I watched The Decameron last night. I enjoyed it, but was thrown off by the heavy use of ADR. Did Passolini use live microphones on set, or was the entire film dubbed? I thought some of the actors might have been non-Italians saying their lines in their native tongues, and had their dialogue dubbed later on.

This was common practice in Italian film production at the time. All dialogue was ADRed. No microphones were used on set. Cast members frequently spoke different languages on camera.

In many cases, the dialogue may not have even been written until post-production. Fellini was famous for having his actors just recite their grocery lists to get their lips moving.

Yeah, ADR was the norm in Italy. Those Leone westerns? ADR.

^ ^^ Thanks, I thought that might have been the case. I know this proctice was prevalent in the HK film industry, I just didn't know it was the same in Italy.

Medium Cool blu-ray per Newsletter hint.

New newsletter is out, with a picture of The Fonz.

The Lords of Flatbush?

Medium Cool

(that or the second season of Happy Days)

Good job Jay...I can NEVER guess these.

Medium Cool would be awesome...such a great film.

Oooh another Paramount title. The Tenant next please!

Nice clue, especially as Henry Winkler has the same initials as Haskell Wexler.

Never heard of it before. Educate me on this people. Besides it's unknown quality to me, what makes it awesome?

I've never heard of it either, but I saw on Wikipedia it's been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.

It also has Robert Forester in it so yeah probably pretty cool.

OOoooooh...Robert Forester.

Any chance that they have been able to license the Wild Man Fischer song that had to be changed during the roller derby scene ("Merry-go-round")? Knowing just a little about it, I suspect not.

Also Peter Boyele and Peter Boneerz.

Adding to the Kubrick mystery... Criterion yesterday or the day before was tweeting an article about The Shining.... hmmmmm...

They do tend to tweet about lots of "important" films that aren't necessarily in their collection though.

Talking about The Shining...correct me if I'm wrong. Doesn't The Shining have issues. OAR not being maintained and I think colors being a little bit off at times?

colors are wrong when the tennis ball rolls to danny in the hallway but the OAR is debatable.

Discussing Kubrick and OAR is opening an enormous can of worms.

Yeah, the aspect ratio on the Shining BD is fine, but the pink tennis ball and toy truck are absurd and inexplicable. It takes me out of the movie every time.

I don't want to derail this thread but..why is that changed?

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Are you asking about the aspect ratio or the colors?