More obscure than a cartoon cutout of Stanley Kubrick endorsing a "special edition" of 2001? ;)
Mr. Shaw was on last night's special, although briefly.
Jetrell Fo said:
I just read this today....guess I need to visit this section more often.
R.I.P. Mr. Kirschner, I never knew you personally but you touched my inner child with Empire, so a part of me goes with you.
P.S.
Haunt George and tell him to stop screwing with these awesome movies...and to respect the originals. I know I'm not the only one here who would appreciate it.
God's speed to you............
I was watching the new Robot Chicken special last night, and thinking Marquand and Kershner haunting George would be a great sketch. ;)
Ripplin said:
There were several I didn't know had died in that montage. Don't remember hearing, anyway. Robert Culp, Dennis Hopper, Kevin McCarthy, Eddie Fisher (Carrie's dad, of course). Sad when they had to show three in a row from Airplane, too... :(
Yeah, I didn't know about "Boy" from the Tarzan films or the Munchkin coroner, not mention Rhett and Scarlett's daughter. (Or that guy from Beetlejuice!) If they even had obits on CNN or elsewhere, I blinked and missed them.
Zelda Rubinstein adds to the Poltergeist curse, and now someone will probably invent an Airplane curse.
TCM remembers montage
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=360189
Two people from here apparently dropped by the channel I set up Thursday night while I was indisposed.
C-SPAN is in the process of putting their video archives online. I found a link to one 1987 hearing about colorizing movies, but Lucas isn't listed as one of the participants.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Colo
Maybe the hearing Lucas was in will pop up eventually.
I thought that was whatever Youtube does to the video.
If only someone could pull off the impossible feat of squeezing 600 feet of Super 8 film onto a 400 foot reel. *sigh*
That looks pretty darn good considering it had gone pink. Although the matte boxes around the TIE fighters seem to have been made more noticeable.
Okay, I'm going to try having a chat channel tonight on the following little used IRC server:
Server: irc.scifi-fans.net
Ports 6660-6668,7000
Try joining the channel "OriginalTrilogy"
I use an old freeware program called mirc if you don't have IRC chat software of your own. (I've found browser based chat apps kind of klunky.) I'll try to be on most of the evening starting about 7:15 Pacific time, but I will be away from the keyboard at times. Good luck!
I don't believe the chat thing on their site is connecting to the same place. Web based chat apps have seldom worked right for me anyway. I still use mirc after all these years.
Going to give it a try for a while tonight on the scifi server. I might be away from the keyboard at times, so make yourselves at home! :)
Server: irc.scifi-fans.net
Ports 6660-6668,7000
Try joining "OriginalTrilogy"
Pacific time zone here.
From past experience, I find undernet too full of scary people and troublemakers though.
If I may suggest:
Server: irc.scifi-fans.net
Ports 6660-6668,7000
This used to be the irc server for the SciFi channel many years ago. It's still up and running, and seems like there are very few people on it.
Someone reminded me of it in another forum. It's been years since I visited it. (And was mostly dead at the time.) I don't recall what IRC server it was on, but it was one of the big laggy ones full of weirdoes messaging you out of the blue if you were not "invisible" while logged in.
If it's long gone, would there be any interest in starting it up again on a smaller less scary IRC server?
IRC is internet relay chat in case you're a youngling. ;)
I won the original auction . The only other bidder didn't outgun me by very much. I suspect it was some bearded guy living on a ranch in Northern California. ;)
Hopefully, I can arrange a screening over the weekend.
There was an official IRC channel several years ago, but I don't know if it exists anymore. The server it was on was one of those dark scary places on the internet you keep hearing about though! I'll ask around...
Being in different time zones, someone would have to stay up late for a real time chat.
I want to see how those things look on the 16mm print before going any further with colors and tints. Taking the whole DVD sequence logos and all would save us some headaches if it's our only good source.
Given how unique the ITA recording is, I think it ought to be presented in it's entirety on "Disc 2" with any potential extras. (Possibly add a text introduction explaining what we think it is?) And the Italian dialog should be subbed verbatim. (It's also not that hard to have two subtitle tracks?) Even if it's not the "Freaks Up Front" version, it ought to be preserved much like how Criterion presented both cuts of Brazil on LD and DVD.
It would be very interesting if an Italian LD exists. The LDDB only has listings for the two discs I own, plus the Letterboxed PAL and Japanese full frame release from the '80s.
Make the enemy come to you, and hope you find the flaw in the DS plans before they show up?
msycamore, I noticed when comparing to the ITA version that there was some cropping on the right hand of the frame. When the ITA pans to the right of frame, more picture info was there. I think some amount of cropping occurs in a lot of Laserdisc era letterbox transfers.
Any other picture oddities might stem from the fact THX was filmed in Techniscope, or even the print they used for the transfer to begin with.
I think the Beta was cropped on all sides, actually. The color on the titles is pretty close to what I saw. The AZ logo looks good too.
It's also possible that for the DC they have gone back and used a different source for the Buck Rogers footage.
erri_wan said:
Ever seen this one?
http://cgi.ebay.it/LOCANDINA-LUOMO-CHE-FUGGi-DAL-FUTURO-FORD-COPPOLA-/290500268370?pt=Film_Italiani&hash=item43a32a5152
Cool. I love the creative liberties European posters sometimes take. The other one that looks like an 25th century episode of CHiPs takes the cake though.
If you've ever seen 2010, you don't want to be in close orbit when a gas giant ignites. That, and the Death Star maneuvers like a garbage scow at sublight. ;)
This really needs to become a sticky or something...
Great pictures too!
EyeShotFirst said:
Yeah, the transfer looks even better too. Temple looks unscathed as well. I guess Spielberg didn't want the same criticism George gets. I was really happy with what I saw on my tv.
I think we all know the real reason Spielberg nixed any CGI changes. ;)
Independent documentaries seem to have really odd distribution patterns. (At least compared to feature films.) Only the local "art house" cinema near me even shows them, and titles are seldom around more than a week.
Even that IMAX doc about the final shuttle mission to repair Hubble didn't stick around here very long. And that was at the popular multiplex in the area.
Too bad that Polish print had subtitles, it looked better than the last two 35mm prints that were on ebay.
Is it possible the Buck Rogers clip couldn't be cleared for video release in the UK?
I've seen a lot of public domain releases of the serial in recent years, but there may have still been copyright issues in play at the time.
Most projectionists used to be union guys, and you needed special training to operate those big projectors. Now, it's often the guy working the concession stand.
I was lucky enough to know someone back in college who worked at a local theatre. It was a crackerbox compared to other screens in town, but being invited up to see the projection booth is an experience I'll always remember. I also learned how dangerous 35mm projector bulbs can be. ;)
