Kubrick was a perfectionist: he bought up the (two or three) remaining lenses that Zeiss had developed for NASA, so he could film the candle-lit scenes, without using any additional lighting.Originally Posted by Macca
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Kubrick was a perfectionist: he bought up the (two or three) remaining lenses that Zeiss had developed for NASA, so he could film the candle-lit scenes, without using any additional lighting.
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I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago!The Day The Earth Caught Fire, 1961, directed by Val Guest and stars Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. Also features Arthur Christiansen as the Express editor, a job he had held in real life.
This is the BFI 4K remastered version on 2K bluray.
In his commentary track, director Val Guest stated that the sound of church bells heard at the very end of the American version had been added by distributor Universal, in order to suggest that the emergency detonation had succeeded and that the Earth had been saved. Guest speculated that the bells motif had been inspired by the film The War of the Worlds (1953), which ends with the joyous ringing of church bells after the emergency (and a nuclear explosion). But Guest maintained that his intention was to always have an ambiguous ending.
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you must have sneaked in as it was X rated at the time due to her breasts being flashed(well parts of them)I remember seeing it at the cinema; which would make it 60 years ago!well it was 61... val guest said there was some cuts for the american version to get by their censor.
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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I don't remember seeing any 'flashes' of breasts.
You had to be (or look) 18 to be allowed to see x-rated films. I definitely saw it at the cinema, but I wouldn't have been 18 at the time; maybe 14, but not 18. I think it might have been at a late-night screening, where presumably the age of the viewers was given scant attention.
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As well as 'Barry Lyndon', the other two period dramas I remember seeing around that time were 'Angelique' and 'Tom Jones'. Both of which were also very good.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970 directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood.
Not one of Eastwood's better films but it made a profit.
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Oh - I think it a good film. I love the way the Eastwood and Maclaine characters play off one another.
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yeah i like it too, but dialogue isnt great; just a bit lame. but i like it enough to have the bluray lol
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Criterion's New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural of THE FOUR FEATHERS.
John Clements as,
Harry Faversham.
Ralph Richardson as,
Captain John Durrance.
C. Aubrey Smith as,
General Burroughs.
and
June Duprez as,
Ethne Burroughs.
Directed by Zoltán Korda in 1939, so its 82 years young.
This is the region A bluray.
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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49th Parallel, 1941. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Stars Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Glynis Johns, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard.
Pressburger won an Oscar for Best Story and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay (including Rodney Ackland for additional dialogue). Powell was nominated for Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The British Film Institute ranked the film the 63rd most popular film with British audiences, based on cinema attendance of 9.3 million in the UK. It was released as 'The Invaders' in the USA; some scenes and dialogue were removed as being too sensitive racially.
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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