The only reason films like THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER are rarely talked about is because their owners won't keep them accessible. It's the old Laurel and Hardy syndrome: Keep them off video shelves for a generation and you get an entire generation who doesn't know who they are and doesn't...
Authorize - Deauthorize? Another reason why digital downloads hold no appeal for me. You have to be a software programmer and an overall computer expert just to own your favorirte movies.
I buy a product, put it in a machine and it plays. I sometimes read the questions directed at our...
Yes, I'm part of both camps, but I have no desire, at this point anyway, to start collecting digital downloads. If I want to simply watch a movie, I can stream it at Warner Archive or catch it on TCM, but if I'm going to pay real money per title, I want something more tangible. It's why I...
Downloading cheapens the whole experience and makes everything seem so disposable, something to be watched and then erased and forgotten. I have no desire to collect digital downloads. I have nearly everything I'd ever want to watch anyway, often with supplements that grow more collectible...
Film restoration is something else entirely. There's film restoration, the work that Mr. Harris and others do, and there's creating high definition transfers for bluray. One is by necessity, slow and complicated. The other is as slow and complicated as your budget allows. Not every title...
I've no doubt that THE BAND WAGON is at the top of the list of MGM musicals coming to BluRay. It's the highest profile Freed unit title that's still MIA and with the names Minnelli and Astaire attached to it, it's a shoo-in!