While that's cool they're getting all the big players, $99 is too much for a retrospective documentary for me to open my wallet for a physical copy, to say nothing of $49 for digital.
Filmstruck (R.I.P.) also had a not-so-great, but better than VHS version of the roadshow print for a while that was all in widescreen, but horizontally squeezed. I also recently stumbled upon a fan reconstruction of the roadshow using the general release master and an upscaled copy of the...
Some time ago, I spent a few days at the Herrick library out here in LA reading and transcribing the revised shooting script for Fall of the Roman Empire held in the Paramount Pictures scripts file. There was a lot removed from the final cut: More stuff with the Barbarian girl Helva, the...
I realize the poster I'm about to respond to is listed as being banned, but now that I've had a chance to thoroughly pour through the dialogue continuity of JLM's rough cut of Cleopatra, which included everything that was filmed and exactingly notes what Mankiewicz had in his cut, I can speak to...
Definitely gonna buy the 4K release of North by Northwest (and also an actual 4K disc player that I've been dragging my feet on getting).
Something I wish I could find again was a short featurette that TCM put out in the late 90s/early 00s that was about the restoration of NxNW done at the...
I'm curious what this documentary will offer that Charles de Lauzirika's Superior Firepower: The Making of Aliens didn't cover? $99 is a lot of money for a documentary that's trodding over familiar ground.
"People ask me why I'm playing in this picture. The answer is simple: Money, dear boy. I'm like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. I'm almost used up now and I can feel the end coming. That's why I'm taking money now. I've got nothing to leave my family but the...
My copy of the new blu-ray just arrived and I'm giving it a watch. I agree with Douglas, the transfer appears to be the exact same from the prior blu-ray. I wasn't expecting MGM to put a single shekel towards cleaning up the transfer, yet I still find myself disappointed. To have gone through...
There's nothing really to "investigate." Stevens was massively behind schedule on the picture and had to bring in Lean to do all of the interior scenes with Claude Rains, and Negulesco for the Nativity and some scattered other shots early in the first act. The documentary He Walks in Beauty...
There's a UK 3-disc blu-ray coming out at the end of the month for TGSET. I just preordered it, though I have little hope it'll be a better scan than the previous releases.