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Re: Point Blank
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:24 pm
by kingofthejungle
repeat wrote:Stephen wrote:Could BFI be pulling this out of the Warner fire a la The Devils?
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It's funny, I never realized
Point Blank was a little-known or underappreciated film before recently, when I got a Blu-ray player: this was among the first must-upgrades that came to mind (likewise when I first got a region-free player, it was among the first R1 titles I bought) - and I just could not believe it hadn't been restored to HD yet!
The team at Warner Archive stated that
Point Blank is under consideration for a Blu-Ray release on their facebook page a few days ago, so perhaps the wait won't be too much longer.
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:00 am
by Stephen
Not to go ahead of things, but if BFI really were on the case, and would go through the trouble to include that Lee Marvin doc, and maybe get the Soderbergh commentary on there - now that would be a pretty serious candidate for reissue of the year.
And perhaps the terrific BBC2 'Making of' documentary that preceded its widescreen broadcast (late 90's I seem to remember).
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 5:18 am
by hearthesilence
kingofthejungle wrote:repeat wrote:Stephen wrote:Could BFI be pulling this out of the Warner fire a la The Devils?
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It's funny, I never realized
Point Blank was a little-known or underappreciated film before recently, when I got a Blu-ray player: this was among the first must-upgrades that came to mind (likewise when I first got a region-free player, it was among the first R1 titles I bought) - and I just could not believe it hadn't been restored to HD yet!
The team at Warner Archive stated that
Point Blank is under consideration for a Blu-Ray release on their facebook page a few days ago, so perhaps the wait won't be too much longer.
Excellent! I've been holding off for a while, hoping it would be released in hi-def.
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:03 pm
by Walter Kurtz
This film contains perhaps the most aptly-named lead character in the history of cinema.
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:13 pm
by swo17
More so than Gatsby Welles?
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:32 pm
by Walter Kurtz
Yes... because it's just so monomaniacally appropriate. And the SFX.
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:37 pm
by The Fanciful Norwegian
I saw Geoff Dyer introduce a screening of this and the part that I remember most was his description of the film's "sense of perambulatory menace."
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:40 pm
by Walter Kurtz
Monomaniacal perambulatory menace.
And the youngish Angie as VFX.
Re: Point Blank
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:02 am
by black&huge
The Fanciful Norwegian wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:37 pm
I saw Geoff Dyer introduce a screening of this and the part that I remember most was his description of the film's "sense of perambulatory menace."
Who does he think he is? Quentin Tarantino?