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| The titles are: Angels with Dirty Faces, Little Caesar, The Petrified Forest, The Public Enemy, The Roaring Twenties and White Heat. All are presented in their original 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratios with English Mono soundtracks that are accompanied by optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. |
Now, that's what I'm talking about!
I think 2005, is going to be a great year for dvd releases.
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White Heat
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It looks like WB wants to be studio of the year next year too!
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
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I can hardly type, through the tears in my eyes. This is more than I had hoped for....speechless.
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The Gangsters box set will be mine, all five DVD Choice winners and the three Best Picture winners (to almost finish off my Best Picture Collection...)
That's just the first two months (so far,) just imagine what the rest of 2005 will hold!
(My poor wallet...)
Movies I would love to see get a (good, region 1) DVD release...
The African Queen, The Big Parade, The Crowd, The Exterminating Angel, Greed, Limite, Show People, The Wind, Wings, the films of Max Ophuls, the films of Satyajit Ray
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Simply awesome. [img]images/smilies/thumbsup.gif[/img]
I have no reason to doubt Warner with their stellar record over the past 2+ years, but here's hoping that The Public Enemy is presented in its correct windowboxed 1.17:1 OAR.
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Awesome artwork for the first must-buy release of the year.
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absolutely great news indeed.
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Terrific news!! I'm glad that it's a January release. That still leaves 11 months for other classics that have been mentioned in this thread. I really believe that 2005 should be another banner year for WB product. I'm guessing that they are going to try and maximize their profits before the advent of hd-dvd in order to help fund the transition. Not to mention the fact that dvd sales will no doubt begin to slow down once hd-dvd takes off.
I'm really expecting to see another year like 2004. And not just Warner, but the other studios as well. With some exceptions of course. [img]images/smilies/wink.gif[/img] I'm thinking that Warner will have a greater number of second tier (if that's the right term) releases since they're running out of movies worthy of the SE treatment. Plus they know how much good PR is worth, and so I assume that they would want to remain popular with DVD buyers in order to keep the money rolling in, especially with hd-dvd on the horizon.
Here's hoping that this is only the first of many excellent Warner releases for 2005!
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You know, the inclusion of 4 of James Cagney's greatest films in this collection, makes me wonder if there is a Signature Collection coming soon. In the March chat, all that was said was that Cagney fans would be very pleased, soon after the Flynn set was released-they had hoped to release it by the end of '04. And, we definitely are pleased, Hell, I'm overjoyed! But that makes me think that we may need to wait for a set. With the Busby Berkley set in the works -that will surely include Footlight Parade, they may need to wait to finish preparing more of his films. There are still tons of Cagney films to release,The Strawberry Blonde, The Bride Came C.O.D., "G" Men, Taxi, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Blonde Crazy, Lady Killer, Each Dawn I Die, Oklahoma Kid, etc. But this should keep us satisfied for quite a while. Not that I would Dare complain if they did release a boxed set!
P.S. I think it is funny that the covers to Angels with Dirty Faces, and The Roaring Twenties, use the same face of James Cagney, it reminds me of the original posters for the Maltese Falcon that had a picture of Humphrey Bogart from High Seirra. I like it.
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