The Criterion Collection

[inderweltsein]

FYI Warner/New Line's The New World is OOP AFAIK.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Was hoping they'd give us a nice digipak.... I expect a lovely leaflet...

The artwork has grown on me a lot, and I do really love it. Although I came across this artwork which is so different:

Quite nice! I like it a lot.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by inderweltsein

FYI Warner/New Line's The New World is OOP AFAIK.

Oooooooooooooh!!!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Page14

You might be in luck if you're a Luis Buñuel fan and you get TCM, as they're featuring 5 of his films tonight. All times are EST.

8:00 PM - BELLE DE JOUR (1967)

Argh.

I'm staying at a hotel tonight for work travel, and, although the hotel cable picks up about 200 channels, TCM is not one of them.

It looks as though the first two Lethal Weapon movies are going to be rocking my world tonight. I'd rather see Belle De Jour, though.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Argh.

I'm staying at a hotel tonight for work travel, and, although the hotel cable picks up about 200 channels, TCM is not one of them.

It looks as though the first two Lethal Weapon movies are going to be rocking my world tonight. I'd rather see Belle De Jour, though.

Staying in a hotel while traveling for work... "getting to old for this s***."

Sorry Owl, someone had to do it. Have a good night with Glover and Gibson!

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Oooooooooooooh!!!

Could it mean???? Naaah.... but maybe!?!?!

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by lordmorpheus72

Staying in a hotel while traveling for work... "getting to old for this s***."

Sorry Owl, someone had to do it. Have a good night with Glover and Gibson!

Since I do not have access to TCM on the hotel TV...

"We're going to get bloody on this one, Rog."

[inderweltsein]

Originally Posted by jmclick

I doubt my affection for Miss Tierney has gone unnoticed by many people who read my posts. I've been a fan of hers since I was a child and saw The Ghost and Mrs. Muir on the late, late show; it remains my favorite movie of all time. I corresponded with Miss Tierney for a brief period in the mid-1980's, and found her to be a lovely person. After her death, I met her youngest daughter by Oleg Cassini, Christina, who gave me several of her mother's possessions, including the notebook her mother kept when she first arrived in Hollywood in 1940. Miss Tierney mentions the notebook in her autobiography, Self-Portrait; in it are original, handwritten poems that Miss Tierney composed and dedicated to Howard Hughes and other people she met during her early years in Hollywood. I also have her signed copy of the stage play in which she rose to prominence, James Thurber's The Male Animal. My collection of original photographs of Miss Tierney and her films is fairly extensive; I think I had somewhere between 1,600 and 1,700 at last count.

I was thinking that a very dear friend was the greatest admirer ever of Gene Tierney.. until I read your post

[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Argh.

I'm staying at a hotel tonight for work travel, and, although the hotel cable picks up about 200 channels, TCM is not one of them.

It looks as though the first two Lethal Weapon movies are going to be rocking my world tonight. I'd rather see Belle De Jour, though.

If you have a traditional cable subscription, be it Comcast or Verizon or any of the major ones, you can stream TCM live on the website (including the west coast feed, which is on a three-hour delay)

[oildude]

Gene Tierney is buried less than two miles from my front door, in Glenwood Cemetery here in Houston. In 1960 she married oil man W. Howard Lee (who had gotten divorced from Hedy Lamarr that same year) and moved to Texas with her two daughters from her previous marriage to designer Oleg Cassini.

Excerpted from a 1979 People magazine article (both Gene and Howard Lee were alive when this article was written):

......Gene met Houston oilman W. Howard Lee while vacationing in Aspen, Colo. He was in the process of divorcing Hedy Lamarr and acquiescing to a settlement that left him merely a millionaire. "Oh no," he cried when friends suggested he take out Gene, "not another actress!"

Their courtship flourished, however, even after she readmitted herself to Menninger's (a mental illness treatment clinic in Topeka, KS) a few months later. Warned that Gene's illness would doubtless recur and that he should think carefully about any romantic involvement, Lee, now 70, responded with unswerving affection and understanding. The couple was married in 1960. Gene fulfilled her obligations in Hollywood, played a few roles on TV and went into quiet retirement. The Lees spend most of the year in Houston and the rest at their new condominium in Delray Beach, Fla. "Howard likes to take care of people he cares for," says Gene appreciatively. "The only time I was really happy was in my childhood—and now."

The full People magazine article is here: http://www.people.com/people/archive...073581,00.html

I have yet to watch the biography on the Laura Blu-ray. Like lordmorpheus72, I am saving it until I have watched more of her movies (don't want to chance any spoilers since there are still several of her best films I have not seen). Tierney's life was defined by a series of successes and immense personal tragedies, among them her oldest daughter Antoinette Daria Cassini, who was born with severe disabilities due to her mother contracting rubella while pregnant in 1943 during an epidemic that was sweeping wartime Los Angeles. Daria died in September 2010 and is buried next to her mother.

Also interred in the same cemetery is Howard Hughes, who was a friend of Tierney.

EDIT: if you read the full article, you will note it is a snapshot out of its time with the lack of today's sensitivities when referring to the condition of Daria. Also, the often-repeated story about the female Marine breaking out of quarantine, if it actually happened, is not definitive as to how Gene became infected with rubella. The German measles were raging through Hollywood at that time in 1943 and many actors and others caught it.

[SammyJankis]

I echo the love for Tierney. I had never seen her in anything until I caught a double bill of Leave Her to Heaven and Out of the Past (35mm) over the summer. I loved the film, and loved her even more. Watched Laura soon after and now rank her in my "I'll watch this person in anything" group.

Need to pick up those new releases.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by jmclick

Well, I track which ones I have by the production code and still numbers, recorded on a master list. Laura, for example, was Fox production #644; Leave Her to Heaven was #677; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was #712, etc.

I store my stills in acid-free sheet protectors. I file scene stills by film title, in order of their sequence in the actual film, and keep a record of who appears in each photograph. For scenes that were cut from the final release, I place them where they would have appeared according to the original script; if I don't have that information, I place those stills at the end of the file.

For general publicity photographs, Miss Tierney was originally designated as Fox Player F535, and I file those stills numerically. Circa 1950, the studio assigned all their contract players with new codes, and Miss Tierney became Fox Player G59. I keep separate files containing candid or personal photographs, and stage and television performances.

I also have large collections on Barbara Stanwyck (over 1,250 stills), Joan Bennett, Nancy Kelly, Tyrone Power, William Holden, and (believe it or not) David Manners. I started collecting stills in the mid-1970s, when I was an adolescent. At that time, home video didn't exist, and I only saw whatever was shown on local TV stations ... cut and with commercials. Stills were a way of remembering what movies I had seen, and of looking forward to the films I hoped to see someday. Today I still appreciate them for their intrinsic beauty and for the memories they evoke of my development as a film fan.

I've done something similar with movie posters since probably the mid '60s. There were big gaps of time when I stopped collecting but I always came back to it. Over the years I'd shift from 1 sheets to half-sheets and inserts and finally got into collecting lobby cards from the early '30s. I like lobby cards because of their smaller size and the fact that frames for them are easy to find and affordable. Funny that you mentioned David Manners because I focused on a few actors who aren't what you'd call major stars- Charles Bickford, in his brief leading man days; Joe E. Brown, in his '30s Warner Brothers comedies, and (believe it or not) the immortal Helen Twelvetrees! If I can ever figure how to post photos on this site without them being monstrous in size I'd show a few. I do have one sheets for all of Malick's films with the one exception of The Tree of Life.

[StLouisRibs]

So Tales of Hoffman's 4K restoration is appearing in NYC over the next few months - might we be seeing this ahead of what we believed to be next in the P&P queue, A Matter of Life and Death?

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jmclick

What did you think of Kathleen Byron's performance as Sister Ruth in Black Narcissus? I thought she was absolutely electrifying. And I absolutely love Jack Cardiff's cinematography ... his use of Technicolor in that film was masterful.

Absolutely CHILLING sequence. I'll never forget that shot of her eyes, nor will legions of movie watchers forget that either. I mean, I think people don't talk about this film enough in general, esp. that scene. I literally felt my hair rise off my skin when I first saw Sister Ruth standing in the doorway towards the end. It was amazing.

[pro-bassoonist]

Every Man for Himself Blu-ray REVIEW





And a superb selection of supplemental features! Fantastic release.

Pro-B

[GC Riot]

Does anyone know if Criterion is planning on rereleasing Fantastic Mr Fox without the DVD and in a regular Criterion case? It's very OCD, I know, but I do want my Wes Anderson releases to match.

[adamhopelies]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Every Man for Himself Blu-ray REVIEW





And a superb selection of supplemental features! Fantastic release.

Pro-B

I can't wait, in fact I'm a little disappointed that my copy hasn't shipped yet!

The Cavett shows are worth the price Criterion are asking for it in their own right, I'm in awe of the fact that I'll soon own those (I use them in class every year, and have previously relied on a youtube copy).

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by GC Riot

Does anyone know if Criterion is planning on rereleasing Fantastic Mr Fox without the DVD and in a regular Criterion case? It's very OCD, I know, but I do want my Wes Anderson releases to match.

That's not OCD.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by GC Riot

Does anyone know if Criterion is planning on rereleasing Fantastic Mr Fox without the DVD and in a regular Criterion case? It's very OCD, I know, but I do want my Wes Anderson releases to match.

Same here.. biggest reason I have't picked it up. And feel the same way about Red River, would like a smaller case, even though I know the current release has all the booklets and such.

Originally Posted by Polaroid

That's not OCD.

Glad I'm not the only one who understands.

[Ausjdm]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Every Man for Himself Blu-ray REVIEW





And a superb selection of supplemental features! Fantastic release.

Pro-B

Great review the bonus features look worth it on its own. I like the previous JLG releases. I was alittle concerned with the movie's use of slow motion (in the trailer it looks way out of place) but I'll give it a shot!