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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Laksmi Breathwaite
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 771
From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted June 20, 2011 11:42 PM
I just screened last night my new in the mail from England print of Forbidden Planet . I could not believe the color and the sharpness of this print . What a beautiful gift for me on Fathers day . I have wanted this film on Super 8 for years and just happen to just the day before got the movie on Blu-ray. Now that is called timing. " The Lord makes some beautiful worlds" quote from Forbidden Planet Wow ! What a movie to own on Super 8mm ! This is were they got Star Trek, Star Wars, and every other good Sci-Fi Movie. Forbidden Planet was the first science fiction film that was set entirely in deep space, away from the planet Earth. It is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, a precursor of what was to come for the science fiction film genre in the decades that followed.An intelligent, absorbing piece of early science fiction that wasn't afraid to use big words, Forbidden Planet was a smash in 1956. Along with terrific special effects for its day and a Shakespeare-inspired story, Forbidden Planet also featured the debut of everybody's favorite Robot Robby. Robby, a phenomenal mechanical man who can do more things in his small body than a roomful of business machines. He can make dresses, brew bourbon whisky, perform feats of Herculean strength and speak 187 languages, which emerged through a neon-lighted grille. What's more, he has the cultivated manner of a gentleman's gentleman. He is the prettiest piece of mechanism on Planet Altaire.The prettiest thing there, by far, is Anne Francis—also known as Altaira—the daughter of Dr. Morbius. He is the lone American scientist who has survived from a previous trip that was made to this distant planet twenty years before. And it is he and his beautiful daughter—who, we might add, has never been kissed—that intrigue and confound the handsome space-men that descend in their flying saucer to see what's what.A cinematic marvel for the ages, "Forbidden Planet" possesses a look and feel that was far ahead of its time. With an unusually large budget for the genre, director Fred McLeod Wilcox filmed the movie in glorious CinemaScope to fully showcase its artful sets and visual effects. The most impressive sequence in the film is Adams' tour through the underground world of the Krell, the ancient civilization that first inhabited the planet. Featuring a combination of miniatures, matte paintings, and animation, this sequence alone justifies the movie's status as one of the most influential of the 1950s, leaving its stamp on just about every major sci-fi movie that has been made since. The unforgettable sound effects of Bebe and Louis Barron, who basically invented the electronic score, add to the surrealistic landscape of the film, taking it out of the typical studio-bound world and creating a fully active and convincing universe.This movie is totally amazing! Outside of the Star Wars movies, Forbidden Planet is a true masterpiece. Even though it was made in 1956, you will forget about the special effects and all the other things that made this movie stand out. I like how this movie was made in color and in widescreen.And it looks fantastic in Super 8 . Check out my stills from the real movie playing . The print is beautiful! Oh and I was the lucky one to just get this 4 X 600 Super 8 color sound from Perry's Movies that was in the list of bid like sales. Thank you it was a dream come true for me a die hard collector! This is my all time favorite film.
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" Faster then a speeding bullet, more powerful then a Locomotive "."Look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane it's SUPERMAN"
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted June 26, 2011 03:10 AM
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wow! I didn't know Helena Bonham Carter has had such a long career. And she still looks pretty good! ]
Yep...still going strong at 110 just like Frederica Sagor
Tonight I actually did a screening at the Echo Park Film Center of the movie POPULATION ONE (1981), but earlier I had the chance to watch a few shorts.
The first 2 were 9.5mm comedies screened on my Coq D'or, HOT STUFF (1924, Pathex C-84 2x60ft notched) a Hal Roach Spat Family riot, followed by BOIREAU MACON (1914, Pathe 100ft) which is one of I believe only 2 Andre Deed comedy shorts available on the gauge....
The final short was a gorgeous color film on Super 8 that I picked up off the latest Derann list of a 1963 Pathe Pic news story. this one is all about the BFI's early film restoration practices and techniques. It includes some scenes from the rare Hepworth studios 1913 version of HAMLETfeaturing Johnston Forbes-Robertson who it was said was the finest actor of his time, especially in this role...More importantly though this short shows the infamous MARK IV step printer in action, and its legendary inventor Harold Brown, who is without equal in terms of his importance in the field of film preservation. He was the original and I hope is appropriately revered in the UK for both his creativity in the field and his devotion to saving films during his 50 some years at the BFI...
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Laksmi Breathwaite
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 771
From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted July 14, 2011 01:10 AM
Tonight I watched the ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Super 8mm ! Wow what a film! It was a 400 feet reel and in color from 1938. Saturday matinees were never more of a treat than when I saw this movie. I have never forgotten that whitewashed picket fence or the inside of the cave filled with the magical light of stalagmites, stalactites - it led to my reading all of Mark Twain and begging my parents to let me go caving. Though it was years ago, those memories are as clear as if I were sitting in the theatre today!!! Bravo, for a wonderful movie.Casting of the picture was reported a laborious job, in the course of which hundreds of boys were tested before Tommy Kelly, from the Bronx, NY, was selected for the role of Tom. His early scenes show self-consciousness but in the final sequences when he is being pursued by Injun Joe, Kelly performs like a veteran.
Walter Brennan is a standout among the adult players. He is the village drunkard, Muff Potter, accused of the graveyard murder.
May Robson loses no opportunities as Aunt Polly, whose life by turn is celestial and hellish depending upon the vagaries of Tom's vivid imagination.
Injun Joe is played by Victor Jory with all the fiendish villainy in the part.
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" Faster then a speeding bullet, more powerful then a Locomotive "."Look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane it's SUPERMAN"
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Julian Baquero
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 165
From: Bogota, Colombia
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted July 26, 2011 10:13 AM
Went to see Harry Potter's latest movie, and specifically selected a 35mm film with no 3D. 3D has become a matter of marketing. Two weeks ago we went to see Cars 2 in 3D and I had my worst 3D experience to date, the movie is excellent, but something went wrong with the 3D projection, the objects that were supposed to be in the front where in the back and viceversa, it was a terrible! I went and complain, the projectionist was called and he said everything was perfect, it wasn't, he actually didn't managed to fix the problem. After about 30 minutes into the movie I found out that I could see 3D as it should turning the 3D glasses upside down, no very comfortable.
I am fed up with 3D and all this digital stuff. I want FILM not pixels!!!
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