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Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:20 pm
by ellipsis7
swo17 wrote:Who are Alan Yentob and Ben Morris?
Alan Yentob is Creative Director of the BBC, previously Presenter/Producer/Editor of the groundbreaking BBC Arts documentary series ARENA, and now fronting the BBC Arts series IMAGINE...
I presume this is the
programme in question...
And the story behind it (as related by Barry Miles in his
William S. Burroughs: A Life)
By 1982 he (Howard Brookner) had sixty hours of film, and Burroughs was getting irritated because Howard had exclusive right to film him, and other more professional people were being prevented from doing so. Howard did not know how to complete the film. The BBC eventually solved the problem.In October 1982, at the Final Academy, a conference/celebration of Burroughs and his work in London, the BBC approached Burroughs to film the event or at least film him with Francis Bacon for their arts documentary series Arena. They were told they had to use Brookner's footage, to which they reluctantly agreed, and they flew Brookner to London to see the rushes and discuss it. Alan Yentob, Nigel Finch, and Anthony Wall filmed a new interview with Burroughs with BBC staffer John Waters in Lawrence, and filmed him with Francis Bacon. They did rostrum shots of Burroughs's books—which is why there are British -editions in the film--added a bit of honky-tonk music, and dropped in sections of Antony Balch's sixties footage from Towers Open Fire and The Cut-Ups. They transmitted it in February 1983. Brookner was so relieved to have the film completed that he used the BBC TV edit exactly as it was when he released the film for theatrical exhibition in the United States six months later.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:15 am
by giovannii84
https://www.criterion.com/people/120894-fay-holden" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Just noticed Fay Holden has s phantom page.
Any thoughts of which film this could relate to?
Other than the Andy Hardy series, has she been anything else notable?
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:22 am
by vidussoni
A Bulldog Drummond boxset.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:46 am
by FrauBlucher
Ousmane Sembene...Probably for Black Girl
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 2:43 pm
by FrauBlucher
vidussoni wrote:
A Bulldog Drummond boxset.
Watching
Bulldog Drummond In Africa this morning on TCM, there was a Janus logo at the beginning of movie. Plus, many of the directors that have worked on this series have phantom pages. So, this sounds like it's definitely in the works.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 3:27 pm
by movielocke
Would it be a five disc eclipse with the ten films on Hulu or a zatoichi type box with all the other films in the series not on hulu
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:30 pm
by FrauBlucher
I guess it depends whether they want to give it supplements.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:59 pm
by sir_luke
I'd love a full-fledged box but I'm concerned that Bulldog Drummond wouldn't have the same appeal or demand as something like Zatoichi...
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:58 am
by jwd5275
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:48 am
by Buttery Jeb
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:04 am
by Arrow
What are the rights situations with Come and See?
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:14 am
by ianungstad
The Kino dvd of Come & See seems to be still available new from Amazon but Kino has been letting a lot of their classic arthouse titles lapse.
Re: Sergey Bondarchuk. War and Peace has also been out of print for years.
Those two seem obvious. Not sure on the other directors.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:20 am
by vidussoni
A few weeks ago someone at the blu-ray forum asked MisterLime about
Come and See.
Maybe one day, not anytime soon. Lots of issues that I cannot get into is blocking the restoration and release.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:23 am
by doh286
Festival or The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, perhaps? The latter film has been released by Sony on Blu-ray though.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:31 am
by SpiderBaby
Aleksandr Dovzhenko? No way. Hope it's not an Eclipse dump. But then again, we might not see a release at all for years.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:46 am
by Buttery Jeb
doh286 wrote:
Festival or The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, perhaps? The latter film has been released by Sony on Blu-ray though.
Perhaps it's a complete Isle of Wight boxset, similar to the Monterey Pop collection?
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:59 am
by Noiradelic
Buttery Jeb wrote:
Perhaps it's a complete Isle of Wight boxset
Define "complete." Nine individual performances have been released on BD/DVD, all apparently still in print.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:46 am
by DeprongMori
Murray Lerner is also an uncredited associate producer on Sam Fuller's
The Steel Helmet (already out on Eclipse) FWIW. May have been populated by an intern for that release.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044072/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 4:34 pm
by yoshimori
Arrow wrote:Elem Klimov
A just restored
Welcome, or No Trespassing played at Cannes in May.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:40 pm
by beamish13
yoshimori wrote:Arrow wrote:Elem Klimov
A just restored
Welcome, or No Trespassing played at Cannes in May.
That would be fantastic.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:43 pm
by AfterTheRain
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Sergey Bondarchuk
War and Peace is one possibility for Bondarchuk, while my personal preference would be
Waterloo. Dovzhenko's page could mean that
Earth might be coming to the Collection.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:47 pm
by swo17
Ideally they'd do his whole war trilogy.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 12:30 am
by TMDaines
swo17 wrote:Ideally they'd do his whole war trilogy.
This post was going to make me suggest that better still would be a release of
The Enchanted Desna, which for years was one of the unobtainable films online. It's not a lost film, but it was nowhere to be found ever either with an official release or some rip from another source. I just did a cursory search before hitting submit and found that a rip of this became available in August last year and completely passed me by!
Have you watched it yet?
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 1:01 am
by swo17
Me you or the collective you? I have not.
Re: The Mystery of the Phantom Web Pages
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:11 am
by Cinephrenic
My speculations...
Bondarchuk could be Fate of a Man, Waterloo or War and Peace
Dovzhenko probably Arsenal
Lerner: Isle of Wight 1970 festival?