Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

Saturday 6 June 2015

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies and Ted Danson.


2-disc Commemorative Edition DVD bought in 2005
2-disc Special Edition Blu-ray bought in 2011
169m 28s





 DVD




 
Blu-ray extras -

An Introduction to the Film
Looking into the Past
Miller and His Platoon
Boot Camp
Making Saving Private Ryan (22mins)
Re-Creating Omaha Beach (18mins)
Music and Sound (16mins)
Parting Thoughts
Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan (25mins)
Shooting War (88mins)
Theatrical Trailers

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Directed by Terence Malick and starring Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte and John Travolta.


DVD bought in 2003
Blu-ray bought in 2014
170m 37s





 DVD





Blu-ray extras -

Audio Commentary with cinematographer John Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, 
and producer Grant Hill
The Thin Red Line: Actor's Perspective (34mins)
The Editing of The Thin Red Line: Shaping a Terrence Malick Film (27mins)
Hans Zimmer on The Thin Red Line (16mins)
Deleted Scenes (13mins)
Guadalcanal in Newsreels (15mins)

Thursday 14 May 2015

Schindler's List (1993)

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2004
197mins





 

Voices From The List (77mins)
The Shoah Foundation Story (with Steven Spielberg) (11mins)
About Oskar Schindler Text Notes (9 pages)

Thursday 23 April 2015

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Joe Pantoliano, 
Miranda Richardson and Nigel Havers.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2006

Blu-ray bought in 2014
154mins






 Blu-ray





Blu-ray extras - 

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun, a Film by Steven Spielberg (49mins)
Theatrical Trailer

Tuesday 7 April 2015

The Boat (1982)

German title - Das Boot.

Directed by Wolfgang Peterson and starring Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer and 
Klaus Wennemann.


Director's Cut DVD bought in 2001

2-disc Director's Cut Blu-ray bought in 2011
208m 08s






 DVD






Blu-ray extras - 

Audio Commentary by Director Wolfgang Petersen
Behind the Scenes- Documentary (60mins)
The Battle of The Atlantic- Documentary (40mins)
Wolfgang Petersen - Back to the Boat (45mins)
The Perfect Boat:
Maria's Take
Captain's Tour - Inside the Boat
Historical Material

Friday 3 April 2015

The Big Red One (1980)

Directed by Sam Fuller and starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine 
and Bobby Di Cicco.



2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2005
156mins







Audio commentary with filmmaker/critic/producer of the restoration, Richard Schickel
The Real Glory: Reconstructing The Big Red One (47mins)
The Men Who Made The Movies: Samuel Fuller (55mins)
Anatomy Of A Scene (18mins)
18 Alternate Scenes (32mins)
The Fighting First (1946 short about the First Infantry Division) (12mins)
Original Promo Reel (30mins)
Stills Gallery
2004 Reconstruction Trailer

Tuesday 31 March 2015

1941 (1979)

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Karen Allen, Treat Williams, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Ned Beatty, Christopher Lee and Toshiro Mifune.



Collector's Edition DVD bought in 1999
2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2010
2-disc Special Edition Blu-ray bought in 2015
119mins (146mins)




2-disc DVD




 DVD







2-disc DVD extras -

The Making of 1941 (101mins)
Deleted Scenes (9mins)
Production Photographs (366 images)
1941 Comic Relief
The Marketing of 1941
The Reviews (52 pages)
Theatrical Trailers

Monday 30 March 2015

Force 10 From Navarone (1978)

Directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers and Richard Kiel.



DVD bought in 2006
121mins






No extras