The Korda Collection

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The Korda Collection
Topic Started: May 9 2009, 09:55 AM (167 Views)
Laughing Gravy	May 9 2009, 09:55 AM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,075 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	My pal Dave Kehr of the NY Times takes a look at various Private Lives... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/movies/homevideo/10kehr.html?ref=homevideo



panzer the great & terrible	May 10 2009, 05:40 PM Post #2
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,363 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Be aware that The Private Life of Don Juan is the only movie in this collection that you'll watch twice. It is a masterpiece though. Your call.
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Laughing Gravy	May 11 2009, 05:06 AM Post #3
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,075 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Ah, well, how many of my DVDs do I actually watch twice? The last one was Cat-Women of the Moon.



Frank Hale	Jun 5 2009, 02:23 PM Post #4
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 828 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: October 6, 2005	Very nice collection. Catherine and Don Juan were new to me. Prints are extremely nice, with the exception of 3-4 seconds of minor damage in Catherine. My favorite remains Rembrandt. Understated and effective. Don Juan would be second. Can’t call it a masterpiece, but it’s very friendly and fun. Apparently a real flop-eroo when first released. The plot is quite a bit different from the Flynn version, although the aging Lothario aspects are the same. Catherine is a bit of a snore and Henry VIII has always suffered in my mind from unappealing subject matter, despite pleasing individual scenes. Halliwell attributes the following quote to Alexander Korda: “The art of film-making is to come to the brink of bankruptcy and stare it in the face.” Having said all that, I’ll stick with Zoltan, a man much closer to my heart.


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