmed that was excised. I'd say another half hour or so, based on the...
The 30fps 65mm YCMs survived in good condition?! I feel like Christmas came early, just hearing that!
My wallet is ready and willing to shell out the quatloos needed to see the final product, Dave.
I was just about to go rewatch this on the 3-disc German BRD set the other day when I remembered that it lists a commentary with Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman... but I'm unable to find it for the roadshow or theatrical cuts on any of the discs. Has anyone else been able to locate it...
I think this is gonna be the one that finally pushes me to upgrade my home theater to 4K, and that's all due to reading RAH's background on the restoration efforts.
That Robert Harris seal of approval does more to motivate my wallet than a cadre of home video promotion department employees or...
Really disappointed to discover that the blu-ray included with this set does not have the new transfer of the movie or the new Saving TMWKTM featurette. Universal just regurgitated the previous BRD release, which sucks since I don't have a UHD player yet.
The movie was better than what I was anticipating, though with DC's track record that's not saying much. What soured me on it, however, was watching the special features and seeing the things they wasted money on when it came to to the sets. The went through the time and expense to build an...
Though he's not really the messiah, I'm more of a Life of Brian man myself, but GSET has undoubtedly the best cinematography of any filmed rendition of Christ I have ever seen. It even manages to (somewhat) distract me from John Wayne's disastrous cameo as the Roman Centurion.
It was even earlier than that. In one of the special features on the blu-ray, it's said that the outtakes were junked by around 1967. The little snippets of footage we see in the documentary are just the slates from the footage used in the final print, so there's no extant footage out there of...
My copy should be arriving here in the next few days or so, I'm curious to see how it looks! I'll have a multinational grouping of releases once it arrives - American laserdisc, American DVD, French blu-ray, and German blu-ray.
Had a bit of a journey to get my copy of the "big box o' crap" edition of the TMP DE this week. I'd pre-ordered it the day it was announced from Amazon a few months ago, then I decided to get the UK version of the set as a backup, just in case. They both shipped this week, and that's when the...