Toshiro Kurosawa
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Otto hizo bien... Lo de Lee Remick como mujer un tanto provinciana y ligerita de cascos mola mucho. Le tira los tejos incluso al abogado defensor de su marido...
geminis dijo:Nueva publicación de Signo e Imagen dedicada en este caso a Preminger.
http://www.metropolislibros.com/ficha/c ... 25836.html
Ulisses dijo:¿Nadie ha visto "Porgy and Bess? ¿Es tan buena como "Carmen Jones"?
Respecto a Laura poco que decir... MASTERPIECE.
-Carmen Jones: Estupendo musical, me dejó con ganas de ver "Porgy y Bess".
Although this film won one Oscar and one Golden Globe, and its
soundtrack album won a Grammy, it was critically and commercially unsuccessful,
earning back only half its $7-million cost. It was broadcast on network
television only once: Sunday night, 05 March 1967, on ABC-TV (during a week that
also saw a rebroadcast of a TV adaptation of Brigadoon, as well as the first
telecast of Hal Holbrook's one-man show Mark Twain Tonight!). The 1959 Porgy and
Bess has not been seen in its entirety on network TV since, although clips have
been shown on some of the American Film Institute specials. The film had
multiple presentations during the 1970s on Los Angeles local television,
KTLA-TV, Channel 5, an independent station with access to the Goldwyn Studios
output, most probably using the special pan and scan 35mm print which was made
for the ABC-TV network presentation, as was KTLA-TV's practice (it and
competitor KHJ-TV telecast 35mm prints in strong preference to 16mm prints).
Goldwyn's lease of the rights was only 15 years, and after they expired, the
film could not be shown without the permission of the Gershwin and Heyward
estates, and even then only after substantial compensation was paid. Despite
repeated requests, the Gershwin estate repeatedly refused to grant permission
for the film to be seen. As a consequence, the film has never been officially
released on video or DVD in the US, however bootleg DVD-Rs, made from a 35mm
anamorphic 'E-K' release print, circulate among collectors, preserving 115
minutes of the original 138-minute whole. Apparently, authorized DVDs are
available in Region 0 Format from sellers in Germany. These are 'manufactured'
DVDs, not DVD-Rs. This is an un-restored all-English language version, without
German subtitles, without any overture, intermission, entr'acte or exit music;
the current bootlegs appear to have been made from this version.
There exists one 35mm Technicolor dye-transfer print, with 4-track magnetic
sound, but it is in the UCLA archive library and is not generally available for
public presentations. This print has had at least two presentations at
university-sponsored festivals, and which presentations required special
permission from the Gershwin Estate. It was long believed that there are no
surviving 70mm prints, and that the 65mm negative is 'unprintable'. Likely, any
restoration would have to be effected from the silver separation protection
masters, assuming those could be found. A faded 70mm print with faulty 6-track
magnetic sound and with German subtitles was recently discovered and was
screened in Europe.
It wasn't until 2007 that it was given a theatrical showing again when, on
September 26 and 27, the Ziegfeld Theatre in midtown-Manhattan presented it in
its entirety, complete with overture and intermission and exit music, followed
by a discussion with Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch.