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     Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.158.78.71 |
Excellent news for fans of this long lost classic... http://www.criterion.com/films/27861-island-of-lost-souls I like to think my multiple emails to them begging for this helped at least a little.  Of course, the announcement was posted on Criterion's website a mere TWO DAYS after I'd despaired and bought a pirate copy on eBay! The morning I bought it I had done some digging online to see if there was any news on Criterion releasing it. "Don't hold your breath" was what I found. Ah well.  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.30.192 |
Phenomenal, Kate! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.201.137 |
This is fantastic news! Kate, like you, I crumbled and bought a dodgy copy with a photocopied sleeve recently on Ebay. I'm glad I haven't watched it yet - roll on October! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
Excellent!!!!!!!! Just one question: what is it? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.30.192 |
A beautiful film, Gary (though not in the opinion of H. G. Wells, on whose novel it was based). | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.158.78.71 |
An exquisitely weird and edgy pre-Code Hollywood film - with Bela Lugosi and the eerily beautiful Kathleen Burke as Lota the Panther Woman.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
One of the greatest horror films ever made, IMHO. I used to have a VHS copy but I got rid of all my tapes a few years ago. I'll be getting this. Oh, yes, I'll be getting this... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
Is it available on a system called Betamax, my new bang-up-to-date cinema system? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.77.121 |
Women were never more beautiful than in the thirties, it seems. | ||
| Pete_a (Pete_a) Username: Pete_a Registered: 07-2011 Posted From: 75.85.10.161 |
Amen, Hubert! Couldn't agree more. Ginger Rogers, Myrna Loy, Fay Wray, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Zita Johan, etc., etc. My God, what a decade! If only someone would lend me their Tardis. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 27.252.213.61 |
Let us not forget the 1920's. Louise Brooks. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=louise+brooks&hl=en&rlz=1T4SMSN_enGB383GB390&pr md=ivnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LqckTov3BMTsrAfWg5CLCQ&ved=0CDIQsAQ& biw=1536&bih=661 | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.155.181 |
Or indeed, the 1910s: http://www.painetworks.com/photos/jp/jp4795.JPG Phoar! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.77.121 |
Louise Brooks is to die for. That haircut obviously inspired Siouxsie, Corinne Drewery (from Swing Out Sister) and Carrie Fisher. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
She doesn't look quite that good now... think Norman Bates' mother but not as well preserved... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.77.144 |
Sooner or later we ALL end up looking like Norman Bates's mother, give or take a lump or bump or two  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
OMD's Andy McClusky is not a fan, I suspect. His 'Pandora's Box' deserves a saucer of milk for the lines: Your dangerous creations All failed the test of time |