Criterion Press Release: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Dual Format) (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

The fabulous movie ads seeing what was playing at the same time.

The wonderful theater listings of shows both familiar and forgotten.

Magnificent! Thanks so much.

 

[lark144]

WOW! This really brings back memories All those greats movies at those great theatres: CLEOPATRA at the Rivoli, TWO WOMEN at the Festival, 8 1/2 at the Embassy, UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE at Loew's State (ok, maybe not so great, but I loved it at the time; I saw it at Loew's Paradise, I think), and Sam Cooke & Mary Wells at the Apollo! If one only had a time machine!

 

[Mike Frezon]

The Loew's in Brooklyn had a little film called Lawrence of Arabia. "First Run Near Your Home!"

 

[Charles Smith]

Incredible. All of it.

 

[Jacksmyname]

Great stuff, Mike.
Thank you!

 

[Charles Smith]

Imagine the pastrami that must have been available in that year .....

 

[Mike Frezon]

The most surprising thing for me was to learn that Kirk Douglas starred on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I NEVER knew that.

What a different film that would have been.

 

[Matt Hough]

The most surprising thing for me was to learn that Kirk Douglas starred on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I NEVER knew that.

What a different film that would have been.

And it was a big flop for him. But Kirk's participation opened the door for Michael to get the screen rights which later won him an Oscar for producing the movie.

 

[Moe Dickstein]

Kirk desperately wanted to do the film but he was too old by the time they got it going.

 

[John Maher_289910]

KIrk Douglas owned ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, even before the book was published.

 

[ROclockCK]

Because of the national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK, several New York newspapers ran reproductions of their edition printed 11-23-1963.

The NY Daily News reprinted their ENTIRE edition from that day...including all their movie ads. Lots of interesting stuff (outside of the JFK news).

Thanks Mike! Assuming I couldn't get near IAMMMMW during its first days and weeks, I would have probably been over at the Loew's showing of Jason and the Argonauts with Gidget Goes to Rome. Or just as likely, The Haunting with Square of Violence.

Gotta love those funky early 60s double-bills...

 

[John Maher_289910]

Fun to see the movie listings. Coincidentally, on this day 50 years ago, after we watched Ruby kill Oswald, I went to a triple-feature at The Kent Theater, in Philadelphia. I saw PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND, CONVICTS FOUR and THE GIANT OF THE METROPOLIS. Two of those three films are featured in the ads posted.

 

[Carl LaFong]

If anyone is interested, PBS has announced it will broadcast the Season 3 premiere of BBC's SHERLOCK on 1/19/2014, just two days prior to the Criterion IAMMMMW release on the 21st. It sounds like Christmas will happen all over again in January. Could it be, to coin a phrase, an "Indian Christmas"?

 

[Garysb]

The price at Amazon is currently $30 which is 40% off the $50 list price. Anyone who previously preordered from Amazon will have their price automatically adjusted to the lowest price before release date.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Its-a-Mad-Mad-Mad-Mad-World-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d034%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-034-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00GBT61YS&ASIN=B00GBT61YS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

[Moe Dickstein]

Huh, do you have to re-do your pre-order? I feel better when the lower price shows up in my order which it doesn't now.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

Huh, do you have to re-do your pre-order? I feel better when the lower price shows up in my order which it doesn't now.

I've always gotten the automatic adjustment after shipping and never noticed a lower price in my open orders. Just got an $8 adjustment notice today for something that shipped Monday.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Amazon will automatically adjust to the lowest price if you are
already preordered.

If there is any chance of a mistake, you can simply email customer
support after you have been charged and they will make the adjustment.

 

[Vic Pardo]

I hope the extended scenes on the Criterion don't look the way they did on the MGM Blu-ray, all anamorphically stretched out:

And these clips were all thrown together willy-nilly with no rhyme or reason and no chronological order, to make up an hour of "extended scenes." Anyone know why they did it that way?

Thanks.

 

[Robert Harris]

I hope the extended scenes on the Criterion don't look the way they did on the MGM Blu-ray, all anamorphically stretched out:

And these clips were all thrown together willy-nilly with no rhyme or reason and no chronological order, to make up an hour of "extended scenes." Anyone know why they did it that way?

Thanks.

"It's the way I register despair..."

RAH

 

[Moe Dickstein]

It's been discussed earlier in the thread.All of the scenes will be properly fixed but the images above are the fault of your TV settings not the disc. it looks like a stretched out 4x3 Letterbox, which should be zoomed past the bars rather than stretched like that to fill the 16:9 screen.All of the outtakes on the Blu and DVD version are just taken verbatim from the master trim tape. This is what was transferred from the trims in no particular order, then used to assemble the LD version. When they needed a scene they would dial in the timecode on the master tape and grab it then grab the next thing somewhere else off the tape.That is the sort of element one uses when working, NEVER the sort of thing that should be dumped on the public with no rhyme or reason.Thankfully the Criterion release should be tidier.