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Precious Images (1986)
1996 version
Classic Arts Showcase, a feed of short videos available on many cable channels played the 1996 version of this today. It's fantastic. What a dizzying quiz on all the classic films you've seen!
It's a sequence of hundreds of clips anywhere from 3 seconds down to about 1/4 second, played over a sequence of soundtrack excerpts. All clips are silent except for a few choice ones that have sound.
The subtitle page says, "Presented to the audiences of America in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Film by the Directors Guild of America and your local theatre".
There should be a page for the 19996 version, too.
Has it ever appeared on a DVD or laserdisc?
Hunk (1987)
Interesting story on how this movie came about
A friend new the director, so I went to the premiere, which was in a prestigious Westwood (L.A.) theatre. We all found it very entertaining.
The story was this: Lawrence Bassoff went to USC film school, where he made a hilarious twenty-minute comedy about an outer space themed Bar Mitzva. http://www.film-making.com/breaking.html
From that, he succeeded in getting a low-budget movie deal from Crown International Pictures for his first commercial film, Weekend Pass, which was moderately successful. Then Crown said they wanted to fund him to make another low-budget film, and they wanted it to be called 'Hunk'. No treatment, no script, no plot ideas. Just make a comedy about a hunk, and do what you want.
A lifelong movie poster collector, he never made another film but has written three books on movie posters.
The BBC Television Shakespeare: As You Like It (1978)
Lovely
Seek this one out (my library had it). Helen Mirren is delightful (32 at the time). It's shot on location in Scotland, including a lot of outdoors scenes, many in the woods. I'd be surprised if there is a better version. Certainly not the 1936 Olivier, marred as it is by his wooden co-star.