This film ought to have a 4K release, but with practically none of the Allen catalog having made that migration, nobody’s holding their breath. SOUND | Do I have to say it again? This is a Woody Allen movie. As long as you can hear the dialogue, everything’s fine. jmdls ...
Guillermo Del Toro’s first feature is a mini-masterpiece that revitalized the Mexican fantastic film. Inventing his own macabre horror concept, Del Toro envisions a bizzare fountain of youth with an unforseen side effect that’s akin to vampirism without supernatural powers. Federico Luppi, Ron ...
Highlights do clip in the 2 stops overexposed shot, visible in the specular reflection on the tiny aluminium PAR spot. However this scene does not contain much highlights, thus it does not appear that terrible to me. Following other tests I made, the most common exposure I would use is ove...
In 2008 and 2009, Polaroid announced that it would stop manufacturing its instant cameras and the film they used. However, the millennial fascination with retro technology has led some to attempt to bring back instant cameras in 2017, but professional photographers say these latest attempts aren’...
Facets’ no-frills DVD of Luis Buñuel’s A Woman Without Love (1952) allowed me to catch up with the Mexican feature that most commentators, including Buñuel, seem to regard as his worst film. What this means, at least from an auteurist standpoint, is that it’s Buñuel at his ...
At any time in the near future. This issue comes up in patent licensing, everybody in the chain has to be covered by licenses. Equipment and users. Production houses where getting caught from having DVD players on premises to show clients discs. The patent holders to related mpeg2 ...
“I was still under contract to makeThe Voyage of Mastornafor (Dino) De Laurentiis and was in total confusion. Then along come these French producers who begged me to participate in a multi-episode film. They assured me that of the three stories, I would make one, Bergman another and ...
(ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS) or deeper emotional resonance (UP) that would appeal to adult viewers, whether or not they were obligated to bring their kids to the movies. Although it did not do quite as well as the others, Henry Selick’s film version of CORALINE showed that even ...
Shirley Temple got her feet wet in the movie business — and came to the attention of Fox Film Corp. — in Jack Hays’s “Baby Burlesks”. These were a bizarre series of shorts that pretty much have to be seen to be disbelieved. The basic idea was to show toddlers in diapers eithe...
Right, for those who are still with me, there’s an interesting twist at the tail end of the finale of the first part of the film. Having proved to the one girl (I do wish Rollin had given them names, but it’s his movie not mine) that she cannot be harmed by a crucifix, and...