• Aug222008

    Godfather I & II coming back to theaters

    Posted by Gene in Classics

    Truly awesome news, Godfather I & II coming back to theaters reports IMDB.com.

    The first two Godfather movies have been restored and are returning to the big screen.

    Cleaned-up 35mm versions of the mafia epics - directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro - will be screened at September’s Gotham Film Forum in New York before hitting movie theatres across the U.S.

    The work has been carried out by Robert A. Harris, under the direction of Coppola and original cinematographer Gordon Willis.

    Harris - who also worked on a Lawrence of Arabia restoration - claims his job was made tougher because high demand for prints of the movies had left the original negative in poor condition.

    He tells Daily Variety, “(It was) the worst I’ve ever seen in a picture from the modern era.”

    The first two Godfathers are among the most successful and critically acclaimed movies ever made.

  • Jul242008

    WarGames 25th Anniversary

    Posted by Gene in Classics

    WarGamesI can’t believe that it’s been 25 years since I saw WarGames in the theater. I didn’t even know what a modem was then or how it would eventually change my life. I’m so going to check this out again on the big screen.

    Great article on Wired.com about this move re-release. It’s the must-see nerd event of the year for sure.

    It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy little thriller about looming Armageddon.