What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Ed Gordon]

Graham, Witness is available on Bluray. You can find copies of it on Ebay for about $15 (US). Witness is one of those movies you can re-watch often. Mosquito Coast was ok, but not in the same league as Witness.

[Graham Ritchie]

After listening to the excellent soundtrack on LP by Maurice Jarre the other day, I was thinking I should once again watch the movie, so I did, now the only thing I have to navigate is the Spanish menu to get the Ingles soundtrack this is where learning at school another language would have come in handy. I have bought blu-ray titles from not just Spain, but from Italy, France and Germany all Region "B" blu-ray the same as Australia and NZ.

I have to add that I have been happy with the blu-ray quality from those countries, no complaints. Anyway back to the movie, this was the second film Harrison Ford did for Peter Weir. The one before was "Witness". Hopefully one day both films will be given the full restoration works, as I think they deserve it.

Anyway a couple of previous screen shots thrown in from the Spanish release, one thing that would be really nice is finding good color 35mm prints of both titles, now that would be something.

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched the blu-ray of "Spitfire" projected using the Epson two nights ago. For anyone interested in aircraft this is outstanding documentary, highly recommend it.

[Graham Ritchie]

This one from "Imprint" the picture quality is very good, as with the special effects. A good nights entertainment projected using the Epson. I had never seen this movie before, but as I was watching, some of it reminded me of 2001.

[Steve Klare]

Saturday Night: Amadeus

I love this movie, watch it maybe once a year.

I walked away with it with a different point of view this time: kind of a new appreciation for electric light! Watching Mozart walk around the apartment with a candelabra trying to do demanding visual work like writing music, of course I know better, but I kept getting this nagging feeling: "Maybe if you were smarter with money, you could pay the power bill!".

-Modern Problems!

Movies like this are actually healthy for we modern people to appreciate what we have: the poor man was laying there dying in a room without central heat, no ambulance, no emergency room, no blood tests, no antibiotics, no x-rays and prime time for some "doctor" to show up and "cure" him by opening a vein and taking some blood. (There's an opinion that healthcare was so terrible back then that people who were too poor to afford a doctor were often better off.)

Life is still far from perfect, but it has to be better than this! (I mean: did you see that...mental healthcare facility?)

[Graham Ritchie]

Yes Brian

I know that feeling what happend to all those years , When I was down at the heritage park a while back, when a group of kids came through. One youngster said to me, you have got a lot of old stuff here, I later thought mmmmm was I included in that old stuff comment.

Watched this one tonight...brilliant.

[Brian Fretwell]

For me Supergirl. I was shocked when I saw it was released in 1984 - forty years ago!!!

[Graham Ritchie]

I agree Steve "The Railway Man" is excellent, I watched it a while back

Saturday night it was "The Guns Of Navarone" 1961 blu-ray, always a favorite of mine to watch every so often.

Sunday night, just finished, the 2003 Directors Cut blu-ray of "Alien" 1979 introduced by the man himself Ridley Scott.

I did throw in a DVD as well I think that was the Friday one, starring Hardy Kruger of "The One That Got Away" the transfer to dvd going by the screen image looked pretty good.

All projected using the Epson

[Steve Carter]

It was time once again to watch this one on blu-ray last night using the Epson VP.

We watched the Railway Man the other day on blu-ray upscaled to 4k, a beautiful film, well acted, a film of forgiveness and redemption. Some of the brutal scenes of relentless beatings are hard on the eyes and ears, those brave men are likes we will never see again and I hope and pray that we will never have to put young men through the psychical and mental torture of war. Schools should run films like this, so that our up and coming politicians of the future generations do not make the same mistakes of history, and please stop trying to rewrite history these atrocities did happen keep the memory of these brave men alive, because of them we live in freedom God bless them each and every one.

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight being Saturday it was time to watch the 60th Anniversary Edition of "To Kill A Mockingbird" its hard to imagine this film was made in 1962 regarding the B/W picture quality, its a absolutely stunning transfer to blu-ray, plus the DTS HD Surround 5:1 is amazing and gives Elmer Bernstien score the full benefit.

There are heaps of extras as well, this is one blu-ray that should be on your shopping list, highly recommend getting this one. Its also been released in 4K so if you have the means for 4K projection then this movie is a must.

[Graham Ritchie]

It was time once again to watch this one on blu-ray last night using the Epson VP.

[Brian Fretwell]

I believe the trouble can be that your eyes are constantlyfocused on the screen but the toe-in between the eyes varies without the focal point changing. This can cause strain to some peoplle due to the conflict, the brain thinks both should be changing!

[Graham Ritchie]

Excellent line up of films Steve, One Froggy Evening was one of the last films I bought new from Derann before they closed, regarding The Beatles Come To Town I think we placed a new order with Derann at the same time if I remember right. Actually I was thinking about screening it the other night, as it had been a while

Ken sadly that's the downside to 3D, it wont work for everyone, there is a screen warning that comes up on the Epson about it at the start of a 3D blu-ray, you have to press enter to continue. I myself have never had a problem with it, but well aware of it. I try to not watch 3D to much, say once a month stretch it out that kind of thing. Movies like "Titanic" are long in 3D, but again I don't watch 3D all the time. You can get those titles in 2D as well, and "Hugo" is certainly one of the best on blu-ray.

Grandson Watching Terminator 2 on 3D.....The one 3D movie we both have watched a few times is The Martian, that's amazing to watch.




I do have the 35mm trailer interesting though its in Scope here a couple of 35mm shots. I wonder if there any 35mm prints of the feature out there, getting one would be nice

The 35mm film trailer running on the Ernemann 2 projector

[Ken Finch]

Graham, I have both “Life of Pi” and “Hugo” on normal dvd. I cannot cope with 3d for long. I went to see “Avatar” in 3 D and came out of the cinema with a blinding headache. Which reminds me of the ads for CinemaScope “you see it without glasses”. I wonder how many people left their specs at home!!
Douglas, I have seen the stage version of “Life of Pi” at the Marlowe theatre here in Canterbury. It is truly fantastic. The stage effects, lighting, puppetry and transitions from scene to scene are truly amazing.

[Steve Klare]

Tonight, we had about a dozen friends over for what we called a "Concert on Screen": the main "act" being the Billy Joel blu-Ray, Live at Shea Stadium. It is a really great concert: the last event ever held at Shea. The very last act among thousands of baseball games and football games and concerts was Paul McCartney coming on stage and singing "Let it Be" sitting at Billy Joel's piano.

I actually cranked the volume a little (...or even more than a little) and nobody in the room objected at all!

A concert requires some opening acts: warm the crowd up a little!
These arrived on Super-8 Sound courtesy of the kind folks at Derann Film Services:

One Froggy Evening
Maria/America from West Side Story ('Scope)
The Beatles Come to Town (Therefore Sir Paul both opened and Closed!)