tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531345904528580427.post2706907627450045091..comments2024-02-27T03:36:08.943-08:00Comments on Hell On Frisco Bay: Sunset Blvd. (1950)Brian Darrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693169310367670898noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531345904528580427.post-47768002007872107782013-01-27T15:02:52.794-08:002013-01-27T15:02:52.794-08:00Thanks, Larry. I'd never think of referring to...Thanks, Larry. I'd never think of referring to <b><i>Sunset Blvd.</i></b> any other way- the spelled out version grates on my nerves just to look at! Not sure I'm as consistent as I should be the title-card issue though. Already I can't remember if last night's screening of <b><i>Try And Get Me</i></b> used the alternate title <b><i>Sound Of Fury</i></b> or not, and being pedantic about it might help me remember something like that.<br /><br />I too wish this new restoration were available as a 35mm print, but clearly Paramount intends this to be a digitally-distributed work from now on. I saw it first on home video where it made quite an impression on me, and am glad I've seen it on 35mm at the Stanford since then.<br /><br />Seitz is truly one of the all-time greats, his work for Preston Sturges being particularly undervalued. I'm glad we'll get to see his excellent work for Robert Siodmak on <b><i>Fly By Night</i></b> on Noir City's final day, on celluloid as you say.<br /><br />Being that <b><i>Sunset Blvd.</i></b> was one of the last films shot in Hollywood using nitate film stocks, I wonder how Seitz thought the safety prints made in later years looked in comparison to his original. And I wonder what he would think of the DCP technology as well.Brian Darrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693169310367670898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531345904528580427.post-37878108651905565452013-01-27T08:53:41.971-08:002013-01-27T08:53:41.971-08:00Brian: I'm glad you refer to this classic by i...Brian: I'm glad you refer to this classic by its correct title. This may seem pedantic but something I learned from Leonard Maltin is that you should name a movie by the way it reads on the title card. Too often it is discussed as "Sunset Boulevard" though that's not how the credit goes.<br />I'm NOT glad Eddie is showing a<br />DCP, some of us would argue that is a worse indignity than being tinkered with by Andrew Lloyd Webber, especially as the DP is<br />John F Seitz, famous for his work<br />with Rex Ingram and later a specialist in noir lighting (He<br />shot the movie your blog is named<br />after!)His work is meant to be seen<br />on celluloid.Period.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14847533854297507334noreply@blogger.com