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Godfather on Blu-Ray

jsp — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:18:29 +0000

Gotta love the attention to detail:

Harris is a stickler for this sort of thing. When he restored Hitchcock’s Vertigo, he asked Jaguar to send him a color chip from the 1957 model of one of its cars—the same car that Kim Novak drove in the film—so that he could match the shade of green exactly.

— Your DVD Player Sleeps With the Fishes

Terrible Name, Though

jsp — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:34:58 +0000

Who else is ready for the new Bond? Mmmmhmmm….

A Peek at IMDb’s New Face?

jsp — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:55:44 +0000

A recent search on IMDb turned up a slightly different, more image-intensive look (click for full version):

Then, randomly enough, it was gone.

So maybe we’ll all be seeing a minor IMDb facelift soon enough, though if so I have one recommendation: make the thumbnails zoom when the pointer hovers over them. In the test I saw, they just seemed too small to distinguish…

Making Excuses

jsp — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:14:19 +0000

You know, there are those who point to Brokeback Mountain losing out for Best Picture as proof of Hollywood’s underlying homophobia. That may be — we’ll never know — but at least Brokeback fared better than the movie I saw last night, Making Love.

That picture, a 1982 release, actually began with a warning:

(These stills are from The Celluloid Closet a documentary in which Making Love screenwriter reveals an incoming studio head at Fox referred to the film as “a goddamned faggot picture.” What was that about “proud to present” and “applaud its courage” again?)

Great Moments in Marquees

jsp — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:46:58 +0000

You can’t tell me the fine folks at Loews weren’t having a bit of fun when they created this sign:

Also, funny story: about 30 seconds after I took this picture this afternoon, Dennis Farina walked by. Pretty sure. I didn’t take his snap because a) I’m not all starfucker and b) I’d already put the camera away.

Mostly b).

Words of Warning

jsp — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:58:39 +0000

Let’s play a matching game. Other than the fugly background on the top and the terrible justification on the bottom, how do these two screens differ?

From Junebug, a Sony Pictures Classics release:

From Separate Lies, a Fox Searchlight picture:

Do you see it?

Minor Movies Update

jsp — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:58:12 +0000

OK, by request (hi Josh!) I have now added my ratings to the full movie list. To this point, the ratings were only shown in the “Recently” sidebar, and once bumped were no longer available.

I didn’t do this originally because I thought having just a handful of movies with ratings would look weird (I’ve seen roughly 50 movies so far in ’06, so not even 3% have ratings) but: oh well. I have a bunch more I will be doing with the movies section, but all in due time…

Corpse Cheney?

jsp — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:44:19 +0000

Just finished watching Corpse Bride, and I have to tell you: when one character (a mean, humorless old man) was forced to grind out a smile…

…it just seemed so familiar somehow:

Big It Up

jsp — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:38:11 +0000

Several months ago I wrote about what I saw as a trend towards much larger online photos, particularly on entertainment websites. I see more and more examples of this every day (e.g., compare the width of the image on Apple’s new Mac mini page as compared to the tabs bar above it) but yesterday I saw a site that took it to the next level.

For really large pictures — and big video to boot! — check out Fox’s Walk the Line DVD site (note: check your volume first.) Is this the wave of the future for movie sites?

Oh, and though I strongly support larger video, I have to roll my eyes at their use of the heretofore non-existent “HD website” label.

Letdown Much?

jsp — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:35:58 +0000

Well, the Oscars were a letdown, I thought. Jon Stewart wasn’t as funny as I hoped, and the winners I wanted (e.g., Felicity Huffman and any of the other 4 BP noms) came up empty.

Bummer.

(By the way, did you see Mel Gibson speaking “in Maya” in the intro? Apocalypto will be even worse than I thought!)