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  1. Robert Harris

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Ragtime – in Blu-ray

    There was nothing better than the AIP horror comedies.
  2. Robert Harris

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Ragtime – in Blu-ray

    It was planned as a Katharine Hepburn vehicle, but it went south when the prod company couldn’t come up with her early boxing footage. I’m told they tried to go the PD footage route, and came up with Jack Johnson material, but he was unavailable, so they brought Mr. Cagney down from here...
  3. Robert Harris

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Ragtime – in Blu-ray

    An odd TV production, in which Mr. Cagney and Mr. Gorshin were placed in a blender and set to mix - slow. True connoisseurs of cinema have not, do not, and never will accept a production created for the small screen as cinema. Ask anyone, and they’ll agree.
  4. Robert Harris

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Ragtime – in Blu-ray

    Paramount's new Blu-ray of Milos Forman's Ragtime finally allows for far more than a proper home theater presentation. While the new image harvest is lovely, and I'm thrilled to have it, the big news for me was the inclusion - on a second Blu-ray disc - of Mr. Forman's final work print, here...
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