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I have the French Rimini Editions Fall of the Roman Empire end it is the best looking of all the Blu Rays out there. Still from the same source material, but seems to have been reworked somewhat, and there's far more detail in most scenes. The second half of the film looks a lot better than the...

I took a friend of mine to see this when it opened in Hollywood, ostensibly to see Jean-Paul Belmondo, who he did not know. After about half an hour, he said, "You gotta be kidding, let's get out of here."Mad Magazine did a spoof which you can get a glimpse of here.

Also this version on Blu Ray which I watched last night. Not bad P/Q...quite good in places. Sound could be better. Available on ebay from creaturefeaturevideos

Here’s what I’m seeing with my Rimini “El Cid” on my set up which consists of JVCNX9 projector with Lumagen upscaling to 4K and a Panamorph lens, all pixels in use onto a 128” 2.35 screen. This was installed and fine tuned to perfection by Craig Rounds, out of Chicago, one of the top set up...

Yes, the statues. I had forgotten those. And I think there were Roman swords too pointing the way to the auditorium. They had Chinese swords on the walls directing you at the Cinema in Paris where I saw "55 Days", from a center stalls seat with huge screen. First Tiomkin's blood stirring...

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Perhaps a marginal improvement over the Weinstein release if we are lucky. The problem for me is that I saw it in 2.75 and uncut the day after it opened in London at The Astoria. The usher who escorted to my place informed me that my seat was where the Duke of Edinburgh sat the night before...

Saying that the character Brenda Marshall plays may "not be a good person" is a value judgement on the part of the viewer" is a value judgment! Let's go wokeness!

Exactly! How daft it going to be when Tom Ewell during his on screen opening monolog after expanding the screen out to Cinemascope says "and stereophonic sound" and it stays MONO! To approximately quote another of his lines..."you sometimes wonder whose minding the store".

Extra, in fear and trembling to John Ford. "Mr. Ford, I don't know how to tell you this but I was wearing the wrong boots in the last shot". Ford. "Don't worry about it kid. If they're looking at your boots we already lost em".

It's been saying "out of stock" for weeks when you try to buy at amazon.de Like I said before. get it from amazon.it In stock now and mine is on its way

I ordered the Koch Sodom and Gomorrah blu-ray from Amazon Italy and it has been shipped and will be here before Christmas. Both cover versions are available and seem to be shipped from a company in Germany. Santa "And what do you want for Christmas little Johnny?" Johnny "Please Santa, I want...

Went to see it at a London suburb cinema in 1969 and it was the flat version you mentioned. I was disappointed at first but soon shook that off and got into it anyway. The thing about 4.3 on T.V is your eyes don't move much laterally while watching. With Cinemascope on a big screen they move...

Glad RAH mentioned "Knights of the Round Table" which was also beautifully shot by Freddie Young. As the first MGM Cinemascope offering it should be available in the best possible image and sound, as has been done with "The Robe" which was Fox's Cinemascope kick off. Plus we have a fantastic...

There are Fox blu ray's available in Europe like Demetrius and the Gladiators from Spain in a much better print than the Twilight Time release. You'll need a region free player and will have to scout around on Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es. (Watch out for bootlegs there). I'm grabbing all I...

Ivanhoe!!! Wonderful. Review in the Radio Times circa 1970 said "It delivers with panache and ticks along like a Swiss watch". Now lets have "Knight of the Round Table" with Rozsa's great score blasting out in DTS sound and Stanley Baker snarling out lines to Merlin like "Take care I do not...

I Agree. Incredibly important. Symbolically a la Carl Jung/Joseph Campbell. At the deepest level the three wise men represent three functioning aspects of ourselves...Thinking, feeling and doing. Seeing them on the screen with Rozsa's beautiful music playing as they watch the star move across...

Here are my MIDI reconstructions of music from three of Rozsa's film scores. I made them to study his orchestration skills and further develop my own.

I wish I knew. I recall reading about the same thing. There is a good discussion by people who really love FOTRE with some info as to the whereabouts of the footage here https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=98477 Those missing scenes really add a lot, particularly the trilemma...

How fortunate I was to see it wide, wide, wide at the Astoria, twice in London. The best image I ever saw with a screen installed before what used to be the proscenium arch to make it extremely wide. It had the full (quite profound) trilemma speech in tact. The picking out of the two barbarian...

With uncertainty about aspect ratio and source quality on the upcoming Rimini Editions The Fall of the Roman Empire one might hope that if it is 2.75 it might be from the Ultra Panavision original. A farfetched hope but stranger things have happened. I have this version of 55 Days at Peking from...

I have had the same won't play problems with "Fall" and "El Cid" on my OPPO and Panasonic player 4k uhd-bd 820. I bought the UK "Cid" as a replacement and and two pack of both from Germany (Koch Media) that play fine as of now. Having seen both in 70mm in London when they first came out having...

Anything by Miklos Rozsa, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin etc. - classic composers from the Golden Age of Film Scoring. I have re-created pieces from several of my favorite scores by these greats using the best orchestral samples and MIDI technology. They can be heard...

Anything by Miklos Rozsa, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin etc. - classic composers from the Golden Age of Film Scoring. I have re-created pieces from several of my favorite scores by these greats using the best orchestral samples and MIDI technology. They can be heard...

Glad to see the question of audio quality on Korngold scored WB movies raised. I was disappointed with the sound quality of the music on the "The Sea Hawk" blu ray. The lower mid range and bass lack the "punch" that typified the classic Warner sound that was present of the VHS, but bleached out...

Robert...I see you give a 5 to the audio but can you comment on the actual sound quality? Being able to hear Korngold's score with the requisite power is an important element for me. On the Laser Disc and DVD release the typical Warner Bros sound with a full mid range and a punchy low end was...