Posted on 02/27/2026 2:52:32 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
---SNIP-- It was in the process of making Elvis that Luhrmann discovered dozens of long-rumored concert footage tapes in a Kansas salt mine, where Warner Bros. stores some of their film archives. Working with Peter Jackson's team at the post-production facility Park Road Post, who did the miraculous restoration of Beatles rehearsal footage for Jackson's 2021 Disney+ series, Get Back, they burnished 50-plus hours of 55-year-old celluloid into an eye-popping sheen with enough visual fidelity to fill an IMAX screen. In doing so, they resurrected a woolly mammoth. The film — which is a creative amalgamation of takes from rehearsals and concerts that span from 1970 to 1972 — places the viewer so close to the action that we can viscerally feel the thumping of the bass and almost sense that we'll get flecked with the sweat dripping off Presley's face.
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When we were teens, we hated Elvis, thought he was a “Greaser’, big insult in our world. Recently my neighbor who owns DVDs of every movie ever made showed one of the Elvis films at our clubhouse. I went.
Golly Gee Oh Gosh, he really can sing. Who knew?
Our cousins are taking their 97-year-old mom to see it ASAP. They had an Elvis impersonator at her 9oth birthday party. We can’t wait to hear her take on it.
Love that story. 97 and enjoying life.
That is a great thing they are doing.
I missed understanding Evis. My mother was his audience.But I visited Graceland as a lark making fun until I went down that hallway lined 2 and 3 deep with his award records.
Now I understand
Thank you for posting
“When we were teens, we hated Elvis, thought he was a “Greaser’, big insult in our world. “
We?
We have the DVD “Elvis Lives” ... great put together of Elvis and the original band members.
The first rock song I remember hearing was Elvis on AM radio somewhere around 1962 (I was 8). It was my first musical epiphany, and it was all rock all the time for about 25 years. By the time of his death I was embarrassed to admit to having been a fan. Sorry, but sequins and Vegas shows were never my thing.
I happened to walk through the lobby of one of the large format theaters, and they had some footage of that playing on the screen, and it looked amazing.
Pre-Army Elvis was good. Even his 1968 comeback show was pretty good, as well.
“We” the teenagers that I knew and did things with. NOT the teens on the other side of town. No clue what they liked..
How did you and your friends not hear his singing? No one had a radio?
Another confusing article about film. In one sentence it calls the find “tapes,” in another “celluloid,” meaning film. I’m going to assume it was actually film they found. Current younger generations seem to make no distinction between film and video tape. I have seen YouTube videos with titles like “First Video from 1895” and “Video of World War II Battles.”
We had everything including cars and swimming pools. We didn’t like him. Period. Also detested Pizza. I still hate Pizza.
Not a HUGE fan of Elvis, though I do like some of his tunes. The trailer for this really made me want to see it (which is a rarity these days). My son said the same thing. He’s always said Elvis was overrated. But he wants to see this in IMAX. We saw the trailer in the theater.
Elvis - The King bump!
😊 😎
Elvis - The King bump!
😊 😎
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