On Nov 6, 7:28 am, rmak <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
> (MTV Movies Blog) - I spend far too much of my day reading about > silly movie projects – this absurd remake, that insulting franchise > extension. Sometimes I forget how good film can be – how good it has > been. A couple days ago, I sat down to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "North > by Northwest" – a picture I'd seen several times before but never in > its newly restored and remastered DVD form (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/NorthByNorthwest ) – and came away wishing, surely > fruitlessly, that 2009 could deliver a thriller that even approached > the twisty coolness of this 1959 masterpiece...
> On Nov 6, 7:28 am, rmak <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> > wrote:
> > (MTV Movies Blog) - I spend far too much of my day reading about > > silly movie projects – this absurd remake, that insulting franchise > > extension. Sometimes I forget how good film can be – how good it has > > been. A couple days ago, I sat down to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "North > > by Northwest" – a picture I'd seen several times before but never in > > its newly restored and remastered DVD form (Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/NorthByNorthwest) – and came away wishing, surely > > fruitlessly, that 2009 could deliver a thriller that even approached > > the twisty coolness of this 1959 masterpiece...
The reviews say the Blu-Ray disk is exceptionally well done.
-- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
> On Nov 6, 7:28 am, rmak <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> > wrote:
> > (MTV Movies Blog) - I spend far too much of my day reading about > > silly movie projects – this absurd remake, that insulting franchise > > extension. Sometimes I forget how good film can be – how good it has > > been. A couple days ago, I sat down to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "North > > by Northwest" – a picture I'd seen several times before but never in > > its newly restored and remastered DVD form (Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/NorthByNorthwest) – and came away wishing, surely > > fruitlessly, that 2009 could deliver a thriller that even approached > > the twisty coolness of this 1959 masterpiece...
> On Nov 6, 7:28 am, rmak <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> > wrote:
> > (MTV Movies Blog) - I spend far too much of my day reading about > > silly movie projects – this absurd remake, that insulting franchise > > extension. Sometimes I forget how good film can be – how good it has > > been. A couple days ago, I sat down to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "North > > by Northwest" – a picture I'd seen several times before but never in > > its newly restored and remastered DVD form > > (Amazon.com:http://xrl.us/NorthByNorthwest) – and came away wishing, > > surely > > fruitlessly, that 2009 could deliver a thriller that even approached > > the twisty coolness of this 1959 masterpiece...
Yes, it looks very good, but it's best called a title sequence with music. An opening sequence suggests a dramatic opening from the beginning after the title sequence,such as the one from (Once upon a Time in America"), as the first thing I can recall. Both deserve a class of their own. Stone me.
Reflexive iconoclasty aside (Sure...the spiritual father of all the James Bond movies was 'dull' - Right...) much of the vigor of the film was the result of Bernard Herrmann's score. Try to imagine the drunken drive down the hill being played out in natural sound, or the "wham bang" final shot played with a more conventional sound track, and you'll get my point. And when music wasn't really needed - the Indiana crop duster sequence - BH wisely stayed out of the way.
On Nov 7, 9:00 pm, El Klauso <ChasJKl...@aol.com> wrote:
> Reflexive iconoclasty aside (Sure...the spiritual father of all the > James Bond movies was 'dull' - Right...) much of the vigor of the film > was the result of Bernard Herrmann's score. Try to imagine the drunken > drive down the hill being played out in natural sound, or the "wham > bang" final shot played with a more conventional sound track, and > you'll get my point. And when music wasn't really needed - the Indiana > crop duster sequence - BH wisely stayed out of the way.
Quite right .. and the same applies to Psycho. Imagine Janet Leigh's drive through the night to the Bates Motel without Herrmann's pounding, jagged music being punched out all the while on the strings .. It is the frightening music which grips you and keeps you watching and wondering what's going to happen next, rather than shots of her face behind the driving wheel while her thoughts are relayed on the soundtrack.
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:33:44 -0000, Halmyre <no.s...@this.address> wrote: >In article <15090-4AF4D3DC-1...@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net>, >forn...@webtv.net says... >> a dull film, TCM has shown this more than Million Dollar Movie ran I >> Remember Mama.
>Dull? Dull?!?
Can't expect a webtv user to follow a plot more complicated than an a-team episode.
tomcervo <tomce...@aol.com> wrote: >Shot in Bakersfield, CA, but has anyone ever made a pilgrimage to >Prairie Stop, Hwy 41? >I just saw that someone owns the actual cropduster.
I've been there. It's very dull out there.
____ On the question of playing continuo during a Mozart concerto, I can only reaffirm my belief that it is perfectly fine as long as it is inaudible.
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