What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Graham,

What is the big difference in the director's cut?

[Graham Ritchie]

Screen shots from "Alien" the directors cut blu-ray taken two night ago.

[Graham Ritchie]

A couple other blu-ray titles watched during this week was "Alien" directors cut, like "Aliens" I like the directors cut of both movies more. The other was the blu-ray of "Castaway" , I picked this one up at last weekends swap meet. Although mostly its about cars at the swap meet all kinds of other stuff pops up I can't think of the last time I watched "Castaway". I think it was during the cinema release, now that's going back. The quality of the Castaway blu-ray was excellent using the Epson VP. I did find it sad though, that Wilson just floated away, good movie I still have the trailer on Super8 and 35mm.

Right back to putting this film together later today, a couple of photo's from the last one

[Graham Ritchie]

Watching this blu-ray that came with the 4K disc tonight . I still don't have as yet a 4K player, but I am sure that in this case the blu-ray image looks to me, better than the earlier release.

On a side note my son Steven asked me when both he and Connor can come round to watch ET . I discovered I had put the 35mm print back into its 2000ft cores so will have to put it back together again soon, plus a couple of trailers. Before screening "The Thing" tonight I thought, mmmm might just try a few minutes of the blu-ray of "ET", well although it looks good, I quickly came to the conclusion, its not a patch on the film print so its definitely a soon to be film screening

[Ed Gordon]

The Lady in White is available to watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-oZjvsn7Dc

Full movie is free with commercials.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Lincoln,

I'll have to check this one out. I looked at a plot summary and it sounds good, plus the cast includes Sydney Lassick from The Unseen! I should say and also from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Lincoln Thorn]

Had a great time rewatching one of my very favorite films for the Halloween season... THE LADY IN WHITE. I hope I can find a print of this film someday because it looks beautiful.

[Graham Ritchie]

Doug, "Taika Waititi" made a film that we screened at the cinema way back 2010 on 35mm a really nice print I should add. It did really well during its cinema run, which was not always the case with locally made films. You don't hear much about it these days, but its well worth watching, also out on blu-ray .

[Douglas Meltzer]

Graham,

Excellent film. I'm also a big fan of Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

[Graham Ritchie]

Last night it was the blu-ray of "Jo Jo Rabbit", New Zealand director, writer, actor Taika Waititi really did an excellent job making this film. If you have never watched "Jo Jo Rabbit" do take the time to watch it.

[Ed Gordon]

Saturday night it was "Soylent Green" from 1973 its a film I always like to re-visit every so often. This was the last film Edward G Robinson was in, also the cast celebrated his birthday during the making of.

For a great Charlton Heston double feature I would pair Soylent Green with The Omega Man. Who knew Ben Hur knew how to run a 35mm projector?

[Graham Ritchie]

Saturday night it was "Soylent Green" from 1973 its a film I always like to re-visit every so often. This was the last film Edward G Robinson was in, also the cast celebrated his birthday during the making of.

Sunday night I felt like a move back to musicals, and what better than going back to 1968 with "Oliver". I still have the Scope trailer on Super 8 . Its a pity though, that this film never made it to Super8, a 600 footer or longer in "Scope" would have been great. Oliver is a timeless film with a brilliant cast, music etc you can't ask for more, they certainly don't make films like this anymore.

[Graham Ritchie]

Star Wars the other night on blu-ray, I must admit I am getting near the end of my interest in this film, It was great in its day when we went to the cinema to see it way back in 1977 and the Super 8 release from Ken films now sadly faded. Time marches on, but I did watch it last week without falling zzzzzz or switching the VP off half way through like I did the last time I tried to watch it.

Although its not the original edit, I think for $25 for the disc I can live with it, the picture quality of the blu-ray and sound is really excellent. I wonder what the 4K is like?

A couple of earlier screen shots, this blu-ray came in a nice steel box

PS By the way if you ever come across the Super 8 Pod Race from Phantom Menace its one Scope film I would recommend. It looks and sound great, an excellent addition to any Super 8 Scope reel, in my case I also added the Super 8 Scope trailer on the front of it. I will add a couple of Super 8 screen shots of the Pod Race below





Super 8 Scope

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight it was this blu-ray, its an impressive movie, in particular Academy winning George C Scott. Its long but it does have an "Intermission" both picture and sound are excellent. Its not the first time I have watched "Patton" and it won't be the last. It really is a outstanding production in every way. I understand this speech did make its way to Super8 years ago, highly recommend it and if you have a VP to screen it even more.

[Graham Ritchie]

Well here is hoping, after watching tonight's news that the rain in NYC has eased up. Its the school holidays at the moment and we have had Connor over the last few nights. We always watch movies at night, but its always hard to find something different and not seen. We were going to run the 35mm film print of "ET" but never got around to it, but its on the grand plan to watch next time round As he is now at the grand old age of 14 yrs, I thought... mmmm... lets try "Close" and see how that goes down, as I think this one is important, regarding how events at school can cause a tragic chain of events. Anyway that one got his attention, certainly a different topic than what he is used to, and had no trouble reading the sub-titles. Last night again something different and a bit more light hearted and that was "Cloak and Dagger" made way back in 1984. We both enjoyed this one, and its a movie that is actually a lot better than I first thought when I got the blu-ray a while back. I had watched it before so this was the second time. Picture and sound are both very good and it does make for a good nights entertainment.

Might be time to return to "The Flight Of The Phoenix" tonight