have anyone of you seen scorsese's short film off of the new york stories compilation --it's really nice. nick nolte is great -- scorsese doesn't disapoint -- have any of you seen coppola's or allen's short off of new york stories? im curious to see them -- i think this was released on dvd all little while back...
Quote from: MacGuffin, in another thread,I have to make a special mention to Scorsese's "Life Lessons" segment in "New York Stories." I would put that in the top five of my picks. At around 45 minutes, it is actually better than a lot of films that clock in at twice that length, and it's easily one of Nick Nolte's best performances. Beautiful camerawork. An amazing script by Richard Price. Great use of music, especially Procol Harum's songs.
The DVD comes only in Full Frame. Fuckin' Touchstone/Disney bastards.
WHAT?!! I was gonna buy this, but no more. Fuck that shit. Why do companies do this? Is it that hard to do a proper ratio release of films? They did the same thing with Christmas Vacation.
Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: MacGuffin, in another thread,The DVD comes only in Full Frame. Fuckin' Touchstone/Disney bastards.
what garbage -- how are the other films on it?
It's all full-frame. A real disappointment. I was really looking forward to this DVD release, and then they pull this shit. I put it on the minute it arrived in my mailbox, and turned it off almost immediately thereafter. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it yet. I've seen it on VHS a number of times, and that was full-frame, of course, but to me, one of the main reasons to release it on DVD is to restore it as well as you can.
I wonder if there's some explanation why this is full-frame, but other Touchstone releases aren't? I'm weighing whether or not to write a letter of protest, like that ever does any good.
It'd be nice to at least have an explanation as to why studios keep putting out dvd's in full frame. I mean, the space is on a dvd, why don't they put both? That way, we can watch the movie proper, and all the other STUPID BRAINLESS FUCKING MORONS can watch their pan and scan.
I enjoyed Life Lessons. Shame about the DVD. I hate people who complain about widescreen.
I was eager to buy the DVD of Life Lessons, and I bought it the first day it was released. I didn't bother to look at the specs on the back. Of course it will be widescreen, I thought. Unpleasant surprise when I slid it into my DVD player.
Touchstone has released a bunch of cheesy late 80's - early 90's films on DVD's lately. What I don't understand is how stuff like Scenes From A Mall, An Innocent Man and One Good Cop merit widescreen treatment, while New York Stories doesn't. But that's just me.
Quote from: soixanteI didn't bother to look at the specs on the back. Of course it will be widescreen, I thought. Unpleasant surprise when I slid it into my DVD player.
That's happened to me alot. If it doesn't say FULL SCREEN on the cover I usually forget to check and that's led to occasional disgust.
that short film got me into Procul Harum.
a whiter shade of pale- the song that ick nolte keeps on playing- i downloaded it twice- and even though it was the same song one verison said lynard skynard sang it another said john cocker- so i was wonderin if anyone knew which one it was.
thanx
Quote from: abbey roada whiter shade of pale- the song that ick nolte keeps on playing- i downloaded it twice- and even though it was the same song one verison said lynard skynard sang it another said john cocker- so i was wonderin if anyone knew which one it was.
thanx
Neither, it's Procol Harum. Joe Cocker did do a cover version, but that's not the one in the film.
o k- thanx so much.
-chad