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david hare wrote:I am afraid I come from an age group, and culture that expected reliability in the workplace and some semblance of a social/democrat conscience free of the prevailing neocon capitalist opportunistic tyranny of slavery. In other words I simply don't understand how and why people lose jobs, and indeed jobs themselves disappear. In fact I loathe the modern world. What a time to be naturally paranoid. (And a depressive!)

I was lucky - I have a wife with a rock-solid job, she was only too happy to return to it full time, and even though I personally took a roughly 50% income cut it was more than absorbed by her increased salary, me paying significantly less tax (one of the few things I can thank the Liberal Democrats for) and no longer having to pay out four-figure annual sums apiece for commuting and childcare. So it evened out more or less perfectly.

But I'm glad I had the opportunity to volunteer - based on precedent, I anticipated a voluntary redundancy offer as soon as the Tory-led coalition got elected in May 2010, so we had several months to work out financial and other logistics before having to take the plunge, which is a luxury that most people being made redundant don't get. In fact, with regard to what you said earlier, I'd argue that 30 and 40somethings have a harder time than younger people in these situations, as they're more likely to have kids and a mortgage.

Anyway, back to Billy Wilder...

Just got this and was amused by the "viewing notes" in the back of the booklet - absolutely love it, wish Criterion did this!

(Seriously, you'd be surprised at who needs it. I talked to this guy who installed a high end system once in an Oscar-winning filmmaker's home - when they tested it out, the filmmaker played an academy ratio film stretched out to fill the screen. The guy tried to undo this, thinking the filmmaker was having trouble with his remote, but it turns out that's the way he wanted to see it. The guy explained why this was wrong and the filmmaker said, "but then it doesn't fill the screen." An OSCAR winning filmmaker! Wouldn't say who, but Jesus, considering who wins those things these days...)

hearthesilence wrote:Wouldn't say who, but Jesus, considering who wins those things these days...

Yeah, high aesthet people like Tom Hooper.

Still, it's a quite surprising story and I am extremely curious to know who this might be.

Jeff wrote: Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:15 amNick tweeted the menu he's working on for The Lost Weekend. Note that one of the extras is apparently Volker Schlöndorff's Billy, How Did You Do It?. I believe that the original German series included six 45-minute episodes. A very truncated (71 minute) version was shown on TCM in the U.S. as Billy Wilder Speaks. That cut was later released on DVD by Kino with an additional 70 minutes of the excised footage as a bonus feature. If MoC has the entire four and a half hours, it'd be quite a coup.

The German Blu-ray of The Front Page comes with a bonus DVD of the full 6-episode version of Billy, How Did You Do It?. Picture quality is very acceptable. German burnt-in subtitles for the English dialogue though.

Edited botched title.

Is there really 90 minutes more of Billy, How Did You Do It? than on the Masters of Cinema Lost Weekend blu? Or is it recaps and repeated titles and credits?

reaky wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:48 pm Is there really 90 minutes more of Billy, How Did You Do It? than on the Masters of Cinema Lost Weekend blu? Or is it recaps and repeated titles and credits?

Not quite 90 minutes, but well over an hour. They are basically two different bespoke edits made by Schloendorff by what I can tell. I've got a longer post drafted which I'll share soon. I'm not doing a scene by scene analysis of what is missing though.

TMDaines wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:36 am The German Blu-ray of The Extra Page comes with a bonus DVD of the full 6-episode version of Billy, How Did You Do It?.

What's The Extra Page? Some kind of behind the scenes feature to The Front Page? Can you supply a link please

Marwood wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:27 pm

TMDaines wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:36 am The German Blu-ray of The Extra Page comes with a bonus DVD of the full 6-episode version of Billy, How Did You Do It?.

What's The Extra Page? Some kind of behind the scenes feature to The Front Page? Can you supply a link please

Sorry, I fused The Front Page and its German title, Extrablatt in my mind. It looks like the bonus disc with the documentary only comes in the great, affordable boxset (which I own) and not the standalone release: https://ssl.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fassu ... vid=442655