Julian Carter wrote:
Good to see Disney releasing their older live-action films on Blu-ray.
Seeing Julie in HD is a good enough reason for the release to happen. Speaking of Julie ... I think this will be only her second appearance on Blu-ray. To my knowledge she doesn't have a truckload of films on her resume, and only The Sound of Music has had a Blu release.
UmbrellaFish, I recently caught Julie in "10", with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. Have you seen the film? And if so, what are your thoughts on it ... or on Julie's performance?
As a matter of fact,
10 is avaliable on BD. Plus, there's her voice-overs in the
Shrek films and
Despicable Me and the Broadway production of
Victor/Victoria. Oh and I almost forgot,
Tooth Fairy.
But we've yet to get some real goodies like
Thoroughly Modern Millie or
Star! or 1982's
Victor/Victoria. And of course
Mary Poppins. They'll all look stunning in HD, I'm sure.
Oh, I loved
10. I saw it for the first time a little over a year ago, and I think it's very good. I had read reviews on the film to get a handle for it, and most of them said the film was dated but I thought it was rather relevant. Dudley Moore is hilarious, and Bo Derek is salacious. That's one thing I think Blake could do expertly, photograph women. Julie's most beautiful celluloid appearances are in his films, and of course both Bo Derek and Audrey Hepburn have iconic style in their movies with Blake.
There's not much to say about Julie's performance, though, except that I like it because it was very relevant to her, and that it's one of the few movies she's done that was set in the then present. It can sometimes be a little startling, I'll admit, to see Julie in a movie set after the 1950s, but it works. She's particularly good playing a modern woman in a TV movie made at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic called
Our Sons.
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