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Ok. So what we now have is: A. Ethnically-correct casting?? 1. The new movie will feature Puerto Rican actors. The Puerto Rican demographic is 60-70 European, so it will be interesting to see if this fact is observed in the casting, or if they will all be dark-skinned. 2. The role of Tony...

Arthur Laurents discusses how he used dialogue that SOUNDED contemporary and hip but really was an effort at being timeless. He didn't want to date himself. It will be interesting to see what Mr. Kushner comes up with.

Rewriting Arthur Laurents and Ernest Lehman together is a risky business.

Virtually unprofessional. This can't be Spielberg. It does underscore my belief that this film should not be remade.

I will buy it!

Sounds interesting but I am not sure what this means. The original 6 track mag mix for WSS had a 5-channel front stereo soundstage and 1 rear. This is sometimes called "Todd-AO sound". The current industry standard is 3-channel front and 2 rear "surrounds", with 1 sub (assuming 5.1). 7.1...

I compared the Criterion LD to the Blu-ray. Overall, it is absolutely no match to the Blu-ray. It is interesting that the colors on the Saul Bass opening on the LD present some differences as well. There is a green there that people are saying does not belong. I do however understand not...

Speaking as someone who worked in a theatre roadshowing WSS in its original release, there are many good things about the new Blu-ray disk. There are a number of possibly problematic areas, some of which may be in the original version actually. As to the outstanding defect in the overture, I...

One of the virtues of digital media is that when you get it perfect, you can make arbitrarily many perfect copies. One of the vices of digital media is that when you get it imperfect, you can make arbitrarily many perfectly imperfect copies. Will future generations think that there was a...

Try the ending credits of Around the World in 80 Days, also by Saul Bass. IMHO, the best credits ever made for a movie.

Unfortunately, I missed several chances to see WSS in 70mm prints this last year. But, I would like to see a print to check something out. Some of the effects that people have reported may be optical artifacts in the original film. I refer in particular to some of the aliasing in the...

Well, I bought the Target version, it is a good deal. Comments: My history with this film is that I saw it innumerable times in 35mm magnetic and 70mm during original release, plus many times since theatrically in 70mm. Video mainly from the Criterion CAV LD. Picture 1. The issues that...

I know of one pair of indie houses in SFO (total 6 screens, all still film) that has a projectionist running between the two theaters (2 blocks apart). He does a great job and is a nice guy. From what I am hearing about exhibition in SFO and the peninsula, a lot of house managers are doing...

The days when we had actual projectionists are long gone. Today, most digital theaters are run by computer, there is almost nothing left for a projectionist, and if there were, there wouldn't be anyone there to do it anyway. The polarizing lenses need to switch automatically and without manual...

After deliberation longer than I use for my finances (!), I have decided not to buy WSS at this time, but to send a letter to someone in charge. Via US Mail. I have been trying to find out the person(s) to mail. Does anyone have addresses for me? I would prefer more than one person, especially...

Thanks for your comments about Showscan. I liked it. I also liked Around the World in Eighty Days and Oklahoma! in 30fps. [I do not like most of the frame-interpolation HDTV's that I have seen but am open to see what happens.] I am hopeful that we will see capture at 120 fps. This is...

The current frame interpolation systems are not very good. There was a process called Showscan a few years ago. It used 70mm film at 60fps. It was amazing.

Please don't apologize! Yes, we are losing something. In fact, I am doing a treatment for a documentary about projectionists right now out of general interest in the topic. Are you interested in being interviewed?

Yes, something is surely dying. But overall I am very optimistic about the new digital world. It is possible that it will reduce many of the problems that have plagued exhibition of film, especially for repertory. It is also possible that it will open up a whole new array of unforeseen...

The Criterion CAV laserdisk has the red to blue dissolve with no fade out. I believe this to be correct. Both of the YouTube's mentioned in this thread are wrong if memory serves. I should add that while I have seen this film a number of times in 70mm, 35mm and various video formats, it is...

The original sound mix certainly can be used. The 70mm mix was 5 front channels and 1 rear. This can easily be converted to 5.1 format simply by downmixing the 5 front channels into 3 but preserving the original directionality. This is exactly how it was done in the preparation of the 4...

United Artists never was very good about exhibition issues in my experience. UA was not really a studio in the usual sense. It was a releasing company for independent film makers. During the 50's and 60's, as the studio system expired, they had many of the best films. How they distributed...