Freddie2 Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 https://www.criterion.com/films/29633-dance-girl-dance One of Lucy's best movies and certainly one of the most acclaimed by film critics, Dance, Girl, Dance is being given the prestigious Criterion treatment! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mot Morenzi Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Wow! Fingers crossed for The Magic Carpet! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Loving the special features. I'll be getting this one. New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New introduction by critic B. Ruby Rich New selected-scene commentary featuring film historian Cari Beauchamp PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mot Morenzi Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Will this become the 2nd Lucy film to be released on Blu-Ray after Mame, or has Warner Archive released any of her other films to date? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 minute ago, Mot Morenzi said: Will this become the 2nd Lucy film to be released on Blu-Ray after Mame, or has Warner Archive released any of her other films to date? Facts of Life is on bluray and I think Yours Mine and Ours is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 36 minutes ago, Luvsbway said: Facts of Life is on bluray and I think Yours Mine and Ours is. Lured as well. What fantastic news! I can't wait to get my first-ever criterion edition! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie2 Posted February 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 14 minutes ago, Brock said: Lured as well. What fantastic news! I can't wait to get my first-ever criterion edition! If you’ve never gotten a Criterion before, you’re missing out (or maybe you’re just not a movie snob)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie2 Posted February 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Just noticed that Lucy’s eyes are not the correct color on the cover art. I get that the background is more beige/muted in contrast to Maureen O’Hara, but still... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 WOW! This is certainly exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Brock said: Lured as well. Well I better get on that. That's in my top 5 favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted February 15, 2020 Report Share Posted February 15, 2020 5 hours ago, Freddie2 said: https://www.criterion.com/films/29633-dance-girl-dance One of Lucy's best movies and certainly one of the most acclaimed by film critics, Dance, Girl, Dance is being given the prestigious Criterion treatment! Oh my! Where's Dave Woodman or Henry Lamar when you need him!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted February 15, 2020 Report Share Posted February 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, JoeySoCal said: Oh my! Where's Dave Woodman or Henry Lamar when you need him!! A Facebook message to be sent and help is on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted February 15, 2020 Report Share Posted February 15, 2020 6 minutes ago, Luvsbway said: A Facebook message to be sent and help is on the way. Good! That looks (to me) more like a young Mildred Natwick (!) than Maureen O'Hara, and I don't know WHO Lucy reminds me of but it's not Lucy! And what's with the hair color?? It looks like a "mishmash" of brown, blonde and red instead of the blonde(-ish) she's in the film, no? Oy! 😚 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted February 15, 2020 Report Share Posted February 15, 2020 21 hours ago, Mot Morenzi said: Wow! Fingers crossed for The Magic Carpet! I've only watched Lucy's scenes from "Dance". It seems like Lucy's movie yet she's THIRD billed. (Am I correct about this?) People say that's her own singing in "My Mother Told Me". I think they're right but am not 100% convinced. To me, it sounds too good to be her but not good enough to be an actual singer. It certainly sounds like her, but then again Lisa Kirk was able to twist her own accomplished singing voice into such a convincing Roz Russell imitation in Gypsy that no 1962 review I've seen mentions the singing wasn't Roz.* I wonder if sound mixing in 1940 could accomplish meshing Lucy's singing with that of a dubbing singer taking some of the notes (as they should have done in Mame). Too bad "Dance" and "Big Street" have such double-bill, cheap-looking production values about them, robbing Lucy of Oscar attention. *For the record: some analyzers of Gypsy state the the vocals are a combination of Lisa and Roz. Not precisely accurate. Roz's singing is limited to all of the undemanding "Mr. Goldstone" and the beginning of "Rose's Turn" up to the "I had a dream..." part. Yet the soundtrack album has a completely different version of "Rose's Turn" with Lisa doing the whole thing. Lisa does "Together Wherever We Go" on the album, the song cut from the movie after previews. The Gypsy DVD bonus tracks contains grainy footage of the song as shot with Roz cawing it out. But leave it to Mot to bring up "Magic Carpet"! "Carpet" is such an interesting footnote to Lucy's career in that this low-budget laughable quickie was shot in color, released the same year I Love Lucy debuted (though earlier in the year) and that within a year this woman would be the biggest thing in show business. Her movie career had such a low profile that when TV came along she, at 40 with an 18 year's worth of movie work, was voted "Most Promising Newcomer" by some poll (Photoplay?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted February 28, 2020 Report Share Posted February 28, 2020 The cover artist details her work in this Instgram post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 I got my copy. The film looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 On 2/14/2020 at 5:02 PM, Freddie2 said: Just noticed that Lucy’s eyes are not the correct color on the cover art. I get that the background is more beige/muted in contrast to Maureen O’Hara, but still... I wonder if this is intentional. It's a plot point that Judy (Maureen O'Hara) has blue eyes and Bubbles doesn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted May 24, 2020 Report Share Posted May 24, 2020 On 5/22/2020 at 6:28 PM, HarryCarter said: I wonder if this is intentional. It's a plot point that Judy (Maureen O'Hara) has blue eyes and Bubbles doesn't. Nice catch. I wonder if it's just a mistake. But then if not it's a very astute artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 I had hoped the special features would delve a bit more into the film itself rather than a sole focus on Dorothy Arzner but this is a great release. One wonders what else they could have included in the extras, what could be lingering in the vaults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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