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Kal-El said:over 2 hours could very well be 6 for all you know Frantic Canadian :-D Are you sure about the no-brainer? :lol:
- The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind (SD, 123 minutes): This documentary has cropped up regularly on TCM and was included on the previous DVD release of the film. Filled with fantastic information about the history of the property, and its tortuous production, Legend also offers a great assortment of screentests and other archival film.
- Gone With the Wind: The Legend Lives On (SD, 33 minutes), is a sort of sequel to the above supplemental feature, focusing on the now 70 year old legacy of the film. Emphasis on film preservation and some of the collectors of Wind memorabilia (who will no doubt be including this set in their treasure trove) is included.
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (SD, 68 minutes), is one of the better extras on the set, devoting an in-depth look to that most storied year of Hollywood's halcyon days. M-G-M may have had the "big two" that most people associate with that year, Wind and Wizard, but as this feature makes abundantly clear, the studio system was in full swing with high style at all the majors, and there was a bumper crop of classics that year.
- Gable: The King Remembered, (SD, 65 minutes), gives us a nice Biography-esque overview, hosted by Peter Lawford. of the man and the movie star.
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond, (SD, 46 minutes), is a little bit more surface level than the Gable effort, but with hostess Jessica Lange pointing the way, does venture into Leigh's mental issues which affected her later career. Lange, of course, played another famously troubled actress, Frances Farmer, an actress who was in fact considered for the role of Scarlett, as you will see if you look quickly in a "potential casting sheet" in The Making of a Legend.
- Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland, (SD, 39 minutes). At last we get some first-person reminiscences, and with the ever lovely and gracious de Havilland providing them, you know you're in for a rare treat. What may surprise you is how impish the star was and still is when this was filmed.
- The Supporting Players, (SD, 30 minutes). I mentioned just a few of the incredible supporting cast of this film in the main review, which should give you some indication of the variety and quality of actors covered in this excellent featurette.
- Restoring a Legend, (SD, 18 minutes). Though this focuses on the 2004 UltraResolution restoration for the film's 4 disc DVD release, this is still a fascinating look at the incredible effort taken to preserve and restore classic films like these. All film lovers will both be impressed by and grateful for the efforts depicted in this brief featurette.
- Two newsreels are offered, Dixie Hails Gone With the Wind (SD, 4 minutes) and Atlanta Civil War Centennial (SD, 4 minutes), both of which offer glimpses of premiere festivities for the film itself.
- The Old South, (SD, 11 minutes), a sort of documentary exposition of the cultural background of plantation life, this is probably too apologetic for the South's justification for slavery ("someone has to pick the cotton," to quote an incredibly racist song of days of yore), but is interesting at least from an historical perspective.
- International Prologue, (SD, 1 minute), another expository piece which acted as prelude to the foreign release of the film, offering some background on the Civil War.
- Foreign Language Versions, (SD, 3 minutes), gives us a compendium of snippets of foreign language versions of the film. "Demain est une autre jour."
- Movieola, (SD, 97 minutes), is a pretty lame made for television movie with Tony Curtis as David O. Selznick. Curtis simply doesn't have the look or feel for this legendary character, and the rest of this enterprise is similarly uninspiring.
- Finally five trailers from the original release and various re-releases are offered.
Omaru1982 said:Spirited Away (Blu Ray)
Frantic Canadian said:Where did they release Spirited Away? And is it region locked?
Omaru1982 said:I think at this stage all of the Ghibli movies have been released on blu ray, some are priced different from others.
I had a look on Amazon.com and they have the us version for $89 which seems ridiculous.
I've tried to find if the Region B release is locked but I can't seem to confirm.
Frantic Canadian said:It was released by "The Masters Of Cinema Series". Is that like the UK version of The Criterion Collection? Kuroneko is numbered #14. I took a look at the other films they've released and it's all stuff that The Criterion Collection either has or would release.