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"Screwball Comedy" set would make Theodora Goes Wild fair game, yes?

Magnificent Ambersons, highest priority I can think of. At some point you have to cut bait and go with the materials you have, this is too important to languish. A deal to include Criterion's commentary by Carringer from their old laser would be nice, it's also too useful/important to just...

Personally I toss the packaging. I don't have room for that junk.

I'd sure like THESE ARE THE DAMNED to fit in here somewhere.

Who said it was a disaster? It's not a disaster, it's just very very funny. Pacino is a one-man over the top machine - just listen to him bite off "Gimme All You Got! Gimme All You Got!" or "You could get keeeeled walkin' your doggie!'. The guy has me rolling on the floor. Really, drinking games...

The trick of the "Bad Movies We Love" book is to not focus on the obvious, like Ed Wood or genre schlock, but rather movies that most often had some fairly significant people involved who thought they were making a something of quality that time has revealed to be silly or just a flat-out...

You mean "accept" it? If so, spoken like a true Dalek. If you mean "except", that's far too accomodating and not Dalek-y at all. Personally I picked up a used copy of the Optimum quite cheaply this past week and couldn't be happier. Looks great. So I guess I didn't accept it, or except it.

As a fan of both, I'd say they have virtually nothing meaningful in common. An interest in deconstruction perhaps, but they go after deconstructing different things in tonally wholly different ways. They're both original Sherlock Holmes stories from the same decade interested more in why he...

deleted, on second thoughts not going to get into it.

Sure we did. The Kubrick set, the Leading Ladies Collection 2 set. Even one for December - the Blade Runner releases. I promise you Warners considers Blade Runner a Classic (actually, you should go to the Warners DVD website sometime and look at their "Classics" page - there's an old Halle Berry...

I feel like there should be some sort of commemorative service or something. Maybe the thread should be locked now, sort of like retiring a player's number. The only thing left to do is to campaign to have Robert's name added to the DVD's credits.

It's been commonly called the Soprano family for a few years now, starting sometime after Richie Aprile's death, but historically (in the show's backstory), it's the DiMeo Family, after founder Eckley "The Old Man" DiMeo. Johnny Boy and Junior Soprano were his capos. DiMeo has been in prison for...

I enjoyed this one more than most this season, but naturally what sticks out is the negative. I thought the our Sawyer/CooperSawyer confrontation was rather slackly written. The way our Sawyer discovers the relationship of CooperSawyer to him felt very contrived and unnatural. Cooper uses the...

Ouch.

Except Fox is now handling release of MGM stuff, so that's probably correct. Whether or not they're correct that "The Boy Friend" is actually being prepped - well, who knows?

By the way, any of us interested in bargain hunting on DVDs should be interested in the arguments beginning today in the Supreme Court, as the case of whether or not to overturn the 1911 Dr. Miles price-fixing ruling kicks off. This is the ruling that allows for the concept of retail sales below...

Not brick and mortars, that's for sure. Online retail or columbiahouse accounts for at least 90% of my purchases, even including the early days of the format. Once in awhile I buy used from physical stores, once in awhile a well-priced set at Costco. The occasional advertised door buster/loss...

Many of these players aren't region-free, per se, they're region-settable. I find that setting mine to Region 1 only doesn't change the result. It may be related, however.

Yes, same problem in my Philips (and my old Daewoo multi-standard, and my Dell PC's DVD-ROM). With all the UEs.

Surely Gojira/Godzilla for 1954. I would be tempted to go both Quatermass Xperiment for '55 and Quatermass 2 for '57. I'm a fan of Four Sided Triangle ('53) but virtually no one else is and wouldn't expect you to dislodge War of the Worlds for it. Ikarie XB 1 ('63) La Jetee ('62)

What criteria have you used so far? Is it all from IMDB? You're trying to use user ratings to establish this?

I've been throwing my cases routinely for two or three years now. Discs go in binders. I do save the art, it gets tossed in a dedicated box.

Lots of people have declined to do DVD commentaries for work they are proud of, for quite a number of reasons. You think it unlikely she would refuse, I think it likely. We're both speculating fruitlessly.

My memory of the early days of AMC was being struck by the impression that their programming consisted entirely of alternating "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" with "Mary of Scotland", over and over again.

Wow, 12 days from first post to announcement. Any other "Industry Shames" you want to air, Jefty? You may be on a roll.

Charles - you have the R2 set? That's a pretty recent release, yes? What's the quality like on "Belles"? I bought an R4 Australian release of it a couple years ago, but it looks like it came from a pretty ragged source. If the R2 looks good, I might be up for an upgrade.

Not disbelieving you, but do you have a source for that?

Mike*HTF - Criterion has acquired "Sanders of the River" (from where? I'd like to know). It will be released next month as part of their Paul Robeson box.

Yeah this alone could be HD-DVD's ticket to a life expectancy. Not smart.