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Sep 14, 2016 - 5:33 AM
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Rameau
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I want...The Sea Hawk (1940). It's a classic, music, action, Flynn at his most winning, not only totally enjoyable, but an important part of America's cultural heritage (there, I've said it), & in fact I can't really take Blu-ray seriously without this being released. What's the hold-up Warner? It's not as if it needs a lot of work, the DVD looks very nice, so stop wasting you time releasing stuff like The Deadly Trackers & The Ice Pirates & start on some of the massive amounts of classics sitting in your vault.
Oo, I feel a lot better now (the drugs have kicked in  )
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Sep 16, 2016 - 6:30 AM
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Rameau
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Todays is not one, but two films, but they do sort of go together:
Tarzan The Ape Man (1932) & Tarzan & His Mate (1934). These aren't like the cheapo sequels (enjoyable in their own way), but expensive A features, & a lot of (maybe politically incorrect) fun (& a lot of pre-code Jane flesh on view). I saw them in the cinema in the early sixties on a double bill, I can still remember the cinema, The Classic, Praed Street, Paddington, a funny little cinema, a Tarzan double bill on week & Dutch Nymphos On The Job the next week, & a Hammer double bill the week after, there used to be lots of cinemas like that in London in those days. I wonder if Warner has done any HD work on them?
Next on Monday.
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Sep 16, 2016 - 10:44 PM
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RoryR
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Todays is not one, but two films, but they do sort of go together:
Tarzan The Ape Man (1932) & Tarzan & His Mate (1934). These aren't like the cheapo sequels (enjoyable in their own way), but expensive A features, & a lot of (maybe politically incorrect) fun (& a lot of pre-code Jane flesh on view). I saw them in the cinema in the early sixties on a double bill, I can still remember the cinema, The Classic, Praed Street, Paddington, a funny little cinema, a Tarzan double bill on week & Dutch Nymphos On The Job the next week, & a Hammer double bill the week after, there used to be lots of cinemas like that in London in those days. I wonder if Warner has done any HD work on them?
Next on Monday.
Hopefully when it comes, 4K scans of the original negatives and complete digital clean ups. Love the MGM Tarzans.
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Sep 17, 2016 - 8:40 AM
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Rameau
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so many to choose from - two epics that would benefit from newly remastered, high definition transfers - HELEN OF TROY and/or LAND OF THE PHAROAHS.
Oh yes, I love those two films (I looked at the DVD's only a few months ago), I suppose it helps that I love ancient world epics, & these two really deliver. At the start of Land Of The Pharoahs when the triumphant army is marching back into Egypt with that fantastic Tiomkin score, it's like the film poster come to life, & of course at the end, the pyramid sealing itself up. Wow! And Helen Of Troy, the siege of Troy is just fantastic, the siege towers being dragged to the huge walls of Troy, the men fighting on top of the wall, all to that fantastic Max Steiner score, it's like what the film posters promise but hardly ever deliver.
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Sep 17, 2016 - 2:49 PM
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philiperic
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so many to choose from - two epics that would benefit from newly remastered, high definition transfers - HELEN OF TROY and/or LAND OF THE PHAROAHS.
Oh yes, I love those two films (I looked at the DVD's only a few months ago), I suppose it helps that I love ancient world epics, & these two really deliver. At the start of Land Of The Pharoahs when the triumphant army is marching back into Egypt with that fantastic Tiomkin score, it's like the film poster come to life, & of course at the end, the pyramid sealing itself up. Wow! And Helen Of Troy, the siege of Troy is just fantastic, the siege towers being dragged to the huge walls of Troy, the men fighting on top of the wall, all to that fantastic Max Steiner score, it's like what the film posters promise but hardly ever deliver.[/ndquote]
totally agree , Rambeau -- these films have epic moments without any CGI that current films like TROY or GODS OF EGYPT cannot match.
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Sep 19, 2016 - 5:16 AM
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Rameau
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Well my choice today (just the one, rules is rules) is the 1952 western, Bend Of The River, one of the great fifties westerns directed by Anthony Mann & staring James Stewart. It's a marvellous western, Arthur Kennedy plays a likeable villain (well likeable at the start anyway), plus the lovely Julie Adams, & it's great to see Jay C Flippen in a supporting roll (he was in a lot of James Stewart westerns), also a really nice score from Hans Salter. I recorded this in HD when it was on TV (I also have the Mann/Stewart westerns, Winchester '73 & The Far Country in HD - I'm not all that keen on The Man From Laramie). Universal released a DVD box set of Stewart westerns, it would be great to have a Blu-ray box set.
Just so many great westerns still awaiting a Blu-ray release.
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Sep 20, 2016 - 11:17 AM
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Rameau
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Boom Town (1940) staring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert & Hedy Lamarr. This is the kind of film I saw on TV growing up, it's about the early days of wildcat oil drillers. The two leads fight, team up, get rich, fall out (over a woman, it's always a woman), one's rich the other one is skint, then vice versa, great stuff!
There are many hundreds of fantastic thirties & forties b/w films with big stars that are in danger of being forgotten about. No widescreen or stereo or special effects, just stars & a great story & a real narrative pace.
I need some quiet time now, I'm so upset about Brad and Angelina divorcing (could the National Enquirer be right about all the other stuff as well?).
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Sep 21, 2016 - 5:09 AM
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Rameau
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A genuine masterpiece, All That Money Can Buy 1941 (aka The Devil & Daniel Webster).
It's that old story of selling your soul to the devil. Jeb Stone, a down on his luck farmer, is visited by the devil (Walter Huston as Mr Scratch) & invited to sell his soul for money & luck, he does, but it doesn't bring him much happiness...& then the devil comes back to claim his soul, there's a trial, & defending Jeb is Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold)...this film is just brilliant! America can be a bit heavy handed when it comes to fantasy, but this is directed by William Dieterle, a German used to German expressionism & he directs with a very light touch. Then of course there's the Bernard Herrmann score. There's a lovely, but creepy Simone Simon as a sort of nurse sent by the devil to look after Jeb's baby. The speech by Daniel Webster at the trial is (I think) one of the great moments of cinema. I understand that this is one of the few RKO productions not now owned by Warner, it's controlled by Criterion, so hopefully they'll be a great looking Blu-ray released sooner rather than later.
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Sep 22, 2016 - 6:06 AM
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Rameau
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The single most wanted Blu-ray (today) is, Tony Richardson's, The Charge Of The Light Brigade 1968, quite brilliant. I love the John Addison score & the Richard Williams animation front titles (& the animation also pops up several times in the film), I've loved this film since I saw it at the cinema back in '68. I do know that there was a Blu-ray released in France & Australia that had bad reviews, but those reviews weren't nearly bad enough! I bought the Australian release, the worse Blu-ray I've ever seen, sub VHS quality (I didn't sell it or give it away, it went straight in the bin). MGM did own this (it being a United Artist release), but it was a Woodfull production, & I don't think that MGM owns it anymore. It would be a good project for the B.F.I. or the Martin Scorsese Film Foundation.
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Sep 23, 2016 - 3:57 AM
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Rameau
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Well, the last for a couple of weeks (& maybe the last one, this is not much of a forum for old movies)...Mister Roberts (1955), staring, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell & Jack Lemon (I believe his first big part). A film of the very successful Broadway play (that also starred Henry Fonda), a story of a navy ship in WW2 that's not doing too much & is no where near the action (if I had to be in WW2, this is the place I'd want to be)...& it's directed by John Ford (well, most of it). It's mostly a comedy, I really like it, it's quite a famous fifties film.
It's probably best known as the film where Fonda went to see Ford to complain about the way he was directing the movie...& Ford punched him! A short time after, a crying Ford went to see Fonda to say sorry, but the damage was done. When filming resumed a very cold Fonda would say, is that how you want it Mr Ford, the atmosphere on the set must have been horrible, Ford couldn't take it & started to drink heavily, & would be drunk on set, or even missing, some of the actors had to direct some scenes, in the end Ford left the film early due to illness & director Mervyn LeRoy finished it. The film should be a disaster, but it's really good, some would call it a classic & it was a big box office hit. John Ford should have been washed up as a director...but the following year he made The Searchers.
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"G Men" ('35) and "In Harm's Way" ('65) which I'm surprised hasn't been released on Blu ray as part Paramount's "John Wayne Series" aside from the D.V.D. release.
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