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Warner Bros. will release on Blu-ray Shane and The Odd Couple on June 4th. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Funny Girl on April 30th. Special Features: * Featurette: Barbra in Movieland * Featurette: This is Streisand Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox will release on Blu The Great Escape on May 7th, using an all-new high-definition transfer struck from a 4K master. Special Features: * Audio Commentary by Director John Sturges, Cast & Crew * The Great Escape: Bringing Fact to Fiction * The Great Escape: Preparations for Freedom * The Great Escape: The Flight to Freedom * The Great Escape: A Standing Ovation * The Great Escape: The Untold Story * The Great Escape: The Untold Story – Additional Interviews * A Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones * Return to The Great Escape * Original Theatrical Trailer

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

DVD, too.

Yancey, You have just made this a must-attend event.

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Play It Again, Sam had a lot of great lines. One of my favorites: (The ghost of Bogart talking to Allen Felix (Woody Allen) before a blind date) Bogart: And don't get nervous. The only bad break you could get is if she turns out to be a virgin...or a cop. Allen: With my luck, she'll turn out to be both.

Best Buy has all the DVD volumes of the George Reeves Superman TV show on special. $9.99 each. Season One Season Two Season Three & Four Season Five & Six And the Two Serials DVD collection with Kirk Alyn is also $9.99.

Criterion releases for June: The Criterion Collection has announced five titles for Blu-ray release in June. On June 11, the studio will release Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957). On June 18th, it will release William Cameron Menzies' Things to Come (1936), František Vlácil's Marketa Lazarová (1967), and Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor's Safety Last! (1923). And on June 25th, it will release Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985). Special features: Wild Strawberries - Blu-ray Special Features: * New high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie * Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman * Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work, a ninety-minute documentary by filmmaker and author Jörn Donner * Behind-the-scenes footage shot by Bergman * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Mark Le Fanu Things to Come- DVD and Blu-ray New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat * Interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling on the film's design * Film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss's musical score * Audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H. G. Wells's writing about the "wandering sickness," the plague in Things to Come * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien * More! Marketa Lazarova - DVD and Blu-ray * New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition * New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pištek * New interviews with film historian Peter Hames and journalist and critic Antonín Liehm * New English subtitle translation * PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and author and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vlácil by Liehm * More! Safety Last - DVD and Blu-ray New 2K digital film restoration * Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1989, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray edition * Alternate score by organist Gaylord Carter from the late 1960s, presented in uncompressed monaural on the Blu-ray edition * Audio commentary featuring film critic Leonard Maltin and director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll * Introduction by Suzanne Lloyd, Lloyd's granddaughter and president of Harold Lloyd Entertainment * Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, a 104-minute documentary from 1989 * Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: Take a Chance (1918), Young Mr. Jazz (1919), and His Royal Slyness (1920), with commentary by Correll and film writer John Bengtson * Locations and Effects, a new documentary featuring Bengtson and special effects expert Craig Barron * New interview with Davis * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park Shoah - DVD and Blu-ray New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes), Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes), and The Karski Report (2010, 54 minutes) New conversation between critic Serge Toubiana and Lanzmann Interview with Lanzmann about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibor New conversation between associate director of photography Caroline Champetier and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann

And, by the way, why shouldn't we mention its name? It's *Oz the Great and Powerful*. And it's terrific. I've seen it three times now. IMAX 3D is the only way it should be seen.

Actually, it's Malachi Throne.

Two Bette Davis films coming on Blu-ray from Kino on June 18th: Howard Higgin's Hell's House (1932) John Cromwell's Of Human Bondage (1934)

Amazon now has the collection listed for $34.99. Excellent price ($8.75 per title). http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Gangsters-Collection-Classic-Blu-ray/dp/B00BCGUJ5M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363384276&sr=8-2&keywords=ultimategangstersblu-ray > {quote:title=filmlover wrote:}{quote}Updated details about the upcoming Blu-ray Warner Bros. Ultimate Gangsters Collection - Classic: > > The 4 titles will also be available individually. May 21st is the release date. > > These are the extras for each title > > > > > *Little Caesar* (1931) > > > > * Commentary by film historian Robert Sklar > * Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1931 > * Featurette Beer and Blood: Enemies of the Public > > *The Public Enemy* (1931) > > * Commentary by film historian Richard B. Jewell > * Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1930 > * Featurette Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero > > *The Petrified Forest *(1936) > > * Commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax > * Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1936 > * Featurette The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert > > *White Heat* (1949) > > Commentary by Film Historian Drew Casper Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1949 White Heat: Top of the World

There is a WarnerArchive sale on until March 20th. 4 for $44 plus free shipping. http://shop.warnerarchive.com/category/code/bday_wacshop.do?sortby=bestSellersAscend&pp=96&ref=EWACBDAY2

Rita Hayworth and Aldo Ray: Beverly Michaels and Richard Egan: Dorothy Hart and Richard Basehart: