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I have only seen the General Release version, so just to satisfy curiosity on my part, what did the intermission title look like?

My family are semi fans of Tolkien’s Middle Earth saga (my sister and I grew up with The Hobbit being read to us), but yeah, I wasn’t all that thrilled with The Hobbit films either. The first one was decent, but it was downhill from there with far too many overlong action bringing the story to...

My guess is it’s either this or Gandalf’s search for Gollum following Bilbo’s party (which lasted a few months in the films, but was 17 years in the books), which largely occurred offscreen in Fellowship.

I think that change on North by Northwest was made before the film was released. Also, there’s the possibility that the audio of the original line doesn’t exist anymore.

La La Land Records will be releasing both John Addison’s score and the rejected Herrmann score for this film (the bits that were recorded of it) on May 7th.

A user on Film Score Monthly who saw the new restoration apparently mentioned that the filmmaker introducing the film said that a 70mm print was apparently struck for the restoration (no idea if there will be more than one like with The Searchers)...

After the other few titles you brought up got announced, I was wondering when this one would be coming, and the answer appears to be very soon. Anyway, more Hitchcock is always a good thing in my book (I believe this is the last of the Warner-owned Hitchcocks to make it to Blu-ray) and this one...

Unfortunately, the KL Insider confirmed that whoever ended up with the Weinstein Company owns both El Cid and Fall in perpetuity, so there’s no telling when we’ll ever see proper restorations of those films.

Also The Roaring Twenties.

Some more information on the “Preview Cut” included from the Sam Peckinpah Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02n885pG4r96YfoWh8iC2YUJ2Um67fGAceFMnNWadX1cSEWhSTJ587k1vM7QGsKk6Zl&id=100050256049655

A user on the other forum got in touch with Criterion and made known these details concerning the cuts included on this edition (and one not included): https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=373000

It’s a little bit of a pity the same can’t be said for the sound version except for a few brief fragments (for the record, I’m referring to The Cat Creeps, not the Bob Hope version). Now I have no idea if would have been anywhere near as good as the silent version (probably not), but it would...

While I agree that The Ten Commandments was the best of the nominees for 1956, I feel this film gets rather unfairly neglected among the other nominees (I’ve honestly yet to really warm up to Giant). I first saw the film when I was visiting a friend’s relative when we were taking a trip to the...

Strangely enough, I was actually listening to Waxman’s score for this film only yesterday, which is definitely one of the best aspects of the film. This and Friendly Persuasion are probably the biggest draws for me in this batch.

Visually, it’s somewhat hard to tell, even in the restored print, but it’s definitely Tamblyn’s voice as Tom Thumb.

An Extras podcast will be coming up soon to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Archive. They’re encouraging listeners to send voicemail messages talking about a specific purchase, what the Archive means to the sender, or a simple appreciation for Mr. Feltenstein (but NO REQUESTS). The...

Indeed. One other title outside of the Bronston epics I have to wonder about as to whether or not it’s also in this perpetuity aspect is The Thief and the Cobbler, which was released through Miramax in the US in a horribly butchered cut.

Fox would also do this with a select number of titles during the 50s such as The Robe, The Egyptian, Peyton Place, and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, to name a few. And some of their roadshow titles of the 60s like Cleopatra and Doctor Dolittle had their overtures conclude over the Fox logo.

It’s worth noting that a few weeks ago, Dave Strohmaier mentioned in another thread that the separation masters for the 30fps version of 80 Days was somewhat recently discovered when talking about a potential restoration.

I think Darkrock is referring more to its conspicuous absence from the TCM roster for next month than for any release (the MGM tributes seem to fall only on Mondays on examining the schedule posted above). As you mentioned, Oz already has a 4K disc so I doubt we’ll be seeing another release of...

Any info on whether they’ll be showing any new restorations like with the Warner centennial last year?

I would expect a 4K North by Northwest sometime in the summer, since that was when we got the 4K editions of Rio Bravo and East of Eden last year following their respective screenings at the TCM Festival.

That’s actually for a 1934 adaptation of the story directed by someone named Robert G. Vignola and starring Colleen Moore as Hester Prynne, not the Lillian Gish version.

Bumping this thread to bring the news that a 4K restoration of the theatrical version will be screening at the Academy Museum on May 31st. https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/amadeus-018cfa80-ab0b-9c4e-9e6c-08e3b63fa8ce

I can’t answer for Random Harvest, but George Feltenstein has mentioned in past podcasts that there are elements issues holding up Prisoner of Zenda. I, for one, would definitely be all over a remastered Blu-ray of Zenda.

Sadly, I was born far too late to have experienced the Roadshow Era, but I’ve always been fond of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I’ll admit it’s not a perfect film, but it does have some lovely 65mm photography and some great Sherman Brothers songs, so I’ll definitely be behind a 4K UHD of the film.

Does the isolated score have the music intact? I can’t claim to be any kind of expert on this film as only saw it for the first time last year during a flight to Texas (I believe it was the theatrical version as I recall it ended with the burning temple) and while I don’t recall if the choir...

This post and the fact that Eureka Entertainment are now releasing films in the US (starting with the silent Cat and the Canary in April) raises the question of what other titles initially expected to come from Kino might be coming from these two labels (especially since Eureka released a number...

Sleeping Beauty is actually a unique case as far as Technirama films are concerned as it apparently started out as a CinemaScope production (hence the 2.55 AR), but switched to Technirama late in production to take advantage of its ability to be converted to 70mm. The negative is also...

Considering a new restoration of the film is going to be shown at the TCM Classic Film Festival this year, I think a 4K North by Northwest is pretty much guaranteed. https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films/north-by-northwest/