What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Graham Ritchie]

Ah! "The Bank Job" boy that's going back a bit. I remember picking up the 35mm print from the Hollywood Cinema one night for later screening at Movieland . Good movie but we didn't keep it for long. I did a total of film prints over the 10 years I was there, it came to 746 prints that came and went. Very seldom I would watch any of them, always to busy with things to do. I guess most of those prints would have been destroyed by now

For something a bit different the blu-ray of "My Girl 2", from 1994, good all round cast, not bad, blu-ray picture and sound are both very good, projected using the Panasonic.

[Graham Ritchie]

I think I have watched this movie about a million times over the years , tonight once again, with the blu-ray and the Panasonic VP doing there thing. I would really have to rate it as the best disaster film ever made, with a perfect cast and script.

Only thing though and I am being picky, is when he says hard "left" it should be hard "Port"

[Alan Paterson]

Last night we watched 'Mr Burton', which had snuck out on Blu-ray at the weekend. The publicity must have been spoken in whispers as its release was a surprise. The film is based on the early life of Richard Burton and has excellent performances from a young Harry Lawtey (as Burton), the omnipresent Toby Jones (as his Teacher) and Lesley Manville (as their landlady). The film has the style of a BBC film and, indeed, the Beeb is mentioned in the credits. The story is handled in a tasteful manner so it avoids the subject matter descending to the level of the gutter, which in less capable hands it quite easily could have. The only thing that lets the film down are the CGI background plates of the Port Talbot steelworks, which stick out like a sore thumb. However, it's the performances that make this film worth watching. Well worth a screening.

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight being Saturday I thought I would re-visit this blu-ray of "Belfast". Although its not the first time I have watched it, its certainly a movie I would recommend if you have not already seen it.

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched four blu-ray movies using the Panasonic VP over the last week, first of "Billy Connolly live in London 2010", I really enjoyed watching it, it makes a change from the usual movies. Next on the list "They Who Dare" 1954 starring Dirk Bogarde in stunning Technicolor this blu-ray is from studio canal under classics remastered. Image wise its excellent, let down by the soundtrack which sounds "music wise" like the speed is up and down a bit during the transfer, however its still a very good film and is based on actual events. Last night it was the turn of "Tora Tora Tora" 1970, the are two versions, I went for the extended Japanese cut. Excellent picture and sound. Lastly, tonight I doubt anybody here would have seen it a New Zealand film, called "Boy" we ran the 35mm print back in 2010 and I always thought it was a good movie.

[Graham Ritchie]

Last nights blu-ray was "Raiders of the Lost Ark", tonight being Saturday, and after feeding the birdies down at the Heritage park today, the blu-ray of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds"

[Ed Gordon]

I was very happy to finally see this film, and looking incredible, "Death Hunt", starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. I've always loved this film and I'm always wistful about it. This was late in Marvin's career, with only a few decent films after this, and this was literally the last film Charles Bronson made that wasn't a Death Wish or Death Wish derivative, so it was his last time to really shine. Two of the greatest tough guys on film, in a pseudo western ( it takes place in 1931 in the Yukon, which was literally still stuck in the Old West, historically) for the last time.

Osi, I had forgotten about Death Hunt and managed to find a bluray of it to watch. Excellent movie!

I followed that one up with another bluray of Lee Marvin and Jack Palance in Monty Walsh. It is another movie about the vanishing old west that I enjoyed with one exception: it really did not have any plot.

When the movie was new, moviegoers looking at the poster touting Marvin and Palance probably expected a violent Western along the lines of The Wild Bunch, and were perhaps left nonplussed by the film’s unusual tone. The first half of the picture is meandering with much humor, but at about the halfway point it turns a dark corner in ways I can’t reveal here, like a line of falling dominoes and inexorably heading toward great tragedy. Somehow, I’d missed Monte Walsh all these years and for the first 40 minutes wondered where it was all heading; its second-half rather suddenly becomes most compelling and the material carefully, sometimes obviously set-up in the first part of the story begins to pay off.

Source: https://thedigitalbits.com/reviews/i...h-kino-2025-bd



Another old classic I recently watched was The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart.



It was nice to see this classic from a restored print bluray. Those old movies we watched on 19 inch TV's look much better these days. The Big Sleep is good, but The Maltese Falcon was a better detective story. Another great movie based on Raymond Chandler's writing is the 1975 Robert Mitchum film, Farewell My Lovely.

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight "Is Anybody There?" on blu-ray, I do feel however, that the picture quality of the 35mm screen shots I took a while back of the 35mm trailer below, image wise are better than what I saw on the blu-ray tonight. The actual full feature on 35mm would be a nice one to come across. Oh! its a good movie, outstanding performance by Michael Caine and young Bill Milner, highly recommend it.

Screen shots from 35mm

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight's projected blu-ray was "They Shall Not Grow Old"