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And then there's Joseph Losey's "Figures In A Landscape".
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Although now OOP, there was a Region 2 release out of Poland, with English language included.
http://www.amazon.com/Figures-Landscape-English-audio-subtitles/dp/B009E07SA2
And also a U.K. release:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Figures-In-A-Landscape-DVD/dp/B0009S4WH0
Like many of the Cinema Center Films / National General Pictures releases, Paramount seems to control this title. In the past 2 years Paramount has finally gotten around to releasing some more of these films in the U.S. ("The Revengers" (1972); "The War Between Men and Women" (1972)), so maybe there is hope for "Figures In a Landscape" yet.
According to The Digital Bits, "Kino Lorber has revealed that Joseph Losey’s Figures in a Landscape (1970), starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell, is coming soon on Blu-ray."
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At last, thanks to Shout Factory, DEATH BECOMES HER is finally getting a blu-ray release later this year, with its first widescreen home video release since the laserdisc!
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Director John Korty is best known for his television work (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), for which he won an Emmy) and his documentaries (Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977), for which he won an Oscar). But earlier in his career, he made several independent theatrical features. One of these was 1970’s RIVERRUN, which featured a cast of unknowns, except for John McLiam, a grizzled character actor who had extensive television experience and had appeared in “Cool Hand Luke” and “In Cold Blood.” McLiam would go on to appear in a number of westerns during the 1970s
RIVERRUN is a film of its time, about a conscientious objector and his girlfriend who leave the Berkeley campus for life on a San Marin County sheep farm. There they are visited by the girl’s father (McLiam), a veteran sailor who takes a dislike to the boy. Family drama follows. In addition to directing, Korty wrote the original screenplay and was his own director of photography.
Columbia picked up the film for distribution, but it didn’t get much play. I saw the film a few years after its release, in a college film appreciation class. I’ve never been able to see it since. It has never been released on any home video format.
The film gets a rather high 7.2 rating on IMDB by the 9 people who have managed to see it, but it's so obscure that Leonard Maltin doesn't even cover it in his "Movie Guide."
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I saw RIVERRRUN in New York when it was released. My older brother was a film critic for an I sure New Jersey weekly, and he got into all the s red I get. He saw RIVERRUN and was entranced by it, even going so far as to interview and publish a piece on Mr. Korty. (Wonder where all those interview cassettes are now?) Also, my brother liked the film so much, he inveigled me and my then wife to go to a screening, as well as anyone else he could convince to go. I enjoyed it, but found it slow, and without much of a plot, typical of its time. It has one of the more convincing deaths I've seen on film. It opened in New York, but maybe only lasted a couple of weeks, at most. I'm glad Mr. Korty found greater success later.
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I posted above from my i-phone, and it seems to have a mind of its own, when it comes to deciding what I'm going to write.
I meant to say that my older brother wrote for "an obscure New Jersey weekly," actually called the Aquarian Arts Weekly, but that this was able to get him into all the press screenings, and events, he could manage.
This was a lot of fun at times, especially since he was able to take us to the very first, now historic, press screening of STAR WARS, before it opened, as well as to many others.
RIVERRUN was a favorite of his, and he told everyone to go. (I also think he may have had more than a slight crush on Mr. Forty, who, as I recall, was a largish, very sincere man with sandy longish hair and a mustache, whom I may have actually met at some point through my brother, probably at some screening, though I could be mistaken about this.
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Court Martial ITC/Universal TV series from 1965. Starring Peter Graves and Bradford Dillman as two military lawyers during WW2. I remember watching it as a 14/15 year old and it had strong stories and good acting and a stirring theme by Frank Cordell. Here's the opening title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvVnBnlpSjU
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A film I've been seeking for years is A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1959), a stop-motion animation film created and directed by Czech animator Jiri Trnka. Better known for another stop-motion animated film, THE EMPEROR'S NIGHTINGALE (1949), Trnka achieved some international recognition.
DREAM, however, seems to have received only a scant release in the U.S. I managed to catch a few views of it once, on a Pittsburgh TV channel years ago. But, though I have sought high and low, I can't seem to find any indication of any kind of video release.
It had narration by Richard Burton, and voices supposedly supplied by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When I visited the Czech Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal, there were figures on display which Trnka used to make the film. (I was particularly impressed by his Oberon, an imposing bearded man, with antlers.) A book on the work of Trnka appeared some years later, with many color photos from the film. It must have been lovely, apparently the crowning work of the animator.
I'd love to at least see it, let alone own a copy, preferably in good condition.
(Interestingly, I later found a CD with music from EMPEROR'S NIGHTINGALE, though it didn't seem as powerful as the actual film tracks, which use a lovely solo violin for the nightingale's song.)
P.S.: At one point in the mid-60's, the magazine Diplomat did an article on the current popularity of the LORD OF THE RINGS books of Tolkien, mentioning that Trnka was slated to do an animated version of THE HOBBIT, complete with several pre-production paintings Trnka had done. Though this production came to nought, it stimulated a later correspondence I had with Professor Tolkien, himself, which lasted several years. Tolkien wrote that he liked Trnka's version of Smaug the dragon.
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Or how about "The Beginning Or The End", which dealt with the development of the atomic bomb, which the Warner Archive Collection promised that they would put out on D.V.D.-R., but never did.
In December 1945, M-G-M, Paramount, and Twentieth Century-Fox were engaged in a race to be the first studio to produce a motion picture about the atomic bomb. M-G-M gave the picture top priority, and had story writer Robert Considine rush pages of his treatment, as he completed them, to the studio script writers. Producer Hal Wallis, who was preparing a $1,500,000 atomic picture entitled TOP SECRET for Paramount, agreed to cancel his film, merge his story property with M-G-M's and serve as an advisor on the M-G-M picture, titled THE BEGINNING OR THE END. Wallis, the first to enter the atomic picture race, negotiated an initial payment plus a substantial gross percentage of the picture's profits in exchange for his story material and research.
The opening credits of the film were preceded by a mock newsreel, in which Hume Cronyn, Brian Donlevy, and other actors, portraying their characters from the film, are seen burying a time capsule commemorating the discovery of atomic power. Many of the individuals depicted in the film were well-known government figures and scientists who were directly or indirectly involved in the production of the atomic bomb during World War II. Among those portrayed were Harry S. Truman, president of the United States at the time of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan (played by Art Baker); Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the atomic bomb project (Donlevy); J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the team of scientists who developed the bomb (Cronyn); and Secretary of War Henry Stimson (played by Erville Alderson). M-G-M consulted with Groves, Oppenheimer, and Truman during the preparation of the film. Major Charles Sweeney, the pilot of the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, was commissioned by M-G-M to serve as a military technical advisor.
As early as December 1945, it was announced that M-G-M stars Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Van Johnson were "being groomed for roles" in the film, but none of them eventually were cast. In June 1946, a controversy erupted when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt objected to the casting of Lionel Barrymore as Franklin D. Roosevelt, alleging that the actor had made disparaging remarks about the late president. Production on the film had already begun when the studio decided to hold up Barrymore's scenes until Mrs. Roosevelt had the opportunity to respond to a letter from Barrymore, in which he explained his political statements. Though Barrymore claimed that his remarks were misinterpreted, the Roosevelt family continued to disapprove of the casting, and M-G-M replaced him with Godfrey Tearle. M-G-M also consulted with Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, who had offered a special Mass on the island of Tinian for American crew members who were assigned to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The film marked the motion picture debut of Guy Williams, who went on to play the title character in the Walt Disney television series “Zorro” (1957-1959), as well as "Professor John Robinson" in the series “Lost in Space” (1965-1968). Nine of the men who portrayed crew members of the "Enola Gay" were actual World War II veterans. Some filming took place in Fort Worth, TX; Los Alamos, NM; Oak Ridge, TN; and at various university campuses. The release of the film, originally set for October 1946, was postponed as a result of M-G-M studio head Louis B. Mayer's decision to add to the film actual footage of the bombing of Hiroshima. The film had its premiere in Washington, DC on 19 February 1947.
Daniele Amfitheatrof scored the film. Re-recorded excerpts of the score appear on a Label X CD.
Just released on D.V.D.-R. from the Warner Archive Collection.
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There's "A Gathering Of Eagles" which I recall was seen in widescreen on T.C.M. in 2006, but has yet to see a D.V.D. or Blu Ray release.
This has now been released on demand from the Universal Vault Series. It has been posted to the New Releases Pinterest Board here: https://www.pinterest.com/TheCinemaCafe/new-releases-on-blu-ray-and-dvd/
No news as to whether it is the theatrical widescreen version. News of its release has been made on the Most Wanted Pinterest Board here: https://www.pinterest.com/TheCinemaCafe/the-community-chest-most-wanted-by-fans-on-dvd-or-/
If anyone can verify if this is indeed widescreen either from first hand experience or in print, I'd really appreciate your passing it on. Thanks.
Thanks for the information on 'The Begining or the End' filmusicnow. This update was added to its post on The Most Wanted Board.
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Another Most Wanted Film on DVD or Blu-Ray can come off the board: Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury) is a "super-charged" noir and so devastatingly potent it transcends the category and deserves a special announcement all its own. I knew Olive Films had bought the rights to it, but months and months went by without a release date. Finally it's coming and what a revelation: It is the toughest, most uncompromising noir ever produced. This film builds to a climax so devastatingly powerful you'll never forget it. It's Hidden Gem #24: http://thecinemacafe.com/the-cinema-treasure-hunter/2013/7/2/hidden-gems-3#Try-and-Get-Me Slowly but surely many of the titles most wanted by fans are being released. More information concerning the Blu-Ray is on the New Releases Pinterest Board by following the link and clicking *twice* on the image. https://www.pinterest.com/TheCinemaCafe/new-releases-on-blu-ray-and-dvd/
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is AU PAIR GIRLS or BRIDGE AT REMAGEN available in the US?
brm
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Moment by Moment, with Lily Tomlin and John Travolta. Funniest movie ever.
MOMENT BY MOMENT is only available as a PAL DVD out of Germany. It does have an English-language soundtrack option.
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is AU PAIR GIRLS or BRIDGE AT REMAGEN available in the US?
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AU PAIR GIRLS was released on Region A Blu-ray in 2012 by Redemption Video. It had previously been on a 2002 Region 1 DVD from Image Entertainment.
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Thanks!
One more kestion:
AMazon calls this a "multi-format" disc.
I am trying to determine for sure if it is a what I call a "combo pack"; are dvd & bu-ray both included
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bruce
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One more kestion:
AMazon calls this a "multi-format" disc.
I am trying to determine for sure if it is a what I call a "combo pack"; are dvd & bu-ray both included
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bruce
I have no idea what Amazon means when they label a disc "multi-format." But none of the five different reviews I have read of the Jezebel / Kino Lorber Blu-ray of AU PAIR GIRLS says that a DVD is included. My conclusion is that there is only a single Blu-ray disc in the case.
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The "multi-format" listing on Amazon is frequently incorrect. I would ignore it. The site has become a bit confusing since they changed some layouts and it is not always obvious which edition of a DVD/BD you're really looking at.
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Turner Classic Movies and Universal have released William Castle's 1964 film THE NIGHT WALKER as a made-on-demand DVD. The release also includes the 1965 Leslie Nielsen film DARK INTRUDER, as part of a Horror Double Feature. THE NIGHT WALKER was mentioned in a post of May 4, 2014 in this thread.
http://shop.tcm.com/the-night-walker-dark-intruder-horror-double-feature/025192340475
Thanks so much for reporting this Bob. I've made a note on the Community Chest Most Wanted Board and put this on the New Releases Board.
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