I recently viewed
"The Court Jester" in my "media room" on the widescreen television. The
DVD master was stupendous, and I was struck, again, as I am so often while seeing movies on the HDTV, that I can only now, after almost reaching fifty, experience to a degree what I have always been told was going to be called "movies on demand". And the movies, like "Jester", which is a wonderful musical comedy film from 1956, starring the genius of Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, the young and beautiful Angela Lansbury, above, and solid character supporting actors like Mildred Natwick, also above, as Griselda, and Basil Rathbone, riffing on his own role in the 1938 "Robin Hood". Alhtough "Jester" is from 1956, the master (in VistaVison widescreen) is so good that it looks like it was made yesterday. The experience thrilled and delighted me. I rented the movie from Netflix, and I "captured" some images, like the one above, by merely aiming the videocamera at the tv screen. I watch in total darkness, and the only light is from the image on the screen. Some came out rather well, and I will be experimenting with these movie images to hopefully make some points about my love affair with the flickers, now that my blog is up again. This is my "getting back acquainted" post to the blog program. "The Court Jester" is the "Airplane" of it's day. It was probably the first immensly popular satire of the movies themselves, and in some instances it surpasses many of the swashbucklers it parodies.
:: Michael Nyiri 10:01 PM
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