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Is Tarzi MisterLime?

The funniest thing about the controversy was Mickey Rooney publicly slamming the film...and then starring in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker!

Bob, what were the conventions for shooting in widescreen in France. Diabolique looks open matte to me, and that is from 1955. Breathless seems to be Academy, but that isn't exactly the norm

Didn't King write this one while heavily sedated following his accident?

I loved this in the cinema when I was 8, and I had the Happy Meal toys too (from a McDonalds in France, no less!) Where does the time go?

I'm actually largely content with the colour timing on the transfer. It's much darker than usual but it's not been tealed or anything, and it's far superior to the Warner DVD. However, I'd be interested in seeing Warner have another crack at it for a Blu-Ray. The extras on this set are superb...

On the old UK DVD of Halloween, the original mono and 4.0 surround tracks got mixed up, so what is encoded as mono is the remix and what is encorded as the surround is the original audio.

Were the mattes visible in correctly timed prints though? I never saw them in the Tie Fighter battle until I watched them on someone's tv where he'd jacked up the brightness to silly levels - original version here too.

One hopes Shout sorts out their compression

OT, but did RKO ever shoot a color version of their logo, of the radio mast on the globe?

I noticed that as a kid, as the BV logo was on our pirate tape of The Jungle Book, but not on the legit 1993 VHS we got later.

Criterion's Red River looks like their Yojimbo and The Magician - very boosted whites, which I don't care for. But at least I won't have to try and find the subtitles this time!

Oh man, I love most of those scores Worth!

I really want to see Criterion have the Studio Canal titles again. It's a crime that Lionsgate sits on them and does little or northing.

Kingu Kongu tai Gojira - from the 35mm and 16mm elemements that survive

Is the UK disc uncut?

Well, I wouldn't want to encourage new scenes... I've noticed some films now have new copyrights on as reinforcement, such as Things to Come (nothing like an ITV copyright marring the final shot of a 1930s classic).

Chang Cheh's Tiger Boy (1966), his first collaboration with Jimmy Wang Yu

So much for the 4K restoration... MPEG-2 (has VCI ever done otherwise) and watermarks? Pathetic! I think the Kino Raw is ok once one increases the brightness on the monitor. I think the grain is too much due to the transfer favouring deep blacks over a balanced greyscale.

The subtitled prints for Hong Kong movies frequently were awful - some of the subtitles barely qualified as English.They were done in Hong Kong for the "benefit" of the English speakers there, and also for government requirements. Tsui Hark once wrote to a US critic apologising for the subtitles...

Badlands is a Warner title, though? (or was)

From MGM Miracle Mile Moby Dick From Paramount The War of the Worlds Testament The Elephant Man Don't Look Now Misc The Mysterians (Toho) Vampyr The Ipcress File Henry V and Hamlet (Olivier) Great Expectations and Oliver Twist (Lean)

It's a very effective still. Is this still with Warners in the US?

Was there a problem in booking scope pictures to said theatres and bookings at that time?

I never thought I'd see the day! The Avengers (THAT one) on Blu-ray!

I've held off G,B&U because i wanted the original English version, without the bad dubbing inserts. Ditto Fantasia, Enter The Dragon, Spartacus...

I don't think I've ever seen Ben Affleck in anything so my not feeling very impressed by this announcement is pure snobbery. The same pure snobbery that made me dismiss Heath Ledger because he was "that blonde kid from A Knight's Tale." I was wrong there! And it's Batman so I'm sure it will be...

Jurassic Park trilogy - way too much edge enhancement on existing BDs

Brenty, which Chaplins are you referring to? For me, Enter The Dragon is the big one. How many times has it been re-released now, and not once has the original theatrical version been included?

Another thing is - the 16mm prints that showed up for reruns and such hid detail because they were lower resolution then the fomat they were shot on, and cropped.