britcom68 wrote:Building on The Quiet Man discussion, I just heard about this upcoming event through Iowa Public Radio while driving to work. It will be the first time Maureen O'Hara will be visiting not only my home state, but also speaking in-person at the John Wayne Museum about co-star John Wayne.
Of course what I want to know, and what the Winterset website announcement doesn't detail, is how they will be showing the films- dvd/blu, film?
How very pleasant news! Please, do report.
Maureen O'Hara attended the Cork Film Festival in November 2011 as a very special guest. At that occasion the Irish-Made documentary was presented (but which version of the movie - that I don't know). The UCLA restoration - as Mr. Harris mentioned - "sits in a vault". Let's hope that occasionally it jumps to a screen.
I'm looking to order a few Olive blind-buys from importcds. Do you guys prefer Secret Beyond the Door or Cloak and Dagger? I know they're both "minor" Lang but I am interested in checking one of them out.
krnash wrote:I'm looking to order a few Olive blind-buys from importcds. Do you guys prefer Secret Beyond the Door or Cloak and Dagger? I know they're both "minor" Lang but I am interested in checking one of them out.
Secret Beyond The Door, by quite a bit. The dabbling is psychological surrealism makes it an interesting, if not wholly successful, experiment. Cloak and Dagger is possibly Lang at his most anonymous.
krnash wrote:I'm looking to order a few Olive blind-buys from importcds. Do you guys prefer Secret Beyond the Door or Cloak and Dagger? I know they're both "minor" Lang but I am interested in checking one of them out.
Secret Beyond The Door, by quite a bit. The dabbling is psychological surrealism makes it an interesting, if not wholly successful, experiment. Cloak and Dagger is possibly Lang at his most anonymous.
Thanks for the response. That's the way I was leaning and it sounds like that'll be the more rewarding.
krnash wrote:I'm looking to order a few Olive blind-buys from importcds. Do you guys prefer Secret Beyond the Door or Cloak and Dagger? I know they're both "minor" Lang but I am interested in checking one of them out.
Secret Beyond The Door, by quite a bit. The dabbling is psychological surrealism makes it an interesting, if not wholly successful, experiment. Cloak and Dagger is possibly Lang at his most anonymous.
I'll second and even say Secret Beyond the Door is one of Lang's best films.
I also liked Secret Beyond The Door very much. I have one issue with the film. It kept reminding me of Rebecca (1940) while I was watching this Lang film. At some moment it felt like a remake, but that's just in my opinion. One more issue was the poor sound quality of the BD. This issue could have been solved by addition of subtitles though! Film is really nice, so you can definitely get it. I just placed an order for Cloak and Dagger. I have never watched it before, so I am very excited.
Very excited about THE BIG COMBO. Seeing as other Ignite properties have been restored by TLE, is there any indication that THE BIG COMBO will be too? Really hoping it looks as good as possible on Blu.
More June titles: Crashout (Gunmen on the Loose) (1955) - DVD & Blu Shark! (1969) - DVD & Blu Keep Your Right Up! (Soigne ta droite) (1987) - DVD & Blu Comment ça va? (How Is It Going?) (1978) - DVD & Blu
A shame Olive may not revisit Numero Deux and Ici et ailleurs for BLU as well. I can't imagine the materials are in any worse shame than Comment ca va?
matrixschmatrix wrote:Shark! is the Fuller so crappy that he himself disowned it, right?
It was one of those totally FUBAR productions. A stuntman was killed by a shark that broke through the protective netting, and Fuller quit after the producers used this incident to drum up publicity. A photo spread about the incident appeared in Life magazine and the producers changed the title from Caine to Shark! to cash in on this, even though sharks are not really the film's main focus. Fuller had already been clashing with them about various aspects of the film, and they ended up taking away control of the editing from him after he'd spent a month in the editing room working on his cut. The producers completely reedited it and refused Fuller's request that they take his name off the project. They ended up rereleasing it a little later (mainly on the exploitation circuit, I believe) with yet another title, Man-Eater, and took in a couple million more in box office returns.
Going back almost three years and 40 pages of this thread, Olive had announced plans to release Wilder's neglected film Fedora, but so much time had passed that I was worried it had fallen through. Now it looks like we could see an announcement later in the year.
From what Duncan Hopper posted in the Cannes thread:
FEDORA REMASTERED by Billy Wilder (1978, 1h50)...Restoration by Bavaria Media in cooperation with CinePostproduction, Germany. The source material for the restoration were the original picture negative and sound elements. Custom solutions in the 2K digital restoration workflow were designed with the aim to preserve the original look of the work in the new release for cinema and BluRay.
I watched Olive's The Sun Shines Bright Blu yesterday and was very impressed by transfer and film.
The rumour was that sensitivity about charges of racism was the main thing keeping this film off home video, but the film itself hardly invites any such charges. A couple of slap-in-the-face "boys" wither into insignificance when set up against the scene where Charles Winninger stands alongside Ernest Whitman to face down a lynch mob. This is another fifties Ford where the racial politics are rich and complex, and the film needs to be taken on its own terms.
It's a rich and complex film in other ways as well, and the climactic funeral scene is one of the most profound sequences in all of Ford's cinema, demonstrating in exquisitely cinematic terms how Ford's conception of community depends on individual restraint, intelligence and empathy.
The cast is a bunch of second-stringers, but Ford extracts some marvellous performances from them. Eve March (the scary old lady in Curse of the Cat People) seems to have spent her entire Hollywood career as a glorified extra, but here she gets one big dialogue scene as Mallie Cramp and knocks it out of the park.
Gotta love those zany people at Alpha. "Here, take this image, photoshop Brian Donlevy's head onto the body of that guy right there, and change it so Richard Conte is wearing a purple suit with a pink shirt, pink tie, and pink handkerchief. Hahaha!"
