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  1. Nick*Z

    20th Century Fox's CinemaScope films

    To each his own, I suppose, but yes - I found this one just plain bad taste meets bad acting, bad cinematography, and bad just about everything else. Normally I can find at least one quality, even from a stinker, that I admire, or think was valiantly put forth. But this one just failed to grab...
  2. Nick*Z

    20th Century Fox's CinemaScope films

    Star! is one of the few movies I would absolutely love to see in a new 4K remaster of the 70mm road show. I always thought it was a much better musical than the critics or audiences of their day gave it credit. How could you NOT love Julie Andrews singing all those glorious mega-hits from days...
  3. Nick*Z

    20th Century Fox's CinemaScope films

    Don't bet on it. Although snippets turned up in Fox's documentary, Cleopatra: The Film that Changed Hollywood, these were mostly outtakes, not actually completed scene that could be reinserted into the movie to make a new 'complete' version. Long ago, some executive 'brain trust' at the studio...
  4. Nick*Z

    20th Century Fox's CinemaScope films

    Always found Night People a bit of a snore, director, Nunnally Johnson, in his first time out with the 'then' new-fangled widescreen format, falling into the pitfalls of early 'scope' production. So, very static shots, not a lot of movement within the frame, a bad case of the Cinemascope mumps...
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