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How does The Black Pirate look? I saw it at Film Forum and I never knew two color films were so beautiful. It was gorgeous.

Gee talk about Deaf. I would hope that being a Russian film The Tale of the Tsar Sultan would include music by Rimsky Korsakov and not Tchaikovsky. And that Ilya Muromets might use some Gliere. The magnificent 50's film of Vera Stroyeva's Boris Godunov (the opera but more like great scenes...

I always find it funny that Ferrer who is perfect in Scaramouche in his European aristocratic elegance, regal bearing, arrogance and condescension actually grew up on the Jersey shore. A Jersey boy.

Scaramouche is a lightweight movie? I saw it at the Regency in a great print and it totally knocked me out. It was dazzling. What a great climactic swordfight. One of MGM's last lavish productions before the budget cuts of 1954 became painfully noticeable in their Cinemascope productions...

It's came out in April but people are saying it isn't much of an improvement over the DVD. Criterion has the regular DVD available.

I would like to add Fanfan la Tulipe if nobody has already with the great Gerard Philipe who I do not believe is as well known as he should be dying before he was 40 and Gina at her most luscious in what one might term a swashbuckling romp. Available on a very pricey french bluray the quality of...