Sentences with word «laserdisc»

Includes alternate cues from recording session as present on prior laserdisc release.

Sure, his earlier films like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, or Dead Alive / Brain Dead will never reach a mainstream audience, but Frighteners was a fun little ghost story with a once - upon - a-star in it and it was released on laserdisc in an incredible version so I am sure it will see the light of day.

This was one of the very first commentary tracks ever recorded and was unavailable to most viewers (there aren't a lot of laserdisc players still spinning discs out there) until it was revived for the 2011 Blu - ray.

The Blu - ray's extras begin with an audio commentary, recorded for laserdisc in 1997, by Terry Gilliam, co - writer / actor Michael Palin, and actors John Cleese, David Warner, and Craig Warnock.

They also get into discussions about laserdisc players.

We have the original 1986 Scorsese commentary track (presumably recorded for laserdisc), as well as other commentary tracks by Schrader and by professor Robert Kolker.

There are superb Blu - ray and DVD special editions, including a new 40th Anniversary Blu - ray with a new cast and crew reunion Q&A and commentary by Martin Scorsese recorded for the original laserdisc release of the film: one of the first commentary tracks ever recorded.

Feature carried over from original laserdisc set, but not present on DVD subsequent releases.

My first exposure to many of my favorite films came from Criterion laserdiscs back in college, and today I seriously follow your new releases the way most people follow bands.»

Supplements for these platters are divided into two categories: «Bonus Features,» which are new and also appear on the current DVD, and «Classic DVD Bonus Features,» which is stuff that in some cases dates all the way back to the Deluxe Edition LaserDisc of Toy Story but has become, in these latest reissues, exclusive - to - Blu - ray.

The 1980s saw renewed interest in widescreen filmmaking in academic circles, perhaps as more films became available in letterboxed LaserDisc editions.

Road Prosecutor was originally a Data East laserdisc arcade game from 1985 called Road Blaster.

Book - length film studies by amateurs can be traced back to Salman Rushdie's 1992 The Wizard of Oz, the volume that launched the BFI Film Classics — possibly the most bountiful book series in the history of film criticism in any language, and one that sums up some of the gains criticism generally can boast over the same period, when DVD extras, building on the precedents established with laserdiscs, started to become institutionalized.

Author Ray Bradbury visited Creature Features on October 20, 1996 to autograph the new laserdisc release of Walt Disney's 1983 adaptation of his classic novel SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

Apparently there's a Poltergeist LaserDisc box set with documentary footage of Spielberg giving the actors direction; shouldn't this particular controversy, like the Warren Commission findings and the Nixon Tapes, have an expiration date for its Top Secret status?

Fast Draw Showdown is a live - action game that was originally released on laserdisc back in 1994.

(Note: feature is not present on prior Laserdisc releases.)

The original Dragon's Lair hit the upright arcade machines on Laserdisc format back in 1983.

My only knock against e-ink is that it is a transitional technology, like laserdisc caught between VHS and DVD.

So he instead became a producer for Pioneer's LaserDisc system, and helped acquire and produce feature films and music videos in Japan and the US / England.

So here you have it kids, my review of what is one the Holy Grails of laserdisc collection the extended, super-special edition of Peter Jacksons The Frighteners.

Dragon's Lair recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and was the first fully animated LaserDisc video game.

In case this impression stemmed from the pan and scan transfer, I rented the letterboxed laserdisc a few years later and felt the same way; Jaws 2 isn't a terrible movie, but it's nothing more than a pale imitation of the original.

To name but a few, there's Lorna (1979 — 1984), the first interactive LaserDisc, in which the viewer manipulates the fate of an agoraphobic woman through a remote control; Deep Contact (1984), the first hypercard touch screen, which beckons you to stroke its display and set a narrative in motion; and Synthia Stock Ticker (2000 — 2002), an «emotional engine» that syncs with current stocks and alters its female protagonist's behavior according to market fluctuations.

I own the NTSC Laserdisc of this movie that features DD and PCM soundtracks.

The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer will impress even the most jaded viewer, exhibiting stark blacks and whites that often suggest the silver retention process used famously in theatrical and LaserDisc presentations of Seven.

Though it feels complete and thorough here, this is actually a truncated version of the making - of's 40 - minute laserdisc incarnation.

When Criterion released the film on CAV laserdisc back in 1994, the deluxe set contained one of the best commentary tracks for a film, intricately interweaving comments from Carpenter, writer / producer Debra Hill, and star Jamie Lee Curtis.

Whatever my viewing preference, it's nice to have the option to watch both, as until now the only way to view the English rendition in widescreen was via Japanese LaserDisc.

The game used laserdisc technology similar to that of 1983's Dragon's Lair to create the distinctive animated feel to the game.

«You can learn more from John Sturges» audio track on the Bad Day at Black Rock Laserdisc than you can in four years of film school.

Because, he did release the original trilogy on DVD but apparently they're not remastered and not anamorphic, as a matter of fact some have said that they're from a crappy laserdisc version.

Not only is it one of the only films Woody Allen opted to shoot in «Scope format (the only other one to date is 2003's Anything Else), but Allen was famously protective of the film's anamorphic widescreen integrity, going so far as to prohibit any TV broadcasts, laserdisc pressings, or VHS releases, to compromise it through a pan-and-scan reduction.

Although he's been known to lord his immense collection of Mystery Science Theater 3000 memorabilia over anyone he thinks will be impressed by it, Joe is also an avid collector of Hitchcock and Kurosawa laserdiscs and DVDs.

I still have my old mid-1990s laserdisc editions, and I'll be holding onto them for dear life.

Both incarnations tone down the edge - enhancement of the sought - after LaserDisc and offer a more variegated palette.

As the introductory scroll lifted directly from the 25th Anniversary Edition laserdisc explains, the reconstruction of «A Step in the Right Direction» (3:45) is the best way to enjoy this deleted song unless the discarded full footage is ever unearthed.

The Fox Archive release has not been mastered in HD and it looks only slightly better than laserdisc quality, but it's a good source print and is perfectly watchable.

The 1.5 - hour laserdisc documentary remains missing, but a chunk of its material was repurposed for the bonus features found here.

The deluxe Archive Edition laserdisc apparently had even more supplements which were not carried over.

Even for a non-anamorphic laserdisc transfer port, Disney's 33rd animated classic disappointed, with video that made it hard to believe the feature was less than a decade old.

On the Pocahontas laserdisc, there was a highly - praised audio commentary, a making - of documentary with location footage, highlights of the film's premiere in Central Park, a multi-language reel of «Colors of the Wind», and interviews from the filmmakers.

Whereas Algiers does not contain any musical extras, Criterion's releases for The Tin Drum (1979) and Short Cuts (1993) port over the isolated mono score tracks from the respective laserdisc releases.