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Of course "Barry Lyndon" was transferred in the wrong aspect ratio for the blu-ray...
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cineaste
Jan 26, 2012, 1:28:29 PM1/26/12
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Esteemed film writer Kent Jones in the latest Film Comment editorial
page said it plain and simple: "Barry Lyndon" was transferred to blu-
ray in the wrong aspect ratio.
He cited the letter to projectionists that Kubrick had sent wherever
the film played in its initial release. The film was to be projected
in 1:66.
I was an usher at the B.L. premiere in my town and I remember seeing
the letter. The projectionist was completely pissed off because the
little suburban mall theater was never set up for this ratio. When he
found the correct aperture plate, the image bled at the top of the
1:85 screen. The screen had no adjustable masking and I remember the
complaints of customers.
To Warner Home Video: It was so simple to do it right, and so bone-
headed to release it wrong.
page said it plain and simple: "Barry Lyndon" was transferred to blu-
ray in the wrong aspect ratio.
He cited the letter to projectionists that Kubrick had sent wherever
the film played in its initial release. The film was to be projected
in 1:66.
I was an usher at the B.L. premiere in my town and I remember seeing
the letter. The projectionist was completely pissed off because the
little suburban mall theater was never set up for this ratio. When he
found the correct aperture plate, the image bled at the top of the
1:85 screen. The screen had no adjustable masking and I remember the
complaints of customers.
To Warner Home Video: It was so simple to do it right, and so bone-
headed to release it wrong.
Bill Reid
Jan 26, 2012, 7:32:08 PM1/26/12
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cropped off the sides of the picture in addition to the tops and
bottoms for no apparent reason other than sheer idiocy and the
fact that Kubrick had a lot of relatives and friends working for
him who were idiots and they wound up screwing up the transfers
to blu-ray under the rubric of "protecting" Kubrick's "legacy"...
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William Ernest Reid
MickeyMoop
Feb 3, 2012, 9:24:25 AM2/3/12
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- Spotlight - A CABARET OF HER OWN " 'Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures' (edited by Steven Meisel and published this month by Rizzoli) is a dazzling celebration of the woman described by French ELLE magazine as 'the most beautiful girl in the world.'
Tilda Swinton shrewdly defined Berenson's beguiling loveliness when she noted that she 'brings with her a cinematic DNA of Kubrick and Visconti.'
Her refined aristocrat in Luchino Visconti's 'Death in Venice' and her Gainsborough heroine in Stanley Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON are her defining movie roles of the 70s. Along with another admired movie of the period - Bob Fosse's 'Cabaret,' in which she played a Jewish heiress - they proved to skeptics that the international fashion model could act.
Her family DNA is also extraordinary. Her father was an American diplomat and industrialist; her mother - known by the Beckettian nickname 'Gogo' - was born a countess and bacame a marchesa; her great-uncle was celebrated art historian Bernard Berenson; and her maternal grandmother was the iconic fashion designer and muse to the French Surrealists, Elsa Schiaparelli.
But life for Berenson has not always been gilded. Her adored sister, Berry, died on September 11, 2001, when her hijacked plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. That terrible day, Marisa was flying to New York from Paris when her plane was diverted to Newfoundland. There, she learned the news by phone from her daughter.
'No words have been invented,' says Marisa. " - JOHN HEILPERN, VANITY FAIR, November 2011, page 161
Tilda Swinton shrewdly defined Berenson's beguiling loveliness when she noted that she 'brings with her a cinematic DNA of Kubrick and Visconti.'
Her refined aristocrat in Luchino Visconti's 'Death in Venice' and her Gainsborough heroine in Stanley Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON are her defining movie roles of the 70s. Along with another admired movie of the period - Bob Fosse's 'Cabaret,' in which she played a Jewish heiress - they proved to skeptics that the international fashion model could act.
Her family DNA is also extraordinary. Her father was an American diplomat and industrialist; her mother - known by the Beckettian nickname 'Gogo' - was born a countess and bacame a marchesa; her great-uncle was celebrated art historian Bernard Berenson; and her maternal grandmother was the iconic fashion designer and muse to the French Surrealists, Elsa Schiaparelli.
But life for Berenson has not always been gilded. Her adored sister, Berry, died on September 11, 2001, when her hijacked plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. That terrible day, Marisa was flying to New York from Paris when her plane was diverted to Newfoundland. There, she learned the news by phone from her daughter.
'No words have been invented,' says Marisa. " - JOHN HEILPERN, VANITY FAIR, November 2011, page 161
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