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Dec 15, 2010 - 5:34 PM
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Ed Lachmann
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Fox must have prepared a HD master because THE EGYPTIAN has been shown in HD on UK broadcast TV. It looks wonderful but unfortunately is in mono sound, yet the Spanish DVD is in stereo. How does that work?
I would think that the same picture master was used for the broadcast and the standard Spanish Fox DVD, as that DVD really looks exceptionally good. I'll tell you, many other Spanish Fox DVD's look and sound horrible ("Beneath the 12 Mile Reef","Boy on a Dolphin") I've a friend who bought the standard "Black Shield of Falworth" and it seems to be the same as the blu-ray, with the lower resolution. The Spanish "Egyptian" really does sound great. I wonder if the broadcast altered the audio. It's just been released in Germany, too, under the name "Sinhue, Der Agypter" (through Winkler Film). Haven't checked this one out yet. Wow, maybe we WILL get a blu-ray of this film!
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This is exciting news, and a great idea. I've been weary of the Warner Archives and similar programmes due to the fact they use CD-Rs, the idea to make the releases limited editions using the same model as the soundtrack market in order to ensure proper burnt DVDs and the highest possible production values is inspired and yet logical. Hopefully other studios may follow this model, as they ultimately followed Fox's lead in licensing film music to specialist labels.
I'm not familiar with The Kremlin Letter put will probably take a chance on it just to support the programme, but I'm certainly going to be getting Fate Is The Hunter and probably The Egyptian. I hope some of the upcoming titles might include The Stripper, Rio Conchos, The Flim-Flam Man, Ace Eli And The Rodger Of The Skies, and I echo Gold Digger's request for Damnation Alley! And that's before starting to consider films not scored by Jerry Goldsmith!
N.p. Tamara Drewe (Alexandre Desplat)
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Dec 18, 2010 - 8:57 AM
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manderley
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.....Some other Fox films from the 50s and 1960 with major composers (and where are the CDs for many of these):
White Witch Doctor (1953) – Bernard Herrmann
Miss Robin Crusoe (1953) – Elmer Bernstein
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) – Dimitri Tiomkin
Man Crazy (1954) – Ernest Gold
Soldier of Fortune (1955) – Hugo Friedhofer
That Lady (1955) – John Addison
China Gate (1957) – Victor Young and Max Steiner
Fraulein (1958) - Daniele Amfitheatrof
From Hell To Texas (1958) - Daniele Amfitheatrof
In Love and War (1958) - Hugo Friedhofer
Ten North Frederick (1958) – Leigh Harline
Beloved Infidel (1959) – Franz Waxman
The Blue Angel (1959) – Hugo Friedhofer
The Story On Page One (1959) – Elmer Bernstein
Woman Obsessed (1959) – Hugo Froedhofer
Crack In the Mirror (1960) – Maurice Jarre
High Time (1960) – Henry Mancini
One Foot In Hell (1960) – Dominic Frontiere
Seven Thieves (1960) – Dominic Fromtiere
The Third Voice (1960) – Johnny Mandel
Wild River (1960) – Kenyon Hopkins.....
Several of these titles have already made it to DVD in the US:
SEVEN THIEVES is in the Joan Collins Box Set.
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE is in the Clark Gable Box Set of several years ago, which also included THE TALL MEN and the 1935 CALL OF THE WILD.
WILD RIVER is in the new Elia Kazan Box Set.
THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA is a weird situation, I think. BABA is an Allied Artists picture which was originally released in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Allied Artists apparently controlled the remaining world distribution rights. It is also a product of Walter Wanger Productions. This was running on US cable several years ago in a pan-and-scan, mono version. It is my recollection that it carried an unexpected TV distributor's logo, but I can't remember for sure. In such a case, it might be distributed by Fox-TV (for the TCF connection), by Warner Bros-TV (for the Allied Artists/ Lorimar library connection), or by Paramount/Viacom/Spelling/Worldvision/Lionsgate (for the Walter Wanger connection)!!!
Soundtrack CDs have been released for SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, IN LOVE AND WAR, BELOVED INFIDEL, THE STORY ON PAGE ONE, and WOMAN OBSESSED.
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This is indeed a great development. I hope it's a big success for Twilight Time, some great folks involved here!
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Sounds like great news, but with the titles at $20, postage at $10, plus the UK penalty charge of $20... a total of $50 per title is too rich for me. I assume it cannot be obtained from anywhere else.
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Sounds like great news, but with the titles at $20, postage at $10, plus the UK penalty charge of $20... a total of $50 per title is too rich for me.
Well you don't have to pay the $20 "penalty charge". I've been buying from SAE for over a decade and never once had a parcel go missing, so I'm willing to take the risk in not paying that.
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Sounds like great news, but with the titles at $20, postage at $10, plus the UK penalty charge of $20... a total of $50 per title is too rich for me.
Well you don't have to pay the $20 "penalty charge". I've been buying from SAE for over a decade and never once had a parcel go missing, so I'm willing to take the risk in not paying that.
I see what you're saying but to me what it says is "do what you like with my order, because I absolve you of all responsibility".
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Less than two weeks away for THE KREMLIN LETTER debut on DVD and Screen Archives still doesn't have it up for pre-order.
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Jan 19, 2011 - 3:51 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Good Times D.V.D.s are fine, but their V.H.S. releases looked like a mess, recorded at L.P., rather than S.P..
That's where they ended up, anyway, as competition heated up in home video. But in the mid-1980s, when Goodtimes first began, they issued their tapes in SP. I have SP copies of Goodtimes releases from that era of such public domain classics as "The Outlaw," "The 39 Steps," "Suddenly," and "Our Town." Those were all released in 1985. But by 1988, as you note, the later films that I bought on the label ("I Bury the Living," "The Swimmer") were at the LP speed. As for Goodtimes' DVDs, too many that should have been in widescreen were released full frame.
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