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On Tue, 28 May 2024 06:54:16 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>On 5/28/2024 2:13 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/27/2024 3:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 5/26/2024 6:04 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>> May 26, in honor of the publication of the original novel.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What will you watch to celebrate?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I’ve got the Dan Curtis/Jack Palance version going right now with music
>>>>>> from dark shadows. It’s a pretty good and a pretty faithful adaptation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Available on the Peacock, it’s a good copy in 16:9 with the ads front
>>>>>> loaded so it runs uninterrupted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Next up, I found the excellent 1977 Louis Jourdon version on the gray.
>>>>>
>>>>> The key scene in any telling of the original story is the first vision
>>>>> of transformed Lucy.  Notably, Coppola rather blew it (along with the
>>>>> ending).  My vote for that one scene (and I've seen them all multiple
>>>>> times) goes to John Badham's 1979 version...
>>>>
>>>> One of the (many) problems with the 1979 version is that it’s based on the
>>>> play where they randomly switch characters names for God knows why. So I
>>>> assume you’re actually talking about Mina? Kate Nelligan as Lucy makes it
>>>> all the way through to the end.
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what advancing the storyline to 1913 accomplished except
>>>> that they got to rent some old cars.
>>>>
>>>> I first saw it in the theater in the wrong aspect ratio. The moon comes up
>>>> and it’s twice as tall as it is wide! I went back and complained to the guy
>>>> selling popcorn and got an explanation I hadn’t heard before. They were 12
>>>> screens in the theater and only one projectionist and he would fix it (and
>>>> eventually did) when he got back to this screen in his rotation.
>>>>
>>>> My date bailed early when they clawed the guys throat on the Demeter but
>>>> insisted her roommate and I stay while she sat in the lobby smoking for the
>>>> next 90 minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Langella was great.  I hate the newer desaturated transfers.
>>>>
>>>> In the Louis Jourdan version, both girls start growing fangs from the
>>>> minute they are first bit. They do very little in the way of makeup on them
>>>> to turn them into vampires, but Lucy in particular is wonderfully
>>>> animalistic. And it has some of the best fog effects I’ve ever seen.
>>>
>>> (Mina... Lucy...  Moosey?)
>>>
>>> Yeah, Langella is always great, though his take on the Dracula character
>>> (which earned him raves on Broadway) was that "He's just a man..."
>>> While that has much to recommend it in a drama, I want something a tad
>>> more feral.  (I pick Christopher Lee in 1958.)
>> 
>> Palance is pretty feral, as you’d expect.
>> 
>> I saw Martin Landau on stage in the title role in the roadshow Gorey
>> production. He was great. :-)
>> 
>> 
>>> The Louis Jourdan version blew me away at first.  But when I saw it
>>> again a few years ago, I was put off by the really crappy (today)
>>> "surreal" electronic dreamy sequences, or do I misremember...
>>>

Those sequences are definitely a bit trippy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY1CFCKrMV4

>> Unfortunately, you remember correctly. It’s very much a product of its time
>> with cheesy solarized video insert effects that weren’t needed now or then.
>> 
>> But there’s a lot of good stuff in it. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen
>> Dracula climbing down the castle walls, face down, and it was the only
>> version I watched yesterday, that had most of the memorable quotes like
>> listen to them the children of the night what music they make.
>> 
>> It’s long enough to be leisurely when it needs to be. Hey, one of the three
>> brides is Sarah Douglas from Superman!
>
>Now that got my attention!  I checked but Xfinity doesn't have it 
>available to stream anywhere.  It doesn't even acknowledge this movie 
>exists.  :-/
>
>Amazon doesn't have it to stream either.
>
>

May I point you to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36VjXirmlY

It's not the best copy but it is available for free.