mjp
Founding member
I know there are a million Barfly threads, so here's 1,000,001.
We watched Barfly over the weekend to listen to the commentary track by Barbet Schroeder (which is like a documentary about the making of Barfly if you haven't heard it). But this was the first time I'd seen the DVD widescreen, on a widescreen TV.
Holy shit. You can feel the grime when you watch this wide. It's amazing how watching it 2:3 - or whatever the old school square TV ratio is - cuts out so much of the atmosphere.
Schroeder goes on (and on) about the palm trees, and how important it was to be able to see the palm tree outside the windows. Maybe it's because he was talking about them so much, or maybe it was seeing the full picture for the first time, but damn, those palm trees looked good.
I have watched this "widescreen" on a regular TV (with the big black bands above and below), but I feel like I just saw the movie for the first time, and just the way it looks is poetry. The photography is awe-inspiring. It really raises the movie up in my estimation. Whatever that's good for.
We watched Barfly over the weekend to listen to the commentary track by Barbet Schroeder (which is like a documentary about the making of Barfly if you haven't heard it). But this was the first time I'd seen the DVD widescreen, on a widescreen TV.
Holy shit. You can feel the grime when you watch this wide. It's amazing how watching it 2:3 - or whatever the old school square TV ratio is - cuts out so much of the atmosphere.
Schroeder goes on (and on) about the palm trees, and how important it was to be able to see the palm tree outside the windows. Maybe it's because he was talking about them so much, or maybe it was seeing the full picture for the first time, but damn, those palm trees looked good.
I have watched this "widescreen" on a regular TV (with the big black bands above and below), but I feel like I just saw the movie for the first time, and just the way it looks is poetry. The photography is awe-inspiring. It really raises the movie up in my estimation. Whatever that's good for.