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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
Just got a dvd - Daughters of Darkness - and there's an extra on it that explores the location of the film 40 years down the line. This has to be my favourite sort of extra; not some on-set thing but something that shows a place, or a background into the the theme or plot. Or even better, an aside to the film, such as some mythology or factual thing, something that adds to the mystery (if the film has any). Fave extra ever was probably the hour long doc on Blair Witch Project; and it was fake (in fact I have a friend who prefers it to the film). Uhn, was that a ramble there? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
yes | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
But a most enjoyable and informative one, Tony. Keep 'em coming. I must say, I don't buy many DVDs - perhaps I'm missing out here? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
You might be! One of the most impressive extras I've seen recently is a three-hour documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, occupying the second disc on Eureka's set of The Holy Mountain: http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/154090/Holy-Mountain/Product.html The frustrating aspect is that the clips from her films in the documentary are from far better versions than the transfers of the films themselves available in Britain or America (apart from The Holy Mountain itself). | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
It's like the dvd of Stephen Sommers' Mummy film - there is a clip from the Karloff that is sharper and more beautiful than any Mummy film you'll see - even the Karloff Mummy! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
Picnic at Hanging Rock has some lovely extras, too, on the special edition. As involving as the film. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.80 |
Picnic at Hanging Rock has some lovely extras, too, on the special edition. As involving as the film. Now if one of them is a very young girl in party dress wandering dazedly into your living room, wondering where the hell she is, and has been... that might be too much of an extra for me.... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.81.75 |
I got paid to be an extra once. Not saying which film. I like the doc of Michael Caine visiting all the old Monty Python-like ladies on the street where he grew up on THE IPCRESS FILE disc. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
You can't leave that there. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
Too embarrassing. I didn't realise until I got there that it was a Joel Schumacher film. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
Actually, the director was the most embarrasing bit. It was VERONICA GUERIN. I was in a crowd at a dog race and on a bike by a canal. Haven't seen the film, so don't know if I'm in it. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
Schumacher walked into the room and habitually waved, though nobody was looking at him. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
See? I should have left it there. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
Ha! Joel always seemed like a sweet guy, too. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
the film is meant to be ok, btw. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
To return to Riefenstahl, I've discovered that by far the best transfers of the complete films (including Tiefland, which is possibly even more problematical than Triumph des Willens) are on the German DVDs. They aren't subtitled in English, but you can download an English-language libretto for Tiefland, and Das Blaue Licht (Aickman's favourite film) is pretty well a silent film with music. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
"Joel always seemed like a sweet guy, too." He is. He is. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
'a silent film with music' - You know this might be the perfect way for film to work? Something happens in that gulf between vision and lack of sound that makes us wonder more than we usually do. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Well, most silent films were performed with music - that's what I had in mind here. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
Oh, I realised; I was just suggesting it's been neglected. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
I do think we need to take a step or two backwards in cinema in order to go forwards. Maybe a dogma-style pact to make only b/w and/or silent films for a decade would be a Good Thing. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
I was never a huge fan of Chaplin, but back in the 'eighties I went to see City Lights at the Dominion, which had a full orchestra there playing the music. It seemed if I was to 'get' Chaplin maybe I ought to try his stuff the way it was meant to be seen. Didn't work though. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
Maybe if I watch Transformers 2 in a soulless multiplex it'll work? Did anyone have a local cinema that showed blobs of coloured oil moving about on the screen like amoebae before the main show instead of trailers? Mine did. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.126 |
It also doubled as a bingo hall. Sometimes they had to take short break every 20 minutes to change reels. They showed Terminator 2 in 20 minute installments all the way through, just as Cameron envisioned. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
One of my favourite viewing memories was when I first bought a mini dvd player. I sat with the lads in their bottom bunk bed and in the dark watched Bagpuss with them. I felt like Bergman in his cupboard with his projector. Magic. Other good memory is mum and dad buying me a little black and white portable; not watching anything specific, just that tiny weird, late-night world of foreign, saucy, and scary films. Next was watching Casablanca in an arthouse in Newcastle; my first black and white film on the big(ish) screen. Colour, multiplex film? Alien on it's reissue. Mainstream, new release? Revenge of the Sith. I practically flew to my local multiplex on the first day to catch the first showing and found myself pretty much alone in a central, frontish row. It helps that the films were actually good. I also enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire Strikes Back and The Howling at the cinema. Not many other films have given me unadulterated joy, made me forget I was there. |