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The Arclight is running several films that are getting showings in the Dome (they also have various smaller theater showings):
Saturday, May 12th
10:30 pm - Full Metal Jacket
Sunday, May 13th
10:15 am - Doctor Zhivago
2:30 pm - Ben-Hur
7:30 pm - Gone With the Wind
Monday, May 14th
4:00 pm - Lolita
7:30 pm - Ben-Hur
Tuesday, May 15th
4:45 pm - Full Metal Jacket
8:00 pm - Barry Lyndon
The Shining was there on Fiday night, and will be playing in House 10 Sunday night at 8:30.
Here's the full schedule:
https://www.arclightcinemas.com/news/arclight-presents-kubrick-and-bigger-than-life?promo=spotlightD
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More on Blu from Olive on August 7th:
*Rio Grande*
*Johnny Guitar*
There will also be DVD versions of each.
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In August, Warner Home Entertainment will bring the Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: Chuck Jones Collection to Blu-ray. This package bundles together nineteen mouse-themed shorts from legendary animator Chuck Jones, shorts that include:
# "Naughty but Mice"
# "Little Brother Rat"
# "Sniffles and the Bookworm"
# "Sniffles Takes a Trip"
# "The Egg Collector"
# "Bedtime for Sniffles"
# "Sniffles Bells the Cat"
# "Toy Trouble"
# "The Brave Little Bat"
# "The Unbearable Bear"
# "Lost and Foundling"
# "Hush, My Mouse"
# "The Aristo Cat"
# "Trap Happy Porky"
# "Roughly Squeaking"
# "House Hunting Mice"
# "Mouse Wreckers"
# "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat"
# "Cheese Chasers"
Warner has not yet detailed the technical and supplementary materials for this two-disc set, though the distributor's preliminary press listing indicates that "Extra Content" will accompany the individual Looney Tunes.
Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: Chuck Jones Collection streets on August 28th.
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The belox Fox Blu-ray digibooks are once again at $9.99 on Amazon:
All About Eve
An Affair to Remember
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Comancheros
The Hustler
Patton
Rocky
Terminator
Tota! Tora! Tora!
Usual Suspects
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I saw this when it first came out in 1974 and felt even then it was a beautiful movie with wonderful performances. Plus that delicate musical score by Bill Conti. But now, Harry and the theme of the picture hits me a lot harder, with much more poignancy because I was 19 when I first saw it, a young man...now I am 57 and see more of Harry in myself than back then.
Did anyone else experience this watching tonight...or do you have another movie that has affected you that way?
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Hasn't there already been a thread on this?
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Two John Garfield films that will be released by Olive on DVD and Blu-ray in July:
*Body and Soul*
*Force of Evil*
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Yes. The big issue is that the National Archives were being robbed of important sound recordings:
*Waffen, who had worked at the National Archives for 40 years, acknowledged stealing thousands of sound recordings from the archive. Prosecutors said more than 1,000 were sold on eBay in thefts that started as early as 2001. The stolen recordings ranged from a recording of the 1948 World Series to an eyewitness report of the Hindenburg crash.*
Edited by: filmlover on May 3, 2012 10:49 PM
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From the Huffington Post today:
WASHINGTON — When J. David Goldin saw the recorded interview of baseball great Babe Ruth for sale on eBay he knew something was wrong. There was only one original record of that 1937 interview of Ruth on a hunting trip, and Goldin had donated it to a government archive more than 30 years ago. Now someone was auctioning it off, the winning bid just $34.75.
"I took one look at the record label and I said, `holy smokes, that's my record,'" said the retired radio engineer.
From his home in Connecticut, filled with antique radios and tape reels, Goldin launched an amateur sleuthing effort that helped uncover a thief ripping off the country's most important repository of historical records. The heist turned out to be an inside job. The culprit was the recently retired head of the video and sound branch of the National Archives and Records Administration – the government agency entrusted with preserving such documents as the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
On Thursday, a judge in Maryland sentenced the thief, Leslie Charles Waffen, to a year and a half in prison and fined him $10,000. Waffen, who had worked at the National Archives for 40 years, acknowledged stealing thousands of sound recordings from the archive. Prosecutors said more than 1,000 were sold on eBay in thefts that started as early as 2001. The stolen recordings ranged from a recording of the 1948 World Series to an eyewitness report of the Hindenburg crash.
It was Goldin's meticulous record-keeping and some sleuthing worthy of a modern-day detective drama, however, that brought Waffen to authorities' attention and helped catch him.
The 69-year-old Goldin's interest in radio began when he was a teenager. He taped his first broadcast at age 14 and studied radio production at New York University before working for CBS, NBC and other networks.
At the same time, he became passionate about preserving radio's history. He started creating his own archive of sound recordings, in the early days storing records under the bed in his small apartment in the Bronx.
These days, Goldin has a computer catalog for sorting through his holdings, more than 100,000 programs in all. He paid to have the system custom designed for him in the 1980s and estimates he's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars obtaining and archiving broadcasts. Rows of neatly organized boxes of tape reels fill the basement of his Sandy Hook, Conn., home, which he shares with his wife Joyce, three dogs and 917 antique radios.
Now retired, he spends his days preserving recordings by transferring them from their original metal, glass and plastic records to tape. He cleans up the sound with a bank of equipment that takes up part of his living room and makes his catalog available on his website. He says he has enough uncataloged recordings to last the rest of his life.
Once Goldin has listened to and copied the recordings, however, he doesn't need the original discs. That's one of the reasons why he asked the National Archive in the 1970s if it wanted the originals, most of them radio broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. The archive said yes, and Goldin donated thousands of recordings ranging from political speeches and interviews to Congressional hearings. Then, he says, he mostly forgot about them.
In September 2010, however, he typed one of his routine searches for records into eBay and saw the Babe Ruth recording for sale.
Goldin wasn't sure what was happening. He wrote to the National Archives. Were they getting rid of old material? If so, he wanted his records back. He got a call a few days later. No, the archive hadn't sold anything. The record was missing, and it seemed likely it had been stolen.
Goldin turned over the information he had, including documentation of his donation. He knew the eBay seller with the Ruth record was going by the name "hi-fi_gal" and lived in Rockville, Md.
Then Goldin did some detective work of his own. He ordered a different recording from "hi-fi_gal," and when it arrived he traced the package's return address. It came back as the home of Leslie Waffen, the man who had accepted Goldin's donation to the Archives more than 30 years earlier.
"I was kind of puzzled at the beginning and then disappointed when I discovered it was Les Waffen," said Goldin, who added the men hadn't stayed in touch.
With that information and more, federal officials obtained a search warrant and raided Waffen's home, carting away two truckloads of materials. Late last year, Waffen pleaded guilty to stealing government property. He and his lawyer have declined to talk to reporters.
Soon after his guilty plea, however, Waffen wrote an apology letter to friends and colleagues, saying he was "deeply ashamed and embarrassed" by his actions. But he denied that the records he took and sold, valued at more than $80,000, were "unique or of significant historical value." Waffen said most of what he sold was considered duplicative or excess. In the 1980s, the archive had made copies of at least some of the recordings on reel to reel tapes, just as Goldin had.
On Thursday, Waffen told Judge Peter Messitte that he rationalized that some of the material he stole had been preserved in another form. He said his conduct was fueled by a sense of self-importance and an obsession with recordings, and he acknowledged he "gave in to the temptation."
"I violated, personally, the archivists' code of ethics," he said.
The judge said Waffen stole unique and irreplaceable records, and his actions eroded the public's trust in the National Archives. Getting all the recordings back could take years and may be impossible.
"You've taken our history," he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/national-archives-thefts_n_1473293.html
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Edgecliff, I haven't ordered it yet. Hoping it will drop down to about $20.
I agree that one release can get a lot of different reviews. Some people will tear apart a release for the dumbest release. I've seen people review a 5-star title and give it one star because it didn't have English subtitles (for a movie in English).
Robert Harris wrote about the release at that site and liked it. Have you read that one?
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/319939/a-few-words-about-camelot-in-blu-ray
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Indeed, happy birthday, Mr. O!
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Eureka Entertainment in the UK will be releasing the following combo Blu-ray/DVDs. These will likely be region B locked (not playable in the U.S. unless you have a region-free player):
Cleopatra (1934 Colbert) - Sept. 24th - available also as a steelbook edition
Oedipus Rex (1967) - Sept. 24th
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933 Fritz Lang) - Sept. 24th
Ro.Go.Pa.G ( a collection of four shorts by Rosselini, Godard, Pasolini, and Gregoretti) - Aug. 27th
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*Sunset Boulevard* on Blu Nov. 6th.
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No date yet for this, but it will be a combo DVD/Blu-ray release.
In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of its premiere, Flicker Alley is proud to present THIS IS CINERAMA, exactly as seen by over 20,000,000 viewers in its original roadshow version. You will travel around the world with Cinerama, from Venice to Madrid, from Edinburgh Castle to the La Scala opera house in Milan, and concluding with a flight across America in the nose of a B-25 bomber.
This Is Cinerama / Directed by Robert L. Bendick / 1952 / 127 min. / Color / Sound
*Presented in the "Smilebox" curved screen simulation*
On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama. This unique widescreen process was launched when television was deemed as major threat to US film exhibition. Fred Waller, Cinerama's creator, had indeed labored that long on his dream of a motion picture experience that would recreate the full range of human vision. It used three cameras and three projectors on a curved screen 146°deep.
Bonus Features Include:
* Audio commentary track: With John Sittig (Cinerama, Inc.), Dave Strohmaier (Cinerama Historian), Randy Gitsch (TIC Locations background), and special audio recording from Jim Morrison (original crew member).
* This Is Cinerama Breakdown Reel - 9 min.
* Alternate Act II Opening for European Versions - 2 min.
* This Is Cinerama Trailer re-created HD - 3 min.
* TV Spots: This is Cinerama and Seven Wonders of the World –- 1 min. each
* Tribute to the New Neon Movies: A video short celebrating the Cinerama revival in Dayton Ohio, 1996-1999, in which a lone projectionist sets up Cinerama for special screenings to people from all over the country. - 14 min.
* Tribute to the New Cooper: The first Super Cinerama Theater - 4 minutes
* Special Photo Galleries: featuring behind the scenes shots, the original program booklet and press memorabilia newspaper ads, and publicity stills
* Fred Waller Radio interviews audio only: Original 1952 radio interviews with Fred Waller on the eve of opening night. - 15 mins.
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Cinderella on Blu is now official. Oct. 2nd.
{font:Calibri}Disney is releasing three Diamond Edition versions of the film on Blu-ray: a two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack, and a six-disc "Jewelry Box Set" that includes Cinderella, Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True and Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time.{font}
Cinderella is presented in its 1.37:1 original aspect ratio, while Cinderellas 2 and 3 have 1.78:1 widescreen transfers. All three films have received 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio tracks, and the original Cinderella also comes with its original theatrical sound mix on a 1.0 DTS-HD Master Audio track.
Bonus supplements are expected to include:
* Introduction by Diane Disney Miller
* Bibbidi-Bobbidi-You! Personalized Digital Storybook (Disney Second Screen)
* The Magic Of The Glass Slipper: A Cinderella Story behind-the-scenes featurette
* The Real Fairy Godmother featurette
* Alternate opening sequence
* DisneyView mode
* Tangled Ever After animated short
* Behind the Magic: A New Disney Princess Fantasyland featurette
Until May 3rd, Amazon will offer a special $8 coupon to be used towards the film's pre-order listing. This promotional discount applies to the three-disc combo edition.
You can find pictures and more info here:
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}Filmlover,
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> I do like your Broadway to Hollywood idea. I'd throw in *The Music Man* (film projected at the Egyptian perhaps with Shirley Jones-third time could be the charm) and *How to Succeed in Business* especially if they could get Barry Morse and/or Matthew Weiner and Jon Hamm to talk about the film.
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> It's the *Mad Men* mid-century modern lover in me.
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> I would also love to hear Jon Hamm introduce a Bill Holden film. I like to think he is a big Holden fan, especially since there is a lot of Holden in Hamm's characterization of Don Draper.
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> I also love cinecrazy's idea of the Academy having an 85th birthday celebration (with lots of Club TCM presentations) at the Festival next year as well!
lz,
The Music Man is already on the list below. And, LOL, I don't think you really want Barry Morse (Inspector Gerard on "The Fugitive") to discuss the film. Might be better to get Robert Morse. And instead of Jon Hamm (down, girl!), I would rather Michele Lee be there.
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It's mentioned in the article below...Scarlett Johansson
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I just looked up pictures of D'Arcy and in normal shots of him I can see why he would be cast as Perkins.
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I saw this and don't know if it has been mentioned here before.
from L.A. Times
Almost 32 years after his death, Alfred Hitchcock is still shocking audiences — but the petrified patrons are not in any movie theater. Instead, the invited guests (actually paid actors) were inside a Pasadena mansion during the second week of filming for “Hitchcock,” a fictionalized look at the English filmmaker during the preparation, filming and release of 1960’s “Psycho.”
Hitchcock — or a very approximate facsimile — was on a recent day throwing a bomb into an otherwise genteel tea party, handing out a batch of gruesome crime scene photographs to announce his intentions to tell a grisly tale of murder and mutilation.
The Fox Searchlight production, which could be ready by year's end, stars Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife and creative collaborator, Alma Reville. The cast includes Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins. It is the first narrative feature directed by screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Sacha Gervasi.
Hopkins’ transformation, accomplished with the help of prosthetic makeup by Howard Berger and Peter Montagna and a fat suit from costume designer Julie Weiss that turns the slim Hopkins into a 300-pound giant, is not intended to hide the Oscar-winning actor completely.
“We don’t want Anthony Hopkins to disappear under the makeup,” Gervasi, who co-wrote Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal," said during a break in filming. “And we don’t want him to sound exactly like Hitchcock, either. That wasn’t the point.”
Instead, the goal was to give moviegoers a little bit of both the real and the illusion — a slice of Hitchcock here, a taste of Hopkins there, all the while probing the director’s complicated state of mind. During a break in filming, Hopkins said that he met Hitchcock late in the director's life at the restaurant Ma Maison. "He had no idea who I was," said Hopkins, whose acting career was just taking off at the time.
The "Hitchcock" plot follows the troubled financing of “Psycho," the director’s battles with Hollywood censors and Hitchcock’s desire to prove to his doubters, his wife and himself that he still had an edge. The screenplay, whose writers include Hitchcock biographer Styepphen Rebello, includes references to Edward Gein, te Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber who was partial inspiration for Buffalo Bill, the villain at the center of Hopkins’ “The Silence of the Lambs.”
In the scene at the Pasadena estate, Hitchcock disbursed photographs detailing some of Gein’s more abhorrent acts, hoping to start the “Psycho” drumbeat. It appeared to be working.
At one point, a gossip columnist in attendance asked of Hitchcock, “Am I the only one who finds this offensive?” Without missing a beat, Hitchcock replied, “I was hoping everyone would.”
And from Variety:
April 9, 2012CSI star Wallace Langham is in talks to play Saul Bass in Sacha Gervasi's Fox Searchlight pic "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho.'" Written by John McLaughlin, story chronicles the struggles faced by the iconic helmer and his wife, Alma Reville, during the making of horror classic "Psycho." Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren star alongside Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, and James D'Arcy, as well as Toni Collette, Danny Juston, Michael Stuhlbarg and Michael Wincott. Bass designed the main titles and handled the storyboards for "Psycho" and many of Hitchcock's other films despite famously clashing with the headstrong helmer. Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Tom Pollack are producing "Hitchcock" through their Montecito Picture Co. along with Tom Thayer. A series regular on the hit CBS series "CSI," Langham recently closed a deal to continue on the show for two more seasons. Thesp previously worked with Collette on "Little Miss Sunshine" and recently reteamed with that pic's directors on Fox Searchlight's romantic comedy "Ruby Sparks." Langham will soon be seen in the indie pic "Buttwhistle," exec produced by Dan Dubiecki. Langham is repped by Abrams Artists Agency. -
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Michael,
No. Johnbabe's threads about Garbo would be less of a problem if there were less of johnbabe's threads about Garbo. As you can see from my post, a TCMWebAdmin told him to stop. Shouldn't that apply, even with a different webadmin?
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Some other possibilities for themes:
Broadway to Hollywood - this would include several musicals, naturally, but also some comedies and drama.
suggestions:
Kiss Me, Kate (3D) - The Egyptian has shown this in 3d before now
Carousel
Hello, Dolly!
Oliver!
My Fair Lady
1776
The Music Man
Damn Yankees
The Cocoanuts (Marx Bros. first sound film)
Born Yesterday
Dead End
Stalag 17
A Raisin in the Sun
The Member of the Wedding
Arsenic and Old Lace
Epics
Intolerance
Quo Vadis (1951)
Ben-Hur
San Francisco
A tribute to Busby Berkeley
42nd Street
Golddiggers of 1933
Footlight Parade
etc.
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There have been indications of other problems with Fathom.
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I think we can say that we are one step closer to Lawrence of Arabia being released on Blu before the end of 2012. The Sony 50th anniversary restoration is being shown at Cannes this year.
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Should also add that in addition to Shane, for Alan Ladd's 100th birthday, it would be great to see *The Great Gatsby,* which got a showing in Los Angeles a week after the TCM Festival but I forgot as I was still recovering from that wonderful 4-day festival.
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I saw Ben-Hur there last night and it was incredible. Charlton Heston may have been the star of the movie, but from the overture in darkness it was clear that Miklos Rozsa was the real presence in the room, as it were. The sound seems to have been cranked up a bit throughout the film but when you get that opening fanfare blast over the Dome's speaker system, you are mesmerized! It felt like the orchestra was behind the screen.
Then came the start of the film and the curtains opened wider and wider and wider, until you see that widescreen image in all its glory (by the way, it was a digital presentation).
Seeing Ben-Hur on a huge screen like the Dome's...and that sound system...was like seeing and hearing the movie for the very first time. Oh, I must tell you, when Jack Hawkins is inspecting the galley slaves section below decks, the creaking of the ship makes you feel like you were there.
The spectacular scenes with thousands of film extras were equally impressive.
But the one thing you will really want to know about is the chariot race. Never...NEVER!!!...have you experienced until you see it that large and with such incredible sound. I sat there stunned as the different teams of horses came charging towards the camera. For the first time, I think I saw it the way William Wyler intended it. You are overpowered by the sheer raw energy as they race around the track nine times, several chariots making horrendous and bloody crashes, men on horseback riding out onto the track to help get the injured men and horses and broken chariots out of the way, as well as men running out with litters. The noise of the racing horse teams, as well as the crowd cheering and gasping, filled the entire theater from every speaker! And you could easily see when Heston really drove the team.
That race is one of the finest pieces of film editing ever!
That was the only way to see Ben-Hur!!!!!