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Earlier posts by JOhnN and Victor Khomenko about putting films in order for viewing jogged my memory about a couple tapes I found in a Salvation Army store. I've got The Raggedy Rawney and The F.B.I. Story. Both are from Warner Home Video and are in white cardboard sleeves with labels on the box and the tape stating they're screening cassettes and are not for sale or rental. Rawney, although opened, still has the WB shrink wrapping. Both tapes show the words "screening copy" for a few moments during the opening credits. I've not encountered tapes like these before and wondered what they were for. I could part with Rawney.
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Voters in the Academy and other film award organizations (New York Critics Circle, etc.) get copies of movies for free from the studios so they can see the movie before they vote. Studios give out DVD screeners these days.Before DVDs came out, screener VHS cassettes often had widescreen versions of the movie while the public release would be full screen. If you were a film buff, having a connection to widescreen screeners was heaven. I suppose that critics cared more about widescreen than the general public at that time.
Interestingly, there is always controversy over the documentary category in in Oscars. You cannot vote for best documentary in the Academy unless you've seen all the year's nominees, most of which get little distribution. There are grumblings about filmmakers who don't send out screeners and instead host screening parties for the voters, thus limiting the voting group to those who attend the party. (Non-attendees would not have seen all the nominated documentaries and thus cannot vote.) You can guess how much sucking up goes on at these events.
...reviewers often get them as well.Which means that none of those parties get to experience the film as the intended theatrical event.
clark
has a patient he's taken care of for many years and who gets to vote. My folks have been given lots of these from years past. I don't think my dad got too many this year, however.
Chris
I don't have any idea what the "screening copy" is, and I don't know your taste in films, but I would urge you to spend another quiet evening with Rawney - it has tons of deep charm.Have you seen and did you like Montenegro? They are sort of cut from the same cloth, and both have simply unforgettable moments.
BUT... if it really burdens you... we can figure out something, I am sure.
I got them a couple of years ago and after checking them for quality set them aside and they got lost in a mountain of tapes. The mention of Rawney in the other post reminded me that I had it so I rummaged around for it. Looks like I watched about a half an hour of it before pulling it in favor of something else, even though I like Bob Hoskins. Now that it's out I'll give it a proper viewing.I've not seen Montenegro in years but did enjoy it at the time. It's now on my list of films to revisit along with The Coca-Cola Kid, The Conformist, Local Hero and The Tenth Victim. I'm totally disgusted with a lot of what's coming out of Hollywood and am thinking of investigating Bollywood. Any suggestions? Lagaan looks promising.
Bob is very good in the Rawney.The Conformist is a classic, Local Hero I remember just vaguely, ditto for The Tenth Victim, but Marcello in any film is worthwhile. I am not an expert on Indian films at all, I recall seeing quite a few in the fifties and sixties, and there was not much to write home about - they were all tedious to no end. The only possible exception were some Raj Kapoor films - things like his timeless Vagabond (Awaara), that I would most definitely try to see.
If someone could comment on the progress the Indian cinema has made in the past say thirty years, I would be curious.
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