Cinemascope
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That's an awesome list, shearerchic.
You just made me wish I could edit a montage of all of those numbers put together!
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Well, as it happens Becket had been mentioned a lot of times over the last 10 years or so as one of the most prominent pictures from the 60's that had not been released on DVD.
And you'd think they would have released it on DVD much earlier, too, especially since they had the rights, but that didn't happen, either.
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Several theories have been made... according to imdb.com, they include:
# The title might refer to Hamlet's line "I am but mad north-northwest," where he tries to convince people of his sanity. The airline that they travel on (westbound) is called "Northwest (Orient) Airlines."
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Well, yeah, he went on to bigger and better, and we can all be grateful to Clint and Sergio for all the good times!
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So who has the video rights to Johnny Guitar, anyway?
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Good list. They've also already announced they'll rescue Royal Wedding from PD hell.
I'd hope they could also release Yolanda and the Thief, it's one of the most exotic Technicolor musicals MGM ever released.
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Well DVDs might be around for a while yet, but I wouldn't be so sure they'll continue to be the primary means of storing movies for home viewing.
Already it's possible to listen, store and share music without using CDs. Of course some people still prefer them, or have CD players still in their cars.
These things don't generally happen overnight. But they still happen.
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You're right, The Stunt Man would be an awesome "cult" picture to show!
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I would hope so, shearerchic, I'm actually a bit surprised that the movie's never been released on video at all -- no VHS, no Laserdisc, no DVD.
It's really a good little musical, and one of Rita Hayworth's earliest Technicolor movies, if not the earliest.
So yeah, I hope they release it someday soon!
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Well, there's a big difference with laserdiscs, because that technology wasn't "backward compatible".
With a player for high-def DVDs, you can still play old-fashioned DVDs. So you don't have to ditch your entire collection when you make the switch.
Right now it's not the best moment to get a high-def DVD player since the format war isn't quite fully over (although there are growing signs Blu-Ray will prevail).
Since most people are going to be replacing old TVs with new HDTVs anyway, it may just be a time before people start making the switch.
As someone who watches mostly classic movies, it isn't a big priority for me, at least not yet, because most classic movies are not yet available in HD formats (either on DVD or satellite TV).
Once there are more classic movies available, I'll probably make the switch. The picture quality is quite awesome, much much closer to that of a 35mm theatrical projection than anything we've seen in our lifetimes!
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That sounds awesome shearerchic, I hope you'll like it in L.A. -- personally I don't know if I could live there, but as long as you feel you are where you want to be, more power to you!
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I just try not to think too much about those things when I watch movies filmed in cities I've lived... we all go in there expecting a little bit of fantasy and, truth be told, sometimes I wish a simple tour of the city was as impressive as it looks in the movies!
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It's highly unlikely they wouldn't have thought of a movie that received so many Oscar nominations, wouldn't you say? I'm pretty sure they looked at all movies that have received multiple nominations before putting together the schedule for "31 Days of Oscar."
Not only that, but Becket has been in the movie news lately, due to the theatrical re-release.
If we were talking about something relatively obscure like the Mexican Spitfire series, then I might think maybe they haven't thought about it recently.
But Becket is too recent, too prominent (due to the theatrical re-releases) and too much in people's memories (due to the recent nomination of Peter O'Toole) for it to simply have been forgotten.
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Awesome photos, mongo!
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Well I still think you might mean 3-strip Technicolor, as it's the main difference between the color movies of the Golden Era and those made today... Otherwise it's still the same principle -- very much like a 35mm still camera, except that movie cameras capture a series of "photos" which when projected quickly one after another give the illusion of movement.
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You may find answers to these questions in the wikipedia entry for "Technicolor" --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor
Not sure if there's anything in there that could be disputed by film scholars, but it does seem to be a good general explanation.
And I'm not sure if you mean quality, so much as the intense colors associated with 3-strip Technicolor.
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Anne, aren't you taking things a bit far over simple disagreements?
It's sad that sometimes you seem to go out of your way to interpret things negatively. I posted a review of Flower Drum Song that is fairly positive, and you immediately reacted as though the review were the most negative thing ever written about this musical.
You got upset a few days ago and said something about American movies even today being the best anywhere in the world... and you corrected yourself a bit later and said you'd been upset when you said it.
The bottom line is, there are a lot of opinions and one doesn't necessarily have to be right or wrong.
What you apparently cannot stand is someone standing up for her opinion and defending it passionately -- not out of any personal animosity, but simply as a direct result of being fed up with living in a patriarchal society that keeps telling her in any number of ways that her opinion isn't important or at least not worth to be taken seriously (or at least not as seriously as if the opinion had come from a man).
There are a lot of ways in which patriarchal societies can oppress us, and yet some of us are passionate enough to defend our views, in any circumstances, simply because we refuse to be treated like second-rate humans.
Maybe some day you'll understand that, not sure you do now.
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I don't think they can "come to their senses" if the rights just aren't available for whatever reason. They did just embark on a worldwide search so they could recover the 6 lost RKO titles... and I don't see any reason they wouldn't show Becket if they could get the rights.
MPI Home Video has really not acted like they wanted the movie to be seen much, releasing it on DVD only 9 years into the format's existance, and now that it's starting to become replaced by high-definition DVDS.
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Well, we already have the schedules for March, April and May, and it doesn't include Becket -- unfortunately TCM can't show the movie if they can't get the rights.
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Awwww that's the sweetest response I've read yet! 8^D right back at ya!
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Well I do think there's a small group of people who gang up on anyone who expresses a bit of disagreement... and some of them have come to this thread just to troll, bait and flame!
I know better than to take the bait
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Snoopy movies were cute
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Being a bit harsh on stoney, aren't you?
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You're welcome. Hope you get a chance to watch it on DVD, it has a lot of interesting extras (if they're of interest to you).
Uncut eh? (or why TCM needs a west coast feed)
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The part in question has *always* been blacked out. Yup, ever since the movie was first made.
I found evidence to this fact when looking at some of the documentaries included in the DVD of The Professionals where Claudia Cardinale explains that she didn't want to appear nude and wore something underneath her shirt to make sure the director couldn't show that part in the movie...