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I assume mine is as well (I'm not experienced enough to tell the difference between 1.33:1 and 1.37:1), but my point was that almost certainly cannot be its OAR. (There may have been a few tests at 1.37:1 in 1929, but the Academy didn't make it the standard AR until 1932.) It may be the AR of...

There was a copy of the entire film posted to the Internet Archive; probably could get a copyright strike from WB, but the film is less than 18 months away from PD status so it might not be worth it. (Though not mentioned on the WAC release, its copyright was renewed so it's not yet PD.) Though...

Perhaps someone can resolve the quandary of The Broadway Melody's OAR: Both Blu-ray.com and IMDb claim it's 1.37:1, but Academy ratio generally didn't exist until 1932. Assuming the OCN was the Vitaphone version (the Movietone version would have been 1.2:1 AR, same as Cimarron), wouldn't it have...

Olivier's Hamlet was released on Blu-ray in at least the UK & Germany (Region B-locked) and Japan (Region A but long OOP). CODA was released on regular & 4K Blu-ray in Italy & Japan, though the Italian regular Blu-ray is Region B-locked and the Japanese 4K Blu-ray was apparently a limited...

WB owns the only five Best Picture winners that at present have no Blu-ray release anywhere in the world, three of which have now been announced by WAC -- The Broadway Melody & Cimarron this month, Emile Zola next month -- leaving only The Great Ziegfeld & Around the World in 80 Days. Ziegfeld...

If they're from the same studio (and it's a major studio), generally no. The EU wants as many of its languages as possible on discs sold there, regardless of country. Also, studios don't wanna spend money making extra BD masters without good reason; absent rights issues there usually isn't one...

I believe the issue with LoA is, and always has been, the quality of the original film elements. Sony has been including scenes from LoA in its BD promo discs (the ones you see in stores all the time) for years, but let's not forget it was a tough struggle to get that film to video in the first...

+1. In fact, it's one of only two Best Pictures for which no legitimate US DVD even exists (Wings is the other); since they were released on VHS, they're the only reason I still have a VCR. The database in Barrie Maxwell's classics column at The Bits indicates it'll be out on DVD sometime this...