The older Strangelove Blu is no slouch though. Just watched it again recently. I’m really hoping Criterion gets to do The Shining, as there’s room for improvement on the decade old HD master.
I use a system my Dad taught me. It’s disconcerting that this suspicious login was about fifty miles away. Not like I’m a super blogger or anything with an army of followers, so it’s curious my account would even be targeted.
Funny thing is, I logged in once or twice while traveling last January, and didn’t get any such notifications.
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I wish twitter would be more specific about whether a suspicious login was actually successful or not. I’m going to be all paranoid about that for a while.
And yes, I’ve just changed my password.
I’ve always wondered why they replaced William Conrad’s narration for the Kellogg’s tape. My experience with Fox VHS titles in the 90’s was they used dodgy tape stock. Hi-Fi dropouts and tracking issues were common.
He wasn’t Kylo’s age when he died.
What if he appears as as old Shaw Anakin, (whom Kylo fails to recognize) and morphs into young Hayden Anakin?
Maybe the idea was tossed around, but I doubt it got as far as phoning up Hayden’s agent.
I’m sure somebody would notice if Hayden hops a flight to the UK anytime soon. 😉
I don’t think JJ is a fan of the Special Editions. The only way to have Hayden appear as Anakin, but not as a ghost, would be a hologram or just a Force vision.
I wouldn’t worry about the sound for the moment. IIRC, some shots with the inserts cheat where everybody would be as they are still moving. An old school editing trick I’ve seen in other films.
Maybe it was too fast as originally conceived? Star Wars films need multiple viewings to absorb everything as it is. Would be an interesting editing experiment to recut it without the inserts.
It was a niche market by the late 80’s. Some movies could had for around $30. Music video titles for even less. (The cheapest Criterions were $50.) Fox really sucked, charging more for widescreen remasters with zero extras. They really loved that $69.99 price point.
You should have seen the Criterion Laserdisc prices back in the day. At least there were usually some bonus features and a widescreen transfer when studios by themselves were less willing to do so.
Criterion also would do films unjustly neglected on home video. My childhood fave Robinson Crusoe On Mars had never even seen a VHS or Beta release when Criterion released a lovely gatefold set in the early 90’s. Just watched the Blu-Ray version last week. The only Criterion Blu I have so far.
The first Blu of Spartacus from Universal was a DVNR horror show.
If you want SPFX done, and it is on 16mm let me know as I will do it at the same time.
PayPal is fine, but for small donations apparently they are taking like a $5 fee,so drop me a PM and I can send bank details, it stops the donations being eaten up by fees. The paypal info is in my signature if you prefer.
I will be restoring all of these fully to BD level quality, and it will be done fairly quickly, before the end of the year if I can get some money together for storage and physical cleaning.
None of these documentaries are currently available in a high quality format, nearly all the versions released, even those on the Blu-ray box-set are from worn out, NTSC SD tapes.
This will be the only way I think that they will be ever been seen in good quality, and with the full colour information present.
Thanks to everyone that is interested in making this happen. I’m excited to see them myself!
It is indeed 16mm. 😃
Egad, no! I’m speaking to the way a movie is cut together. Empire Of Dreams talked about how the film was edited after that less than stellar rough cut done by different people. It’s easy to forget 40 years on how frenetically paced Star Wars really was compared to other 70’s films.
There may have been editorial needs for that pacing, depending on what was shot and how much footage there was for Marcia Lucas and her editing team to work with.
I think it’s part of the plan, such as it is. All anybody monitoring would see (if they were paying attention) is Chewie breaking loose. Then Han gets on the intercom to further delay anybody coming up to investigate. Some of those greeblies being shot at on the walls always struck me as wall lasers or possibly tear gas vents some kind.
It seems to have a moveable central eye.
Even if Han having served in the Empire isn’t in the back of George’s mind at that point, Solo would know what to take out first in attempting a jailbreak.
The comic book clearly explains they’re pretending to shoot at Chewie while blowing up the cameras and such.
It a subject of debate to this day how much control Marquand actually had over the film. Funny how Spielberg and Lucas both have a movie they supposedly ghost directed.
My old pal Jaxxon has a print of SPFX. Not sure what the condition of it is at the moment. Also one and a half prints of MOSW, but Poita probably has the better copy.
SPFX has a unique issue in that two Disney clips were cut after it was broadcast. (Oh the irony!) The uncut version was never released on home video, and even the print Jax has is missing them. It may be possible to restore those clips from Mary Poppins and The Black Hole using other sources, (Jax has a 16mm Black Hole print) and Mark Hamill’s missing narration from one of the off air recordings floating around.
Unedited
https://youtu.be/qvnSlMaF-G4?t=25m56s
https://youtu.be/qvnSlMaF-G4?t=28m16s
Edited
https://youtu.be/6kGpCyuatTQ?t=25m56s
https://youtu.be/6kGpCyuatTQ?t=27m58s
Me and my friends were all 11 - 12 when the 1st one came out and we did all sorts of 1970’a - `1980’s nerdy things like taking cassette players into the theater and taping the movies, having nerdy schoolyard conversations that had sentences like “what if George Lucas dies in a plane crash before he finishes the sequel?” and then after TESB we had that same conversation again.
I saw RotJ with my dad on opening weekend. I had gotten enough info about the movie before it came out that I knew what to expect from the story line. My dad and I went to these like other fathers and sons go to ball games.
When I left the theater all I could think was “I waited six years for that?”There’s a fine movie in there lost amid a horrible execution. I saw this one several times in the theaters and it’s got moments but not enough to bring it to the level that it needs to be at. The whole affair felt recycled and phoned in.
I’ve read a fair amount of threads here about RotJ edits and peoples feeling about them and I do wonder how many people here have read Rinzlers’ book on it. I realize it’s Lucasfilm sanctioned and people may be wary of historical revisionism but there’s a lot in that book where things are detailed about the people on the movie being aghast at what is going on. Ralph McQuarrie does pre-production art but refuses to draw teddy bears, for one thing and they very clearly spell out that Lucas had a kid and he wanted to be able to take that kid into a toy store and buy a Star Wars teddy bear. There are parts of the constitution of this movie where the quality control was thrown under the bus to make a real kids movie and that’s the big thing that haunts it. There’s the whole dark will he or won’t he patricide thing that’s playing off against burp jokes and killer (BUT CUTE) teddy bears. It’s a movie that can’t make up it’s mind as to what it wants to be - at least The Phantom Menace is consistent in that regard.
You wouldn’t still have any of those recordings? Did you tape any other movies?
Non-crimelords engaging in slavery on Tatooine may not have even been a thing before Lucas wrote Phantom Menace though. The only slaves we see in the OT are Jabba’s ladies.
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That seems better suited for the Episode IX thread to be honest.