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Per Hauberg
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Peter Pan (2003)
To believe in adventure....
My theatre will be running the danish premiere on "Peter Pan" on april, 2nd. The film print has not arrived, and I have not seen the picture yet, -but I have read Mr John Ulmer's billious review of the film. To believe in kids flying, or to believe in fairies, can't be worse than believing in Elephants popping out of a board-game into Your house. -Giving "Jumanji" of all pictures as an example of a film, better than "Peter Pan" makes me pretty nervous for my upcoming "next movie", as "Jumanji" stands for me as one of the worst films, I've ever seen - including the poorest special effects and computerwork in any film, I know. If director Hogan is as close to the original as written elsewhere, and with the technical side coming up to what the trailers and other previews show, I still believe in Peter Pan as the greatest family entertainment to hit my screen this spring. I will certainly watch this, as soon as the print is inside the door, and will also return with my further comments. In the meantime, I would suggest, that Mr Ulmer looks up the word "Adventure".
Let me end this up, mentioning that I loved Disney's version - especially before some renovation-freaks got the idea, giving the figures new voices and updated dialogue. When someone's made a film, noone else should make corrections to it, -the day after the premiere or 50 years later - that's sacrilege !
Per Hauberg
51 years of age - and still worshipping real adventure !
Star! (1968)
Let's have it once more, please !
20th century Fox, I ´guess. will never again spend money on this one. Understandable, but sad. It would have been truly great, if this GREAT docu-musical could once more be seen as it was intended to, -On a big screen, in 70mm ToddAO with full stereophonic sound. -It was an experience beyond imagination and i will never forget it. As others have mentioned, a bit thin in the story, and a biography, difficult to "sell" for a big audience already when released, probably even worse today. But then at least, let us have a DVD, so new generations can have the opportunity to become as thrilled as we were 35 years ago.
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
To comment or not to...
This film will not be in Denmark until next month, and will have to wait, both to watch and to comment. In the meantime, I would just ask that others do their homework better, before getting nasty in here:
Read here, and You will all know, ehat I mean: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dark Eye London, England
Date: 22 July 2003 Summary: Being the Disney that they are, we're given the "formula" again... and again... and again...
Good god, not another one of these Disney rubbish again.This will be the LAST time I will give a Disney feature a go. EVER.
Biskoppen (1944)
About the best Schönberg of them all !
Quite a few Ib Schönberg films deserve top ranking: One of the tops is "Biskoppen", in which Shcönberg doesn't appear until half-way through the film, but then - by god - the hat comes off. Malling Bio pays tribute to Ib Schönberg during the week of his 100th birthday, october 23rd, 2002, showing not less than four of his best films: Biskoppen, Tag til Rönneby Kro, Diskret Ophold and Cafe Paradis.
Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)
MGM's biggest goof !
Never has a film distributor made bigger mistake, than that summer - just a few months before Elvis died: MGM Denmark was in need of storage space, and junked one of the very few 70mm prints of this great concert doku. -In mint condition, of course - because there were so few 70mm equipped theatres in Denmark. -Elvis' Las Vegas come-back in no less than impressing 6-track magnetic sound - the way it is - the way it should be... A chainsaw went through it - truly a massacre. -But did they learn from it...? No way ! Film distributors still junk film prints with the same stupid excuse - "need space - storage space is expensive" -What's film prints ? - And where (how) are the neg's, when the stars are gone, and You want to make the reissue...?
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Should not be critisezed from people, who hasn't seen it for real !
"Why Barbra ?", "Pecham" asks on the IMDb.... Because no one else could sing that part better, -of course !!! Take out that old LP again, and listen once more to Carol Channings horrible droneing. Maybe Channing was old and ugly enough to fit the age of the caracter better - But You won't convince me, that the world could ever see or hear a finer Dolly than Miss Streisand ! And then - even more important: All those ignorants out there, believing, they've got the right to boo of Mr Kelly's film, just because they've seen it on tv - YOU get those two thumbs down ! Enjoy the world's greatest musical the way it was intended: in 70mm Todd-AO on a big, curved screen with 6-track magnetic stereosound - then - and only then, You have seen it - and then You'll love it !!! Those opening titles with the train tugging around Yonkers and the overture of musical ouvertures playing - YUMMI !!
Out of Africa (1985)
How can You forget him....?
So many people enjoyed Pollack's best film. -So many wrote a comment to tell everybody just how much they enjoyed it; but not of my fellow comment-writers have mentioned the name of the man, who should really be honored: DAVID WATKIN - a cinematographer in Freddie Young - class. Since "Yentl" one of my personal favorite photographers, and with his Oscar-work on "Out of Africa" sure, never to be forgotten ! Don't just rent it - knock Your local cinema manager with a stick, until he gives You the REEL (!) thing - "Out of Africa" in 70mm. This is what the big screen was made for......!
Festen (1998)
I voted "8", but would have been close to 10, if...
FESTEN (The Celebration) is the most well-written and well-acted Danish movie for many, many years, but the "Dogma"-concept of 4 young Danish directors is totally perverted. OK - maybe the big Hollywood-productions sometimes overdo the tech and forget the art, but to deliberately forget every step foreward since 1895, making ugly, shaking out-of-focus pictures just to provoke, -that's stupid. Thomas Vinterberg here is on the waggon of disturbed Dane Lars Von Trier, who believes, that his only way to big headlines is handheld camera, causing the whole audience to puke from seasickness - OR maybe the dogma-guys have a bet: how far can you go, when you've "got a name", before audiences leave the theatre. -Read - if not familiar already - Hans Christian Andersen's story about the emperor and his invisible, new clothes. Every cinema-owner and -staff takes pride in giving the audiences the best possible show, by constantly upgrading and maintaining expensive equipment, -and for what purpose...? For showing dark pictures out of focus, shot with auntie's old videocamera..... FESTEN does not cry for the Super Panavison photography of RYAN'S DAUGHTER, but something in between might have done... The trouble is, that FESTEN during it's first 3 weeks in my little flea circus, have sold about 10 times our total on RYAN'S DAUGHTER --sorry, Mr Lean, -sorry Mr Young... FESTEN would be close to "10" if someone a little more conservative had been doing it.... -Now, it's just GREAT !! Remember to enjoy in a theatre running 1,37:1 Academy format.
The Great Race (1965)
Greatest comedy ever !
Just 14 years old, -My first 70mm, -my first cinema stereophonic experience (turning around by applause / booh's "from balcony" during "slide" titles), -my first Blake Edwards, -my first Jack Lemmon, -my first Nathalie Wood (never lovelier...). -Could it end up anything but an all-time favourite. Seen it and shown it hundreds of times, -and by the way that single 70mm print for danish first-run in early 1966, still exists at Danish Film Museum, a little faded, lots of performances behind it, but still fair - still a wonderful film. Ask them to play "Sweetheart Tree" in church, when I'm gone, please... Mancini score great great. Professor Fate's car, The Hannibal 8 also excist -in danish auto museum !!
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
How close to the top can a film get...?
This is, what film was invented for. What Mr Lean has to tell, is great, but the way he tells it, is greater. Never was the need for the giant screen more urgent... Super Panavision at it's best -and with great sound, too --at first, that is. -How anybody made Steven Spielberg say for quote, that Lawrence - restored in 1989 - sounded better than ever, must be the great question. Just as the restored Spartacus and My Fair Lady, the dialogue was ruined The Dolby Way: The perfect mix from the original films was thrown away and suddenly all dialogue came from the center hole - That's bad and screams for an explanation, which i hope, somebody will come up with on the IMDb. -And then, when these miracle-makers are ready for more of their incredible work of patience, -let's look forward to a restored "Around the World" - and maybe a "Dolly", -please......??