Natalie Wood Collection
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Matt
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:58 pm
Re: Natalie Wood Collection
Maybe they let Warren "Soft Focus" Beatty do the remastering himself.domino harvey wrote:More like Splendor in the Gross
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domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm
Re: Natalie Wood Collection
For those of you who hubba-hubba'd over the cover, you'll be pretty happy with the spine on this boxed set as well.
I've only had time to watch Inside Daisy Clover since it arrived, but that film alone justified the forty dollars I spent on the set. One of the strangest Hollywood satires I've ever seen, the film's big joke is in its title, as this is a picture that does nothing but present the surface of this young starlet and treats her much like the commodity she represents. Wood's titular cipher moves through wonderfully empty variations on the typical tropes on fame and stardom from the era, but the picture doesn't hide its disinterest in the history of classical Hollywood film from any perspective, good or bad. Thankfully free of period fetishization, the picture thumbs its nose at stardom from the lofty perspective that stardom and Hollywood barely mattered enough to comment on in the first place. And in a fashion, this acidic approach is actually more biting than other more well-known pictures on similar subjects, because those other Hollywood satires still held a somewhat romantic notion of film-- you can't break spells of Hollywood without acknowledging that they exist. Inside Daisy Clover refuses to grant even that basic premise.
I've only had time to watch Inside Daisy Clover since it arrived, but that film alone justified the forty dollars I spent on the set. One of the strangest Hollywood satires I've ever seen, the film's big joke is in its title, as this is a picture that does nothing but present the surface of this young starlet and treats her much like the commodity she represents. Wood's titular cipher moves through wonderfully empty variations on the typical tropes on fame and stardom from the era, but the picture doesn't hide its disinterest in the history of classical Hollywood film from any perspective, good or bad. Thankfully free of period fetishization, the picture thumbs its nose at stardom from the lofty perspective that stardom and Hollywood barely mattered enough to comment on in the first place. And in a fashion, this acidic approach is actually more biting than other more well-known pictures on similar subjects, because those other Hollywood satires still held a somewhat romantic notion of film-- you can't break spells of Hollywood without acknowledging that they exist. Inside Daisy Clover refuses to grant even that basic premise.
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domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm
Re: Natalie Wood Collection
Sex and the Single Girl, which starts out like any of the lightweight sex comedies of the late 50s-early 60s sort of keeps pushing itself to be broader and broader as the film goes on, until the last half is just non-stop Monkees-esque insanity. I don't think I or anyone could have guessed at the outset that this is the sort of film which would climax with an impossibly complicated and quite funny thirty minute long car chase! Maybe I was so pleased because I went in with pretty low expectations, but this film is so weirdly bombastic that its inclusion in the set is far more welcome than it initially seemed.
Bombers B-52 though-- oof, this must have just been handy. Maybe the reels were sitting very close to the door of the vault. This drab box filler is a bad Karl Malden picture and an even worse Natalie Wood picture. I did like how the television quiz show's "baseball" category covered no actual baseball though. Even worse is the utterly charmless Cash McCall, a cheap-looking movie about a wealthy cue card reader who romances Natalie Wood's bouffant hairstyle. The film's as wooden as the set's wall paneling and half as entertaining.
Bombers B-52 though-- oof, this must have just been handy. Maybe the reels were sitting very close to the door of the vault. This drab box filler is a bad Karl Malden picture and an even worse Natalie Wood picture. I did like how the television quiz show's "baseball" category covered no actual baseball though. Even worse is the utterly charmless Cash McCall, a cheap-looking movie about a wealthy cue card reader who romances Natalie Wood's bouffant hairstyle. The film's as wooden as the set's wall paneling and half as entertaining.
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domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm
Re: Natalie Wood Collection
Anyone who balked at the price of the US set, the UK PAL version is on sale at Amazon.co.uk for less than sixteen pounds with VAT, meaning it'd be about $20 American after it's removed.