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Mar 22, 2016
Could lightening strike twice?
2 of 2 found this helpful By the late 1980's, the original Star Trek TV series had been off the air for almost 20 years, but was still earning megabucks in syndication, aided to a degree by the successful films all featuring the original stars, who were by then getting a bit long in the tooth.
So, when the idea was suggested for a new series of 26 hour-long episodes, made for syndication, featuring a new cast a characters on a newly redesigned Enterprise, continuing the mission of the original characters, many inside and outside the industry felt it could not be done.
However, against all odds, Gene Roddenberry, assisted by a number of associates from the original series, managed to pull it off to such an extent the franchise was rewarded with three additional spin-off series and four more theatrical films, extending the life of the franchise beyond anyone's expectations.
25 years after Star Trek: The New Generation originally appeared, Paramount arranged for the remastering and refurbishing of all seven seasons, over 170 episodes of some of the most engaging science fiction ever to appear, now for the first time in full HD format, in seven sets loaded with hours special features, interviews and documentaries with the cast and crew.
Even if you think you're familiar with this series, you're in for a treat!
Sep 09, 2010
This Classic film deserves to still be in print!
2 of 2 found this helpful Released in a year with more classic films than any other year in cinema history, this adaptation of the beloved Emily Bronte classic might be faulted for only retelling the first half of the book, but the film made Laurence Olivier an international star. Nominated for eight academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Olivier), Best Supporting Actress (Geraldine Fitzgerald), Best Original Score (Alfred Newman), and Best Screenplay (Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur), it only won for its outstanding Black and White Cinematography (Gregg Toland, who also shot Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane) and surely would have won more had it not been released the same year as Gone With The Wind. Nevertheless, it won the New York Film Critics Circle aware for Best Picture, and is included in the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Greatest American Movies. Unfortunately, this DVD has been out of print stateside for almost 10 years. A film of this magnitude deserves to be perpetually in print and whoever owns the DVD rights should consider including some extras (commentary, "making of" documentary, etc) sadly missing from this 1997 release.
Jan 17, 2009
Pygmalion better as a musical? Not bloody likely!
If everyone who loves My Fair Lady had seen this movie, I wonder whether their admiration for the musical version of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion would survive. In between the musical numbers, My Fair Lady is almost a scene-for-scene recreation of this movie, which was adapted from Shaw's much-admired play.
Henry Higgins (played to a tee by Leslie Howard) is , an upper class professor of phonetics, who encounters both a colleague of phonetics, Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) and a common flower girl named Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller, in her screen debut), outside of an opera house in Covent Garden, London. So confident is Higgins of his phonetics theories, he boasts to Pickering he could pass off the cockney-accented Doolittle as a duchess at an ambassador's ball, so naturally that is what happens although a bit more laboriously her than in My Fair Lady. Also of note in this film is the first recorded use of the slang phrase "not bloody likely!" in a drawing room scene which was rewritten from the musical.
For those who have never seen the musical, this film should be welcomed as sheer delight! Folks - like me - who have seen and admired the musical, should be able to appreciate this film as a fresh perspective on a familiar story. The movie is perfectly cast - with Wilfred Lawson playing Eliza's father a particular surprise. The directors are Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard (although reports vary how involved Howard was with the actual directing), assisted by David Lean who was only credited as editor.