If anyone knows of a good source for a high-quality DVD release of JUST IMAGINE, please post it here!
I got mine from a film collector and he did it for me as a custom order favor from his rare, complete 35mm print. I don't think he's interested in taking any other orders since he has a business which keeps him very busy day and night.
Dejael
Are you teasing me??? I have been using garbage taped from the Turner Classic Channel jumpy copies for my film class for years!(purchased in good faith on Ebay). Does someone actually HAVE a good copy of this movie?? This one really needs to be cleaned up and issued for DVD. It is such a classic that it is difficult to believe that it has not been done yet!
shareYes, I saw a beautiful 35mm print at a Hollywood film festival a few years ago, furnished by Janus Films in New York City, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in NYC. I have also seen various 16mm prints of this film in various states of terrible disrepair (similar to what happened to Fritz Lang's silent 1926 sci-fi classic METROPOLIS). And I did obtain a bootleg DVD copy from a private collector about 4 years ago. I don't know what to say but keep checking the web and ebay for a good DVD copy. It might be pricey, I think I paid something like $40.00 for mine, but it was worth it. The movie is such a curiosity, an oddity that it must be seen to be believed, and appreciated. I recommend watching it on a double-feature paired with Cecil B. DeMille's MADAME SATAN (1930). Both films are highly recommended by the Art Deco Society of America.
Dejael
"I recommend watching it on a double-feature paired with Cecil B. DeMille's MADAME SATAN (1930). Both films are highly recommended by the Art Deco Society of America."
That's interesting. That's exactly how I saw it at Copley Place theatre in Boston way back in the early 1980s as a double feature! The prints were in OK shape and there weren't many people in the audience. I do remember people laughting when the film showed what 1980 was going to be!:)
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