i'm your biggest fan i'll follow you until you love me - Roger Roger LiveseyBaby there's no other superstar you know that i'll be - Roger Roger Livesey
― Freedom, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't believe I waited this long to watch A Matter of Life and Death. What a gorgeous movie. Think I'll watch another one later, Black Narcissus maybe?
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
AMoLAD is stupendous, I've been yearning for it to get released on blu-ray.
Have you seen Black Narcissus before? Beautiful and very unsettling at the same time.
― Bill A, Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Nope, never seen it. Think that's my evening sorted.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
also, early Jean Simmons role
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Yr in for a treat - would be interested to hear your thoughts once you've seen it. Timely viewing as well given Jean Simmons's passing last week (you got there before me Morbs!). She's captivating in it.
― Bill A, Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll report back!
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Black Narcissus: Wow. Going to have to collect my thoughts on it a bit, but wow.
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Friday, 29 January 2010 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Kathleen Byron died just over a week ago too, strangely.
― Freedom, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Or rather, no she didn't. That was last year. Me and my speedy wikipedia scans.
― Freedom, Friday, 29 January 2010 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently Esmond Knight is no longer with us as well.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 January 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesus christ that Red Shoes restoration!
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
July:
http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2764/44_BD_box_348x490.jpg http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2758/93_BD_box_348x490.jpg
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
BN cover is superb
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Thursday, 15 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
as always thank god for criterion or i'd only be buying action films on blu-ray
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
both covers, but especially r.s., are awful
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 16 April 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
both covers, but especially r.s., are terrific
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Our_Aircraft_Is_Missing
on film four tomorrow at 15:10. it isn't, for some reason, in the big box set of archers films that is available (but is on film4 every couple of months and is only £4 on dvd anyway)
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
both covers, but especially r.s., are awful― by another name (amateurist), Friday, April 16, 2010 1:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark both covers, but especially r.s., are terrific― Ward Fowler, Friday, April 16, 2010 2:02 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― by another name (amateurist), Friday, April 16, 2010 1:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Ward Fowler, Friday, April 16, 2010 2:02 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Amazing covers: wish I could get prints of them.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Trying to remember what Jack Cardiff said was the thing he shot that he loved for the ending of Black Narcissus that ended up on the cutting room floor.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
This reminds me: I have been curious about this book http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QQ0B1MX1L._SS500_.jpg for a while, but it seems crazy expensive on Amazon. Is it worth shelling out for, anyone?
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't know that book. Here is the info on the lost scene: http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/47_BN/LostScene.html.
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
more criterion covers here: http://grainedit.com/2009/12/08/criterion-collection-dvd-covers/
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
£18 here: http://www.faber.co.uk/work/arrows-of-desire/9780571162710/
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
the ian christie book is great.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
watched A Canterbury Tale again, also watched the extras on the second disc. Both Sheila Sim and John Sweet come across as lovely people - Sim being very regretful about the treatment of the Village Idiot character, and Sweet talking about his realization that he wasn't cut out to be an actor, and his return to teaching. At the end he says that he feels like his main contribution was that he made his students like themselves a bit more.
― itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
o hi black narcissus and red shoes blu rays
how r u today
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
JEALOUS
just watched 'i know where i'm going!' last night, i love that 12-year-old petula clark has a bit part in it
― "slapsie" (donna rouge), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
saw Edge of the World fairly recently--surprisingly good! fun to see Powell and his wife on screen, though that frame story is a bit pointless.
― elephant rob, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been planning on watching "I know where I'm going" this week, donna. Is it as terrific as I've heard it is?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The story in Edge of the World is nicely sparse and mythical, gives the movie drive and structure and you can't have a ghost town without having ghosts.
― Zuckerzeit Abrahams Zuckerzeit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
cant wait to see i know wher eim going again sometime
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda want to go blu for these new ones...
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
go blu or go home imo
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
still rocking a CRT tv tho... does that work?
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
no point
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the crt... more authentic graininess
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
you can't have a ghost town without having ghosts.
Yes, you're right: it's not pointless, though it kind of spoils the suspense of John Laurie's final scenes. That probably doesn't matter since thematically he can't leave the island anyway, but the frame story has an stiffness to it. Anyway, I really just wanted to say that if you're a P&P fan and haven't seen it, it's very good. And it anticipates the awesome IKWIG in many ways.
― elephant rob, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I know what you're saying - Powell could have done it as a straight documentary, almost. But like I say I'm a sucker for his myth-making - like all myths, it doesn't quite make sense in the end.
― Zuckerzeit Abrahams Zuckerzeit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Discuss: The prpriety of seeing an iteration of a film that looks different from the way its makers could've ever seen it.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
aka shd we read joyce on a kindle?
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
michael powell did laserdisc commentaries. reckon he'd be chill with blu-ray.
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just asking, as I've never seen a BluRay.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
also I don't remember ppl saying "It's never looked like this" re laserdisc the way they do with BR.
Similar to Jeffrey Wells' vote for scrubbing ALL grain from old movies on video?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i've seen it in shops. looks better than dvd, but not *that* better. when my dvd breaks i'll get one, now that the cost has come down.
i haven't heard people say blu-ray falsifies the movie, but do see a lot of debate out there. everyone says 'the red shoes' looks amazing and they can;t all be shills.
― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Most film-makers I think probably want/ed their films to look as well as they possibly could. As long as technology doesn't fuck with what's meant to be in the frame then I don't have much issue with it.
― Zuckerzeit Abrahams Zuckerzeit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't imagine P&P not wanting e.g. The Red Shoes to look as luminous and vivid as technology wd allow.
― Zuckerzeit Abrahams Zuckerzeit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Part of the point of these blu-ray reissues is that they are better able to recreate the experience of watching a film (ie. better resolution, colour depth, contrast, visible film grain etc etc) than any previous home video system. Def. a sight closer to the original intent than some shitty VHS or TV viewing.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, they look MORE like the original film, not less
― al-goreda (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link