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Patrick McCart
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Re: Kevin Brownlow Documentaries - WHEN???
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Originally Posted by Rodney
Does anyone have any idea when we will be able to get any of the following GREAT documentaries?
HOLLYWOOD
BUSTER KEATON: A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW
HAROLD LLOYD: THE THIRD GENIUS
I know the Buster Keaton doc is available in the UK, but when will it be available in the states?
The DVD format has been available for what, 12 years? It seems inconceivable that these still have not been released!
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It's apparently not rights issues. From what I read on CriterionForum.org, only The Jazz Singer had some rights issues, but they were eventually cleared. I'd like to hope it's because the whole miniseries is being remastered from scratch.
Brownlow apparently pulled rights for A Hard Act to Follow from Network since they used the wrong master (missing all the subtitles). They were also going to release Hollywood.
Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece
The Thief and the Cobbler on DVD in Panavision widescreen and uncut! See and hear what you're missing from their
Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on
YouTube!
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Re: Kevin Brownlow Documentaries - WHEN???
ICAM on "The Parade's Gone By"! I read it only a few months ago, and made me appreciate the silents even more.
Two more TV documentaries on classic Hollywood I'd love to see released on DVD are MGM: When The Lion Roars and Hollywood The Golden Years, which told the amazing rise and fall of RKO Radio Pictures. Warner Bros./Turner owns the first, and the second was made by the BBC. However, in the US Warner distributes BBC DVDs, so I suppose they're the people to ask. Supposedly Warners has the MGM documentary in its sights, but is 'waiting for the right time' as per a previous WB chat on this forum.
Not releasing the Brownlow Hollywood documentary to DVD after all these years is quite a travesty. You know, I've always hoped that Brownlow and his late partner David Gill would have done a sequel covering the Thirties and Forties!
Bring "The continuing story of PEYTON PLACE" home on DVD: the one that started it all- from Dallas and Dynasty to Desperate Housewives and Gossip Girl!!! Starting this May, see the legendary saga starring Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, and Oscar-winner Dorothy Malone on DVD thru Shout!...
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Re: Kevin Brownlow Documentaries - WHEN???
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That was a helluva find. I, too have hung onto a few prized silent laserdiscs. I have the
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow doc, as well as a few Chaplin films I was unable to procure on DVD (
The Kid, Modern Times). I've transferred them all to DVD-R. I also made a DVD-R of the Harold Lloyd doc which I had DVR'd off TCM. Frankly, I don;t see a reason to upgrade these even if they were released to DVD.
I have
Hollywood on VHS that I taped of broadcast TV, but I do not even know if they would track well enough to make DVD-Rs out of them.
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I'd gladly buy all these. I only saw a couple parts of HOLLYWOOD, would kill to get the whole thing.
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any new about Hollywood being released?
Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:
Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street
