What's on your Daily Viewing List? (6 Viewers)

[Matt Hough]

Vudu put the HD, restored version of Holiday on sale this weekend, and since I had a 20% off code to use, I bought the film and watched it this afternoon. It's a far superior transfer to the recorded-off-TCM DVD-R that I've been using for years to get my Holiday fix. I truly love this movie and never tire of watching it. I don't have to be in the mood for it like I have to be to watch its more sophisticated, brittle sibling The Philadelphia Story.

I've been expecting it from Criterion for years, and now that I've bought the streaming version, I'm sure it'll be announced any day now.

 

[Mysto]

Vudu put the HD, restored version of Holiday on sale this weekend, and since I had a 20% off code to use, I bought the film and watched it this afternoon. It's a far superior transfer to the recorded-off-TCM DVD-R that I've been using for years to get my Holiday fix. I truly love this movie and never tire of watching it. I don't have to be in the mood for it like I have to be to watch its more sophisticated, brittle sibling The Philadelphia Story.

I've been expecting it from Criterion for years, and now that I've bought the streaming version, I'm sure it'll be announced any day now.

I haven't watched this one in ages. Thanks for getting the ball rolling on a Blu Ray release. Looking forward to watching it again.

 

[bujaki]

Between Friday and Saturday I watched:
The Cossack Whip (1918) with Viola Dana; directed by her husband John H. Collins, who succumbed during the 1918 flu epidemic (DVD)
Doberman Cop, directed by Fukasaku and starring "Sonny" Chiba (Arrow BD)
Barbara, directed by Christian Petzold, starring Nina Hoss (BD)
Gothic, directed by the one and only Ken Russell (BD)
Gun Crazy, quintessential noir from Joseph H. Lewis (Warner Archive BD)

 

[dana martin]

a short break from the high seas and catching up on another from the WAC 4 for $44 sale

 

[Mike Frezon]

Tonight's fare:

 

[Toronto Argonauts]

James Bond to night

 

[Jeff Flugel]

Caught up with handful of big budget releases that I missed in the theater:

 

[bujaki]

I forgot to add a Friday movie, The Wife (DCP), good performances that could not disguise a mediocre source.

 

[RolandL]

January 12th, 2019 Saturday

Cowboys vs Rams
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Another disappointing loss and the lets face it the defense failed!

Congratulations to the Rams and there fans!

Your from California and your a Cowboys fan?

 

[Dave Moritz]

Hey RolandL yes even though my uncle who was a huge spots nut was a Rams fan, ROFL.

There are alot of Cowboys fans here in California and other places.

 

[RolandL]

Finished the last episode.

 

[RolandL]

Hey RolandL yes even though my uncle who was a huge spots nut was a Rams fan, ROFL.

There are alot of Cowboys fans here in California and other places.

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Yeah, my son-in-law grew up in Massachusetts and is a Miami Dolphins fan.

 

[DFurr]

Tonight on the big screen.....HALLOWEEN 2018.

 

[Matt Hough]

I had a good bit of TV to catch up with this afternoon. Tonight, I plan to watch The Way We Were in HD before I settle in to tonight's TV programs.

 

[bujaki]

Yesterday I watched:
Bohemian Rhapsody (DCP)
Mary Poppins Returns (DCP in XD)
Today, so far:
Free Solo: The IMAX Experience

 

[Dave Moritz]

January 15th, 2019 Tuesday

The Criterion Collection / 20th Century Fox
The Innocents (1961)
1080p blu-ray upconverted to 4K
Mono Sound

Tonight's movie The Innocents is the last movie on the Samsung UN55F9000 4K UHD TV as it is scheduled to be boxed and stored after the new Sony XBR55A9F arrives tomorrow! The next movie I watch will be on the new Sony OLED which means Sony has come home to the Moritz Home Theater! My first HDTV was a Sony Wega rear projection which I gave to my neighbor after getting the Samsung 4K TV.

 

[bujaki]

Trapeze (Kino BD)

 

[Matt Hough]

I had started At the Circus with the Marx Bros. on the TCM app a couple of days ago, but I only got halfway through before being interrupted, so I will finish it today before starting on the next Perry Mason movie in the box set. I also have some TV recorded from last night I want to watch.

 

[bujaki]

Two from the Sam Fuller at Columbia box from Indicator:
Adventure in Sahara
Power of the Press

 

[Jeff Flugel]

Picked this up in a recent Warner Archive 4 for $44 sale, and am glad I did. Watching the Blu-Ray was my first viewing of this film, and it looks mighty fine. A compelling melodrama, more focused on the training and romantic lives of its cast of young Marines than the usual wartime battle scenes. Never read the book, so I'm not sure how the film differs, but it sure plays like the filmmakers realized that Aldo Ray was the most interesting character here and really put him to the fore. Tab Hunter's Mrs. Robinson affair with lonely Dorothy Malone is over too quickly but her sad, gorgeous face leaves a lasting memory, as does a brief appearance by a young and lovely Anne Francis. But it's Nancy Olson, as the kind Kiwi widow that Ray falls for, who makes the biggest impression in the romance department.

Typically fine performances from Van Heflin and James Whitmore, too. Not much battle action until the end, but then, this isn't that kind of war film. It was also nice to see Navaho codebreakers depicted here, too. And I was rather shocked to see one soldier clearly flip the bird at another company of troops during one scene...not used to seeing that in a 50s movie!