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Fandango is great.

knives wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:29 pm Fandango is great.

Amen to that! Fandango is one of the great coming-of-age films. The comic set-pieces alone are perfectly judged. Would it be too much for Warner Archive to include Reynold's student film Proof and/or the scenes included for the TV version?

I liked it too- my writeup from the First Features list project:

therewillbeblus wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:39 pm Fandango (Kevin Reynolds): Above average coming-of-age story about four diverse personality types setting out on the road for one last hurrah before the harsh stages of life set in for each one. Reynolds plays into some clichéd moments but approaches his characters and their motives with such earnestness that even in most of these recycled bits we sense their familiarity as non-artificial experiences in spirit. I especially enjoyed an early suspense-drilling setpiece that serves an unexpectedly anticlimactic punchline, against the grain of Costner’s confidence, which is so convincing even we become swayed into the feasibility of his wild ideas!

Never even heard of American Flyers

domino harvey wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:18 pm Never even heard of American Flyers

It’s a very solid sports comedy-drama that leans too hard into melodrama by the end. Typically solid direction from John Badham, and some excellent dialogue from the always great and dearly missed Steve Tesich. I love John Amos as a sports doctor with a morbidly obese son (“My workout was a bitch, dad”)

I’m also a big admirer of Fandango and wish this included the pre-release cut that Reynolds has a 35mm print of. Probably Costner’s best performance ever as a frat boy who’s too chickenshit to grow up. Proof is on YouTube and a DVD of USC student films called Reel Talent: First Films by Legendary Directors.

(“Legendary” is a bit generous, however, as Stephen Sommers is represented, and he clearly had an enormous amount of money in his family to produce a six figure mini B-movie)

If they release Scaramouche (1923) and Scaramouche (1952), I will buy the Fandango. But only then.

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swo17 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:27 pm Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Wait, why/how? TT plus KLSC already put it out

Sorry, it was a dad joke riffing on What a Disgrace's post. Turns out I was the disgrace all along

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Though they were put out by Fox and KL respectively

A couple of notes from George Feltenstein on the latest The Extras Podcast....Something is being worked on that's "quite long" and the elements are "quite beaten". He was talking about how a length of a film could be a factor on whether it's worth it to restore. (This will raise eyebrows) In which he said he prefers people don't wait for sales to buy their releases. Reading into one of his comments Network may be going through a 4k restoration. If you want to listen Here

FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:11 pm A couple of notes from George Feltenstein on the latest The Extras Podcast....Something is being worked on that's "quite long" and the elements are "quite beaten". He was talking about how a length of a film could be a factor on whether it's worth it to restore. (This will raise eyebrows) In which he said he prefers people don't wait for sales to buy their releases. Reading into one of his comments Network may be going through a 4k restoration. If you want to listen Here

I mean, not to be that guy...but Greed? it would certainly fit the bill of both. as much as I'd like to see The Crowd and The Wind, I tend to think we'll see Greed first due to its popularity and praise from a lot of contemporary directors (Christopher Nolan, notably, though he's obviously not WB's guy like he was in 2013)

Network is certainly exciting news though, I was just wondering when we'd see that on 4K, or if that was one that Criterion would be interested in doing on Warner's behalf. either way, the film is more relevant than it's ever been, and is totally due for treatment.

My mind immediately went to Greed as well, though maybe it's just wishful thinking. George Feltenstein did say a while back that they were hoping to do it which gives me hope that it will eventually come, whether or not it's what he's referring to here. And I recall him saying that they did have plans to release The Crowd, too. Hopefully someday...

The specs for the Singin in the Rain UHD includes the original mono (FINALLY). Grateful a standard version is being offered same day as the silly all-that-tat edition.

ryannichols7 wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:54 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:11 pm A couple of notes from George Feltenstein on the latest The Extras Podcast....Something is being worked on that's "quite long" and the elements are "quite beaten". He was talking about how a length of a film could be a factor on whether it's worth it to restore. (This will raise eyebrows) In which he said he prefers people don't wait for sales to buy their releases. Reading into one of his comments Network may be going through a 4k restoration. If you want to listen Here

I mean, not to be that guy...but Greed? it would certainly fit the bill of both. as much as I'd like to see The Crowd and The Wind, I tend to think we'll see Greed first due to its popularity and praise from a lot of contemporary directors (Christopher Nolan, notably, though he's obviously not WB's guy like he was in 2013)

Not to be that guy either, but GWTW?

FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:11 pm A couple of notes from George Feltenstein on the latest The Extras Podcast....Something is being worked on that's "quite long" and the elements are "quite beaten". He was talking about how a length of a film could be a factor on whether it's worth it to restore. (This will raise eyebrows) In which he said he prefers people don't wait for sales to buy their releases. Reading into one of his comments Network may be going through a 4k restoration. If you want to listen Here

I wonder if it's MGM's Raintree County (1957), the first film shot in Ultra-Panavison (Camera 65). It's long (over 3 hours) and some of the elements are reportedly in rough shape, especially scenes unique to the roadshow version.

It’s a film that’s not as good as its obvious inspiration/aspiration, Gone With the Wind, but one that has a message that withstood time far better (it’s about someone who discovers their new spouse has previously unexpressed racist beliefs)

domino harvey wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:51 pm It’s a film that’s not as good as its obvious inspiration/aspiration, Gone With the Wind, but one that has a message that withstood time far better (it’s about someone who discovers their new spouse has previously unexpressed racist beliefs)

And surely then proceeds to cancel them, right?

FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:11 pm A couple of notes from George Feltenstein on the latest The Extras Podcast....Something is being worked on that's "quite long" and the elements are "quite beaten". He was talking about how a length of a film could be a factor on whether it's worth it to restore. (This will raise eyebrows) In which he said he prefers people don't wait for sales to buy their releases. Reading into one of his comments Network may be going through a 4k restoration. If you want to listen Here

My first guess would be Raintree County. I don't think he would say they are wondering whether it's worth it to restore Greed.

IIRC a true HD master of Greed exists and was the source for the purchasable HD iTunes download of Greed, so it's probably more or less ready to go. I imagine other reasons are holding it up like commercial considerations or skepticism of demand, whether rightly or wrongly believed.

MovieZyng will be having a 4-for-$49 sale starting March 22 for WB Archive titles that have MSRP of $21.99 or lower.

And inflation has now reached even our own dark corner of the internet

Listings for a 4k UHD release of Giant have popped up on Amazon France for a June release, and a user on the Other Forum collated some references from the Other Other Forum that make me think this is the "is it worth it" title referenced above.

I'm not wild about Giant, but I am wild about this opening the door to a 4k of Rebel Without a Cause.