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As you know, that's exactly what happened with The Shining and to a larger extent The Exorcist II. With The Shining, they simply excised the final scene in the hospital and that resulted in a nasty splice in those initial prints - and a nice audio bump into the photo at the end. For The Heretic...

I wonder why Grubert wanted me to read that article? There's not a single thing in it that contradicts a single thing I said, which wasn't about content but was about dates. The only thing he's wrong about is playing the bottom half of double bills, at least in its July (the 23rd in LA, not...

I was lucky enough to see Oh Dad on stage here in LA with Hermione Gingold and Sam Waterston, directed by Jerome Robbins - hilarious, weird, and a great production. The movie, if you love the play, is a travesty - all the Jonathan Winters stuff was added after a disastrous sneak preview. I...

I lived on E. 29th St. right near the Newkirk subway stop. We were neighbors! 356 E. 29th. :) I was probably there when you saw Once Upon a Time in the West. A few months prior, they played the horrible Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, the Anthony Newley...

This thread is giving me a headache. Let's get some things straight here. Apparently, I'm the only one who actually saw this movie in 1969. I not only saw it, I saw it every day and night for over two weeks. So, the film did NOT open in July, it opened on May 28 in two NY theaters. It went wide...

There was NEVER EVER a 178-minute version in the United States. Ever. Paramount owns what they own, which is the US theatrical cut.

No, the colors, while a bit TOO blue, are mostly accurate to the IB Tech print they used for timing. You are very wrong about this. I interviewed the fellows who did that transfer for the DGA magazine, and for what they had to work with at the time, it was a great job and it's the only version...

Just to say that I've seen several films at the Aero and they do not have great projection there.

Ah, I didn't realize it was a new account with its first post. I'll go look and see what's what.

There is a disturbing post in the other Searchers thread saying this is yellow as can be. I'm hoping it's not, but that's sure what it sounds like from the post. If the bricks in the main titles are yellow we're in deep doo doo and it means they used the last transfer as a color reference...

This is not good to hear. If the bricks are yellow during the titles, then they have screwed this up again. I'll wait to see it with my own eyeballs, but I'm not thrilled hearing this.

It is missing a total of twelve frames from the US theatrical version that was cut and restored with twelve frames from the VHS and Italian DVD, then transferred to Beta from the 8mm original home video version. These all occur during the film.

I'm sure Hunt wouldn't have said that if he hadn't checked. VERY good news.

I know I'll probably hate the answer, but does anyone know if the included Blu-ray is the new transfer.

Of course, it's the same as the Vudu. I've been loudly trumpeting and praising this transfer for a year right here on the HTF. I'm sure the 4K will look even better. The best part is that the color is absolutely spot on.

I just get nervous when someone uses the word yellow. Mr. Pennington isn't as clear as you are, verbiage-wise. and I remain ever hopeful that this is everything we're all hoping it should be.

Given previous posts by Mr. Pennington, I would take all verbiage with a large container of salt :) Like most of us, he has his own way of talking and seeing things that certainly don't jibe with MY way of talking and seeing things. I mean, the previous Blu-ray is yellow to a fault so I'm not...

Did I just read someone saying "proper yellow tones have been restored" - this is worrisome - the previous transfer was filled with yellow tones, especially on the bricks for the main titles. I suspect the verbiage here is confusing and I'll still hold out hope that the color has been fixed.

Hearing the colors are not as saturated as the viewer thought they should be is a bit alarming to me - anyone who has seen an IB print of the searchers with proper projection knows just how saturated the reds and blues were. Then again, I know nothing about the projection at the "new" Egyptian.

They had the new transfers of Rio Bravo and East of Eden up before the Blu or 4K came out.

BTW, the Egyptian screening on the 28th sold out in ten minutes. Unbelievable. The two Aero screenings the following weekend still had seats available but I don't like that theater at all.

I was just on Max two hours ago at 10:00 Monday evening - it certainly was there as a newly added title, but it was the same old yellow transfer - hoping it's replaced soon.

Thank goodness there'll be a Blu-ray with it and they, unlike Paramount, will give us the Blu from the new transfer. Very exciting.

Hopefully, someone who understands color took part in this restoration.

Hoping someone will buy the UK and report back about the Blu-ray.

Not including a Blu-ray of this new transfer is reprehensible.

There's a new 4K/Blu release in Japan - am tempted.

Exactly my point. I will never go to the Aero or the Vista to see 70mm. The Fine Arts, during my youth, was basically a theater that showed small black-and-white films like David and Lisa and The Miracle Worker and foreign films like Never on Sunday and That Man from Rio.