What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Brian Fretwell]

Buster Keaton in (and writing/directing) The General Eurika release froma 2015 restoration with a Carl Davies score.

[Graham Ritchie]

Hi Brian

Hi have the same ERK blu-ray release and its a good one, last night it was a return to "The Boat that Rocked" the blu-ray title, and I think that's for the benefit of North American sales is called "Pirate Radio', however for me its "The Boat That Rocked" as I am from the1960s and pirate radio stations like of Radio Caroline, anybody remember them? We ran the 35mm print of this title at the cinema many moons ago, good fun movie.

For fans of good music here is a extract from that film

[Brian Fretwell]

I remember and listened to most of them some only at night due to increased range then. Radio Caroline (North and South) Radio London, Britain Radio, Radio 270, Radio Scotland from boats. Radio City, Radio 390, Radio Essex from ex-wartime forts in the Thames estuary.

[Mike Newell]

The Substance with Demi Moore. Not really sure what I watched a very strong horror movie with best role for Demi Moore in years. Ample nudity and any curiously about what Demi looks like naked is resolved. The violence at the end is off the scale. Let’s say it make those slasher 70s movies look like Disney cartoons. It is not realistic as the poor Demi would be dead at first blow. It does get a bit silly with the monster attending the New Year Eve show at the end and showering everyone with blood Kubrick Brian DePalma style . Sure there is some weird political message buried in there. Thats why Demi didn’t win the Oscar from Academy members they ain’t that stupid.

A movie that leaves an impression. Don’t know about repeatability. The violence is female to female can imagine the uproar if it was male to female.

Suppose there are similarities to the John Frankenheimer Seconds movie with Rock Hudson only a more Hollywood eternal youth showbiz style movie. 🍿

Watch at your own risk.

[Claus Harding]

Over the past week:

On Blu-Ray:

From "Masters of Cinema", the box set "Strange New Worlds: Science Fiction at DEFA"

A beautifully mastered set of four features done at East German DEFA studios, the films made to be a kind of counterpoint and competition to western Sci-Fi of those years. Camp? sure, but also sincere, if quite talky, and very interesting from a film history perspective.

Money was spent on these (one was shot in 70mm with stereo sound) and the imagery is lovely in Orvo-color.

The titles:
"The Silent Star"
"Signals"
"Eolomea"
"In the Dust of the Stars"

I wonder if any of these ever made it out on 16mm in the 70s?


On UHD disc:

"Rollerball" ('75)

Shout Factory made the definitive master of this in UHD/Dolby Vision, and the film, for its shortcomings, never gets old, due to its message.
The stunt work and editing still pack a punch, and the image looks as good as one can possibly imagine in this format, with grain and texture.

Claus.

[Graham Ritchie]

After watching the blu-ray of "High Noon" a few night ago, I just had to watch my favorite version tonight of a High Noon but this time in space "Outland".

[Mike Newell]

Ghost Ship very underrated Horror movie. Should be shown to all those going on cruises LOL
Another underrated horror movie Devil . Who you meet in a lift when it stalls

[Mike Newell]

Disclosure with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore..Haven’t seen this for an age. It’s not a bad movie apart from the silly scenes. Blu Ray is an upgrade on the DVD which is actually quite grainy. The cutting edge technology looks ancient now. Seattle looks nice they must get tired going back and forward on that ferry.

[Graham Ritchie]

Watched the blu-ray again last night, still one of the best 60s films and the best car chase in my book, I never tire watching this movie

[Ed Gordon]

Disclosure with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore..Haven’t seen this for an age. It’s not a bad movie apart from the silly scenes. Blu Ray is an upgrade on the DVD which is actually quite grainy. The cutting edge technology looks ancient now. Seattle looks nice they must get tired going back and forward on that ferry.

Seattle has the Salish Sea on the west side and Lake Washinton on the east side. If you are traveling east or west you will have to take a ferry or one of our floating bridges.



Washington State has the largest ferry system in the US. My favorite ferry is the hydrofoil from Seattle to Victoria BC. Breakfast in Seattle, High Tea at Empress Hotel in Victoria.

I have not seen Disclosure. My favorite film shot in Seattle is The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Sometimes, a movie captures a moment in your life, holding still as you glide past it. I first saw “The Fabulous Baker Boys” in 1989, when Seattle and I were a lot younger than we are now, and I remember how it left me feeling dazzled and glamorous, its slinky piano music wrapping itself around me like a borrowed, coveted scarf. Decades later, it still gives me that feeling; it’s a movie that seems to bring its own perfume.

Filmed in the Seattle-movie prime of the late ’80s (it shares a birth year with “Say Anything,” which is not really a Seattle movie, but that’s another story) and celebrating its 30th birthday this month, “The Fabulous Baker Boys” is something they don’t really make any more: a big-studio, big-movie-star romantic drama that’s all grown-up emotions and dreamy, aching atmosphere.

...

Movies stay in place; cities and people move on. “The Fabulous Baker Boys” is now a time capsule, for Seattle and for me. I watch it and remember that I once bought an oversized coat like the one Pfeiffer wore in the film, hoping it might give me that offhand, funky glamour she conveyed. (Older and wiser now, I think it had more to do with the cheekbones.) The movie, though not the coat, has stayed with me for all these years; even now, I sometimes find myself humming “Makin’ Whoopee,” or thinking of Jack and Susie as I stroll down a downtown sidewalk at dusk.

Sometimes, what you remember of a movie is something you can’t quite put your finger on; it’s the way it made you feel, a sudden whiff of younger days, wrapped in flickering images on screen. Seattle and I aren’t the same anymore, but “The Fabulous Baker Boys” — elegantly and forever frozen in time — reminds us of who we were.

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/enterta...weve-moved-on/

[Mike Newell]

Thanks for the update Ed. In my head I had Seattle on the coast but never knew the exact geography. Of the area. X files was filmed in Seattle as well. Plus ,John Wayne when on a magic mystery car chase of Seattle in McQ.

[Ed Gordon]

Thanks for the update Ed. In my head I had Seattle on the coast but never knew the exact geography. Of the area. X files was filmed in Seattle as well. Plus ,John Wayne when on a magic mystery car chase of Seattle in McQ.

Mike, I did see McQ. The car chase scene on the beach was filmed around Point Grenville on the Quinault Indian Reservation. I used to go camping there years ago.


So Captain George Vancouver was scouting film locations back in 1792.

The list of movies film in Seattle is fairly long. The first movie filmed here was Tugboat Annie (1933).

[Graham Ritchie]

Well if anybody has watched this one in 4K let me know what its like? last night I again watched the blu-ray of this brilliant 1971 version of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Gene Wilder was perfect in this role, it was made for him Tonight it was just a DVD called "Waking Ned Devine" I still remember running the 35mm print many moons ago, its a brilliant Irish film, a real joy to watch

A couple of past screen shots of the blu-ray which in itself looks a great transfer.





As for Waking Ned Devine her is the trailer

[Ed Gordon]

Gene Wilder's rendition of Pure Imagination remains the best ever done in my opinion.