Sentences with phrase «with laserdiscs»

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.

As a home theater audio format, DTS (also referred to as DTS Digital Surround or DTS Core) is one of two (along with Dolby Digital 5.1) that got their start with the Laserdisc format, with both formats migrating to DVD upon that format's introduction.

Not exact matches

What do you get when you mesh an actress whose film career has seemingly gone the way of the laserdisc player with...

(The film was popular demo material for those with AC - 3 systems back in the LaserDisc era and holds up pretty well.)

A commentary track — apparently recorded some time ago for the laserdisc release — includes chat by the late James Coburn and Donald Pleasence as well as a much older interview with Sturges.

We also recommend you to listen the long out - of - print Criterion Collection Laserdisc commentary with Orson Welles historian Robert Carringer [MP3].

At last, it is getting that with its long - wished - for, rumored, and awaited readmission into The Criterion Collection, who last released it on laserdisc in 1998.

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.

Smooth jazz musician Barry R (Jon Daly) appears with a detachable soul patch to promote his smooth new laserdisc.

The film entered The Criterion Collection on laserdisc in 1997 (with spine # 352) and on DVD in 2000.

This is a film that I have been obsessed with for years but had only seen via shabby laserdisc and DVD transfers that hardly began to do it justice.

This Twilight Time release features the original commentary recorded by Frankenheimer for the laserdisc release almost 20 years ago plus a new commentary track with Twilight Time founder and historian Nick Redman and film historians Julie Kirgo and Paul Seydor, as well as the usual isolated score track and eight - page booklet.

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.

With the way that restorations and rereleases are performed, I doubt we'll see either the theatrical or laserdisc edits again anytime soon, if ever.

The film was shot by Glengarry Glen Ross cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchía and looks it, with the stability of his trademark sizzling reds pardoning the intermittent «LaserDisc» appearance of the image, i.e., an ineffably dated digital sheen.

I upgraded through the years, first to a letterboxed Japanese LaserDisc that improved the film immeasurably, given Carpenter's skills with «scope framing, and then to a snap - cased DVD from Image Entertainment that felt like a gift from Heaven.

I was watching a movie with some friends last night and for some reason my eyes wandered their way from the television screen to my laserdisc collection, which has never been as large as I would have liked.

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.

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.

Extras begin with an audio commentary that director John Frankenheimer recorded in 1997 for a laserdisc release of the film.

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?

Disc two houses a rather large assortment of supplements: two theatrical trailers (notice how Sarandon's last name is misspelled in one), alternate takes, two deleted musical numbers; interviews with cast members taken from VH1; a couple of karaoke segments; and a documentary on the film taken from a previous laserdisc release.

I'm disappointed by not only the continued suppression of the featurette that graced the LaserDisc box set but also the apparent unwillingness of any content producers to step up with fresh making - of material.

Unavailable for years, the longer version — with prologue, epilogue, and additional scenes — eventually appeared on laserdisc, also restoring Alfred Newman's Entrance, Exit, and Intermission music.

If this game's soundtrack doesn't release on Laserdisc with an airbrushed slipcover I'll be frankly surprised.

I've chosen the Sega CD edition as along with the 3DO edition they are seen as the original arcade to home console ports using CD technology rather than the original laserdisc.

Everyone was so confident the SGM would be a hit that Coleco began working with RCA and video game console creator Ralph Baer (Magnavox Odyssey) on a second Super Game Module, one that could play games and movies on a disk similar to RAC's CED VideoDisk Players, a precursor to Laserdiscs and DVDs.

Sitting in front of a television, viewers select with a remote control the chapters originally stored on a LaserDisc (now on DVD).

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.

JVC countered with VHS and Phillips reacted with the then advanced LaserDisc technology which seemed at the time, to be the most advanced technology.