What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Steve Klare]

Tonight on the big screen: Wallace & Gromit, Vengeance Most Fowl

We had to stream it: film prints have been...delayed for some reason! We ran about 20 feet of HDMI cable across the floor and made sure my wife's flat-screen worked again once we were finished!

It was really good!

[Osi Osgood]

We had a great double feature tonight, Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven", and a personal favorite of mine, "The 13th Warrior", there's nothing like some perfect couple of non-violent movies! 😁

[Graham Ritchie]

A few years ago I bought the blu-ray of this film but never got around to watching it until last night LION is based on a true story and a film after watching it I would highly recommend. Its gripping , its also very sad as to how many youngsters live on the streets in large cities in India and how dangerous for so many just to try to survive, as shown through the eyes of a brilliant child actor in this film. During the end credits the actual family are shown

[Steve Klare]

Hi Osi,

It's a great story that does both a service and dis-service to Antonio Salieri. It's possible that the idea that Salieri actively sought Mozart's death arose from a rumor started many years after the fact and may be completely untrue. That's the dis-service.

It's entirely possible that Mozart's own excesses and the pretty unhealthy environment of an 18th century city were enough to do him in without a jealous rival to help him along. We take for granted the benefits we get from things like clean municipal water supplies, sanitary sewage systems, and vaccinations in our own time.

-and yet Salieri in the movie was right: his music was fading from public awareness while Mozart's had gained immortality. The service to him is since the play and the movie came out, his music has gotten more attention than it had in the last 200 years.

F. Murray Abraham's Salieri is a great character: caught in a love-hate relationship. He hates the composer yet loves his music. This makes him...complicated. For example, he uses his influence to hold Mozart's operas to just 5 performances and then attends them all.

So we'll call it "History with a little...help" and enjoy it for being just that!

(I mean, granted: do we really need over an hour about one of Music's greatest composers dying of for example: dysentery?!!)

[Osi Osgood]

I've always loved Amadeus! A perfect example/description of genius, how those that are genuis's not realizing that they are they're own worst enemies, and those that despise they're genius and do they're best to destroy them, but the genius lives on through the inescapable music. I have this on DVD, (special edition), but it's a pretty good picture.

[Steve Klare]

We went Classical last night:

Bumble Boogie (Extract from Melody Time, S8)
Tales of the Vienna Woods (16mm)
Amadeus (BluRay)

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched the blu-ray of "Darkest Hour" Gary Oldman was brilliant as Winston Churchill, this scene below as Winston states to a member of his cabinet who wants to negotiate some sort of peace agreement, when he was really up against peace talks. There is another scene where the King visits Churchill at his home when he is struggle for support and to find an answer. The King states simply, go to the people and ask them?, which he does on the underground, and that's where he gets his answer, his inspiration and later speech, to push the reason why to fight at all costs no matter what the price might be.

"Darkest Hour" is a brilliant film and well worth watching.

I remember my father telling me long long ago, that if you are going to negotiate "you only do it if you are holding a big stick", that was his thoughts back then. He served in the Indian army in Burma during the war but very rarely talked about his time there, except full of praise for the American pilots that flew dangerous missions to keep them supplied and also full of praise for the Indian people themselves.

[Ed Gordon]

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The LP soundtrack I have is certainly one of the best, Jerome Moross brilliant score ads so much the film...

I agree that the score for The Big Country is among the best ever written. Ironically, William Wyler did not like it.

Director William Wyler absolutely hated Jerome Moross's score for "The Big Country", and insisted on hiring another composer to redo the job. But preview audiences were so enthusiastic about the music, especially the opening theme, that star and co-producer Gregory Peck persuaded Wyler to back down. Moross went on to earn an Oscar nomination and his score for "The Big Country" is now considered one of the classic western soundtracks.

[Graham Ritchie]

A couple of past screen shots from using the Panasonic .

The LP soundtrack I have is certainly one of the best, Jerome Moross brilliant score ads so much the film.

Tonight it was a visit back to Scotland with "Local Hero" 1983, I only on DVD at the moment, but that might change one day

[Ed Gordon]

Burl Ives won the Academy and Golden Globe awards for best supporting actor.

Audiences complained about the nearly three hour run time. William Wyler eventually agreed that it should have been cut. The cast complained about the constant re-writes and the co-producers, Peck and Wyler had a falling out that lasted three years.

They clashed repeatedly during filming. After Peck stormed off the set one day following a blazing row, Wyler told the press, "I wouldn't direct Peck again for a million dollars and you can quote me on that." They reconciled three years later, but true to the director's word Wyler and Peck never made another film together.

If you saw this film in it's original Technirama you probably loved it. It you saw it on a 19 inch black and white TV you probably don't understand how anyone liked it.

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched the blu-ray of this one today

[Ed Gordon]

Watched this one last night. The image and sound quality of the "Imprint" release to blu-ray is excellent, plus the extras that come with it are very interesting.

The name is familiar, but after seeing the trailer, this looks like a good one I missed. I'll add it to my "to watch" list.

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched this one last night. The image and sound quality of the "Imprint" release to blu-ray is excellent, plus the extras that come with it are very interesting.

[Graham Ritchie]

I don't know if you remember me mentioning the best local cinema here called the "Lumiere" a while back, well they had a special visitor this week out here on holiday being the sister of director of the above film David Lynch. This photo came up on there Facebook page today.

[Graham Ritchie]

Got around to screening the Imprint blu-ray the other night. I would have to add, that this movie is one of the best I have seen, its a absolute gem highly recommend watching this one. The extras are well worth watching also, image and sound are very good, a very nice transfer, full marks "Imprint" .


Screen shot from the other night, Projector Panasonic.