Does anyone know why films were shot soft matte? Was it purely so that they could be unmasked for television screenings? That seems to me an unlikely...
I don't know if this is old old news or new old news (the IMDb is notorious for having a delay in getting with the picture) but Beatrice Welles is after "seven...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/obituaries/31cnd-brialy.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin Another bracing reminder of time and youth slip, sliding away...
Evil creature. She wnats to wrest every dime she can from her father's corpse. She has been the major obstacle to Welles scholarship and restoration for years....
... This seems like a good point at which to mention that Jonathan Rosenbaum's DISCOVERING ORSON WELLES has just been published. I haven't seen this yet, but...
... Yes, admittedly not a 1950s situation, but if you know Truffaut's FAHRENHEIT 451 diary, published in CAHIERS DU CINEMA and reprinted in Sarris's...
I'm glad we're in agreement on ATHA, Fred, as I've made several detailed posts here on why 1.33 is its preferred aspect ratio. I don't think there can be any...
... This is highly unlikeley. She can not stop people writing about her father but she has successfully blocked the University of California's publication of...
David Hare, from another board, wrote: "This is a minefield of a subject and everyone needs to be aware that until the late 50s at least, widescreen masking -...
... Jaime, in the course of that thread (which began over the 2:1 screenings and the UK DVD of Magnificent Obsession) I cited a number of reissues of movies,...
But do you know for sure about the two Langs? Cropping the bottom would change the horizontal centering of actors in the films, which seems crucial to the...
... No, no certainty at all, in fact you're right - the exteriors also seem to need both head and foot room for the epic scale of the processions etc. But the...
... There are many more ... and ... My understanding is that Siegel shot INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in 1.37, and that the studio decided to mask the prints...
... "My understanding is that Siegel shot INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in 1.37, and that the studio decided to mask the prints to 2.35. But I don't believe...
... If the 1.85 has more info on the sides then that stuff should be there in the 1.66, (I don't know which AR is right) the only difference should be top and...
... Are you sure these prints weren't created by simply cropping the 2.35 version? The BBC used to regularly screen a panned-and-scanned transfer of the...
... I've been having similar issues with the widow of the late Zdenek Liska, Czech cinema's in- house Nino Rota-Ennio Morricone crossbreed (if that's not...
she has successfully blocked the University of California's ... For whatever it's worth, I've learned from Sid Gottleib that this is no longer true. According...
... Liska, Czech cinema's in- ... understating the sheer fertility ... blocks any plans to do ... as straightforward ... This is a continuing problem...
... You did mean 2.0 (SuperScope), right? I know this is getting pedantic, I'm just curious since it's the first I'd heard of a CinemaScope ratio being...
... SNATCHERS ... saw ... I have a version that I taped off ARTE which is letterboxed at approximately 2.35. I compared this with the BBC transfer, and the ...
... wrote: "Are you sure these prints [16mm prints of INVASION OF THE BODDY SNATCHERS that are unmasked] weren't created by simply cropping the 2.35 version?" ...
... Snatchers ... But ... 2.35. ... with ... upper ... Brad, Anatomy is also available on DVD in 1.37. There is a lot of head room but it's completely viable,...
Mrs. Bresson is similarly pig-headed. ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit...
Obviously it needs to be changed. Instead Disney had congress extend it from 75 years to 95 years recently, which means in the case of single authors 95 years...
... I'm pretty sure the same thing was done with Lang's "While the City Sleeps." Certainly there were 16mm anamorphic prints circulating in the 60s (which...
... SNATCHERS ... 2.35. ... the ... anamorphic, ... The Turner Laserdisc of City Sleeps is in 1.85. It has a high level of grain which suggests the print is...
... City ... in ... About SuperScope, I just looked it up and learned there was indeed a 2.35:1 version in addition to the 2:1 version. Hadn't realized that. ...
