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- From: bverreau@netcom.com (stargazer)
- Subject: LD's I'd like to see Criterion do [was: A Christmas Carol]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.023248.14104@netcom.com>
- Summary: send me your wish list
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services
- References: <1992Dec19.2021.1829@channel1> <1992Dec20.222301.23036@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:32:48 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Dec20@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> (John Hofbauer) writes:
-
- >> [description of poor quality "Christmas Carol" release]
- >
- > This is a film I too want to own on laserdisc, but only when a good
- > pressing is available.
-
- Several people have complained about the quality of this disc - which
- strikes me as curious, since I recently rented a copy and though it was
- quite acceptable. I found the title in the new release bin and wonder
- if it might be a different version. Unfortunately, I didn't copy down
- the catalog number. I do recall it used the British release title of
- 'Scrooge' rather than 'Christmas Carol'. Anyway, I rented with the
- idea of previewing before buying - having seeing so many bad prints
- on television. The transfer seemed visually clean without many holes
- or scratches. I'm not sure about the audio, my sound system is poor.
-
- > I plan to write to Voyager/Criterion and suggest they give it the
- > deluxe treatment.
-
- The person you want to contact [according to my Criterion rep] is:
-
- Jon Mulvaney c/o Voyager
- 1351 Pacific Coast Hwy.
- Santa Monica, CA 90401
-
- I'm planning to send him a wish list with my favorite missing titles.
- If anyone would like to have me add their selections, send an e-mail
- reply. Just to start it off, here are three of my requests:
-
- "Top Hat" (1935)
- "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)
- "Cat Ballou" (1965)
-
- I suppose some films are just unavailable for distribution, but
- perhaps other omissions are oversights. Let me know if you have
- other potential releases for Criterion. Please e-mail to keep
- down volume. If there's enough interest, I'll post the results
- to this newsgroup.
-
- Bernie Verreau bverreau@netcom.COM
- Netcom - Online Communication Services Redwood City, CA
-