The Best-Placed Intermission Cards Of All-Time (On Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[RolandL]

While maybe not one of the best, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s intermission point is at least interesting, coming at literal cliffhanger with the intermission card flashing onto the screen, thus ensuring people don’t leave before the film is over.

I have it on Blu-ray but never watched it.

 

[Brian Husar]

Ben-Hur. When he walks away angry and Rozsa’s music comes to a crescendo, it’s still chilling to me. Also 2001 just cut to the word intermission.

 

[Matt Hough]

I have it on Blu-ray but never watched it.

Even if you don't end up enjoying the movie, it's one of the very best Blu-ray transfers out there.

 

[Brian Husar]

HELP!

“End of part 1, intermission”. Shot of the Beatles playing around “End of intermission, part 2”

 

[Brian Husar]

Did River Kwai have an intermission, and if it did, why haven’t they included it on the Blu Ray or 4K UHD Blu Ray

 

[Brian Husar]

Always gives me chills when Judah walks away fast and that music comes up, you are like “what is going to come next”.

 

[john a hunter]

Did River Kwai have an intermission, and if it did, why haven’t they included it on the Blu Ray or 4K UHD Blu Ray

Yes,when the film cuts to Jack Hawkins in(as it was then)Ceylon looking for Bill Holden's character.

 

[DP 70]

I remember when Zulu ran in 70mm at the Casino in London in 1972 an intermission was put in.

 

[Bob Furmanek]

Why do all Golden Age 3-D movies have an intermission point, even the features that run less than 65 minutes?

The fascinating answer can be found at the bottom of this page on our website;
http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/top-10-3-d-myths

 

[lark144]

Of course all Italian films in their original versions had intermissions about an hour into the film so someone could go around and sell snacks. While this is mostly deleted on Blu-rays, I believe the Eureka Region 2 Blu of LE AMICHE has this.

 

[Ethan Riley]

Oliver, when Dodger jumps on the back of the cart.

 

[KPmusmag]

So many good ones, but another vote for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. As a kid, I was simply devastated that Maria was leaving.

 

[PMF]

Is it known who traditionally designs the Intermission?
Is it the Director, the editor or the writer?

 

[usrunnr]

Another vote for Doctor Zhivago. And I find that shot of Pasha absolutely chilling.

Also known as Strelnikov.

 

[Dick]

Count me among those who have never understood the hatred towards The Sound of Music.

I think children and older people loved this film from the starting gate. I was 15 when I saw it, and really liked it, but when I saw it a second time felt it was awfully schmaltzy with some tepid performances (Eleanor Parker's and C. Plummer's, for instance) and a couple of songs I simply could not listen to ("I Am Sixteen Going On Seventeen," anyone?) I appreciate it now, and look forward to a definitive 4K release completely restored from the O.N. But I can completely understand why some people despise the film.

 

[Rob_Ray]

We're off topic here, but I must defend Eleanor Parker and Christopher Plummer, both of whom take somewhat one-note characters and make them real. Eleanor Parker, in particular. On paper, the Baroness is a standard-issue, cardboard society snob who is ready ship her potential new breed off to boarding school in order to have Papa all to herself. But, without words, with just a look here and a gesture there, she makes you feel sorry for her, even though your heart is with Maria and the Captain. Her two big scenes, in Maria's bedroom, and, especially, with the Captain on the terrace, are flawlessly done. She deserved the Oscar nomination over Peggy Wood.

To bring it back on topic -- I believe Ernest Lehman's screenplay points to where the intermission belonged.

 

[Douglas R]

Is it known who traditionally designs the Intermission?
Is it the Director, the editor or the writer?

I suspect that in most cases the studio decides whether the film should have an intermission and that the editor does most of the work. As an example, the script for BEN-HUR gives no hint of any intermission. Rozsa wrote several different intermission cues at different lengths from July 1959 but the intermission music used in the film was not written and recorded until October 1959, suggesting different thoughts on where the intermission should eventually be placed. In his autobiography Rozsa said that he worked with the editor on putting together KING OF KINGS, presumably deciding where the intermission should go - Nicholas Ray having long left the production at that stage.

 

[haineshisway]

Of course all Italian films in their original versions had intermissions about an hour into the film so someone could go around and sell snacks. While this is mostly deleted on Blu-rays, I believe the Eureka Region 2 Blu of LE AMICHE has this.

My print of Fellini's The White Sheik had the intermission card, and a DVD from the UK has it - Criterion DVD did not.

 

[haineshisway]

My favorite intermission lead-up and delivery was Scent of Mystery in Smell-O-Vision. It was fantastic. They moved the intermission point when they cut it down into Holiday in Spain, where there's made not a whit of sense. I talk about it on the commentary track so you can see where it originally came.

 

[richardburton84]

I suspect that in most cases the studio decides whether the film should have an intermission and that the editor does most of the work. As an example, the script for BEN-HUR gives no hint of any intermission. Rozsa wrote several different intermission cues at different lengths from July 1959 but the intermission music used in the film was not written and recorded until October 1959, suggesting different thoughts on where the intermission should eventually be placed. In his autobiography Rozsa said that he worked with the editor on putting together KING OF KINGS, presumably deciding where the intermission should go - Nicholas Ray having long left the production at that stage.

The online notes for the FSM edition of Rózsa’s original recording suggests that the intermission was at one point supposed to come before Arrius’ victory parade in Rome. The section talking about Rózsa’s original Entr’Acte contains this note:

(The notation “attacca Victory Parade” at the end of this cue in the score suggests that, at least at the time it was copied on July 9, the intermission was planned for an earlier point in the story.)

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes/ben_hur_alt.html