Grand Prix Blu-ray Announced
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Grand Prix Blu-ray Announced
Warner Home Video has announced Grand Prix for Blu-ray release on May 24. This 1966 racing-themed action movie, starring James Garner and Eva-Marie Saint, was directed by John Frankenheimer and spectacularly shot on 65mm. It had been released in 2006 on the defunct HD DVD format.
Special features include:
Featurettes:
Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix
Flat Out: Formula One in the Sixties
The Style and Sound of Speed
Brands Hatch: Chasing the Checkered Flag
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
Theatrical trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5922
Special features include:
Featurettes:
Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix
Flat Out: Formula One in the Sixties
The Style and Sound of Speed
Brands Hatch: Chasing the Checkered Flag
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
Theatrical trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5922
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Re: Grand Prix Blu-ray Announced
This is NOT a good movie (I know -- I had to sit through it six or seven times).
Once again, WHY this and not Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur?
Once again, WHY this and not Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur?
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Once wasn't enough? LOLPaul MacLean wrote:This is NOT a good movie (I know -- I had to sit through it six or seven times).
Once again, WHY this and not Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur?
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Unfortunately I had to watch and re-watch it, since I was writing the liner notes for the CD. A very fine score...but a little of that movie goes a long way!John Johnson wrote:Once wasn't enough? LOL
Fortunately it at least had Françoise Hardy to look at...
Re: Grand Prix Blu-ray Announced
[quote="Paul MacLean"]This is NOT a good movie (I know -- I had to sit through it six or seven times).
Once again, WHY this and not Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur?
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Isn't BEN-HUR coming out this year?
Once again, WHY this and not Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur?
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Isn't BEN-HUR coming out this year?
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I'll believe it when I see it.Jedbu wrote:Isn't BEN-HUR coming out this year?
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That's what they say.Jedbu wrote:Isn't BEN-HUR coming out this year?Paul MacLean wrote:This is NOT a good movie (I know -- I had to sit through it six or seven times).
Once again, WHY this and not Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur?
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LAWRENCE is the one that's been yanked on and off for years....who knows when we'll ever see it.
Re: Grand Prix Blu-ray Announced
That is why I am still hanging on to my Superbit DVD of LAWRENCE.
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The only film I have on Superbit is Snatch. LOLJedbu wrote:That is why I am still hanging on to my Superbit DVD of LAWRENCE.
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Still no actual date on BEN-HUR though...and I'm guessing it might be Easter 2012 at this rate.
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The value of "Grand Prix" as a movie is more the fact that it documents on film an era of Formula One racing from the mid-60s that is otherwise not well preserved visually (this being before the day of regular telecasts of auto races). It's plot is worthless, and Eva Marie Saint is absolutely embarrassing, but of all the racing movies of that era I find it more watchable than "Winning" (despite the fact that I love the Indy 500 more) or "Le Mans".
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Re: Grand Prix Blu-ray Announced
On a side note, I see LE MANS is coming out on Blu-Ray sometime in the next few months (it's on Amazon UK but with no date).
I'm not crazy about that film but the cinematography and Legrand's score are both solid.
I'm not crazy about that film but the cinematography and Legrand's score are both solid.
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Andy,AndyDursin wrote:On a side note, I see LE MANS is coming out on Blu-Ray sometime in the next few months (it's on Amazon UK but with no date).
I'm not crazy about that film but the cinematography and Legrand's score are both solid.
Info posted about Le Mans.
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