What kills me is _Barry Lyndon_ is letterboxed on the DVD but not on the tape, even though Best Buy puts it in the widescreen section. The new 2001 appears to be p&s, while _A Clockwork Orange_ is widescreen, based on what it says on the box, and comparison of DVD to VHS copies. All of the films except _Spartacus_, _Fear and Desire_, and the four docs have been reissued with the blue banner (though the early films have painted covers and not the white design). The collection looks strange for including Columbia's _Dr. Strangelove_ with the Warner and MGM titles, and shows how much control Kubrick apparently had. I know Warner distributes MGM titles, but Columbia? Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "Love is not a positive emotion that begins in us and ends in the positive response of someone else. Love is divine energy that comes from God and has no end." --Eric Butterworth On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Lang Thompson wrote: > >after a rather ill-received advance screening. Kubrick's habits even > >once prompted Andrew Sarris to ask in despair when we could regard a > >film as the "final" version. Of course, Kubrick lived on into the age > >of video releases with "European" cuts, "director's cuts," etc., so he > >would probably relish the controversy. > > > > So film becomes more like literature in one respect, eh? This has also > come to the front with the recent Kubrick DVDs which are presented > full-screen at Kubrick's request. This has created numerous complaints > because they're not letterboxed, often blaming the studio for poor > judgement in releasing a panned-and-scanned film (which they aren't). > > LT > ---------------------------------------------- > Lang Thompson > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 > > Full Alert Film Review (formerly World Cinema Review) > http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/fafr.htm > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu