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porquenegar wrote:

mfunk9786 wrote:The custom Taxi Driver DVD posted on certain filesharing sites using the Criterion LD commentary is a real gem. If you know how to capture the commentary - you should certainly utilize your knowledge! It's worth it.

I'm still playing around with it. The problem I'm having appears to be that there is no amplification between my LD player and my computer. I can record the audio and make MP3 but the quality is pretty bad. I haven't had time to really mess with it in the last couple of months though. I own somewhere around 2/3 of the criterion LDs.

mf9design wrote:...the ultra rare 3 disc version of The Game.

jbnugent wrote:

mf9design wrote:...the ultra rare 3 disc version of The Game.

Okay- I thought I was "up" on all things Criterion, but this must have slipped by me. What is this 3 disc version of "The Game"?

Napier wrote:you could go to Criterion's web site and browse the laser disc section. Then you would find everything about their release or David Fincher's film. Which is very good by the way.

jbnugent wrote:What is this "rare 3 disc version of 'The Game'" that mf9design is referring to?

squarewave wrote:Hi - I'm new here and don't know if this has been asked and answered, but does anyone know about the so-called "first draft" script version of the Dr. Strangelove CC LD "first pressing"? Was it a special feature included in with the other special stuff like the trailer, music video, "Duck And Cover", etc? Or was it a version of the finished film? And how can you differentiate the first pressing from subsequent pressings - spine #'s, cover art?

Voyager-Criterion issued a remastered laserdisc of DR. STRANGELOVE in 1992. This version was struck from Kubrick's personal print of the film (one generation removed from the original negative). The disc jacket reads: "The film was shot using in-camera mattes with alternating aspect ratios, between 1.66:1 and 1.33:1. A new digital film-to-tape transfer was created using a 35mm duplicate negative and 35mm 3 track magnetic master."

The different mattes for the film's different aspect ratios are probably best noticeable at the top of the frame, in the shots where Major Kong puts on his Stetson hat. Also, as Kong rides the bomb, the bomb can be seen jumping "over" the background matte plate.

The Criterion disc also includes a wealth of materials outlining the civil-defense plans of the early 1960s, including still frames of various pamphlets, the famous short "Duck and Cover," and an early "video" of George McCulvey's "My Teenage Fallout Queen." There is also a British Film Board-approved trailer advertising Strangelove, which -- unique for its day -- includes photos of Kubrick himself. Best of all is an account of the film's laser remastering, as well as a frame-by-frame representation of an early STRANGELOVE script. The cover of the Criterion disk was also designed by Kubrick.

An early draft of the script -- written by Kubrick, before Southern was brought in -- can be read frame-by-frame on the Voyager-Criterion laserdisc. In this early draft, the film is presented as a recovered record found by aliens on a dead planet called Earth. (The opening credits describe a "Micro-Galaxy-Meteor" logo with a squalling alien head. Amusing, in light of the stylized MGM logo used in 2001.) This script is clearly less than the final product; a great deal of the final film's better lines clearly came from Southern's later contributions, including General Ripper's "bodily fluids" obsessions. Although there is a character named Turgidson, a character named "Buck" Schmuck gets most of what eventually wound up as Turgidson dialogue. (Interesting note: in this early script, one General is named "Toejam." So is a Marine in FULL METAL JACKET.)

betstech wrote:I'm looking for the audio commentary that Elizabeth Montgomery did for the 1991 Criterion laserdisc release of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

squarewave wrote:Thanks so much greggster59. Do you also happen to know if the spine # on the Dr. Strangelove CC LD "first pressing" is different from subsequent pressings? The one I have is #143 and does not have the "Alternate Script" feature in with the special features, so I'm assuming I have the second pressing. Do you have a "first pressing"?

Marko wrote:I have the TAXI DRIVER and CRASH commentaries. I'm interested in the DEAD RINGERS Criterion comm. with Cronenberg and crew. Just PM me if you have something posted with a link.

exte wrote:Amazon.ca sells the canadian dvd, which ported this over. It's the version I have...