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This is a wonderful and important documentary. The film is full of terrifying images and fascinating interviews from some great minds. But, luckily, it does not spend too much time making its case about our destruction. After getting the viewer sufficiently terrified, the film shifts its focus to the causes of the problem. The film also inspires viewers to go out and make a difference (and tells them how).
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Of course, comparisons will be made to An Inconvenient Truth, so I’ll cover that too: it’s clear that this project was always intended to be a film; it didn’t begin as a PowerPoint presentation. It also doesn’t waste time with a biography of it’s narrator. But, most importantly, it’s got a better mix of fear and inspiration; DiCaprio’s film made me want to change the world.
THIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING FILM…so let’s start there!
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THIS IS NOT AL GORE,DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN…so let’s say that!
THIS IS NOT A BASHING FILM…so there is no excuse for anyone to not see it!
Anyone who follows the current trends in weather patterns,global warming,greenhouse gases and has seen 2006’s Oscar winning AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH will not be a stranger to a lot of the material presented in this expertly crafted semi-doc narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.What sets this film apart from it’s predecessor is that real concrete solutions are brought to us and a great deal of the film concerns itself with renewable energy possibilities that are quite encouraging and challenging.If you want to do something more than what you have already done, then this film is for you.If you are a skeptic,go see it anyway and maybe this time you might be convinced that something IS terribly array with The Earth.
Yes, I am as “green” as I have been able to be in the last year (which has done wonders for pocketbook and self esteem!). This film takes you even further. If the future life of this planet is of any concern to you, THE 11TH HOUR will give you hope and determination to do all that you can reasonably do in order to hold back the hands of time from striking 12!We are the generation that can do something great instead of the generation that sees our planet extinguish itself.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FILM.DO NOT MISS IT!5 STARS because it is a solid and excellently crafted film.(Forget it’s DiCaprio if you don’t care for him.This is not TITANIC…or is it?)
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I was extremely excited to receive this DVD…. Upon opening it, one gets the feeling that it is truly a special edition. The packaging is very nice: the DVD box is sturdy with two openings for each disk. The pamphlet inside the DVD is gorgeously produced and very helpful.
My first impression is that Disney has spent much time making this DVD user-friendly. There is an abundance of directions and drawings showing you what is on the disk and how to get there. Since there are two disks and a KINGDOM of information to pour through, these directions are very welcome (even to this seasoned DVD-viewer!)
Disney pulls out some familiar faces to make the experience as warm as possible: Disney himself appears in various footage; Angela Lansbury narrates the documentary and provides a “tour” of the disks; Michael Eisner shows up; and Barbra Streisand sings a specially recorded version of “Some Day My Prince Will Come”.
SNOW WHITE, the movie, looks gorgeous and, although old fashioned, is quite wonderful. SNOW WHITE, the double-disk, is a lot of information to wade through. I am amazed at the amount of behind-the-scenes film that exists! Disney must have suspected that he was creating a classic – he filmed every aspect of it! I especially enjoy the HALL OF ART section. There are 3 halls of various story art (i.e. “The cottage”; “The castle”; “the Forest”; etc.) Although initially I found it hard to move from hall to hall, I eventually figured it out. The animated HALLS are extraordinary and the art that “hangs” there is incredible — various renderings and attempts at bringing the story and locales of SNOW WHITE alive. It’s even more incredible that Disney Co. held on to these papers for all these years.
Well, in case you can’t tell, I highly recommend the special SNOW WHITE disks. You will spend days looking at everything that is included — or you can opt to spend an hour and a half viewing the original,gorgeous film that started the Disney empire….
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The Blu-ray looks fantastic. For this classic film from 1937 to look so vibrant, so spectacular, so beautiful 72 years later is a testament towards Disney’s restoration and remastering. The picture quality is absolutely pristine. The new lossless 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio is magnificent. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition” is highly recommended!
For Walt Disney, seeing a play back in 1916 of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” based on the fairty tale by the Brothers Grimm definitely made the producer to attempt something that has never been done before and that is to create a full-length color animated film.
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Known for their “Silly Symphony” animated shorts, the 1937 animated film definitely silenced anyone who thought that Disney was not able to pull off a full-length animated feature. Even Walt Disney’s wife thought that no one would want to watch a film that starred dwarfs but needless to say, the film that was called “Disney’s Folly” by naysayers would receive critical praise and even demand by fans for a sequel. The film would be not only be a classic animated film which was honored by the American Film Institute as the “Greatest Animation of All Time”. Even today, adjusted by inflation, the film is considered one of the top 10 money making films in America of all time.
In 2001, when the “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was released on DVD, the DVD was one of the films that were known for its innovation, winning a “Video Premiere Award” for “Best Overall New Extra Features” and nominated for “Best DVD Menu Design” and “Best New, Enhanced or Reconstructed Movie Scenes”.
But now in 2009, the film makes its High Definition entry on Blu-ray with 1080p High Definition picture quality and 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound. Also, a Disney Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack (two Blu-ray discs and a DVD version of the film) which comes out on October 6, seven weeks before its Deluxe Two-Disc Classic standard definition DVD which will be released on Nov. 24th. It’s also important to note that a limited edition collector’s set will also be available
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” gets its 1080p High Definition transfer and its absolutely beautiful. Viewers can choose to watch the film in its original 4:3 (1:33:1) format and watch it with DisneyView featuring Tony Bluth’s artwork on the side (for those who have widescreen televisions). According to the guide included with this release, restoration experts took full advantage of the newest breakthroughs of digital imaging technologies to produce this classic. The process took nearly a year of cleanup and scanning over 350,000 frames of the original 75-year-old negative. And the digital artists then removed dust and scratches from the cels.
The picture quality is absolutely beautiful for a film that is 72-years old. The restoration and remastering has removed all dust and scratches. I don’t think I’ve seen any blemishes on video. The picture quality is absolutely beautiful as art backgrounds just look absolutely divine. I don’t think I have realized how exquisite the backgrounds were, especially the amount of emotion that went into the animation. Picture quality for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition” is definitely magnificent and I look forward to seeing Disney continue this trend of remastering their classic animated films. As for DisneyView, similar to “Pinocchio”, Toby Bluth’s painted borders that are on the sides of the animation matches the animation quite fine and was definitely my preference over standard black bars.
As for the accompanying DVD, the DVD is featured in an aspect ratio of 1:33:1.
Audio is presented in English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz/24-bit), the original mono presentation and also French and Spanish 5.1 DEHT restored original theatrical soundtrack. The film is dialogue and music driven with the soundtrack being front and center channel driven. Music is also featured during the surround and rear surround channels as well. Dialogue and music is crystal clear and understandable. During the more emotional sequences, such as Snow White running away from home in the forest, definitely makes the room quite immersive, albeit a short while but overall, a good use of utilizing the music of Snow White through all channels. There are other parts that really come through on all channels such as a shriek by Snow White coming clear from the rear surrounds which was quite nice (and surprising). Overall, a solid lossless audio soundtrack for a 72-year old animated film.
As for the audio of the accompanying DVD, the DVD comes with an English, French and Spanish 5.1 DEHT soundtrack.
Subtitles are provided in English SDH, French and Spanish.
SPECIAL FEATURES
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition” is absolutely loaded with special features. In fact, I think this is the most special features I have ever seen for any video release of a film ever. Special features range from 1080p High Definition and 480i Standard Definition. Soundtrack is in English, French and Spanish 2.0. Subtitles are in English SDH, French and Spanish. Also is a booklet including a navigational overview of the special features included on both Blu-ray discs.
Special features included are:
DISC 1:
* Magic Mirror – Using the latest in Blu-ray technology, the iconic magic Mirror guides the audience through the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition features with ease, serving as the host for an incredibly immersive experience. The Mirror will recognize viewing patterns, knows where the audience has left off and will even suggest where to navigate next. This marks the first use of this technology in a Disney Blu-ray release and provides viewers with the control to personally create a customized Snow White experience.
* DisneyView – Disney’s pioneering animated feature is brought to the modern era of widescreen high definition viewing by allowing the user to expand their viewing experience beyond the original aspect ratio of the film. Utilizing Disney Blu-ray technology, acclaimed Disney artist Toby Bluth was able to draw beyond the borders of the classic full frame cinema and fill the otherwise dark edges of the screen with beautiful custom imagery, giving audiences a new view of the animated classic favorite.
* About DisneyView – Disney artist Toby Bluth tells how the movie inspired him to create the superb DisneyView art.
* Backstage Disney – Snow White Returns – (8:44) – Visiting Disney’s Animation Research Library and finding newly discovered storyboards for a Snow White featurette that was never made. Also, the popularity of the dwarfs.
* Deleted Scenes – Two scenes that were cut out of the film. “The Soup Eating Sequence” (4:07) and the “Bed Building Sequence” (6:23)
* Audio Commentary – Featuring rare recordings from Walt Disney discussing “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and audio commentary by animation historian John Canemaker.
* The Princess and the Frog Sneak Peek (7:45) – Featuring a brief sneak peek of the opening sequence of the upcoming Disney animated feature film “The Princess and the Frog” and an intro by Director/Writers Ron Clements and John Musker.
* “Someday My Prince Will Come” music video – (3:34) A music video featuring Tiffany Thornton (actress from Disney’s “Sonny with a Chance”).
* Family Play – Featuring the following games: What Do You See? (Decipher the Scrambled Image), Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Which Princess are you most like? – With BD-Live, a personal message from their favorite princess will then call them on the telephone), Jewel Jumble (Test your Matching Skills – Players put jewels from the dwarf’s mine in the proper order.).
* Screen Saver – Viewers can activate screen saver and choose the delay (to go on around 5, 10 or 20 minutes).
* Learn How to Take Your Favorite Movies on the Go – (1:01) A trailer of Disney File Disc.
Disc 2:
* Backstage Disney: Hyperion Studios – Audiences are digitally transported to 1937 to discover first-hand Hyperion Studios, the original studio Walt Disney himself built where Snow White was conceived and developed. Viewers will virtually walk the halls of this historic landmark, experiencing life at Hyperion Studios in the 1930s. This lengthy, informative and brilliant”Backstage Disney” feature contains newly dimensionalized archival photos, never-before-heard animator recordings, archival transcripts and rare footage of Walt himself revealing how Disney’s gifted filmmakers crafted the very first animated feature.Hours of footage of the original studio that Walt Disney and the animators worked at in creation of the early Disney shorts and their first animated feature film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Even the sub-menus have content and comments from the animators who worked at Hyperion Studios back then.
- The One that Started It All – (17:08) Disney’s first attempt at a full-length animated feature film and how naysayers responded to the film.
- Family Business – (1:57) Wilfred Jackson talks about working at Hyperion Studios
- View Where it All Began – (11:41) The history of Hyperion Studios
* The Story Room – Ken Anderson and Frank Thomas would talk about working with Walt Disney for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- Five Bucks a Gag – (1:46) Discussions of how Walt Disney would pay $5 or $10 for people to submit their gags.
- In Walt’s Words: The Huntsman – (3:28) Ron Clements talks about how Walt Disney’s meetings were back then and how they differ from how meetings are done today’s animated films.
- Walt’s Night Prowls – (1:52) How Walt Disney would go through the staff’s garbage cans and post on the board of what he thought about the things they threw away.
- Babes in the Woods (8:04) – Walt’s interest in European stories and how “Babes in the Woods” was originally based on “Hansel & Gretel”.
- Stories from the Stories Room – (1:14) A story of how the animators would have thumbtack targets.
- Gabby, Blabby and Flabby – (1:14) A list of names in consideration for the Dwarfs.
- Abandoned Concepts Gallery – Using your remote, you can see the various pictures in the abandoned concepts gallery. Nine pictures per page, seven pages total.
- Storyboard Art Gallery – Using your remote, you can see the various pictures in the abandoned concepts gallery. Nine pictures per page, 14 pages total.
* The Music Room
- David Hand’s Dirty Trick – (1:18) How David Hand upset Walt Disney
- The Music in Show White – (6:14) Michael Glachino (composer of “Up”) talks about the importance of music and the music in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- The Skeleton Dance – (6:02) John Musker talks about Silly Symphonies and introduces the first musical short titled “The Skeleton Dance”.
- Music Room Host – (:48) How staff would work together in the music room back then for Disney’s animated shorts.
* Art Department
- The Idea Man – (1:41) Original recordings from Disney staff as they talk about the talent of Albert Hurter.
- Creating the World of Snow White -(6:53) The authenticity of the Brothers Grimm tale through visual styling. A European style and influenced by artists from Europe who worked at Disney on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- “Music Land” – (10:15) – Michael Giaimo talks about Albert Hurter who drew quick sketches and would create hundreds and thousands and showcase expressions. Giaimo introduces the “Silly Symphonies” animated short – “Music Land”.
- Visual Development Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the visual development gallery. Nine pictures per page, 17 pages total.
- Gustav Tenggren Art Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the art gallery. Nine pictures per page, two pages total.
- In Walt’s Words: Cleaning the Cottage – (7:03) Eric Goldberg talks about Walt’s favorite sketch artist. Featuring recordings of Walt Disney.
* Character Design- Ward Kimball talked about how Hurter’s sketches would go to character designers.
- In Walt’s Words: The Dwarfs – (5:49) John Musker introduces a re-enactment of the Dwarf meetings.
- Color Tests Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the color tests gallery with nine images per page, two pages total.
- Character Design Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the five sketches.
* Background and Layout – David Hand talks about the layout man.
- Setting the Stage – (4:04) – Don Hahn talks about staging in animation. Viewing original artwork from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- Layout Gallery -Using your remote you can view through the layout gallery. Nine pictures per page, 13 pages total.
- Backgrounds Gallery – Using your remote you can view through the background gallery. Nine pictures per page, three pages total.
* Animation Department
- Bringing Snow White to Life – (11:33) A featurette about the nine key animators of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- Goddess of Spring – (10:04) Andrew Stanton introduces the 1934 Silly Symphony animated short, “Goddess of Spring”.
- The Animators’ Favorite Animators – (2:00) Old recordings from the animators talking about their favorite animators that they worked with.
- Playful Pluto – (8:09) Paula Sigman introduces us to personality animation through the animated short “Playful Pluto”.
- Blowing Off Steam – (2:17) Milt Kahl about animators would blow off steam and the pranks they would pull on other staff members.
- Animation Art Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the animation art gallery. Nine pages per page, five pages total.
* Live Action Reference – Ward Kimball talks about how they wanted to accomplish “believability” for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- Live Action Host – (:50) John Musker talks about rotoscoping and more.
- Drawing on Real Life – (1:37) Wilfred Jackson and others talk about how they would act things out for the storyboards.
- Live Action Reference Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the live action reference gallery which features nine photos per page, three pages total.
- Giving Voice to Snow White – (2:46) – How Adrianna Castelotti was cast for the role as Snow White.
* Sweatbox – David Hand talks about the sequences of the film and having to approve them in a sweatbox.
- Sweatbox Host – (:53) Eric Goldberg talks about the screening and approval of their work and progress in rooms with no ventilation aka the Sweatbox and how the name continues to be used today.
- Sweating it Out – (1:09) Ollie Johnston would talk about working with Walt Disney in the sweatbox.
- Deleted Bedroom Fight Scene – (2:26) A fight scene amongst the dwarfs that was cut out during a sweatbox session.
* Ink and Paint – Marcellite Garner talks about working at Hyperion.
- Life in the Nunnery – (1:59) Lucy and Isabelle Wheaton talk about how the women (inkers and painters) were not supposed to fraternized with the men at the animation department.
- Flowers and Trees – (8:31) Paula Sigman talks about the color pallet. The first technicolor and animated film to receive an Academy award – “Flowers and Trees”.
- The Challenges of Ink and Paint – (1:41) Marcellite Garner talks about how women were not in the animation department at the time. How women began as painters and became inkers.
- Painted Cells Gallery – Using your remote, you can view the painted cells gallery. Nine cells per page, two pages total.
* Camera Department – Wilfred Jackson talks about the camera department.
- Decoding the Exposure Sheet – (6:47) Don Hahn talks about the exposure sheet and the making of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
- The Old Mill – (9:06) Introduction to the first animated short by Ron Clements using the multi-plane camera, “The Old Mill”.
- Stories from the Camera Department – (2:04) Eustace Lycett talking about working in the camera department.
* Sound Stage
- Steamboat Willie – (8:02) Eric Goldberg talks about sound in Disney. Goldberg introduces the Disney short “Steamboat Willy”.
- Walt’s Early Masters of Sound – (1:51) Jim MacDonald talks about the sound stage.
* Walt’s Office – Maurice Noble, background artist talks about Walt.
- Working with Walt – (1:48) Wilfred Jackson talks about working with Walt.
- Publicity Gallery – With your remote, you can view photos of the publicity for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Nine pictures per page, four pages total.
- Production Photos Gallery – With your remote, you can view production photos. Nine pictures per page, three pages total.
* Classic DVD Bonus Features (featured on Blu-ray)
- Animation Voice Talent – (6:18) A featurette with interviews with the animators, voice talent and Disney historians in regards to “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. How Walt Disney wanted the right voice for the characters.
- Disney Through the Decades – (40 minutes) A featurette covering Disney from the 1930’s all the way up to the 2000’s but also chronicling each release of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” through the decades. Each portion is introduced by celebrities such as Ming Na, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury and more.
- Dopey’s Wild Mine Ride – A video game to save Snow White in which viewers make decisions with their remote control.
- “heigh-ho” Karaoke Sing Along – (2:42) In this portion, viewers can choose sing-along (with music and vocals) or karaoke (music only) for the song “heigh-ho”.
DVD:
The included DVD comes with the following special features:
* The Princess and the Frog Sneak Peek (7:45) – Featuring a brief sneak peek of the opening sequence of the upcoming Disney animated feature film “The Princess and the Frog” and an intro by Director/Writers Ron Clements and John Musker.
* “Someday My Prince Will Come” music video – (3:34) A music video featuring Tiffany Thornton (actress from Disney’s “Sonny with a Chance”).
* Audio Commentary with Walt Disney
JUDGMENT CALL:
When the first “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” Platinum Edition DVD was released back in 2001, I felt that the DVD set the bar of the amount of special features and how innovative a DVD can be through seamless branching technology. Needless to say, the DVD won several awards for its technology and so, when the announcement came that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will receive a Diamond Edition Blu-ray disc release, I was curious to see how Disney could top themselves because that release was already phenomenal.
I have since gone through the Blu-ray release and all I can say is…Wow!
Disney has not only topped the Platinum Edition release, they have set the bar once again for a Blu-ray release and the amount of content that can be included on a Blu-ray and let alone, how awesome they were able to digitally restore the classic 1937 film.
There was no doubt in my mind that Disney would give their first animated feature on Blu-ray the best treatment as possible and as this release is a celebration of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, it’s also a celebration of the talent behind the film. Those who were involved with Hyperion Studios that created the “Silly Symphonies” animated shorts back in the early 1930’s and using the technology at that time and building it, in order to create their first full feature animated masterpiece.
In fact, not only do we get audio of those who worked on the film but we also are treated with those classic animated shorts such as “Babes in the Woods”, “The Skeleton Dance”, “Music Land”, “Goddess of Spring”, “Playful Pluto”, “The Old Mill”, “Steamboat Willie” and more. And to make things even more impressive, these shorts are featured in HD (not cleaned up but still much better than their DVD counterparts). This Blu-ray release manages to capture the various process of the film from creating the story, the music, the art, the backgrounds, the layout, the animation, the live action references, decisions at the sweatbox meetings, ink and paint and how women were involved in the animated process at the time, the camera department, soundstage, etc.
So much is included on both Blu-ray discs in terms of special features, so much went into restoring this film, that this release is one, if not the top video releases of all time. I have no doubt in my mind that probably ten years from now, this Blu-ray will be highly revered for its content.
I know that many people own the 2001 Platinum DVD Edition of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and are wondering if it’s worth the double dip and the answer is YES! There is just so much included on the Diamond Edition, way more than the 2001 Platinum Edition. Also, if you are now wanting these classic Disney films in High Definition, its definitely worth the move to see this classic film in High Definiton. But I must say that you should not toss away your 2001 DVD edition because there are video clips such as the “Excerpt from The Story of Silly Symphony”, “Excerpt from Tricks of Our Trade”, “Camera Tests”, “Abandoned Concepts”, vintage audio (radio shows and spots are not included) and several songs and deleted scenes which are not included on this Diamond Edition release.
So, overall it’s a no-brainer that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition” is definitely worth it. For High Definition fans, the film looks and sounds absolutely gorgeous on Blu-ray. And as mentioned, the sheer amount of content included in this release is absolutely incredible.
I really don’t have any negatives but me being nitpicky that it would have been nice to have certain special features such as the vintage radio/audio content , a few deleted scenes, songs and video clip excerpts from the 2001 Platinum Edition DVD included on the Diamond Edition. And personally, for me that is the only thing that prevents me from calling this release absolute perfection. There was one other thing and that is my Blu-ray discs came in a black DVD case, not the standard blue casing. I was told that there will be two releases (in different casing, not inc. the limited edition) with one in a blue Blu-ray case and another using black DVD casing in order to educate those new to Blu-ray.
I do think that Diamond Edition and the Platinum Edition are quite different in terms of presentation of special features and the goals were quite different of what kind of special features would be presented. With the Platinum Edition, its solely focused on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and in the Diamond Edition, there is more focus on giving the viewer the history of Walt Disney and the animators of how they got from Silly Symphonies to using their skills and technology in creating the first animated feature film. So, as I have said earlier in my review, this release is more or less, a celebration of those who worked on the film and giving recognition to those animators and staff members who took part in that film and the work that they did earlier, that became instrumental in creating Snow White.
So, overall…the Diamond Edition is just incredible when it comes to the actual digital restoration of this classic film and a release that is absolutely packed with special features. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition” is a solid release that raises the bar of what Disney is capable of in terms of content in a home video release. This is truly a magnificent release and is highly recommended!
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For those who fell under the spell of Alessandro Baricco’s novel SILK, a meditation about love, desire, and conflict, this cinematic transformation adapted as a screenplay and directed by François Girard will not disappoint: reservations about making Baricco’s poetry visual are for the most part put to rest. The resulting film, SILK, is supported by a sensitive cast, wondrous cinematography by Alain Dostie, a haunting musical score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and is an appropriate extension of the beauty of Baricco’s short novel.
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Set in France in 1862, Hervé Joncour (Michael Pitt) is following his family tradition of military duty until a somewhat mysterious man named Baldabiou (Alfred Molina) approaches Hervé’s father Mayor Joncour (Kenneth Welsh) with an idea to increase the tiny French town’s revenues by capitalizing on the manufacture of silk. He talks the town council into fortifying his project and in a short time Baldabiou has several silk mills running. A problem arises when an infection attacks the silkworm eggs and threatens to destroy the business. Baldabiou convinces Hervé to travel to Africa to buy silkworm eggs to solve the dwindling supply. Hervé, meanwhile, has met and fallen in love with the beautiful Hélène (Keira Knightley) who is loving enough to encourage Hervé’s travel to Africa for the eggs, a trip Hervé makes and returns with eggs that make the town’s mills thrive, allowing the prospering relationship between Hervé and Hélène to result in marriage and hopes for a happy future.
The eggs are again attacked by disease and this time Baldabiou sends Hervé to Japan where the perfect eggs can be smuggled out of the country: the trip is arduous, long (through Europe, Russia, China to Japan), and while Hervé succeeds in securing the precious eggs, he also loses his heart to the seductive eyes of the baron’s concubine (Sei Ashina). Upon returning home the town prospers, Hervé and Hélène try to have children, but Hervé is again forced to travel to Japan for more eggs – and to fulfill the longing to see the concubine again. Japan is now at war and the trip is far more harrowing than before and while Hervé doesn’t satisfy his desire for the concubine, she gives him a note in Japanese as he departs for France. Upon returning to France, Hervé has the note translated: ‘Come back or I shall die’. His love for Hélène remains strong and he shares the experience he had in Japan. A letter is delivered to Hervé, a beautiful love letter, and it is at this point that Hélène becomes ill and the events that transpire bring life to the real meaning of love in an unexpected way.
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There are problems with the film: the Japanese conversations are not translated by subtitles (perhaps the director wants us to feel the alienation of a Frenchman in a strange land) making the viewer feel that chunks of the story are missing; the emphasis of the film is more concentrated on the beauty of the various locales than on the character development; Michael Pitt is a fine actor but the inner conflicts of his character are not explored well. But these flaws are minor when the scope of the film is viewed in full. It is a beautiful work and one that will satisfy the readers of the novel from which it was adapted. Grady Harp, February 08
Like many well-intentioned adaptations, “Silk” fails in its horrible execution. We supposedly have an adventurous silk trader, Herve Joncour (Michael Pitt), who undertakes the perilous journey from France to Japan in the mid-1800s in search of blight-free silkworm eggs that would ensure his village’s prosperity in the silk industry. Married to a fetching wife and, from all accounts, in love with her, our intrepid traveler becomes obsessed with a Japanese concubine in his first trek to Yamagata. On the pretext that Japan’s silkworm eggs are worth the frequent traveler miles, Herve returns to Japan to obtain yet another glimpse of his amour. We are obliged to accept that the largely lethargic Pitt traverses these thousands of miles (3 times!) by carriage, rail, ship, caravan and horseback, when it looks like he can’t even get across town without being toppled by a strong breeze. Straining to evoke a Dr. Zhivago-like epic, it only succeeds at looking ludicrous. Permanently sporting a pout like a child scolded for playing with worms, Pitt mumbles in a monotone with one wooden facial expression all throughout, in perfect accompaniment to his sleep-deprived droning voiceover narration for the film’s painful 110 minutes. As badly miscast and as anemic as Pitt’s acting is, it is equaled, agonizingly enough, by the same lifeless performance of Keira Knightley as Herve’s wife Helene. Mostly relegated to bidding Herve a spiritless goodbye whenever he departs and a spiritless hello whenever he returns, one wonders if the absence of affect and chemistry with the two was a joke on the audience that they secretly delighted in.
It may have been possible to forgive such lackluster acting if there was a story to behold. When the procurement of silkworm eggs is more riveting than Herve’s infatuation with the unnamed concubine, then I know there’s no redemption. I am as perplexed as those who’ve seen director Francois Girard’s “Red Violin” in the `90s, a magnificent film that remains one of my favorites to this day. A feudal Japan of the 1800s, still closed to the west, with its warring warlords and bewildering culture would have been ripe for exposition, injecting the much-needed tensions and conflicts the film sorely lacks. To not have attempted to incorporate it in any meaningful way with the lame love story was a fatal mistake. At least, it could have given the dying plot a fighting chance. This is nothing more than another dull and dreary depiction of the white man’s fantasy of the submissive, exotic female, a stereotype that really is getting old.
I’m no stranger to arthouse, but honestly, it’s films like this that give arthouse a bad reputation. The fantastic cinematography in “Silk,” with breathtaking panoramic shots of Japan in winter, cannot rescue this inferior film. I’ve seen nature documentaries on PBS with more gist and drama than this turgid exercise. Come to think of it, I’ve seen turtles with more passion.
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Full disclosure: I am a Phish fan. I’m not quite a die-hard fan, I’ve probably seen them less than 10 times live, but I’ve listened to hours of bootlegs. One of the shows I saw was at Red Rocks in Colorado during a thunderstorm. Not a drop fell on us, buffered by the foothills, we had nothing but blue sky above us. But behind the stage, we looked down on a dark storm pouring on Denver, with bolts of lighting creating an intense light show. Phish opened with a Divided Sky, the crowd went nuts, and a catecholinergic soup bathed my nucleus accumbens like never before. Guess you had to be there. Which is the point, and the flaw in this movie.
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I liked Bittersweet Motel. I liked the backstage look at the band interacting. It had the effect of demythologizing the members. Like anything that takes on a life of its own, the reality behind Phish is both fascinating and disappointing. The guys are basically likeable, guys you can imagine yourself drinking beers and laughing with. At times they seem to take themselves too seriously, come off as your basic high school band geek, or even come off as jerks. Just like your overgrown college buddies who stop by unannounced.
The best is watching Trey respond to negative reviews. I don’t know quite why, but nothing amuses me more than artists reacting to critics. Beethoven’s letters to critics are hilarious, Tchaikovsky is said to have committed all his negative reviews to memory, word for word, until his dying day. Trey makes a point of letting us know he doesn’t care what people think. But he’s clearly smoldering underneath, and it’s all there for our entertainment.
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What I didn’t like was the selection of songs in the movie. Whether trying to explain the phenomenon to people who don’t get it, or trying to entertain those already converted, I don’t think this was the right mix of musical moments to get the job done. Too many of the slow, somber songs and not enough great jamming. There are some high-energy jams but not necessarily their most creative handiwork, in my opinion.
I do think the movie conveys the fun of being a fan. Loved the footage of the mass nude scene. I loved hearing the stoners pontificating, reconciling the rich girls versus the more authentic hippie girl in her VW bus: “the girls rolling up in their Cherokees, their pits are shaved obviously…” but “it’s how you’re brought up, it’s not their option…they’re both on the same level, everyone here is chill.”
Thumbs up overall, it’ll entertain and make you wish you were back at a show.
If Bittersweet Motel were my first exposure to the band Phish, I am almost sure that I would hate them. Film-maker Todd Phillips certainly does. Given almost unlimited access to the band for a year, he seemed determined to portray them in a thoroughly unappealing light. He achieves this effect through a number of number of nails-on-the-chalkboard strategies, including posing inane interview questions (’Do you feel like a rock star?’ and ‘Are you rich’? are two of the dumbest), staging tastelessly manipulative ploys (like having band members read negative press reviews out loud and then respond to them on the spot), and filming the band while they are drunk after a show. Combine this with the generally mediocre live footage, eccentric song choices, and some tacky voyeuristic shots of bra-less fans, and you end up with a fairly disagreeable picture of the band from a documentarian who seems to equate such approaches with authenticity. On the other hand, it has to be said that the band give Phillips more than enough unappealing material to work with. Some of this, I am sure, was a product of the filming itself. It’s clear that Phish disliked Phillips as much as he disliked them, and they sometimes work hard to be crass or obtuse, just for the pleasure of giving him a hard time. Other times, unfortunately, it seems to come to them fairly effortlessly. I was really disappointed by the glee they seemed to take in deliberately spoiling the pictures fans asked to have taken with them (their road manager would take the pictures and make sure everyone’s heads were cut off) or the rather tacky fan-bashing song they cook up when drunk. This isn’t Phish’s finest moment. Of course, all of us can be asses at times, but most of us don’t have a film crew waiting to capture those moments, and only those moments, with which to define us. Phish did, and it makes for a really mediocre movie. I’ve been a fan since 1994, and I’m not sorry I own this movie, but I doubt I’ll watch it often. The unitiated might want to see their ‘IT’ DVD instead, or just download some of their hundreds of amazing live shows.
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It’s true that Hammer’s Dracula DID need to move out of the 19th century for the sake of refreshing the plot. While it could have been better, it came out quite good in my opinion. The older films were very good atmospherically, but lacked originality. This movie has that. The Black Plague plot was really a great twist, though it might have made a better ending if Dracula had won! One problem though, these movies take too long to introduce Dracula. Especially this one since it didn’t have the atmosphere of the other films, though it was great when Dracula did show up! As for the DVD I bought, it was only 6.99, though it had almost no extras. Just biographies on Lee and Cushing and a quiz. I don’t recall the company, but it was not anchor bay. It was Widescreen, but I don’t know if it was a “fake” widescreen like the Anchor Bay one supposedly is. All in all though, I was pleased. Just hope I didn’t get ripped off with the Fake Widescreen.
Hammer film’s Satanic Rites of Dracula is the final Christopher Lee role as Dracula in the Hammer series. The movie sets Dracula in the modern world (set a few years after Dracula A.D.1972) with the great Peter Cushing as his antagonist. I loved this movie and thought it a brilliant conclusion to the Hammer line. Dracula has been revived into the modern world and is functioning as a reclusive wealthy industrialist set on introducing a deadly plague into the world. Dracula is obsessed with taking revenge on the Van Helsing decendents and intends to use them as pawns in his diabolical plan. This film has somewhat of a James Bond feel yet maintains the the mystery and suspense of previous Hammer incarnations.
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When Robotech burst onto the American TV scene in the early 1980s, everyone was stunned. This was a wonderfully serious dramatic story, an epic saga about a war spanning generations. People fought, people died–bad decisions had consequences. And the story actually continued from episode to episode, rather than each one being a different story–for children’s TV, that was unheard-of!
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Of course, we all know now that it was really assembled from three entirely unrelated anime series, but that still doesn’t change what Carl Macek accomplished. He created a sweeping story greater than the sum of its parts, a story that we Robotech fans can still enjoy today.
I have not yet seen this series in its entirety, having as I do only the first set of remastered DVDs that are included within this one. However, from watching those episodes, I can say that the sound and video quality is nothing short of amazing. If you have a 5.1 speaker system, you are going to want to use this set as a demonstrator; during the battle sequences, the explosions occur all around you. When the SDF-1 zooms low overhead in the first part of the first episode, you feel like you should duck and cover.
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Of course, the remastering isn’t without its niggling little annoyances. The opening credits are changed from the credits we remember and love, focusing more on footage from the particular series that you’re watching. Some of the new sound effects or the new sound mix are not as good as the ones we remember from our youth. But for all of that, this is still the best that Robotech has ever looked and sounded. Plus, for the first time ever, it now comes bundled with the seven extras DVDs from the Legacy Collection, which include things like The Sentinels, the Codename: Robotech feature movie, and more other stuff than you can shake a stick at.
I do feel the pain of those people who are upset at ADV’s “double-dipping,” especially given that ADV originally said that a remastered Robotech would be impossible to make, but there is a reason for it. At the time they made that claim, they honestly had no expectation of ever being able to find the original audio elements that they would need to put a new version together. As far as they knew, everything had been destroyed in a flood. However, a year or so later those old elements were discovered and restored after all, and Harmony Gold and ADV felt that fans would probably rather have a remastered version than not.
Despite what others have said, I feel this is likely to be THE penultimate Robotech collection; I just can’t think of anything else they can do to the show that they have not already done. Remastered audio and video, check. Extras DVDs, check. Bundle them together, check. That’s it, they’re done.
There simply isn’t any way they could include the original source material on the same discs as Robotech. This isn’t a simple matter of a show being redubbed “straight,” where they could slap the original voice track onto the same footage. Robotech was edited in large and small ways (especially the Southern Cross segment, which had episodes chopped up and reassembled (including one episode put together entirely from scratch) and the order switched around), so the footage simply does not correspond to the original audio any longer. And there’s not room to put those on the same discs as Robotech. In order to put the original shows in, they’d have to include them separately, as was done on the abortive “Perfect Edition” VHS series a while back–and in order to do that they’d have to add still more discs to the set. And why bother? You could go ahead and buy the original sets separately and be just as well-off.
If you’ve been lucky or prudent enough to hold off on purchasing a Robotech set until now, this is the one you might as well get.
Reviewers who complain that this collection is not complete because it lacks a Japanese audio track or because it does not include all the “original” footage are not entirely correct. The three seasons of Robotech (subtitled Robotech: Macross Saga, Robotech: The Masters, and Robotech: New Generation) were edited from three entirely separate TV series to create a story that is in many ways totally unique. The script for Robotech as a stand-alone series was never written in Japanese–it was a product of American writers who were tasked to create one syndication length series from three unrelated single season Japanese series. If you want to see the series that were rewritten, reedited, and redubbed to create Robotech, then by all means, pursue original, uncut releases of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada–but don’t expect them to tell the Robotech story.
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This charming film didn’t get the positive praise it deserved. It was absolutely wonderful. The small Alaskan town of “Mystery” has a quirky “Northern Exposure” feel to it, and a wonderful ensemble cast add a lot of fun and games.
The “Saturday” hockey game leads off this fairy-tale story of David vs. Goliath, as their hometown boys go against the NHL’S New York Rangers. Former “townie” Hank Azaria starts this whole thing by writing a spotlight on the “Saturday Game” for Sports Illustrated and well.. Mystery is never the same after that. Russell Crowe turns in a great performance as “slightly older” town Sherif John Biebe, who is the heart and soul of the much younger hockey team. There are many wonderful smaller performances by faces you’ll certainly know and love. It’s a wonderfully sweet, charming and funny (with classic one liners from MANY of the young players) movie that only HAPPENS to be about hockey. There is so much more to it. You don’t have to know a thing about hockey to appreciate this fun and lighthearted movie. It’s right up there with my all-time favs. Definatley worth a look!
I rented this DVD having never even heard of the movie.But after having watched it, Mystery, Alaska has become one of my favorite movies. This enjoyable tale about a town full of eccentric, hockey-obsessed people, moves along at a nice, steady pace. Unlike many movies these days, Mystery, Alaska doesn’t rush through important plot points. When a former neighbor returns home bringing the New York Rangers to play against Mystery’s legendary hockey team, the town sheriff, recently bumped from the team for a younger player who’s got “jump”, agrees to coach. The members of the team are fleshed out well by an ensemble cast of virtual unknowns, with the exception of Russell Crowe. The ending is exciting, and surprisingly unpredictable. For me, the actor that stole the show was Ryan Northcott, a barely credited character, who plays the pivotal role of the high school skating whiz who takes Russell Crowe’s place on the team. He has a couple of the most amusing, and embarassing, scenes in the movie, and handles them with humor and grace. Overall, Mystery, Alaska was a funny, enjoyable movie that I recommend to everyone. You don’t have to be a hockey fan to love Mystery, Alaska.
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Celebrations should be thrown at local `shake shops’ with rock ‘n roll blasting on the juke box for the first-ever DVD release of The Patty Duke Show!
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The series was one of the best and most beloved Classic TV comedies from the 1960’s. Shout!Factory is continuing its string of great Classic TV releases (including Father Knows Best, My Three Sons and The Donna Reed Show) by presenting the complete first season of this iconic series on DVD for the first time.
The Patty Duke Show aired on ABC beginning Sept. 18, 1963. It lasted 105 episodes spanning three seasons – all in glorious black and white!
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One year before, Ms. Duke had won an Academy Award® for her portrayal of the blind, deaf and mute Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (at the time, she was the youngest person to have won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). As a result, she was chosen for her own self-titled vehicle, which featured her in not one, but two prominent roles.
The series followed Patty Lane (Ms. Duke), a `normal’ 60’s teenager living in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City, who loves boys, ice cream, and sleep-overs. Her father is the managing editor of the New York Chronicle. In the unaired Pilot, her “identical cousin” Cathy Lane (also portrayed by Duke), whose father also works for the Chronicle as a foreign correspondent, arrives in the U.S. from Scotland to live with Patty’s family and attend secondary school.
The series was extremely popular with both teens and their parents, turning Ms. Duke into an early teenaged idol.
As an adult, Ms. Duke has documented her long struggle with mental illness. The brilliant star sadly disclosed that she also suffered abuse during the years this series was produced. As a result, there is a genuine darkness beneath the fictitious veneer of these sweetly, innocent episodes. It is a true testament to her talent and very hard work that none of that was conveyed on screen. In my opinion, this series should still be enjoyed to honor her performances, for which Ms. Duke rightly received an Emmy nomination. (She is also the former wife of wonderful actor John Astin. The couple’s son, Sean Astin, is also an actor.)
All 36 half-hour episodes and the unaired pilot are expected to be included in this DVD boxed set, presented on six discs (to provide background material as needed, clips from the Pilot had been utilized through “flash-back” scenes describing Cathy’s arrival in the U.S.).
Special features are expected to include interviews with cast members, plus a featurette on the series. The show was created by William Asher, who also created and produced Bewitched; and Sidney Sheldon, who created a host of thrillers but also I Dream of Jeannie in the 1960’s and Hart to Hart in the 1990’s.
In addition to Ms. Duke, the core cast included William Schallert, who played Patty’s father, Martin Lane; Jean Byron as Patty’s mother, Natalie Lane; Paul O’Keefe portrayed Patty’s sister, Ross Lane; and Eddie Applegate, who portrayed Patty’s boyfriend, Richard Harrison in 70 episodes.
Schallert has one of the longest careers in TV and also film, and remains active in his 80’s. (Incredibly, there was almost no hit TV show – in all genres – from the 60s through the 80s that he did not appear.)
The dual role played by Ms. Duke presented special effects challenges for the low-tech 60’s, as they were rarely ever used in sitcoms of the day. (A VERY notable exception was the daytime gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows.)
In each episode of this series, Ms. Duke appeared as both characters in the same frame through the use of a split screen effect. To complement these effects, child actress Rita McLaughlin was used as Ms. Duke’s double (almost always seen only from behind).
First Season episodes are: The Pilot; The French Teacher; The Genius; The Elopement; House Guest; The Birds and the Bees Bit; The Slumber Party; The Babysitters; The Conquering Hero; The President; Double Date; The Actress; How to Be Popular; The Song Writers; The Princess Cathy; Christmas Present; Auld Lang Syne; Horoscope; The Tycoons; Author! Author!; The Continental; Let ‘Em Eat Cake; Going Steady; Are Mothers People?; The Con Artist; The Perfect Teenager; Chip Off the Old Block; The Wedding Anniversary Caper; Pen Pals; A Slight Case of Disaster; The Friendship Bit; Patty, the Foster Mother; Drop Out; Leave it to Patty; The Little Dictator; The Working Girl; and The Cousins.
“Cousins,” was the unforgettable series theme. The music was composed by Sid Ramin, while the lyrics that stayed in your head like a causality loop, was written by Robert Wells. For those not old enough to have the song still playing in their aged noggins, here it is:
Meet Cathy, who’s lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Patty’s only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights–
What a crazy pair!
But they’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Ruses, and crepe Suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control–
What a wild duet!
Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike–
You can lose your mind,
When cousins – are two of a kind!
Here’s hoping the remaining two seasons are quickly released.
What an unbelievable year 2009 has been for putting THE BEST 1960’s television shows on dvd sets, and now added to this list FINALLY is “The Patty Duke Show”! Previously this year, Shout!Factory released “Peyton Place” and “Room 222″, and the quality of the film on these two sets is like night and day. I contacted Shout! to find out if this “Patty Duke Show” dvd set will be beautifully restored and clean like “Peyton Place” or if it will be fuzzy and grainy like “Room 222″. Shout! said they are putting out a good print of “The Patty Duke Show”, and I hope “good” means really good like in Peyton Place good! They would not be more specific about the quality, so we will see when it’s released on September 29, 2009.
“The Patty Duke Show” was tailor made for oscar-winning Patty Duke to play two teenage identical cousins going through High School together in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Patty Duke plays Patty Lane, who lives with her newspaper editor father, Martin Lane (William Schallert), her mother Natalie Lane (Jean Byron) and her younger brother Ross Lane (Paul O’Keefe). Patty has a steady boyfriend Richard Harrison (Eddie Applegate). Patty’s father Martin, has a brother Kenneth Lane, who is a globe-trotting journalist, who happens to have a daughter named Cathy Lane (Patty Duke) who not only looks exactly like Patty , but is Patty’s exact age. Cathy comes from Scotland to live with her Uncle Martin’s family in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Even though Cathy and Patty look alike, sophisticated Cathy is nothing like her cousin Patty, who is the typical American teenager in 1963.
“The Patty Duke Show” ran for only 3 seasons from 1963 to 1966. The show featured some great guest stars over these years, some of my favorites being Frankie Avalon (in this first season), Chad and Jeremy, Sammy Davis Jr., Sal Mineo, Robert Goulet, Troy Donahue and Paul Lynde (also in this first season). Patty Duke played both cousins Patty and Cathy Lane and the technology used for Patty Duke to play 2 people on the screen at the same time, was quite primitive in 1963. They would shoot in split screen when the cousins were together facing the camera, and you can see the “line” where the two films are spliced together in almost every shot like this. A double was used when the cousins were talking face to face, so you would see Patty Duke’s face and the double’s back of her head. In a few of these first seasons episodes, the face of the double was accidentally briefly glimpsed! Martin Lane, Patty’s father played by William Schallert, was such a well liked tv father, he was voted #39 in TV Guide’s 50 Greatest Dad’s of All Time. The show’s unaired Pilot premiered in 1963 and was set in San Francisco, instead of Brooklyn Heights, New York, and father Martin Lane and brother Ross Lane were played by different actors. In this unaired pilot, Mark Miller played Martin and Charles Herbert played Ross. Sadly, even though Shout!Factory advertised everywhere that this first season would include the rare Pilot, they did not include it, and I hope this was a bad oversight and that they keep to their word and include it in Season 2!
Here are the First Season’s Pilot and 36 Episodes:
0. (1963) PILOT-Cathy moves in with her Uncle’s family.
1. (9-18-1963) THE FRENCH TEACHER-Patty has a teacher crush.
2. (9-25-1963) THE GENIUS-Patty alters a test (Paul Lynde guest stars).
3. (10-2-1963) THE ELOPEMENT-Martin thinks Patty is marrying Richard.
4. (10-9-1963) THE HOUSE GUEST-Aunt Pauline’s visit bothers Cathy.
5. (10-16-1963) THE BIRDS AND THE BEES BIT-Ross gets a girl’s invitation.
6. (10-23-1963) THE SLUMBER PARTY-Spy Ross tapes and blackmails Patty.
7. (10-30-1963) THE BABYSITTERS-Patty babysits to make money.
8. (11-6-1963) THE CONQUERING HERO-Cathy tutors a basketball player (Charles Nelson Reilly guest stars).
9. (11-13-1963) THE PRESIDENT-Patty and Cathy compete for President.
10.(11-20-1963) DOUBLE DATE-Patty doubles for Cathy (Margaret Hamilton guest stars).
11.(11-27-1963) THE ACTRESS-Patty and Cathy both want to be Cleopatra.
12.(12-4-1963) HOW TO BE POPULAR-Cathy doesn’t want to be a wallflower (Frankie Avalon guest stars).
13.(12-11-1963) THE SONGWRITERS-Patty plagiarizes a poem to Richard (Jimmy Dean guest stars).
14.(12-18-1963) THE PRINCESS CATHY-Cathy gets a proposal.
15.(12-25-1963) THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT-Patty has a wonderful surprise.
16.(1-1-1964) AULD LANG SYNE-Cathy’s father Kenneth Lane gets fired.
17.(1-8-1964) HOROSCOPE-Patty and Cathy make double money in astrology.
18.(1-15-1964) THE TYCOONS-Patty and Cathy become dress makers.
19.(1-22-1964) AUTHOR!AUTHOR!-Patty gets a book published.
20.(1-29-1964) THE CONTINENTAL-Martin gets transferred to Paris.
21.(2-5-1964) LET ‘EM EAT CAKE-Patty and Cathy re-bake Natalie’s contest cake which they ate (Margaret Hamilton guest stars).
22.(2-12-1964) GOING STEADY-Patty accepts Richard’s ring to go steady.
23.(2-19-1964) ARE MOTHER’S PEOPLE?-Natalie feels unappreciated.
24.(2-26-1964) THE CON ARTIST-Cathy purchases a vacuum cleaner (Estelle Parsons guest stars).
25.(3-4-1964) THE PERFECT TEENAGER-Patty takes a modeling class (Kaye Ballard guest stars).
26.(3-11-1964) CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK-Patty’s editor job turns tabloid.
27.(3-18-1964) THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CAPER-Ross enters Patty in a Beautiful Teens Contest in order to win a prize for their parents anniversary.
28.(3-25-1964) PEN PALS-Patty’s penpal is superior to Richard.
29.(4-1-1964) THE FRIENDSHIP BIT-Patty may be jealous of Cathy.
30.(4-8-1964) A SLIGHT CASE OF DISASTER-Cathy borrows Patty’s dress.
31.(4-15-1964) PATTY,THE FOSTER MOTHER-Patty adopts a Korean boy.
32.(4-22-1964) THE DROP OUT-Patty drops “dropout” Richard.
33.(4-29-1964) LEAVE IT TO PATTY-Patty poses as Cathy to get Cathy’s pop star friend to perform at their dance.
34.(5-6-1964) THE LITTLE DICTATOR-Cathy is student principal and has to discipline Patty in class.
35.(5-13-1964) THE WORKING GIRL-Patty works at the Shake Shop.
36.(5-20-1964) THE COUSINS-Patty and Cathy reminisce.
BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDED:
Shout! Factory has confirmed that they are including a nice retrospective featurette on this First Season, which is based on the brand new interviews they just finished with the entire cast, all except for “Mom” Natalie Lane played by the late Jean Byron.
Shout! Factory also confirmed that the episodes are not cut up or shortened, as they are running the original full 25 minutes per episode.
I originally watched “The Patty Duke Show” when it premiered in 1963, and I enjoy it just as much now as I did back then! Even with the primitive 1963 special effects of seeing Patty’s double’s back of her head (and a glimpse of her face in this first season), and the splicing lines on the middle of the film, the show still holds up today with it’s family warmth and charm. A huge thank you Shout!Factory for finally putting the long-awaited and wonderful Patty Duke Show on dvd!
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So, yeah, besides the superheroes, there were plenty of other Saturday morning cartoon heroes in my kidhood. To name a few, there was Blackstar and Flash Gordon, then the Defenders of the Earth and the Mighty Orbots, and Thundarr the Barbarian. Hell, I even liked Captain Caveman. And then there were the straight out icons. In 1980 Filmation produced The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour, which a season later changed to The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour with the addition of the swashbuckling Old Californian bandit. So, yes, you best believe, back in the day, I was waking up early on them Saturday mornings to tune in to CBS and thus get my cartoon on.
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I never got to see the 1960’s Lone Ranger cartoon which preceded this one, but I definitely caught the live action Clayton Moore episodes. As a kid, even as much as I enjoyed Clayton Moore, it wasn’t even close when it came to preference. The Filmation version was a cartoon, and that just made it more splendid and oh-so-appealing to a kid’s eyes. The Lone Ranger show also peppered in historical figures into its episodes, from female journalist Nellie Bly (”The Great Balloon Race”) to President Grant (”The President Plot”) to Samuel Clemens (”The Abduction of Tom Sawyer”). So you got tricked into learning something. Verrrry devious.
Nowadays, the Lone Ranger might be a bit too straight-laced for my cynical taste. But, back then, oboy, mister, he rocked hard! Even though the Lone Ranger wielded his blazing guns with righteous fury, he never shot to kill (and that went beyond the cartoon show). On his trusty white stallion Silver and with his Indian friend Tonto, he patrolled the wild West, serving up his own brand of justice and living by his strict moral code, a silver bullet his calling card. C’mon, don’t tell me that when you were a kid, you didn’t cheer when the Lone Ranger’s “Hi-yo, Silver!” rang out.
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Zorro, on the other hand, even though every bit as idealistic as the masked ex-Texas Ranger, is much more relaxed in his methods. Set in Old California, Don Diego de la Vega walks around pretending to be a foppish nobleman. But when tyranny strikes (usually in the form of Captain Ramon), he dons the disguise of Zorro, brandishing his flashing rapier, carving out his famous “Z” and making fools of the soldados. Zorro rides his mighty steed Toronado and, in this cartoon, mentors his young sidekick, Miguel, who goes around in a similar, albeit more colorful, get-up. Another cool thing about the Zorro episodes – and an educational plus – is that, at the end of each show, Zorro would teach his viewers something about his culture. By the way, the Lone Ranger, at episode’s end, would also take turns with Tonto in imparting historical tidbits.
Watching the Jungle Lord, the Masked Man, and the Curse of Capistrano on television led me to check out the works of pulp writers Johnston McCulley and the even more influential Edgar Rice Burroughs. And then it was only a short step from becoming a voracious reader. So I owe these cartoons a lot. Since the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate retains the rights to Tarzan, this 2 disc dvd set doesn’t have Lord Greystoke in it. But it’s all good. NEW ADVENTURES OF THE LONE RANGER AND ZORRO VOL. 1 is comprised of 17 cartoons in total, 11 Lone Ranger episodes and 6 Zorro episodes. The special features consist of two spotlight interviews: one with Filmation co-founder and producer Lou Scheimer (10 minutes long) and another with Zorro writer Robbie London (4 minutes). Both dudes talk on a bit about Zorro.
Remember that the animation is from the 1980s, and be kind. At that, the animation’s not too shabby, anyway. Performance-wise, we might have been denied Robert Ridgely’s strong turn as Tarzan, but we do get to hear the Lone Ranger and Zorro admirably voiced respectively by William Conrad (he provided narration for the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons) and Henry Darrow. Interestingly Darrow, who is of Puerto Rican descent, was later involved in two other Zorro television projects (and, this time, in live action): Disney’s short-lived 1983 sitcom ZORRO AND SON and the more straight-forward ZORRO (1990-93).
Excitement and adventure in the Old West as provided by two legendary masked heroes. No, this show doesn’t come too much in the way of super powers or space aliens or magical artifacts, and it’s definitely not anime. And yet I had so much fun in watching it. Expert gun toting and fiery swashbuckling never get old. So, hopefully, NEW ADVENTURES OF THE LONE RANGER AND ZORRO VOL. 2 is just around the corner (maybe 2008?). Let’s hope, yeah?
Disc 1 has the Lone Ranger episodes:
- Episode 1: “The Runaway”
- Episode 2: “Hanga the Night Monster”
- Episode 3: “Yellowstone Conspiracy”
- Episode 4: “The President Plot”
- Episdoe 5: “The Great Balloon Race”
- Episode 6: “The Escape”
- Episode 7: “The Valley of Gold”
- Episode 8: “Tall Timber”
- Episode 9: “Blowout!”
- Episode 10: “The Abduction of Tom Sawyer”
- Episode 11: “The Black Mare”
Disc 2 has the Zorro episodes (and the 2 interviews):
- Episode 1: “Three’s A Crowd”
- Episode 2: “Flash Flood”
- Episode 3: “The Blockade”
- Episode 4: “The Frame”
- Episode 5: “Turnabout”
- Episode 6: “The Tyrant”
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Filmation so busy with animation shows like Superman, the Archies, Flash Gordon, Fat Albert, Aquaman (all on DVD), Batman, Tarzan (not on DVD), The Secret of Isis, Jason of Star Command, Ark II (all of DVD) and many others.
I enjoy watching the Lone Ranger and Zorro hour when I was in college, it ran in 1980-1981. Now these episodes are on DVD, bring me back to the glory days of Saturday animation. The animation was better than most today.
From the moment you hear the William Tell overture, you are transported to a bygone era. The dialog of this cartoon is played out more like a old fashion old time radio show. William Conrad (credited as J. Darnoc), the voice of Radio’s Matt Dillion on Gunsmoke, did the voice of the Lone Ranger. His booming voice had a character and a power. he vocally created the voice of the masked man and you will believe it.
The episodes of the Lone Ranger is part historic and part western lore. At emd of each episode of Ranger and Zorro is a 30 historical insight.
Zorro was the only time Filmation relied on outsourcing on a cartoon.The company created its animated Zorro series. It was animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha of Japan. The storyboards and graphics however, were made by Filmation themselves.However other than a few gaffs, you will never notice.
Note this is not Disney’s version of Zorro. This cartoon had a mostly latina cast for Zorro, first time in TV history even for a cartoon. Henry Darrow did the vocals for Zorro/Don Diego. Don Diamond , who was Reyes from the original Disney versonof Zorro, voices Sergeant Gonzales.
This is also told in a radio show like style
Note this is the first volume of Lone Ranger/zorro, the final volume is expected later in 2008. The original run of the series had 28 Ranger and 13 Zorro episode. On this collection, it has 11 episodes of the Ranger, 6 Episodes of Zorro
If you are a fan of great animation and good storytelling, this is the best seven hours you will enjoy
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Well, my very favorite series of all time, Cardcaptor Sakura, has come to an end in its American release. I have to say that this was the absolute perfect way to finish off the series – with a movie. Most of us know that episode 70 of the anime was a total cliff-hanger, and this is what happens.
Four months have passed since Eriol and his ordeals have left for England, and four months had passed since Syaoran told Sakura his true feelings, and yet, she was never able to reply. As life starts turning back to normal for her, the most exciting thing that happens is her getting the part of princess in a festival play.
Eriol’s old house has been demolished, and a new amusement park was built atop the hill where it stood. Underneath the house, the 53rd Clow Card was sealed – a card that has the power to cancel out the other 52 and turn the world to nothingness.
Syaoran gets dragged to Japan by Meiling for the Nadeshiko festival, and Sakura tries to tell him how she feels, and somehow, something’s always in the way! In the end, when everything, including Sakura’s cards starts to dissappear, Sakura must make a choice – give up her most precious feeling, or let the world turn to nothing.
The movie was truly amazingly animated. Everyone still has their true personalities, but somehow, they show a bit more expression. The colors are better, and in all, it’s just better quality than the anime. It’s widescreen, and has two subtitle tracks… However, there was one thing that intruiged me about this disk…
It’s been dubbed, and not by Nelvana. The original Cadcaptors dub totally butchered the story, making it something for little kids. Since they cut out all traces of the S/S relationship, there was no point in dubbing this at all. However, when I played it on the English track, I sure was surprised. The dialog was accurate, the voices were just extremely well picked (especially Sakura-chan!), and I was really impressed! The only complaint I had was the over-use of complete sentences and Yukito’s voice (sadly, Megumi Ogata doesn’t speak English).
Over all, this is worth the money. I was really happy finally getting to watch it after reading various summaries. ^^; Just one thing – I don’t recomend this to anyone that hasn’t seen all of the originally subbed episodes. Even if it’s dubbed, you will be lost. It does not follow the Cardcaptors story.
Anyway, I hope my review heled somewhat. Thanks for reading.
Finally, all the Clow Cards have been transformed into Sakura Cards, Eriol is back in England and Shaoran in Honk Kong. Back in Tokyo, Tomoyo still films Sakura’s awesome powers (and makes sure to create cute little outfits for her as well). Everything seems to be okay until, one day, the house where Eriol used to live in is demolished to build a Theme Park.
The Void Card is now free and willing to do anything in order to get all it’s friends back. Now, Sakura must fight against a Card which is immune to any kind of spell she or her guardians can use. Will Sakura capture this card before it swallows all her friends and the whole city? Can she tell Shaoran how she truly feels before his feelings are erased by the Void card’s power?
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