© Letterboxd Limited. On my TV screen it looked mighty odd. Mobile site. Sound editor Van Allen James does superb work with the sound to capture the extravagance of some of the gunfights and battles along with more intimate moments in some of the film‘s locations. And I was rewarded! Cinerama was absolutely, 100% made for How the West Was Won. Staggering epic with vast scope, filmed in giant screen Cinerama process (the one of only 2 features shot in the process), tracks the Westward expansion of settlers in a romanticized telling of American history. It's just a shame that the multiple stories are inconsistent in their relative qualities; and are littered with cliches. trakt. How the West Was Won tells the story of the changing American frontier through three generations of the same family, with an anthology-style structure broken up by narration from Spencer Tracy. Watched on Thursday August 20, 2020. Film leans heavy on the spectacle, and the sheer sensory experience. CINERAMA CINERAMA CINERAMA. Stars: Benjamin Byron Davis, Roger Clark, Rob Wiethoff, Cali Elizabeth Moore. Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall and written by James R. Webb. So, How The West Was Won is an epic narrative chronicling the very fundamental aspect of the formative years of modern America. Under the vision of three filmmakers, with transitional scenes helmed by Richard Thorpe, the film does have this sense of unification in the filmmaking while each director does bring in their own ideas to the story to add that sense of epic storytelling. For me as western fan this was an easy watch but for others the nearly three hours must felt very long and not enjoyable to love this as it deserves. I'd somehow built this up to be a disappointment - maybe because it's an award-winning film with an astonishing cast, but nobody ever talks about it - which (combined with the almost 3hr running time) probably makes it quite a bold choice for a birthday watch. And I was rewarded! With a runtime of 3 hours...It drags at time. The image is grainy, fuzzy around the edges, and sporting pale, weirdly calibrated color - episode two has a distinct magenta cast. The individual elements (acting, scenery) hold up nicely, but it never adequately comes together in a satisfying whole. Would like to see How the West Was Taken in the Cinerama Dome. Me voy a centrar en Ford, pero hay que señalar que toda la película es una obra maestra, una de las más honestas, hermosas y ambiciosas películas que se hayan hecho jamás sobre la historia de un país. Alas, the one-of-a-kind spectacle is all in service of a subpar script that amounts to little more than a rushed assembly line of western tropes and trappings. Me voy a centrar en Ford, pero hay que señalar que toda la película es una obra maestra, una de las más honestas, hermosas y ambiciosas películas que se hayan hecho jamás sobre la historia de un país. The film never gets better than the Civil war segment. The family enlists the help of Uncle Zeb (James Arness), a grizzled and resolutely independent wilderness scout, to guide them through the dangerous, Indian-filled Midwest territory. The Cinerama Dome is celebrating its 55 year anniversary by screening some of the original classics that premiered there. 69. The USA-region Blu-ray disc we viewed on a 65‐inch flat surface has several presentation options available. The exhausted and fed-up Seth then walks away from it all, eventually joining his mother at the homestead, where the widowed Kate needs him more than ever. The second part is about Eve’s sister Lilith (Debbie Reynolds) and her journey through the prairies where she and a gambler named Cleve (Gregory Peck) go to the west to get some land she’s inherited. Film leans heavy on the spectacle, and the sheer sensory experience. How well this edition compares with the European issues is unknown, but the sub-standard picture here appears to have been taken from a shoddy, second-generation dupe (most likely film transferred onto videotape). Often scenes felt unnecessary because of the main aim of the film. With a runtime of 3 hours...It drags at time. Often scenes felt unnecessary because of the main aim of the film. Accompanied with an overture and an intermission this is classic filmmaking on a grandiose scale. It just didn’t feel that it quite earned the stakes it was putting up for the characters to overcome. It's just a shame that the multiple stories are inconsistent in their relative qualities; and are littered with cliches. We chose and strongly recommend the Smilebox deep‐curve CINERAMA screen simulation. I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. Mainly impressive for its technical achievement in the triple-camera Cinerama format, which looks absolutely spectacular in the restored print. This was shot at a crazy 2.89:1, compared to most widescreen cinematography which is 2.35:1 or just normal cinematography at 1.85:1. Warner Bros.' edition of How The West Was Won: The Complete First Season comes packaged in a standard-sized keep case with a hinge for the first disc. But I was fearless! Letterboxd - Matt Breuer. The film’s music by Alec Newman is wonderful for its array of themes from broad and sweeping to more serene yet somber in their orchestral arrangements while the soundtrack also includes lots of traditional folk and country songs some of which are actually sung by Debbie Reynolds. The other two directors definitely don't quite hit the heights of Hathaway's work but this is a marvelously enjoyable epic, and I found its self-declared epicness (it has an overture and intermission!) It takes place in the Civil War era and like most of his other films it is a praise for family and the old traditions, and more like his Cavalry Trilogy it is about men in service and their struggles through the…. A single-page paper insert supplies original airdates, brief plot summaries and a cast list.

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