Cinemascope
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But are you sure all of them are bootlegs? I have a hard time imagining my local library buying bootleged material.... Is it possible they have a license? After all, if they don't license it in China, they know the bootlegs would be everywhere....
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> I wish the studios and those in charge had listened
> more to Scorcese, Roger Mayer and others back in the
> mid-1970s when they began raising the issue of our
> film heritage deteriorating. It might have made a
> difference for some films.
Ain't that the truth....
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And coming up soon.... Coney Island, Carnival in Costa Rica
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And since you've already mentioned the French directors who started as critics, I'd like to single out Francois Truffaut, who began as a film critic for Les Cahiers du Cinema and championed the auteur theory, before becoming a filmmaker himself. And in the late 70's, he even stepped in front of the camera to play a part in Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Exactly, it's also a transition from analog masters to digital masters.
I'm still hopeful that those new digital masters will be just as good for high-definition formats as they are for the current formats.
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According to imdb.com it's also known as The House in the Square and has never been available on home video. Since it's a Fox film, it would most likely turn up on FMC if it were shown on TV.
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Excellent point, Arkadin!
In addition to those you already named, let us remember Peter Bogdanovich, as another filmmaker who started out as a film critic.
And there are also top-notch film critics who've participated in movie making, like Todd McCarthy, who co-directed Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
The facts aren't as black-and-white as some would like to have us believe!
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Um, very well, strawberry it is! Now blow out the candles!
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Didn't Simon Gilbert dub O'Toole?
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Um, in that case could you make it an invisible *carrot* cake?
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The best would be by far The Empire Strikes Back, because it brought a real sense of humanity (and human error) to the saga.
Visually it was a very exciting decade, thanks to Blade Runner, Brazil and Tron.
Lastly, for purely visceral effect nothing can top Robocop or Aliens.
The Abyss is also noteworthy, not only because it stands as something of a counterpoint to Titanic but also because it served as foreshadowing for the change that was to come by way of CGI.
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Can you be 100% sure? There seem to be several chinese versions... or you think they are all copied from the laserdisc?
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I'm just as interested as the next gal on SIYM, but wouldn't you think that by this point, it might merit a thread of its own? Certainly some other people who may be interested might miss it under this thread.
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To admit is to acknowledge, not to confess to "guilt".
But in any event, I'm glad that subsequent viewings helped you to enjoy it.
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I honestly don't see what people dislike about Man of La Mancha. It isn't the greatest musical but is it really so bad? I may just like it a bit more than others because I happen to really like O'Toole and Loren. And of course I realize the hopeless task of trying to capture the essence of Cervantes' classic in any film form.
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I couldn't agree with you more!
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I find it surprising (but commendable) that you'd admit it took you a while to "warm up" to this movie, or any movie for that matter. Many of the great gems in the vaults of classic cinema aren't necessarily the kind you will appreciate on first viewing, but sometimes if you give 'em a chance, and perhaps even be willing to revisit them (if the first viewing left you with mixed feelings) you will find a lot of other wonderful films like It's Always Fair Weather.
Glad to know you enjoyed this one!
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Tnx for the link, moira!
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Gotta love Sabu
The Thief of Bagdad and Arabian Nights are two of my favorite Technicolor fantasy movies.
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I don't think South Pacific or My Fair Lady are bad musicals by any stretch of the imagination.... one could quibble about whether they'd been any better with a different lead. While I would feel that might have been the case for the former, I don't think that's the case for the latter. (Not that I wouldn't have liked to see Julie Andrews, possibly in the stage version, if I'd been alive at the time).
Oh yeah, the color filters didn't really work in South Pacific, but even the director admitted as much.
But other than that, I don't see what could have been done differently with either musical that would have made them much better.
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For me it would be "A Lady Loves" from I Love Melvin, performed by Debbie Reynolds.
There were actually two versions of the same song filmed, but only one was used in the movie. However, both were included in That's Entertainment! III.
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Sorry, but there happen to be a lot of guys who happen to be good at writing -- with all other "factors" being equal. That's still gender stereotyping.
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It shouldn't come as any surprise that you simply will not stop badgering, trolling, flaming others all in the name of your little crusade to make sure people are respectful and polite, something of which you yourself are incapable of.
Very well, if you insist on making false and unsubstantiated accusations against others, without any shread of evidence, then by that same standard anyone of us should be able to call a newly-registered poster who makes a thread about the "demise" or "downfall" or "destruction" of TCM for the Oscar-month programming, simply the same troll who has started other such threads under other usernames... and not offer any evidence, because if someone says something about someone else, it must be the truth?
Cesar Romero day, Feb. 24th
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Well since it's a WB title it's possibly it'll show up on TCM some day...