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| thefoxboy |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 06:07:09
Four Your Consideration - Treasure Hunt
Sean Says: "Welcome Penguins and Film-lovers"
- Put any five reviews you like in your F.Y.C. list.
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| clay |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 08:31:52
Viewed & voted/Duly noted.
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| zulu |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 07:30:09
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
And welcome back Zulu! Always great to see you round these parts. 
Thanks.  |
| rockfsh |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 05:26:35
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by rockfsh
Mixed Bag
61 years earlier...
Thanks Sal. I've submitted a review for that one. |
| RockGolf |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 04:50:15
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by Ro�k G01f, MD+
RoGo's latest offerings.
So there is going to be an Arrested Development film? Awesome. That's one thing I'm grateful to A.C. for.
Apparently, Michael Cera was the last holdout, but after Year One... |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 04:36:34
V&V
Thanks for the nod Demo. |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 04:33:14
quote:
Originally posted by randall
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
quote:
Originally posted by randall
V&V. Baffy, THE ROBE was indeed wide, but aren't you forgetting poor Abel Gance?
As if I could! One of my all-time fav directors!
But triptych-screens are not quite the same as cinnamon toast. 
I believe Gance's Polyvision [not the first, last, nor least of his magnificent cine inventions] was achieved by stacking three cameras one atop another to produce the triptych fx. In any case it was only used in one reel of his great Napoleon and only shown a few times - I'm guessing because it may have needed expensive adjustments to local cinemas. But anyway - The Robe is generally regarded as the first film to be shown completely in wide screen.
The Robe, of course, is crap compared with any Gance film. If anyone has never seen his oeuvre, run do not walk and mortgage a kidney to see any of them. I particularly recommend La Roue, Napoleon, and J'Accuse - one of the greatest anti-war films ever made [not to be confused with Jose Ferrer's I Accuse about the Dreyfus case].
Of course you were smart enough to particularly cite Cinemascope, which is a registered trademark, and THE ROBE was indubitably the first one, as you said. Too bad the picture sucked.
But among the "few times" NAPOLEON was projected in all its gasp-inducing widescreen grandeur was an engagement in the late Eighties at Radio City Music Hall with a full orchestra and Carmine Coppola waving the baton. As you might imagine from my description, I was present.
Yes. Magnificent. Mrs. lemmy and I were fortunate to see the same presentation in Toronto and a few months later in L.A.
P.S. Check out my Cinemascope accolade. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 01:41:10
Well, I got even more less than I was expecting than your less than you were expecting that you got. And that's a fact.
V&Ved.
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| [matt] |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 01:25:09
VV
yeah, a quiet round... I didn't get nearly as many votes as I was expecting for a couple of mine.
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| demonic |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 01:06:01
Very good round - but surprised that some great work hasn't been properly recognised yet - two spring to mind: Lemmy's "Naked Fairy Tales" and Sludge's "Chitty" reviews. |
| Salopian |
Posted - 06/29/2009 : 00:02:48
quote:
Originally posted by Ro�k G01f, MD+
RoGo's latest offerings.
So there is going to be an Arrested Development film? Awesome. That's one thing I'm grateful to A.C. for. |
| Salopian |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 23:51:46
quote:
Originally posted by rockfsh
Mixed Bag
61 years earlier... |
| randall |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 23:37:45
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
quote:
Originally posted by randall
V&V. Baffy, THE ROBE was indeed wide, but aren't you forgetting poor Abel Gance?
As if I could! One of my all-time fav directors!
But triptych-screens are not quite the same as cinnamon toast.
I believe Gance's Polyvision [not the first, last, nor least of his magnificent cine inventions] was achieved by stacking three cameras one atop another to produce the triptych fx. In any case it was only used in one reel of his great Napoleon and only shown a few times - I'm guessing because it may have needed expensive adjustments to local cinemas. But anyway - The Robe is generally regarded as the first film to be shown completely in wide screen.
The Robe, of course, is crap compared with any Gance film. If anyone has never seen his oeuvre, run do not walk and mortgage a kidney to see any of them. I particularly recommend La Roue, Napoleon, and J'Accuse - one of the greatest anti-war films ever made [not to be confused with Jose Ferrer's I Accuse about the Dreyfus case].
Of course you were smart enough to particularly cite Cinemascope, which is a registered trademark, and THE ROBE was indubitably the first one, as you said. Too bad the picture sucked.
But among the "few times" NAPOLEON was projected in all its gasp-inducing widescreen grandeur was an engagement in the late Eighties at Radio City Music Hall with a full orchestra and Carmine Coppola waving the baton. As you might imagine from my description, I was present.
I was only playing with you... |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 23:09:46
quote:
Originally posted by randall
V&V. Baffy, THE ROBE was indeed wide, but aren't you forgetting poor Abel Gance?
As if I could! One of my all-time fav directors!
But triptych-screens are not quite the same as cinnamon toast.
I believe Gance's Polyvision [not the first, last, nor least of his magnificent cine inventions] was achieved by stacking three cameras one atop another to produce the triptych fx. In any case it was only used in one reel of his great Napoleon and only shown a few times - I'm guessing because it may have needed expensive adjustments to local cinemas. But anyway - The Robe is generally regarded as the first film to be shown completely in wide screen.
The Robe, of course, is crap compared with any Gance film. If anyone has never seen his oeuvre, run do not walk and mortgage a kidney to see any of them. I particularly recommend La Roue, Napoleon, and J'Accuse - one of the greatest anti-war films ever made [not to be confused with Jose Ferrer's I Accuse about the Dreyfus case].
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| randall |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 22:31:55
V&V. Baffy, THE ROBE was indeed wide, but aren't you forgetting poor Abel Gance? |
| BiggerBoat |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 22:24:38
VVed
Another quiet week. How do we get new entrants here? |
