EdgeCliffe Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 OLIVE RELEASES BD/DVD August 19th: •MAGNIFICENT DOLL (1947) - Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith •THAT'S MY MAN (1947) - Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod August 26th: •I'VE ALWAYS LOVED YOU (1946) - Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod •HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (1958) - Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 From Kino in Sept on Blu-ray: The Young Savages (1961) starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Warner is reissuing the following Samuel Goldwyn releases on DVD Gary Cooper in The WESTERNER (1940) and Bob Hope in The PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE (1944). Release date: 10/14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Updated dates and details about those upcoming Kino releases on Blu-ray, plus a new title coming to Blu from Kino: ******************************************* Run Silent, Run Deep - Sept. 23 ******************************************* Witness for the Prosecution - July 22 Special Features: Interview with Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder discussing the film (7 mins., in German and English with subtitles) Trailer The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - July 22 Special Features: "Christopher Lee: Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wilder" Featurette Interview with the editor, Ernest Walter Deleted sequences Original Theatrical Trailer Additional Audio Sequence: Deleted Epilogue Scene The Scalphunters - July 22 Marty - July 29 Special Features: Original TrailerSeparate Tables - July 29 Special Features: Audio Commentary by Director Delbert Mann Trailer Duel At Diablo - July 29 Special Feature: Original trailer Paris Blues - July 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm001 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 According to Amazon KISMET will be released June 10. KISMET nor the recently released HIT THE DECK are great MGM musicals. Where is SHOW BOAT or THE BAND WAGON? I did hear that WB is working on the release of SHOW BOAT. I find KISMET, infinitely better than SHOW BOAT. It looks and sounds magnificent on Blu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 John,I have to disagree about KISMET. Although I love the score but I felt its a deadly dull musical. Only the sequence NIGHT OF MY NIGHT is gorgeously presented and lights up the film. Minnelli did not want to direct the film. I love the players and oddly enough I met all four stars: Blyth, Keel, Gray and Damone in the 90s. Yes I heard the film looks beautiful in BR and I have bought it. I do love musicals and anything directed by Minnelli. I do prefer SHOWOAT to this one but I really like the earlier version with Irene Dunne better. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Kino is releasing Elmer Gantry on Blu-ray on Sept. 23rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Here's another BD title from KINO coming 9/23 (don't think this one was mentioned) TARAS BULBA Looks like Kino has access to the whole UA library from MGM. Wish Kino would release some titles not yet on DVD/BD like GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES which shows from time to time on the MGM cable station. The print is quite beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Filmlover, I just realized there are two different editions of STAGECOACH. Different covers and list different, $39.95 and $49.95. Only see new edition on BARNES AND NOBLE. Amazon I think lists the cheaper on. Confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Filmlover, I just realized there are two different editions of STAGECOACH. Different covers and list different, $39.95 and $49.95. Only see new edition on BARNES AND NOBLE. Amazon I think lists the cheaper on. Confused. Can you post a link to the $49.95 one? Are you sure you are not thinking of Red River, which is also Criterion and is $49.95? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Can you post a link to the $49.95 one? Are you sure you are not thinking of Red River, which is also Criterion and is $49.95? You are right I GOOFED. Somehow got the two films mixed up maybe because of John Wayne. Pretty dumb dumb of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 You are right I GOOFED. Somehow got the two films mixed up maybe because of John Wayne. Pretty dumb dumb of me. Well...it would explain the different covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Well, it is now official... Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Batman: The Complete Television Series this November. Attached with this announcement is a brand new trailer which the studio has uploaded to promote the upcoming release. (Yes, there will be a DVD set, too.)Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will officially unveil the details of its highly-anticipated November 2014 release of "Batman: The Complete Television Series" at a Comic-Con International panel -- featuring special guests Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar -- on Thursday, July 24 from 6:00-7:00pm in Hall H.The actors behind Batman, Robin and Catwoman will give fans their first inside sneak peak at the most anticipated home entertainment release in fanboy history. All the details will be revealed, including an initial look at exclusive content, limited edition packaging, and dazzling HD re-mastered footage from the landmark series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 MORE OLIVE RELEASES September 16th: •THE BIG OPERATOR (1959) - Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van DoreN September 23rd: •DISTANT DRUMS (1951) - Gary Cooper •SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS (1949) - Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith September 30th: •BETTY BOOP- The Essential Collection, Vol. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Kino will release Billion Dollar Brain starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer on Blu-ray on October 7th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 filmlover, I had contemplated buying some of the UA/Kino BD;s but have read reviews on two upcoming releases WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION and PRIVATE LIVE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Both reviews stated the upgrade is not that good so I will stick with my DVD's. And that goes for other releases. My collection has just gotten too big. Others that interest me are ON THE BEACH and TARAS BULBA so I will have to see what the quality is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 It's hit or miss sometimes. Sabata, another one they have coming out at the same, got an excellent review from DVDbeaver.com: "This is quite a handsome step above the hazier 2007 MGM, interlaced, DVD. The image crisps-up significantly, colors are tighter, contrast more layered." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 filmlover, I don't know about you but I am glad Criterion decided to drop the dual format editions for the new releases. RED RIVER comes in a clunky box set and THE FRESHMAN in a smaller box set. They just take up too much space on the shelf and that is one of the reasons I am debating about the Jacques Demy set which is a very big box. I am running out of space and it was enough when DVD's came in clunky box sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Release dates for upcoming UA/KINO BD'S September 9th: •A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (1966) - Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton September 23rd: •ELMER GANTRY (1960) - Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones •RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP (1958) - Clark Gable •TARAS BULBA (1962) - Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner •THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961) - Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 TWILIGHT TIME BD RELEASES FOR AUGUST FOLLOW THAT DREAM (UA) BUDDY HOLLY STORY ((UA) MAN HUNT (FOX) SECRET OF SANTA VICTORIA (UA) LOOKS LIKE MGM/UA LICENSED THEIR TITLES TO BOTH KINO AND TWILIGHT TIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 The Criterion Collection has announced ten titles for release in October: On October 14th, it will release John Ford's My Darling Clementine. On October 21, it will release Orson Welles' F For Fakeand Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. And on October 28th, it will release a seven-disc box set with films directed by Jacques Tati and George Sluizer's The Vanishing. My Darling Clementine - available on Blu-ray and DVD Special Features: New 4K digital restoration of the theatrical release version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray High-definition presentation of the 103-minute prerelease version of the film New audio commentary featuring John Ford biographer Joseph McBride New interview with western historian Andrew C. Isenberg about the real Wyatt Earp Comparison of the two versions by the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Robert Gitt New video essay by Ford scholar Tag Gallagher A Bandit's Wager, a 1916 short costarring Ford and directed by his brother, Francis Ford, featuring new music composed and performed by Donald Sosin NBC broadcast reports from 1963 and 1975 about the history of Tombstone and Monument Valley Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic David Jenkins F For Fake - available on Blu-ray (already available on DVD) Special Features: New, restored digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Audio commentary from 2005 by cowriter and star Oja Kodar and director of photography Gary Graver Introduction from 2005 by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich Orson Welles: One-Man Band, a documentary from 1995 about Welles's unfinished projects Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery, a fifty-two-minute documentary from 1997 about art forger Elmyr de Hory 60 Minutes interview from 2000 with Clifford Irving about his Howard Hughes autobiography hoax Hughes's 1972 press conference exposing Irving's hoax Extended, nine-minute trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum La Dolce Vita - available on Blu-ray and DVD Special Features: New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New visual essay by : : kogonada New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who worked as assistant director on the film Scholar David Forgacs discusses the period in Italy's history when the film was made New interview with Italian film journalist Antonello Sarno about the outlandish fashions seen in the film Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera related to La dolce vita from the collection of Don Young PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins The Complete Jacques Tati - available on Blu-ray and DVD Jour de fêteMonsieur Hulot's Holiday1978 rerelease version, reedited by Tati himself, along with the original 1953 theatrical version.Mon oncleThis edition features both the original French release and My Uncle, the version Tati created for English-speaking audiences.PlayTimeTraficParadeSpecial Features: New digital restorations of all six feature films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays of Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Mon oncle, Trafic, and Parade and uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray of PlayTime New digital restorations of all seven short films: On demande une brute (1934), Gai dimanche (1935), Soigne ton gauche (1936), L'école des facteurs (1946), Cours du soir (1967), Forza Bastia (1978), and Dégustation maison (1978) Two alternate versions of Jour de fête, a partly colorized 1964 version and the full-color 1994 rerelease version Original 1953 theatrical release version of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday My Uncle, the version of Mon oncle that director Jacques Tati created for English-language audiences Introductions by actor and comedian Terry Jones to Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Mon oncle, and PlayTime Archival interviews with Tati In the Footsteps of Monsieur Hulot, a 1989 documentary about Tati's beloved alter ego Five visual essays by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet New interview with film scholar Michel Chion on the sound design of Tati's films "Jour de fête": In Search of the Lost Color, a 1988 documentary on the process of realizing Tati's original color vision for that film Once Upon a Time . . . "Mon oncle," a 2008 documentary about the making of that film Everything Is Beautiful, a 2005 piece on the fashion, furniture, and architecture of Mon oncle Selected-scene commentaries on PlayTime by Goudet, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and critic Philip Kemp Tativille, a documentary shot on the set of PlayTime Beyond "PlayTime," a short 2002 documentary featuring on-set footage A Homage to Jacques Tati, a 1982 French TV program featuring Tati friend and set designer Jacques Lagrange Audio interview with Tati from the U.S. premiere of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival Interview with PlayTime script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot from 2006 Tati Story, a short biographical film from 2002 Professor Goudet's Lessons, a 2013 classroom lecture by Goudet on Tati's films Alternate English-language soundtracks for Monsieur Hulot's Holiday and PlayTime New English subtitle translations PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics David Cairns, James Quandt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Kristin Ross The Vanishing - available on Blu-ray and DVD Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New interview with director George Sluizer New interview with actor Johanna ter Steege Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Foundas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Universal has given a release date of Oct. 7th for Holiday Inn on Blu-ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Here are the bonus features for HOLIDAY INN, Blu Ray •Black and white and colorized versions •A Couple of Song and Dance Men: An intimate retrospective of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire featuring an interview with Ava Astaire-MacKenzie •All Singing - All Dancing: Experience the making of unforgettable song and dance numbers of Holiday Inn •Audio Commentary: Feature length audio commentary by film historian Ken Barnes with archive audio comments by Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and John Scott Trotter •Coloring a Classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Kino will be releasing the restored version of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Blu-ray. Date not yet known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCliffe Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 10/17 on Blu Ray from Shout Factory: THE VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION VOL. II House on Haunted Hill, The Return of the Fly, The Comedy of Terrors, The Raven, The Last Man on Earth, Tomb of Ligeia, Dr. Phibes Rises Again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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