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New reviews, our Empire Strikes Back 4K gallery, Black Hole at 40 & Merry Christmas from The Bits!
Today will be the last post until Friday, when we’ll return with a bit of a release news update. But we do have a couple of interesting items for you today…
First, we’ve got a pair of new Blu-ray reviews for your, including Tim’s look at John Badam’s Dracula (1979) from Scream Factory. The film stars Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier and the disc is worth a look.
We’ve got a new review from Dennis too, this of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club Encore on Blu-ray from Lionsgate. There’s not a lot included in the way of extras, but the presentation quality is very good. [Read on here...]
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4K
- The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Disney+ gallery
- Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays The Digital Bits
- Dracula (1979) BD review
- The Cotton Club Encore BD review
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Michael Coate
- The Black Hole 40th anniversary
- William Kallay
- Drew Stewart
Sci-Fi Disney Style: Remembering “The Black Hole” on its 40th Anniversary
“If you have never seen it, don’t expect Star Wars. Watch it for being an ambitious Disney answer to Star Wars. Watch it from the perspective of it signaling a change at Disney at that time. Watch it for the incredible sets, visual effects and a storyline that mimics 20000 Leagues under the Sea, but set in space.” — William Kallay, author of The Making of Tron
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 40th anniversary of the release of The Black Hole, the Walt Disney Company’s science-fiction and fantasy adventure directed by Gary Nelson (Freaky Friday) and featuring Oscar-nominated cinematography and visual effects.
Starring Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg), Anthony Perkins (Psycho), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), Joseph Bottoms (Santa Barbara TV series), Yvette Mimieux (The Time Machine), Ernest Borgnine (Marty), Roddy McDowall (Planet of the Apes), and Slim Pickens (Blazing Saddles), The Black Hole opened forty years ago this month, and for the occasion The Bits features a Q&A with Disney authority and The Making of Tron author William Kallay, who discuss the movie’s virtues and shortcomings. [Read more here...]
Revisiting the Inside of a Computer: Remembering “Tron” on its 35th Anniversary
“Tron should be remembered as a very daring, risky adventure on the part of a few young visionaries and artists. They believed that by using computers for animation and visual effects, they could change moviemaking.” — The Making of Tron author William Kallay
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 35th anniversary of the release of Tron, the Walt Disney Company’s groundbreaking science-fiction computer adventure starring Jeff Bridges and David Warner. [Read on here...]
- 35th anniversary
- film retrospective
- The Digital Bits
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Tron
- Jeff Bridges
- David Warner
- William Kallay
- The Making of Tron
- Bruce Boxleitner
- Cindy Morgan
- Barnard Hughes
- Walt Disney Studios
- live action
- computer animation
- Steven Lisberger
- 70 mm
- light cycle
- Clue
- Flynn
- Flynn's Arcade
- arcade games