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Author Topic: Orient Express - testing memory Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-13-2003 06:58 PM                        Just received "Murder on the Orient Express" on dvd - Full frame 1:33, but beautiful to look at - sharp in the same way as I have earlier mentioned dvd versus 35mm on "Gosford Park". In the same way as GP, I think I remember Orient Ex. to have been "softened". -But that's not my question this time: I checked on ImdB, where the Express is listed as Anamorphic - but memory says 1.85 - AND the dvd does not look like pan and scan !?! Is ImdB right here ? Still the best Agatha Christie to me, with its flow of megastars in every bit role. Great ! p.  |  IP: Logged John Stewart Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Austin, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-14-2003 12:59 AM                     I don't think they are right. I don't remember it being scope. I'm sure it is flat. John  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 08-14-2003 08:50 AM                     Yes, something is strange here, because I think by 1978 GB had followed the US by shooting either 2.35 (then) or 1.85. I have a trailer for it; a friend who had it before me got sick of the the title cards (giving newspaper and TV reviewer's praise) inserted between shots and edited therm all out.  |  IP: Logged John Spooner Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: South Australia, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 08-14-2003 01:00 PM                     Can recall showing M O T O Express and it was to the best of my knowlege W/S. John Spooner.  |  IP: Logged

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