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Pretty much every major film released in theaters still receives a Blu-Ray release. And Blu-Rays of older films are still being continually released by the Warner Archive, Kino Lorber, Arrow, Indicator, VCI, Flicker Alley, Imprint, Criterion, etc. I…
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Neither the book nor the film of DAF have particularly strong plots--both mostly rely on Bond following the diamond plotline, but the film comes apart after the satellite reveal. You'd think the idea of Blofeld setting off nukes and holding the worl…
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mtm wrote: » Just been watching the new cartoon on Prime; seems good fun. I wish the character animation was a bit more sophisticated though- characters keep one expression and it often doesn't match the voice performance very well. The stories se…
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mtm wrote: » But as I say, he's a soldier- he doesn't have to love his superiors to respect them and follow their orders, because of his sense of duty. In that way I'd say LTK got Bond more wrong than the Craig films did. No matter how much he arg…
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Torgeirtrap wrote: » Not sure how I would like to rank the novel though. It's hard to compete with a lot of the other novels. I think I might prefer Live and Let Die and Thunderball to OHMSS. All strong entries. I have to admit that the onl…
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Judging from a quick skim, the video has augmented the surviving recording with audio of Fleming's music selections, and music from the Bond films. The lost audio remains lost, but the complete transcript of the interview can be found upthread, alon…
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LucknFate wrote: » I'm about to build myself a desk in fact, and it will be triangular like Flemings by chance! Best of luck, and may you write many books there! KOP wrote: » Not an interview but Fleming writing about Goldeneye in 1958…
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Goldeneye: Ian Fleming’s House by the Sea (Home, October 1963) We all know James Bond and the exciting life he leads—but what of his alter ego Ian Fleming? Writer Mary Salter turned sleuth and tracked him down in his sunny Jamaican retreat in Ora…
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Barbara Broccoli wrote: “There’s nothing I can tell you about the next Bond film. There’s nothing. Nothing is happening yet.” Four years have passed since the last Bond was completed and the producers still have nothing to report?
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Forgot to add that there's no purchase link for the series yet, but the news is from Blu-Ray.com, which is extremely reliable.
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Another positive review, this time from Michael Dirda in The Washington Post. Some excerpts: Some years ago, I gave a talk to the graduating seniors at a local school. Whatever I said that night — probably something about the importance of books …
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It used to be the case that film posters were almost as exciting and spectacular as the film. For example, here's a poster for YOLT: And to see how far we've fallen, here's the Blu-Ray cover: So much for progress. Dan Goozee didn't …
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The Warner Archive will be releasing The Alaskans on Blu-Ray in June: Promo copy: The Alaskans: The Complete Series Description: Set against the backdrop of the 1890s gold rush in the Yukon, Roger Moore, Jeff York and Dorothy Provine st…
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Here's another excellent interview with Dalton from around the same time, in which he reveals his favorite scene in TLD. Excerpts follow. Timothy Dalton Finds a Hamlet In the Hero By Benedict Nightingale (New York Times, July 26, 1987) He’s…
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Three American reviews have come in. Pico Ayer in Air Mail praises the book: ...it is the crafty genius of Shakespeare’s surely definitive account to suggest that Fleming had, in spades, the upper-class Brit’s gift for concealing both his tal…
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I wouldn't mind visiting an alternate universe where Dalton was born twenty-five years later and starred in a 2006 version of Casino Royale. Audiences would have been ready for him by then.
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Some excerpts from the Los Angeles Times article "Reclaiming the Darker Side of Bond," by Charles Champlin (July 26, 1987): Dalton says he was first asked about playing James Bond several years ago. Sean Connery was wanting out before he disappea…
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For anyone who missed it, George Lazenby has a silent cameo at the start of Batman: Soul of the Dragon. It's the first of approximately eight Bond references in the film.
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Note: This is a transcription from a now-lost TV interview. My thanks once again to the fellow researcher and collector who kindly sent me the transcript. Tonight (April 16, 1962) He wore a dark blue belted raincoat and a soft black hat pulled…
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Agent_99 wrote: » I had a piece of luck and found Kingsley Amis's The James Bond Dossier in Oxfam for 99p! Congratulations! I like this cover much more than that of bland American hardback, which is what I have. I'm really enjoying it; …
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I heard for the first time today Barry's "James Bond Suite," from his 1972 album The Concert John Barry: It combines GF, the James Bond Theme, FRWL, TB, 007, YOLT, OHMSS, and DAF. Though from 1972, the sound points directly toward the soun…
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Different from who? None of DC's major superheroes kill, not in the comics anyway. And during his first year of existence Batman killed multiple times yet was still recognizably Batman--and arguably closer in tone and spirit to the modern Batman th…
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The no-killing rule exists because in 1940 DC's editors realized their clientele was primarily children, so Batman lightened up from being a dark pulp-derived character. And by the time he went back to his roots in the early 70s it was clear that if…
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Dragonpol wrote: » I dreamt that I'd met Bond author John Gardner and was chatting to him. I excitedly asked him what his new novel would be called and he replied "Tutti Frutti". Replied or sang?
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The designs look pretty good. Clayface is back to his Golden Age look, Catwoman to the Silver Age. Two Face's design by contrast is very modern. "Natalia Knight" is the alter ego of Nocturna.
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Hundreds of Beavers I guarentee no other comedy like this is playing in the theaters. It's a triumphant fusion/resurrection of the greatest (and most neglected) forms of American film comedy: silent visual humor and classic Looney Tunes. The resu…
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