THE THING (1982) in 4k digital and the nature of image quality
Since the beginning of the cinema, whenever we watched movies from the past they have always been in deteriorated forms.
In the earliest days of the medium, nitrate prints of old movies were hauled out of make-shift storage facilities for re-examination. This practice was occasionally done in the silent era, but really picked [...]
THE THING (1982) is another fine notch on John Carpenter’s genre belt
Dir. John Carpenter
Alamo Village, 4/08/10, 10:15pm
Four years after making one of my favorite movies of all time, Halloween, John Carpenter remade The Thing from Another World, the Howard Hawks film from 1951 that is playing on the television in certain scenes from Halloween. Clearly, The Thing was a labor of love for Carpenter, remaking [...]
Assignment #3: Wishful Sequels
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
What sequel would you most like to see, and why?