volcanohunter Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 The Goldwyn Follies, featuring Vera Zorina and the American Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera in choreography by George Balanchine, is coming to DVD on April 7. If you're interested, it can be pre-ordered at Amazon, its catalogue number being B001PPLINC. I often complain about Balanchine being underrepresented on video, so I suppose the 'Water Nymph Ballet' will have to do for now. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Thanks for the heads up, volcanohunter. Yes, indeed, any Balanchine on film is good news. I don't much care for the movie, but the ballet is worth checking out, if only for the horse. The Goldwyn Follies also has George Gershwin's last film score before his death, if I remember right. Link to comment
rg Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 i bought this film on dvd a good while ago. i wonder if this new release will be more 'deluxe' in some way or other. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I doubt if a curio like The Goldwyn Follies will get the deluxe treatment, but many reissued DVDs have better transfers than the older ones. Link to comment
sandik Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I doubt if a curio like The Goldwyn Follies will get the deluxe treatment, but many reissued DVDs have better transfers than the older ones. Considering the quality of some transfers, an improvement in that alone seems pretty deluxe to me! Link to comment
sidwich Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Yes, The Goldwyn Follies was George Gershwin's last score, although I think it's pretty well known that Vernon Duke did some work to finish "Our Love is Here to Stay." Although it's not on DVD, "On Your Toes" comes on Turner Classic Movies from time to time. Although it suffers from the miscasting of Eddie Albert, it still features the Princess Zenobia ballet and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." Looking over the credits, Balanchine is in some very starry company with James Wong Howe as cinematographer and Orry Kelly providing costumes. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I doubt if a curio like The Goldwyn Follies will get the deluxe treatment, but many reissued DVDs have better transfers than the older ones. Considering the quality of some transfers, an improvement in that alone seems pretty deluxe to me! True. Some of those early transfers of old movies are really, really bad. Link to comment
rg Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 when last i looked at it, i found my dvd copy of FOLLIES non-objectionable. the packaging is about as basic as possible but the disc seemed to play well enough when i last looked at it. still, i suspect there is much 'room for improvement,' as the report card category used to say. Link to comment
sandik Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 when last i looked at it, i found my dvd copy of FOLLIES non-objectionable.the packaging is about as basic as possible but the disc seemed to play well enough when i last looked at it. still, i suspect there is much 'room for improvement,' as the report card category used to say. Though you seem to think it 'plays well with others' (sorry -- I just couldn't resist) Link to comment
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