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Looks like the Warner Archive Collection has a streaming service in Beta: http://criterioncast.com/news/warner-archive-collection-launches-streaming-service/

What I do know about THE BIG PARADE is that Warner Bros. already restored it sometime around 2004 after they found the original camera negative. It was screened at festivals and then dropped off the face of the earth. I swear I remember reading an interview with George Feltenstein in which he...

2012 is Paramount's 100th anniversary so if Wings ever comes to Blu-Ray or DVD, it would come next year, along with any other films made before 2000 that Paramount would ordinarily deem unreleasable.

I think in general you'll see more films from the 30s and 40s because the sheer number of films in their library from the height of the studio era far outweigh number of films from the 70s, 80s and 90s. I'm not sure what the exact breakdown is in Warner's overall library, but really I'd guess...

I have two accounts. WBShop won't let me order under one account with my credit card but it will for my other account. I'm using the same credit card for both. It doesn't make a lick of sense.

I'm in Chicago. Oddly, my two Black Friday orders started in Carol Stream, IL, about 40 miles away. It went to Cincinnati, then Warrendale, PA; DesMoines, IA; and then Chicago. Very strange. Took a total of 12 days.

Warner Archive just tweeted this preview of the movies scheduled to come next week.

Quote: I think it's simple mathematics. There are far more films from the '30s and '40s than from the '60s and '70s, and I'm sure they release them in an appropriate ratio so they don't run out of '60s and '70s films by 2012 or something. Remember their library consists of pre-1986 MGM, RKO...

Columbia College Chicago, where I teach, has archive titles in its library, a little fewer than 100 of them at the moment. I don't think the Chicago Public Library has any. Their acquisitions of films seems to have slowed to a crawl thanks to budgetary problems.

I think the very robust schedule is a robust schedule of films being re-released to DVD and going on Blu-Ray. I bet you the Noir set and Errol Flynn set will be the only classics released on traditional DVD by Warner in 2010. I expect a Harlow set in 2011, and perhaps a 75th anniversary release...

I'd guess the boxsets will remain in print but you will no longer be able to purchase the titles in those boxsets individually.

Oddly enough, IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD is available on Amazon Video on Demand.

Well, if these films were originally intended to be part of a 5th Noir box set, we can hold out hope that decent transfers were made before the release was halted.

And the "Buy Any 5 of these Archive DVDs for just $49.95" deal has returned with 16 completely random selections. I think most of them are from the original 150. Angel Baby The Baby Maker The Bamboo Blonde Close to My Heart A Distant Trumpet A Dream of Kings Dusty and Sweets McGee I Was An...

And just as the Randolph Scott pack has disappeared, the Sci-Fi pack has now reappeared. I think this website is run by gremlins who hate movie fans.

Also a http://www.wbshop.com/Randolph-Scott-Westerns-5-DVD-Collection/WASCOTT,default,pd.html?cgid= They have added a Joan Crawford value pak, which you can see right here. It doesn't appear to be available yet, and it's probably an accident that it's even viewable at all, but that does seem to...

They have added a Joan Crawford value pak, which you can see http://www.wbshop.com/Joan-Crawford-6-DVD-Collection/WACRAWFORD6,default,pd.html?cgid= Not much seems to be happening with the Archive website. Still no new value paks and no new sales. Way to keep me from spending my money WBs.

Quote: I live in Chicago and at full price with shipping and tax, it's not even close to worth it. I would never, ever pay full price for these. Never. The Archive Collection needs its own separate, dedicated website. I think the reason all these mess-ups keep occurring is because they can't...

Quote: Exactly, Rob. I grew up with old movies on all the local Chicago broadcast channels, and now I teach at a film school where 90% of the students have never even HEARD of the Marx Brothers. Fortunately, they were delighted by a clip from DUCK SOUP. Still, there was offered a Films of the...

Okay, I've loved the Archive program for the availability of silent films that otherwise would never, ever get released in a million years, but they're really mucking this up. They obviously launched this program and website before it was debugged. If this is really "made on demand," there...

It looks like XB892 gives you 20% off.

The only Warner Archive releases I own are silent releases, because I'm 100% sure that if it were not for this program, there is absolutely no way films like "The Better 'Ole" and "The Smart Set" would ever see the light of day on home video. The last time Warner released ANY silent film on DVD...

XB792 seems to work as of today.

Paramount owns all their silents, and that includes The Last Command, Underworld and Docks of New York. Universal owns the talkie Von Sternbergs, starting with "Thunderbolt."

Paramount holds its library in absolute contempt. They rarely release anything made before 2000 anymore. The only possible way you'll ever see it is if they allow a third-party DVD company to license it.

As wonderful as Warners has been with releasing rare gems, it positively baffles me how they've gone nearly three years - since the Garbo set - without releasing a single silent film.

I've seen The Smiling Lieutenant at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago and on Turner Classic Movies, and it definitely didn't have Danish subtitles either time.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN Edition

A movie being shifted from the summer season to February means only one thing: It's terrible. Gosh, what a surprise!