Joe Kidd, 1972.
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Joe Kidd, 1972.
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The Professionals. 1966..
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The movie, which was shot in Technicolor, was filmed in Death Valley, Valley of Fire and around Coachella Valley in California. The rail scenes were filmed on Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain Railroad. The steam locomotive seen in the movie currently resides on the Heber Valley Railroad.
The Day The Earth Stood Still, 2008.. Remake of a classic... its different at least and maybe all its got going for it. not seen it since it came out.
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Renowned astronomer Seth Shostak was hired as a consultant on the film. He reviewed the script several times for errors, and gave suggestions for making the scientists less dry: "Real scientists don't describe an object entering the solar system as 'notable for the fact that it was not moving in an asteroidal ellipse, but moving at nearly 3*10 to the 7 meters per second'. More likely, they would say that there was 'a god-damned rock headed our way!'" He also noted the scientists should refer to one another by a first name basis.
In the original movie, GORT was eight feet tall. In this film, he is 28 feet tall.
Keanu Reeves recorded the line "Klaatu barada nikto" twice, and one recording was played backward and spliced with the other (which was left normal) to make the overall dialogue sound more otherworldly.
Cast a Dark Shadow, 1955..
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Margaret Lockwood's once-considerable popularity as a leading lady was waning noticeably when she appeared in this movie. She hoped it would revive her movie career, and she received outstanding personal reviews. However, the movie was a box-office flop, and she made only one more movie in her life, The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976).
Sink the Bismarck!, 1960... bluray remaster...
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Esmond Knight (Captain John Leech - H.M.S. Prince of Wales) actually served as an officer on-board H.M.S. Prince of Wales and was injured during the battle.
Producer John Brabourne knew that the use of miniatures and explosions would have to look very realistic to be successful. They hired Howard Lydecker, one of the legendary Lydecker brothers, the other was Theodore Lydecker, who were generally considered to be the best special effects team in the industry. They had spent decades perfecting their craft at Republic Pictures.
According to Special Effects Cinematographer L.B. Abbott, the miniatures were photographed with spherical (non-anamorphic) lenses. This made it easier to force the perspective of the image to make the miniatures appear bigger and further apart. The conversion of the spherical footage to CinemaScope required the use of an optical printer with an anamorphic lens. This method of shooting with spherical lenses, yet converting the footage to anamorphic, is now commonly used, and is called "Super 35".
Contrary to a previous trivia item implying that the British failed to carry out rescue operations. After the sinking of the Bismack, H.M.S. Devonshire and H.M.S. Maori rescued one hundred eleven German sailors from the sea, (one of whom later died of his injuries), before having to leave the area due to reports of a German U-Boat nearby, as they would have been stationary while getting the survivors aboard and therefore sitting ducks for any torpedo attack. In fact, some of the survivors praised one British Midshipman for trying help a German who had lost both of his arms in the action.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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The Man Who Would Be King, 1975... This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.
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John Huston tried to launch the movie version of "The Man Who Would Be King" many times before completing it. It was originally conceived as a vehicle for Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart in the fifties. Bogart died before the movie could be made, and while Huston was considering who could replace Bogart, Gable also passed away. (Source: Stephen H. Bogart, Humphrey's son.) He later re-imagined it as a vehicle for Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, and later for Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. When it was considered as a vehicle for Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Newman suggested Sir Sean Connery and Sir Michael Caine.
Sir Michael Caine and Sir Sean Connery were disgusted by the treatment of Saeed Jaffrey during filming. He didn't even have a chair to sit on between takes on-location. Finally, Caine had enough and shouted to the crew "Get this man a fucking chair!"
Karroom Ben Bouih (High Priest Kafu Selim) was the night watchman of an olive orchard near the filming location. He was hired after writer and director John Huston accidentally met him, and told to come to the set the following day. After he fell asleep a few times during filming, it was discovered that he had still kept his night watchman job. Huston had to explain to him that he didn't need that job any more. The movie company would pay him enough that he could sleep at night.
......The "Making-of" featurette on the DVD contains footage of Sir Sean Connery performing the fall from the bridge stunt. He fell approximately one hundred feet to the bottom of the ravine, before his fall was broken by a big pile of cardboard boxes. In his 2010 book, "The Elephant to Hollywood", Sir Michael Caine reports on page 150, "The real hero then took his (Sir Sean Connery) place. Joe Powell was an experienced stuntman. Joe fell so skillfully, twisting and turning on the way down, and at the very last minute straightening himself out so that he hit the mattresses dead center. John Huston turned to me and said, 'That was the darnedest stunt I've ever seen.'" Caine said that Connery did not like heights and was not fond of the final scene in which he had to walk to the middle of the bridge.[14] Caine recalled, "There was a day when we were shooting on the rope bridge and Sean turned to John and said "Do you think the bridge looks safe?" John lowered his eyes and said, "Sean, the bridge looks the way it always has. The only difference is that today, you're going to be standing in the middle of it.""
The song sung by Connery is known as "The Son of God Goes Forth To War" or "Bishop Heber's Hymn" The melody is "The Moreen" which is commonly known as "The Minstral Boy". The words are sung as Danny Dravot (Connery) walks out on the bridge before he falls to his death.
Looper, 2012...In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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The script originally called for Joe to move to Paris when he got older, which is why he spends the early scenes trying to learn French. However, Rian Johnson soon realized that they didn't have the money to shoot in Paris. He considered using New Orleans to "stand in" for Paris, but rejected that idea. The Chinese distributor for the film offered to pay for the crew to film in Shanghai, and Johnson accepted, both because it solved the Paris problem and because he felt Shanghai better reflected the future setting of the movie.
First Blood, 1982..4k bluray...
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First Blood was shot using Panavision cameras on 35mm film. This release was made using the original camera negative which was scanned at 4K resolution and utilised for the creation of this Ultra HD Blu-ray release. The disc presents a native 4K 3840 x 2160p resolution image in the widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio, and uses 10-bit video depth, a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG), High Dynamic Range, and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec for HDR10.
A plot point that was present in the novel but absent from the film was the primary reason behind Teasle's resentment and contempt toward Rambo, which was that Rambo was a veteran of the Vietnam War, which gained a lot of attention, whereas Teasle was a veteran of the Korean War, which most people had all-but-completely-forgotten at this point in time.
Sylvester Stallone hated the first cut of the film so much that he tried to buy the film back and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. That cut the movie time in half and set a precedent for future action movies.
An Inspector Calls, 1954.. 60th anniversary bluray remaster.
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During the first scene at the dinner table, Eric Birling says "Steady, the Buffs". This phrase means "stay calm, be careful, and persevere", and is associated with the 3rd Regiment of Foot (The East Kent Regiment), whose nickname was 'The Buffs'. The phrase is thought to have originated when the Regiment was stationed in Malta in 1858, and was popularised in Rudyard Kipling's novel, "Soldiers Three". 'Buffs' refers the dull yellow colour of the facings worn by the regiment, starting in the 18th Century.
In the stage play on which this film was based, the inspector's name was Goole. It was changed in the film to hide the twist at the end of the film when it becomes clear that the inspector does not really exist and is a figment of everyone's conscience. (or was he a ghost?)
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Manhunt, 1941.. Bluray remaster..
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When this movie was made, America was not part of World War II. At this time, a number of Hollywood studios were pro-American involvement in the war. This movie is one of a number of films made during the late 1930s and early 1940s that represented pro-American intervention in the war. These films include: A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), Man Hunt (1941), Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and Sergeant York (1941).
This was one of several films mentioned in the September 1941 Senate subcommittee hearings on Propaganda in Motion Pictures, where isolationist senators Nye, Clark and Wheeler attacked Hollywood for "war-mongering." Senator Nye, who testified before the committee, had not seen most of the films mentioned. The subcommittee did not reconvene after September due to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December. The featurette included on the 2009 DVD release contends that the making of war-mongering films would be a violation of the Neutrality Act, which focused on restricting arms sales to belligerent nations, regardless of their status of aggressor or defender.
Very little indeed remains of Geoffrey Household's original novel in this adaptation, but the author, interviewed about it over thirty years later, conceded that "Fritz Lang made a smashing film out of my book".
The Eagle Has Landed, 1976... bluray remastered...
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Michael Caine had initially been excited at the prospect of working with Sturges. During shooting, Sturges told Caine that he only worked to earn enough money to go fishing. Caine wrote later in his autobiography: "The moment the picture finished he took the money and went. [Producer] Jack Wiener later told me [Sturges] never came back for the editing nor for any of the other good post-production sessions that are where a director does some of his most important work. The picture wasn't bad, but I still get angry when I think of what it could have been with the right director. We had committed the old European sin of being impressed by someone just because he came from Hollywood."
Cornwall was used to represent the Channel Islands, and Berkshire for East Anglia. The majority of the film, set in the fictional village of Studley Constable, was filmed at Mapledurham on the A4074 in Oxfordshire and features the village church, Mapledurham Watermill and Mapledurham House, which represented the manor house where Winston Churchill was taken. A fake water wheel was added to the 15th-century structure for the film. Mock buildings such as shops and a pub were constructed on site in Mapledurham while interiors were filmed at Twickenham Studios. The "Landsvoort Airfield" scenes were filmed at RAF St Mawgan, five miles (8 km) from Newquay.
Quality film that, they edit it when they show it on telly these days though.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970. bluray remastered.. Directed by Billy Wilder..
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By the time of filming, Sir Christopher Lee had become famous as Count Dracula. When he and Billy Wilder walked on the shores of Loch Ness at dusk, with bats circling overhead, Wilder said to him, "You must feel quite at home here."
Originally, the scenes featuring the Loch Ness Monster were intended to be filmed in the actual Loch. A life-size prop was built which had several Nessie-like humps used to disguise flotation devices. The humps were removed, however, at Billy Wilder's request. Unfortunately, during a test run in Loch Ness, the Monster-prop sank and was never recovered. A second prop, a miniature with just the head and neck, was built, but was only filmed inside a studio tank. Geneviève Page said of this in the biography "Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder" by Charlotte Chandler): "When we lost our Loch Ness monster, he (Wilder) wasn't too concerned, even though he was also the producer. He was more concerned about how the man who made it felt when all his work sank to the bottom of the Loch Ness. He went over and comforted him." The original monster prop was located on the bottom of Loch Ness in April 2016 during a survey of the loch by an underwater robot.
The subplot in which Sherlock Holmes is approached by a famous ballerina who wishes him to father her child is inspired by a real-life incident. George Bernard Shaw was once approached by the notorious dancer Isadora Duncan, who told him that, if they had a child together, it would have "my beauty and your brains"; Shaw rebuffed her quickly, saying, "Ah, yes, dear lady, but what if it has my beauty and your brains instead?" In this movie, Sherlock Holmes uses a rather different method of putting the lady off.
Dressed to Kill, 1980..Bluray remaster from Arrow... "Dressed to Kill was transferred from a 35mm interpositive. The film was transferred in High Definition on a Spirit Datacine at the Post Group in Hollywood, California. The audio was transferred from an original 35mm mono mag. This work was managed by David Sargent and Mary Grace Nicolas for MGM.
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Angie Dickinson (Kate Miller) said the scene where her character gets seduced in the back of a taxicab was filmed on-location in New York City, where several gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman!" (referring to her previous television role).
As a young man, at his mother's urging, Brian De Palma followed his father and used recording equipment to try and catch him with another woman. That incident inspired this movie.
Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon all praised Michael Caine's generosity and professionalism as an actor on this film. As the main star, he was only ever required to be on set when his character was in shot, but all three stated he insisted on being there whenever his character was not in shot also, so that his co-stars were always performing to his character and not to a stand-in or nothing at all.
Never seen that one will have to look out for it.
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Primer, 2004..
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The budget for the entire film was around $7000. Most of the money was spent on film stock.
Rian Johnson, director of Looper (2012), mentions in the director's commentary that not only is Primer the best time-travel movie ever made, but that when he sent the script for Looper to his friend Shane Carruth, Carruth told him all his time travel was wrong.
Shane Carruth took up the job of writing, producing, directing, editing and scoring the movie with no prior experience in any of these fields. It took him three years to complete the movie, writing the screenplay over the period of a year and working on an independent movie as a microphone operator to get the hang of filming techniques. Shooting the movie took only a month, but the film spent nearly two years in postproduction due to editing problems. During that period, Carruth claims to have quit the movie 3 or 4 times.
Looks more like a video of a speaker lead comparison. :D
The Vast of Night, 2019.
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Twilight zone stuff set in 1950's
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Open Range, 2003..
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Originally, Touchstone Pictures had Kevin Costner top-billed over Robert Duvall, but Costner asked the studio to top-bill Duvall instead.
Towards the end of production, Kevin Costner and some friends made a surprise visit to a large pow wow gathering at Morley. Chief Ernest Wesley honored Costner for his work with the Lakota Indians and using the Sioux language in Dances with Wolves (1990).
The hefty revolver favored by Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) is a model 1875 Remington Army. The rifle that Charley (Kevin Costner) used in the shoot-out is an 1873 Winchester sporting rifle.
Dances With Wolves, 1990... this is the really long extended version at nearly 4hrs.
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Kevin Costner did all his own riding, including bareback and shooting his gun without holding the reins, during the buffalo hunt.
In the skinned buffalo scene, fake animals made of paper were used and looked very realistic. A passerby called the police during filming and they showed up with guns drawn ready to arrest the crew for poaching. After some explanations, the cops left laughing.
During the scene where the buffalo is charging at Smiles a Lot, the buffalo is actually charging at a pile of its favorite treat: Oreo cookies.
Because of the film's enormous success and sympathetic treatment of the Native Americans, the Lakota Nation adopted Kevin Costner as an honorary member.
a marathon at close to 4hrs but a superb film. a masterpiece imo.
not sure i can face another film so will watch an episode of Poirot.
I enjoyed the theatre version of 'Dances with Wolves', but don't think I could manage a 4 hour version.
The Graduate, 1967... Criterion Bluray remaster.. A wonderful film. Hoffman didnt want a 6 film contract so was only paid 17k for the whole shoot. It made him in the buisness tho,
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When Elaine tracks down Ben in his gloomy room and he causes her to scream, several other tenants gather behind the landlord in the doorway. One says, "Shall I get the cops? I'll get the cops." It's Richard Dreyfuss in one of his earliest film roles.
During rehearsals of Dustin Hoffman's and Anne Bancroft's first encounter in the hotel room, Bancroft did not know that Hoffman was going to grab her breast. Hoffman decided to do it because it reminded him of schoolboys trying to nonchalantly grab girls' breasts in the hall by pretending to put their jackets on. When Hoffman did it, director Mike Nichols began laughing loudly. Hoffman began to laugh as well, so rather than stop the scene, he turned away and walked to the wall. Hoffman banged his head on the wall, trying to stop laughing, and Nichols thought it was so funny, it stayed in the finished film. Anne Bancroft said that for many years after doing this movie, young men would tell her that she was the first woman they had sexual fantasies about.
Although Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be much older than Benjamin, Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman were just under six years apart in age. He looked naturally boyish, and she, a longtime smoker and drinker, look older than her age. Bancroft was only eight years older than her "daughter" Katharine Ross. William Daniels (Mr. Braddock) only ten years older than his "son" Hoffman.
Anne Bancroft loved Mike Nichols' description of Mrs. Robinson as someone who was angry with herself for giving up on who she really was in exchange for wealth and security. This was the aspect of the book that really captured his interest. When they shot the scene where Mrs. Robinson and Ben discuss art in the hotel room, Bancroft had forgotten Nichols' initial revelation about the character, but she managed to capture that anger and regret on subsequent takes. Nichols thought this was very important because she really wanted to drive home the point about the character having bargained away her life. "That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it."
The Dogs of War, 1980. Bluray ... Chris Walken was relatively unknown and the studio were unimpresse by the Director's choice of lead; but it worked well.
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John Irvin had previously shot footage in the middle of real-life battles when he worked in a television news crew in Vietnam during the 1960s. Irvin once said: "Unlike most young film directors, I've been in battle. Throughout the '60s I went to various war zones and I met numerous mercenaries in Algeria and South East Asia, so I had my own personal strings to draw on. I would say our depiction of mercenaries is pretty accurate. We talked to a lot of mercenaries and were able to get a lot of information from them about how they would have handled the operation."
When the team is discussing the weapons they will need for their attack, Shannon mentions their requirement for "9 Millimeter Quad" ammunition. "Quad" version of 9mm ammunition goes back to the development of a special 9mm Load by Speer ammunition Co. called the, "9mm +P Gold Dot JHP (Jacketed Hollow Point) 124 Gr". Which has a muzzle velocity of 400 Meters per second (1,300 Ft/s). It received its Nickname "9mm Quad", from its Major Parameter: (9mm @ 400 m/s).
The "XM-18" grenade launcher used in the movie is a real-life weapon. It is called the Manville Gun. It was named after its inventor, Charles Manville, who designed the gun in 1935.
Spartacus,1960.. 4k Bluray... This 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD is unquestionably the ultimate version of the film which probably looks better than when the film was theatrically projected upon release. The image's excellence is immediately in evidence during the opening titles as the black backgrounds appear significantly more rich and true and the white titles more intensely luminous and accurate.
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Sir Peter Ustinov joked about his daughter, born at the beginning of production, being in kindergarten by the time this movie was finished. When asked what her father did for a living, she would answer, "Spartacus".
The original version included a scene where Marcus Licinius Crassus (Sir Laurence Olivier) attempts to seduce Antoninus (Tony Curtis). The Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency both objected. At one point Geoffrey Shurlock, representing the censors, suggested it would help if the reference in the scene to a preference for oysters or snails was changed to truffles and artichokes. In the end the scene was cut, but it was put back in for the 1991 restoration. However, the soundtrack had been lost in the meantime and the dialogue had to be dubbed. Curtis was able to redo his lines, but Olivier had died. Dame Joan Plowright, his widow, remembered that Sir Anthony Hopkins had done a dead-on impression of Olivier and she mentioned this to the restoration team. They approached Hopkins and he agreed to voice Olivier's lines in that scene. Hopkins is thanked in the credits for the restored version.
Cinematographer Russell Metty walked off the set, complaining that director Stanley Kubrick was not letting him do his job. Metty was used to directors allowing him to call his own shots with little oversight, while Kubrick was a professional photographer who had shot some of his previous movies by himself. Subsequently, Kubrick did the majority of the cinematography work. Metty complained about this up until the release of the movie and even, at one point, asked to have his name removed from the credits. However, because his name was in the credits, when this movie won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, it was given to Metty, although he actually didn't shoot most of it.
I''m Spartacus!!
....yeah, in your dreams mate.....
naw i really am... :D
Midway, 1976.. Bluray.
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Most the Japanese air raid sequences are from Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).
Scenes of Lieutenant Colonel James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle's Tokyo raid at the beginning are from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). Robert Mitchum played pilot Bob Gray in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Admiral William Halsey in this movie.
Almost all the on-board scenes were filmed on the U.S.S. Lexington, an Essex-class "fast carrier" commissioned in February, 1943. Even some of the Japanese carriers shown in birds-eye views were actually the Lexington, with the film reversed to put the island superstructure on the port side (all U.S. carriers had it on the starboard side). Decommissioned in 1991, the Lexington was the longest serving carrier in history. It is now a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Most dogfight sequences come from 1942 newsreels, with considerable cropping to adapt the image to the Panavision framing.
Several action scenes, including the one where a Zero slams into the Yorktown's bridge, were taken from Away All Boats (1956).
Other than that its all original;) still its not a bad film at all.
Have you seen the remake of 'Midway'?
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edit. ive managed to buy the file for a fiver in uhd so will wath it later
Murder on the Orient Express, 2017...uhd file.
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The Fragilite cake scene, the exchange between Hercule Poirot and Edward Ratchett was filmed over a day and a half, and in addition to improvisation, the scene also required numerous bites of cake. According to Sir Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp "is absolutely unafraid of a world most actors live in fear of, which is eating on-screen."
One day actor Johnny Depp showed up on set several hours late and hungover. Director Branagh proceeded to dress him down in front of the crew. "I expect all of my actors to be on time and well prepared. If this is too difficult for you, I have no problem finding another actor." Depp showed up early every day afterwards.
Big screens with animations of moving landscapes were installed on the set to create the visual effect of a moving train. Josh Gad experienced some motion sickness during filming due to this.
Pulp Fiction, 1994..
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The movie cost only $8 million to make. The initial budget was reportedly even lower until Bruce Willis was added to the cast (he had a recent string of domestic flops but was still a box-office draw overseas). $5 million went to pay the actors' and actresses' salaries. The film was already profitable when its worldwide rights were sold for $11 million (again, mainly on the strength of Willis' presence). It went on to gross over $200 million at the box office.
Quentin Tarantino wrote the role of Jules specifically for Samuel L. Jackson, however, it was almost given to Paul Calderon after a great audition. When Jackson heard this, he flew to Los Angeles and auditioned again to secure the role. Calderon ended up with a small role, as Paul.
you never tire of a great film...up there with the classics...
now another Tarantino... The Hateful Eight, 2015...
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After the script leaked online, writer and director Quentin Tarantino did not want to make this movie. However, after they did a brief reading of the script in Los Angeles, the cast was stunned and got excited for the film, and with Samuel L. Jackson persuading him to do this movie, Tarantino accepted.
Writer and director Quentin Tarantino said that some of Ennio Morricone's compositions for the film are the unused scores for The Thing (1982). Kurt Russell was the star in that movie.
As of 2015, most theaters worldwide had their film projectors replaced with digital projectors, as traditional film stock was no longer in favor. As a fan and supporter of celluloid, writer and director Quentin Tarantino aggressively fought with distributors for the film to be shown in its original Ultra Panavision 70 presentation. As a result, fifty theaters internationally were retrofitted with anamorphic-lensed 70mm analogue film projectors to display the film as he intended it to be seen. It was released on December 25, 2015, as a roadshow presentation, in 70mm analogue film format theaters exclusively, before being released in digital theaters on December 30, 2015.
Mulholland Dr, 2001.. 4k Bluray. A native 3840 x 2160p resolution image with widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio, uses 10-bit video depth, High Dynamic Range, a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) and is encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec for HRD10 and Dolby Vision. Remasterd film is beautiful.
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The set of reels that was distributed to the movie theaters included a computer-written, photocopied note from director David Lynch himself giving special instructions to the projectionists worldwide. Specifically, he did not want the film to be centered vertically on the screen, but rather to "allow more overhead" as the term in projectionist's slang, that is, to let the top part of the frame be more visible than the bottom part. This was because the film was originally made for TV, with an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (or 16:9) in mind -- without the projectionists' manual correction, the aspect ratio of the theatrical release (1.85:1) would have resulted in heads being cut off at the top of the silver screen. Lynch also asked to raise the volume of the theater's sound system by three decibels when the film was playing. The note ended with the words, "Your friend, David Lynch."
On a particularly bad day of auditioning in Hollywood before she landed the role, Naomi Watts was driving along Mulholland Drive and imagined herself turning the wheel and going over the edge to her death. After ten years of getting nowhere and largely being ignored by casting directors, Watts was shocked that not only did director David Lynch meet her in person but he asked her questions about herself and she immediately felt relaxed. She was so moved by their conversation, she almost burst into tears after leaving his office.
Hellfighters, 1968..
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A burning oil well prompted the owner, present-day billionaire Phillip Anschutz, to call Red Adair, a famous firefighter who later put out the oil well fires during the Gulf War, to put out the blaze. To pay Adair, Anschutz persuaded Universal Studios to pay him $100,000 to film Adair putting out his well fire for "Hellfighters."
The studio designed special nozzles for the fires. There was an outer ring nozzle that shot out the flames and an inner one that shot out a mixture of water and India ink to simulate oil. This can be seen in how easily the "oil" is wiped off the actor's faces.
When asked to comment on the film during production, actress Katharine Ross replied, "It's the biggest piece of crap I've ever done!" Then the reporter asked Vera Miles to respond to Ross's comment. She thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's not the biggest piece of crap I'VE ever done!"
Been a long time since i saw this, and I think Katharine Ross was possibly correct :eyebrows:
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941. Crterion bluray...
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The review in Film Daily opined, "Producer Everett Riskin, noted for his successes in the field of comedy, had no cinch with this property which might easily have backfired with an inexperienced hand at the helm. But Riskin's talent and knowledge has placed this finished product very near the peak of perfection in film making." Here Comes Mr. Jordan placed fifth on the year-end poll of 548 critics nationwide at Film Daily, naming it one of the best films of 1941.
yes its shocking isn't it?Quote:
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Midway, 2019..
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The film highlights the faulty Mark 13 aerial torpedo used by the US Devestator at the time. Even before the war, the Mark 13 was shown to be faulty with most test torpedoes either sinking, running on the surface, or just failing to launch. Studies later found that many torpedoes were damaged upon impact with the water, namely the propellers and the torpedo head. It took two years of testing and re-evaluation before the Mark 13 became a reliable weapon by incorporating a shroud to protect the propeller fins and adding a drag ring to the torpedo head to cushion the impact. The drag ring was made of wood and would break away upon impact. During Midway, only a single Mark 13 found its target and detonated. It was dropped by a Catalina float-plane and hit the oil-tanker Kiyosumi Maru. The explosion ripped a 33 foot hole in the ship's bow but the Kiyosumi Maru survived and continued on with its mission.
At Midway the Japanese forces greatly outnumbered the Americans. The Japanese had 4 carriers, 2 light carriers, 2 battleships, 16 cruisers and 12 destroyers. The Americans had 3 carriers, 8 cruisers, and 15 destroyers. The only parity was in the number of submarines, planes and, counting the airfield at Midway, landing surfaces.
Although William F. Halsey's skin rash is referred to briefly in the film, it was so severe by the time of Midway he lost 20 pounds and was suffering from insomnia due to the chronic irritation. Chester W. Nimitz was reportedly so shocked by Halsey's appearance that he had no choice but to replace him with Raymond A. Spruance for the upcoming engagement. Still, Halsey was devastated he would not be leading the fleet into battle and called it "the most grievous disappointment in my career".
Several seemingly "Hollywood-ized" events depicted in the film, such as Bruno Gaido sprinting into a parked plane in an effort to shoot down a crippled plane attempting to crash into the Enterprise, then getting on-spot promoted, occurred as shown, though according to USA Today, "Gaido hid after shooting the plane down, afraid he was going to get in trouble for leaving his battle station. 'They had to hunt him down and bring him to Halsey', says [Retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox, director of the Naval History and Heritage Command]."
Not a perfect film by a long way but on balance I think it is superior to the 1975 effort.
certainly a different style. cgi is a bit 'in your face' but that seems to be the style folk want. it kinda reminds me of the doomed pearl harbour film, although much better done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
japanese admiral... you men will leave ship and i will go down with it as i scuttle her...
japanese aide... i want to stay with you sir...
japanese admiral... very well...
japanese aide... you bastard! i was only trying to look big....
:D
Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death1946. (aka in usa as Stairway to Heaven.)
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The backcloth of the High Court scene, suggesting tiers of seats stretching into infinity, measured three hundred fifty feet long and forty feet high. Altogether eight backcloths of similar large dimensions were used in Other World scenes, and twenty-nine elaborate sets were constructed. In all of these vast scenes, five thousand three hundred seventy-five extras were used, including real Royal Air Force crews, Red Cross nurses, and W.A.A.C.s.
David Niven (Peter Carter) and Raymond Massey (Abraham Farlan) both died on July 29, 1983.
A great many of the famous men whose statues are on the massive stairway have a common trait: they were believed, when this film was made, to have had neurological disorders . This is a subtle nod to Peter's medical condition.
The huge escalator linking this World with the Other, called "Operation Ethel" by the firm of engineers who constructed her under the aegis of the London Passenger Transport Board, took three months to make, and cost three thousand pounds sterling (in 1946). "Ethel" had one hundred six steps, each twenty feet wide, and was driven by a twelve horsepower engine. The full shot was completed by hanging miniatures.
The first scene shot was David Niven washing up on the beach. Originally planned to fade in from black, Michael Powell decided on the spot that the effect would be too cheesy. When Jack Cardiff told him to look through the camera, Cardiff then deliberately breathed right onto the lens, which fogged the glass for a few seconds until it evaporated. Powell loved the idea and had him use it for the shot.
It was during a visit to Hollywood in 1945 that director Michael Powell decided to cast the then-unknown Kim Hunter as June, the American servicewoman, largely upon the recommendation of Sir Alfred Hitchcock, who had done a series of screen tests of actors and actresses auditioning for parts in his upcoming production, Notorious (1946). The trouble was that in these screen tests Hunter was not seen but, rather, was heard off-camera, feeding lines and cues to the actors Hitchcock was actually screen-testing. But Hitchcock assured Powell that he would arrange a "face-to-face" with Hunter and her agent, so that he could see for himself whether she fit the requirements of the "all-American" girl Powell had envisioned opposite David Niven. And upon first encountering Hunter, Powell agreed with Hitchcock that she, indeed, was a perfect choice for the role.
Niven and Hunter..
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