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  1. jaaguir

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Spellbound -- in Blu-ray

    OMG Criterion owns "History is made at night"!!!! Oh please, release it soon. I knew about FC, but not the others, and I'm especially shocked by HIMaN, hence my exclamation above. But I would (and hopefully will) buy all 5 of those titles, without hesitation. Get on it already Criterion!
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    Blu-ray Review Rebecca Blu-ray Review

    +1! For some reason I thought I'd be the only one in the world worrying about that. The moment I read about the special features I wondered, couldn't they have gotten anybody else? I didin't like the commentaries on the Sherlock Holmes set much. I think my favorite was the one for the last...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Stars and Stripes Forever -- in Blu-ray

    Well the whole movie is pretty much fluff. There are no obstacles of any kind for Webb's character. He just tours the world and marches with his band. They have to send Wagner's character to war so there's some tension for the third act. You could say it's as uneventful as "Meet me in St...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Meet Me in St. Louis -- in Blu-ray

    You have the making-of on the disc for that. Also a documentary on MGM. Quite educative for those with little knowledge about the studio system.
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    Universal To Celebrate 100 Years in 2012

    There is one shot like that in "The treasure of the Sierra Madre", it's really obvious (I mean, I still remember it!). It seems like those after-the-fact push-ins always look bad, but it's part of the original work. If they leave it alone some people will complain about excessive grain, and I...
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    Blu-ray Review Stars and Stripes Forever Blu-ray Review

    The featurettes are copyrighted 2008. Maybe the disc is just sitting in the shelf since then, and now they've decided to test the waters of catalog sales again. Maybe the success of TT's "The egyptian" has prompted Fox to try this, releasing movies that have never been on home video before. The...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Nothing Sacred -- in Blu-ray

    So there's good news (a good release), and bad news (as in "it could have been better if the owner cared"). This has me very intrigued now. Anxiously waiting for my pre-order to arrive.
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    Universal To Celebrate 100 Years in 2012

    Glad to see I was wrong, and it seems like Universal is actually going to do something worthwhile with this anniversary thing. That's great news about King of Jazz, but studios do restoration work on a lot of catalog that then, never bother to release. I would be up for all the stuff you...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Meet Me in St. Louis -- in Blu-ray

    I want "Anchors aweigh" already! come on Warner. Sometimes I think they hate that movie.
  10. jaaguir

    USHE Announcement: All Quiet On The Western Front (Blu-ray)

    Both editions have "digibook" as Packaging in the first post here. Also Amazon is only listing one edition for pre-order. ??? Oh well. Great movie. Kudos to Universal for starting to release this kind of stuff. At last. Bring on more oldies.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Mysterious Island -- in Blu-ray

    I would say you're a bit optimistic there with the selling figures, but we'll see. This sure is a fine release, and I'm supporting Twilight Time as much as I can. I bought everything they've released so far (The egyptian, Mysterious island) except for "Rapture", and plan on buying everything...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ A Farewell to Arms (1932) -- in Blu-ray

    Very pleased to read this,. I agree, this movie hasn't received its due. I own the Image dvd, which used the same source as this blu-ray (I guess, because it was also the 89 min version), and it came out in 2000 (if I remember right). An important movie only known until then in its public-domain...
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    Blu-ray Review The Egyptian Blu-ray Review

    They answered your email saying they don't ship to the US? That's weird indeed. Didn't someone mention a shipping cost of $15 to the US, here in a previous post? You could wait, maybe these movies will be released by Twilight Time in the US (you could try asking in their FB). Or you could wait...
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    Universal To Celebrate 100 Years in 2012

    Universal needs to start licencing their back catalog, all those Paramount/Universal movies of the '30s, '40s and '50s, to someone like Olive Films, Kino or Twilight Time (Criterion's pickings, like "Design for living" now, are just not enough).
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    He just restored The Ten Commandments, now Ron Smith wants to hear from you: What Paramount films yo

    I want a box-set with the movies Charlton Heston made under contract to Paramount from 1950 to 1956. Especially "The naked jungle", "The far horizons", "Three violent people", "Secret of the Incas" and "Pony express". Thanks,
  16. jaaguir

    Universal To Celebrate 100 Years in 2012

    I was going to joke about getting some Maria Montez movies, Deanna Durbin movies, Francis the mule movies.... So far we're getting Billy Elliot on January. My optimism is gone. No offense to that movie's fans, I just mean that it looks like it's just going to be a bunch of popular movies of the...
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    Universal To Celebrate 100 Years in 2012

    The release of Jaws and ET seems to be almost a fact (according to The Digital Bits). I have to say Meyer's statement does sound promesing. If he's right, we should start hearing about it on January (it seems like they don't plan on releasing any big movies the first two months of the year or...
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    Twilight Time joins forces with Sony Pictures to release BD editions of classic Columbia Titles

    I understand you (I live in Spain), but I risked it with both The Egyptian and Mysterious island, and have been lucky so far, nothing lost. Still cost me 31 Euros (but I don't mind!).
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    Blu-ray Review The Birth of a Nation Blu-ray Review

    I usually find DVDBeaver's screencaps of little use, but in this case you can see the upgrade in detail even in the ill-advised way the pics are posted. I have never seen this one (but I never bought it either, unlike many others here, apparently ;)) Thank whomever pre-order price on Amazon got...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ My Fair Lady -- in Blu-ray

    That's one of the scariest things I've read in a long time. A series of unfortunate events? I'd cancel my pre-order if I knew this was indeed an unintended mistake. EDIT: I'm all the more appalled by the statements in this post because the last thing I had read about this was Mr.Harris' post...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    I did think maybe it was all a matter of contrast boosting on the HDNET version, which would make it look sharper. But I don't think it's just that. This is taken from your first comparison clips: That's a big difference. In your clips there are many shots that are not part of dissolves or...
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    Janet Gaynor in A STAR AS BORN (1937) 2/7/2012

    I don't think Kino did anything special with "Pandora...", meaning they just paid the rights to use the new restored master of the movie, but I believe the restoration was paid by Scorsese's fundation and others. Well, the fact that they paid to use the best possible version of the movie for...
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    Nothing Sacred (1937) coming to Blu-ray

    I own the Image dvd and eagerly await the Kino blu-ray. I hope what you say is true, about Kino using that print. You have summarized this movie's history pretty well. The Warner re-cut for their mid-'40s re-release may have its fans (they added underscore music and so the movie plays more like...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    I'm not sure what good a comparison at 360p resolution can be (regarding blu-ray quality), but having said that: I agree with you here, the HDNET version does seem to look better. My eyes may be playing tricks on me here, but I don't see the blu-ray getting better at the end. It looks worse...
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    Nothing Sacred (1937) coming to Blu-ray

    I hope someone releases "Duel in the sun" too. Maybe Disney owns it too. Although that would be irrelevant if their restoration (of Nothing sacred) isn't the version released now (which would mean maybe Kino had struck some kind of deal with them).
  26. jaaguir

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    I'm not cancelling my pre-order because of that. The statement by Fox was very vague. If a corrected version is pressed in the future, it'll probably only fix the overture. I've learned lately that the original sound mix could not be used because it uses 5 front channels and 1 rear channel. Not...
  27. jaaguir

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ West Side Story -- in Blu-ray

    I'm sorry to go against the grain here. I don't consider myself a brute or anything, and I certainly wish movies were preserved as they should be, and not with subpar sound mixes, uncorrected opticals and invented fade-to-blacks. I just think a re-call from MGM is highly unlikely. I'm worried...
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    Blu-ray Review Go West /Battling Butler Blu-ray Review

    I'm so pleasantly surprised by this release, I have to write about it. The only bad thing is the shortage of extras. I would have loved to see a couple of those featurettes about the locations they included in other Keaton blus. There's a Hal Roach comedy short that looks so great, I have to...
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