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  1. Ronald Epstein

    Warner Archive Press Release: Girl Crazy (1943) (Blu-ray)

    NEW 2020 1080p master from 4K scan from best surviving preservation elements! GIRL CRAZY (1943) Run Time 99:00 Subtitles English SDH Audio Specs MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME Product Color BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration BD 50 Mickey...
  2. Ronald Epstein

    Warner Archive Press Release: Pride and Prejudice (1940) (Blu-ray)

    NEW 2020 1080p master from 4K scan from best surviving preservation elements! PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) Run Time 118:00 Subtitles English SDH Audio Specs MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME Product Color BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration BD 50...
  3. Robert Crawford

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Brute Force (1947) (Blu-ray)

    As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin’s forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the...
  4. Robert Crawford

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: The Naked City (1948) (Blu-ray)

    “There are eight million stories in the Naked City,” as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film—and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger’s dazzling police procedural, The Naked City, was shot...
  5. Robert Crawford

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Beau Travail (1999) (Blu-ray)

    With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds...
  6. Robert Crawford

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) (Blu-ray)

    An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi’s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace...
  7. Robert Crawford

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3 (Blu-ray)

    Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of more than three dozen restorations that have introduced moviegoers to often-overlooked areas of cinema...
  8. Robert Crawford

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: The Elephant Man (1980) (Blu-ray)

    With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt), who has severe skeletal and soft...
  9. Robert Harris

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Gladiator (redux) -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Back in the dark ages of home video, May of 2018 to be exact, I reviewed the 4k releases of Braveheart and Gladiator, and found Gladiator to have been shorn its plastic shackles. Now, a bit more than two years later, they arise anew, and there are two differences in Gladiator - a lovely...
  10. RolandL

    CAN-CAN 1960 will probably never be released on Blu-ray

    Recorded It on FXMHD a few nights ago. It was the fifth film in 70mm Todd-AO. Looked pretty good except for the color breathing and shifting in some scenes. The opening titles were 2.2 but then it was cropped to 1.77 until the end titles that are 2.2. Strange they would do that when the 2007 DVD...
  11. Ronald Epstein

    Pre-Order Those Who Deserve To Die (2019) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Thank you for supporting HTF when you preorder using the link below. If you are using an adblocker you will not see link. As an Amazon Associate HTF earns from qualifying purchases <iframe margin marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frame...
  12. Ronald Epstein

    Pre-Order The Sign of the Cross (1932) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Thank you for supporting HTF when you preorder using the link below. If you are using an adblocker you will not see link. As an Amazon Associate HTF earns from qualifying purchases <iframe margin marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frame...
  13. Ronald Epstein

    Pre-Order Hollywood Land (2006) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

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  14. Ronald Epstein

    Pre-Order Breezy (1973) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

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  15. Robert Harris

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - in 4k UHD Blu-ray (updated)

    A Frank Capra film. 1939. Beautifully shot in black & white by Joseph Walker. I've been asked if I'm prejudiced against older films to which HDR has been added, and I'm not. It generally works fine, if not on projectors. I've worked hard for aeons to get my projectors and panels to play...
  16. Robert Harris

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Jerry Maguire - in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    A hugely popular film upon release in 1996, Columbia has released Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire in a special 24th Anniversary 4k UHD presentation, as part of the Columbia Collection boxed set. And it's beautiful. The film holds up wonderfully. Color, densities, black levels (further supported...
  17. Ronald Epstein

    Film Movement Press Release: Corpus Christi (Blu-ray)

    "One of the year's best directed films, foreign or otherwise" -- Mina Takla, Awards Watch "This is a blistering drama, intense, disturbing and inescapably thought-provoking...riveting right up to its closing frame" -- Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times "Original and absorbing." -- David...
  18. Ronald Epstein

    MVD Press Release: Split Second (1992) (Blu-ray)

    POTTSTOWN, PA - JUNE 11, 2020 - MVD ENTERTAINMENT IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE NORTH AMERICAN HIGH DEFINITION DEBUT OF THE 1992 SCI-FI ACTION CULT CLASSIC "SPLIT SECOND" ON BLU-RAY IN AN ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Synopsis: In the year 2008, the cops are better armed than before, but nothing...
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