MGM has seriously cropped EVERY disc released in this collection! It is a travesty....my most-awaited collection turns into a complete hack job (literally)! ...
I couldn't agree more with what that has been said. I completely agree that it is the best film by Altman, that it is his "Persona", that it is amongst his...
Hmm. From the Web site it looks as if the images have been cropped from 1.33:1 to 1.62:1. But isn't that what theaters all over the world have been doing since...
... to ... director's ... door ... That would be an extremely innocuous way of expressing "contempt"! I took it as making gentle fun of the character's...
... wrote: I dare say, that while the intimacy was lost, it had now been ... Isn't that a good (although not the only one) definition of good direction?...
... from ... have ... Bergman ... that way. ... This raises a puzzling question: why would Bergman and his DP elect to shoot in 1.33:1 while knowing full well...
... It might be an even better idea for someone, maybe among the Swedish-speakers here, to contact Svensk Filmindustri directly to find an authority on the...
A better and bigger idea: People with a little time on their hands should choose directors of the 50s, 60s, and 70s that they love, and contact the director...
In my experience art houses in the 1960s were pretty alert to what the ratio was supposed to be. That information could frequently be found officially...
I forward this from Nick Wrigley, a former member of our group, with his permission. Craig is right about Nykvist; I saw that same doc too, which by the way is...
... For what it's worth, Criterion's website has Seventh Seal (1957) 1:33 Through a Glass Darkly (1961) 1:33 Winter Light (1962) 1:33 The Silence (1963) 1:33 ...
For all you Altman fans: This Tuesday on the Sundance channel, the first episode of Tanner '88 is being shown. Every week on Tuesday another episode will be...
Dear Members, From time to time someone complains to us that they don't know who a lot of people in our group are. We want to allow for the possibility that...
"The Serpent's Egg" was a theatrical release. I've never seen it either. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web...
I saw both "Shame" and "Hour of the Wolf" at a retrospective last year, and the films were DEFINITELY not 1.66:1. They were 1.37:1, just like Peerpee (Nick)...
... Well, you're saying that Altman has comic skill and a sense of balance, and I'd agree. I'm actually, slowly, becoming more pro-Altman, partly from liking...
... some ... I don't find 3 WOMEN as compelling as some of the film's biggest supporters, but I find this interesting - Duvall's character is pretty silly to...
... . ... Yes and No. Just about everybody remembers Duvall's dress getting caught in the car door. But our finding that funny is a ot diferent than the...
In the end credits to The Company, I noticed that many of the dances featured in the film were sponsored by various benefactors/institutions (e.g. "Tensile ...
... Well I sure as hell DON'T. I cannotcomprehend the high regard in which that piece of dreck is held. Especially by people who should know better like...
... Camp was my pick for the very worst film of 2003. I absolutely loathed it. Since I don't know any better, what's wrong with Showgirls? Kevin [Non-text...
Two things that stood out for me in this condescending documentary on 70s American cinema: 1. Peter Bogdanovich's claim that Welles' Othello was the first ...
... Well since you loathed "Camp" perhaps we have nothing to discuss. "Showgirls" was ugly, grotesque and stupid. ... __________________________________ Do you...
... I just attended a benefit screening of "Salt of the Earth" (1953) a couple weeks ago for the striking grocery workers in Southern California, and I bet the...
... I wasn't bothered by the nice-sized, well-decorated apartment. My impression, which the film doesn't promote but certainly makes plausible, is that Neve...
... In the interest of not simply shutting down critical discourse just because I didn't like a movie, here's what I wrote about Camp in my forthcoming Ten ...
... I'm not so sure about "the relief of the counselors." Did we see the same film? " His ... Again I disagree. And ... Ah those obliques! It all plays as if ...
... expense. Cheap derision is everywhere in Altman, but what strikes me is how he uses mockery and the related habit of pinning down supporting characters to...
I only watched the first episode and about half of the second, but I also found it pretty wanting. It's extraordinarly shallow, just mad about sound bites,...
