Tuesday 31 March 2015

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Directed by Robert Wise and starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, De Forest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Collins and Persis Khambatta.



2-disc Director's Edition DVD bought in 2001
136m 20s
6-film 7-disc Star Trek Motion Picture Blu-ray Set bought in 2009
132mins







Director's Cut extras -

Audio Commentary by Director Robert Wise, Special Photographic Effects Director Douglas Trumbull, Special Photographic Effects Supervisor John Dykstra, Music Composer Jerry Goldsmith and Actor Stephen Collins
Text Commentary by Michael Okuda, Co-Author of The Star-Trek® Encyclopedia
Phase II: The Lost Enterprise (13mins)
A Bold New Enterprise (30mins)
Redirecting The Future (14mins)
5 Additional Scenes (From the 1979 Theatrical Version)
11 Deleted Scenes (From the 1983 TV Version)
Trims & Outtakes
Storyboard Sequences
Theatrical Trailer

Moonraker (1979)

Directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery and Richard Kiel.


Special Edition DVD bought in 2000

2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2006

Blu-ray bought in 2012
Part of the 'James Bond Collection'
125m 40s






 2-disc DVD








Blu-ray extras -

Audio commentary by director Lewis Gilbert, executive producer Michael Wilson, associate producer William P. Cartlidge and screenwriter Christopher Wood
Audio commentary by actor Roger Moore
Declassified: MI6 Vault
007 in Rio (13mins)
Bond '79 (12mins)
Ken Adam's Production Films (12mins)
Learning to Freefall - Sky Diving Test Footage
007 Mission Control
Exotic Locations
Mission Dossier
Inside Moonraker (42mins)

The Men Behind the Mayhem (19mins)
Image Database
Theatrical Trailer

The First Great Train Robbery (1979)

US Title - The Great Train Robbery.

Directed by Michael Crichton and starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Leslie Ann-Down


DVD bought in 2002
110mins







Theatrical Trailer

Caligula (1979)

Directed by Tinto Brass and starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud,
Helen Mirren and Teresa Ann Savoy.


4-disc Imperial Edition DVD bought in 2008

2-disc Imperial Edition Blu-ray bought in 2011
156mins









 Blu-ray








Blu-ray extras -

North American Bonus Footage (32mins)
Deleted and alternate scenes (48mins)
My Roman Holiday with John Steiner (24mins)
Caligula's Pet: A conversation with Lori Wagner (28mins)
Tinto Brass: The Orgy of Power (34:mins)
The Making of Caligula (62mins)
Stills galleries
1976-07 Gore Vidal Script
Caligula 1975-10-20-script
Movie tie-in novelisation
Penthouse vintage feature articles
Theatrical Trailers
Booklet

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

Directed by Terry Jones and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, 
Terry Jones and Michael Palin.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2008

Blu-ray bought in 2013
93mins





 Blu-ray





Blu-ray extras - 

Audio commentary by Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones
Audio commentary by John Cleese, and Michael Palin
Audio Recording of the Early Screenplay with Storyboards (Script Read Through (111mins)
The Story of Brian (60mins)
Deleted scenes
Photo gallery

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

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Directed by Francis Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen and 
Dennis Hopper.


Apocalypse Now Redux DVD bought in 2002

2-disc Complete Dossier DVD bought in 2006

3-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray bought in 2011
147m 17s (196mins)









 2-disc DVD




 3-disc Blu-ray











Blu-ray extras-

Includes the Theatrical and Redux version sof Apocalypse Now.
Audio Commentary with director Francis Ford Coppola
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (with optional audio commentary by 
Francis and Eleanor Coppola) (96mins)
Interview with John Milius (50mins)
A Conversation with Martin Sheen and Francis Ford Coppola (59mins)
Fred Roos: Casting Apocalypse
'Hearts of Darkness' - November 6, 1938" original radio broadcast (37mins)
The Hollow Men (17mins)
Deleted Scenes (26mins)
Kurtz Compound Destruction with Credits
The Birth of 5.1 Sound
A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now (18mins)
The Music of Apocalypse Now (15mins)
The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now (15mins)
The Final Mix
Apocalypse Then and Now
2001 Cannes Film Festival: Francis Ford Coppola (39mins)
PBR Streetgang
The Color Palette of Apocalypse Now
Storyboards
Photo Archives
Theatrical Trailers