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According to DVDBeaver, Criterion has lost the rights to Carol Reed's The Third Man. If you were thinking about buying it, you might want to do it soon before all the online outlets jack up the price. DDD has already raised their price to $36. Amazon has it for $28 right now.

Is it worth buying this for a 40 inch screen?

Some black and whites only look better when projected i heard.

It's absolutely beautiful on my 32" screen - and it's a wonderful film to boot!

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Quoting FilmAlba:

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Quoting Antares:

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According to DVDBeaver, Criterion has lost the rights to Carol Reed's The Third Man. If you were thinking about buying it, you might want to do it soon before all the online outlets jack up the price. DDD has already raised their price to $36. Amazon has it for $28 right now.

Is it worth buying this for a 40 inch screen?

Some black and whites only look better when projected i heard.

where did you hear that? i've always heard good things about black and whites on blu

-Agrare

I never doubted they where good just if the benefits could be seen on a smaller screen as much as a projector.

Well looks like i might get this after all as it is one of my fav films.

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Odd Man Out is a better film.

*Ducks*

lol have you seen Brighton Rock. I say that's a better film.

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I never doubted they where good just if the benefits could be seen on a smaller screen as much as a projector.

Well looks like i might get this after all as it is one of my fav films.

I'd say the bigger, the better.  But I certainly wouldn't let screen size keep me away from an awesome film.  While you may not see as much detail on a smaller screen, I don't believe screen size will diminish the characters or story in any way.

Plus, you can offset a smaller screen with a smaller viewing distance to some degree.

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To: FilmAlba

Brighton Rock is a great movie, but sufficiently different from The Third Man to not be compared, other than they are both British Classics.

Yeah true most movies are sufficiently different from each other even of the same genre and period. I was just trying to say Brighton Rock is another great movie of that period.

Also i don't like to call these movies British classics. They where made in England by English ppl with mostly an English cast so there English movies.

Same with TV.

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To: FilmAlba

The Third Man is well accepted throughout the world, unfortunately Brighton Rock is pretty well only appreciated by the British.  I am pretty certain, for instance, that most North Americans wouldn't get it.  I could be wrong in this judgement

Well im not British im Scottish 

Even i had a hard time understanding what you where getting at lol the culture is very much English in it. We might share an island with each other but Scotland and England are fundamentally two different nations even more so over the last 20 years with the culture revolution that took place through out the 80's and 90's where now most ppl can clearly define to the world what it is to be Scottish.

We share some common culture with England as does Ireland just like the Swiss, Austrians and Germans do or the Scandinavian nations or the low land country's of the Netherlands Belgium (The Flemish not the Walloon's relay) and Luxembourg.

And im proud to as well but certainly im not British.

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To: FilmAlba

I had no idea what nationality you were/are.  My point is that the film is too English/British/Scottish/Irish, or whatever, for North American audiences and it is because of that, it is not as widely known or acknowledged as The Third Man is.  Simply put, it is too foreign for most North Americans to really appreciate what it is.

To foreign to appreciate? I like Korean cinema French and so on. I hardly think nothing is too foreign.