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Dvd’s I can’t wait for: Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection [Blu-ray]

August 17, 2012 by Leave a comment

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The 8-disc boxed set of The “Classic Monsters Collection” includes eight of Universal’s popular monster films, all in deluxe Special Editions: “Dracula” (1931, 75 min.), “Frankenstein” (1931, 71 min.), “The Mummy” (1932, 74 min.), “The Invisible Man” (1933, 71 min.), “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935, 75 min.), “The Wolf Man” (1941, 70 min.), “The Phantom of the Opera” (1943, 93 min.), “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” (1954, 79 min.). See individual titles for complete special features

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From the era of silent movies through present day, Universal Pictures has been regarded as the home of the monsters. Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection showcases 8 of the most iconic monsters in motion picture history including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Creature From the Black Lagoon. Starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa Lanchester in the roles that they made famous, these original films set the standard for a new horror genre with revolutionary makeup, mood-altering cinematography and groundbreaking special effects. Featuring over 12 hours of revealing bonus features plus an exclusive collectible book, each film has been digitally restored from high resolution film elements for the ultimate classic monster experience.

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The Dark Knight à la Hitchcock

May 31, 2012 by Leave a comment

What happens when you combine a contemporary classic with a famous film score? See for yourself.

I was experimenting with editing movie trailers when I discovered that the opening music from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” happens to work perfectly with the opening “Bank Robbery Sequence” from Christopher Nolan’s 2008 blockbuster “The Dark Knight”. Watch closely, and you will notice that Bernard Herrmann’s music queues line up almost flawlessly with Nolan’s footage. Coincidence? We may never know…

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Universal to re-imagine young Leonardo da Vinci as an action hero

November 9, 2011 by Leave a comment

As befitting a man who had several different identities and is also long dead and can’t say shit about it, Leonardo da Vinci is suddenly a subject of great interest for film and television adaptations that re-imagine his life as something approaching comic-book levels of mythology. Following up on David Goyer’s recently announced plans to explore the sexy side of the Renaissance with Da Vinci’s Demons—a show that will finally reveal the “untold” (i.e. mostly made-up) story of da Vinci’s youth, when he was merely dreaming of the future in between alleged acts of sodomy—Universal has announced its own, slightly less smutty “young da Vinci” project, Leonardo, a spec script from children’s television writer Jonny Kurzman.
As overseen by Watchmen and Hellboy producer Larry Gordon, the action-adventure film will find a young da Vinci on a “quest to stop Renaissance Europe from returning to the Dark Ages” with his heroically detailed sketching of the human form and mastering of composition and shading. “Grrrr, the strong, confident lines of his anatomical studies and the breadth of his polymath interests have thwarted us! For now!” the secret society of Dark Ages wizards or whatever will say as they shrink back into the forest, and da Vinci flies directly into the camera in his just-completed wooden helicopter. And then the audience cries in concert, “To the library!”

by Sean O’Neal

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