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So looking forward to watching this Blu-Ray. Saw the original in real Cinema in Dallas during its original release. Every other showing was the flattened with all kinds of distortions. Even the laserdisc version was very unsatisfactory. I know it's not a great movie, but it has so many great...

It's being screened at MoMA on Sunday, Jan. 23. So sorry I won't be able to attend! In the year that marks the 70th anniversary of Cinerama (and, one hopes, the rebirth of the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood), MoMA presents the world-premiere 4K restoration of The Wonderful World of the Brothers...

Since many comments are adding titles from other studios and decades-- *Where's Charley (WB 1952)-captures Ray Bolger's finest role, very nice adaptation of Loesser's musical *Another Part of the Forest (UNIV 1948)-prequel to The Little Foxes. Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Ann Blyth *Dark at the...

I would like to add that I think it's a shame Thomas Kail wasn't involved to help navigate the dancing into the film capture. He did such a magnificent job for Hamilton (film) and Fosse/Verdon.

I saw WSS '21 a few days ago in an excellent Cinemark XD presentation. Audience was silent, no distractions/disruptions. I choked up just hearing the same arrangements of the opening score. The music orchestrations, arrangements, recordings, conducting, etc. are the strongest asset in this...

It would be a Hollywood Crime if Star! does not get released before Julie passes or is unable to contribute her memories, comments, etc. Her ability to tell her story is superior to most performers. Star! is an incredible capture of some of her finest performances and sometimes mirrors her own...

I was surprised to see and add for a new 4K blu-ray coming for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. It came on immediately after Mean Streets as TCM launched its Classic Film Festival. It was a remaster of what seems like an original Cinerama formatted preview and obviously a huge...

Alastair Sim is so great! Would love to see more of his movies released--Green for Danger, Inspector Calls.

Alistair Sim is one of the greatest but not so well known to American audiences. I hope Green for Danger and more of his films get US releases. He's great in The Ruling Class and Hitchcock's Stage Fright.

I still have my Showboat LD collection (and player) and have been waiting for this for ages. I was lucky to see all 3 versions at AFI (when it was housed in JFK Center) in new 35 mm strikes hosted by Miles Krueger.

Watching Fosse/Verdon brought reminds me how deeply I've been attached to Fosse & Verdon since childhood, watching their movies on TV, getting to see their live productions as a young adult, etc. I loved the movie of Sweet Charity when it had already been cut. When I finally saw a fully...

Just saw MPR tonight and loved it! I'm so glad I'm seeing so many of us feel like we were back in the 1960's watching a new movie musical. I felt like that over and over! Such a perfect cast, every single performance is exceptional! The score is among Shaiman & Wittman's best, but hard to judge...

What Price Hollywood? is definitely the original prototype! Long ago revival film houses in the DC area (before AFI) did a great job of educating audiences in film history and would show all 3 (before Streisand's). My question is will there ever be any more footage to complete the 1954 restoration?

This is a great review! There is no way to overpraise this unique work of art. It is the Hamilton of its day and forever, as time has not diminished what it achieves. Powell and Pressburger were a team that created and integrated the most imaginative and intelligent elements of film. It's hard...

I never saw the "Happy Times.." edit because I refused to see the cut down releases. I'm pretty sure the STAR! I saw in '68 was fully complete. I had already started listening to the LP and would have noticed any tracks that were missing. I was always comparing the LP soundtrack to what I heard...