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12/13/08 at 8:18am
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Here's another film that I think should get the Criterion treatment. Now out of print from Anchor Bay the disc sells for $90 to $210 on the Amazon scalpers network. Obviously you would be foolish to pay these prices for a film that should at some point get a better release. The Anchor Bay disc was released in 2000.

An outstanding offbeat film with another great performance from Scott in his prime I'm hoping 2009 sees a resurgence of Sherlock Holmes related releases with the new Guy Ritchie-Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes film lurking on the horizon. ( Finally - Official Photos from Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes! FirstShowing.net )






They Might Be Giants (1971)
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12/13/08 at 8:56am
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Re: They Might Be Giants

The AB disc has a good transfer, so I'd be happy with a simple re-pressing of that release. From what I've read, though, the DVD version has some footage re-instated previously cut by Universal, but also some scenes were deleted. Would be nice to have both cuts available.

One of the most overlooked great films I've seen, though. I'd get a new edition without hesitation, Criterion or not.

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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12/13/08 at 10:02am
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Wow, I wasn't aware this film was going on eBay for so much!
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess, grabbing this back in April of 2000. Wow, I cannot believe it has been that long. I need to check the DVD and make sure that there is no "DVD rot" on my copy (knock on wood).
It is a great film, and I would love to see it released in Criterion treatment on Blu-Ray.

-Rodney

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12/13/08 at 4:05pm
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Re: They Might Be Giants

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I'm hoping 2009 sees a resurgence of Sherlock Holmes related releases with the new Guy Ritchie-Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes film lurking on the horizon.

Well if your hopes are realised, I'd certainly love to see a Blu-ray version of Billy Wilder's masterpiece 'The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes', or even just a better DVD transfer than the present rather moderate MGM edition.

Bruce Morrison

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12/13/08 at 4:31pm
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Well if your hopes are realised, I'd certainly love to see a Blu-ray version of Billy Wilder's masterpiece 'The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes', or even just a better DVD transfer than the present rather moderate MGM edition.
I'm not looking forward to this new take on Holmes. It sounds utterly and completely wrongheaded to me. But I would love to see The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes remastered for Blu-ray, after another and more extensive search is begun and completed for the missing elements. If the missing footage and audio can't be recovered, then remaster the existing film for Blu-ray. It certainly is a masterpiece and deserving priority treatment.

I would like to see the "lost" BBC-TV series starring Douglas Wilmer and the surviving episodes / fragments of Peter Cushing's series released in region 1. In addition, I would like to see Columbia's A Study In Terror (1965) released in region 1. The remake Murder By Decree (1979 on Anchor Bay) is a superior Holmes film. That and Hammer's Hound of the Baskervilles (MGM) could also stand an upgrade. Cushing's made-for-cable The Masks of Death would make a nice supplement. It's only been on vhs.

Most of all, I wish someone would take the more traditional approach to all the fine Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels that have been published in recent years, and give us a first-rate movie series to enjoy.
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12/14/08 at 12:25pm
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"Cushing's made for cable The Masks Of Death would make a nice supplement. It's only been on vhs."

Hmmm ..... that copy of The Masks Of Death sitting on my movie library shelves looks like a laser disc to me!
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12/15/08 at 11:42am
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Not to throw this too far off the poster's subject, but the MASK OF DEATH with Cushing is weak. It's almost sad, really, because Cushing was frail and off his game, nearly slurring his words, the polar opposite of his work in 1959. I don't miss the VHS I had of this.
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4/12/09 at 7:52pm
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TMBG will premiere on Encore's Love Stories channel this coming Saturday, 4/18, at 3:20 AM, Pacific Standard Time -- although, to my knowledge, none of the Encore channels show films in letterbox format.

Still, one would think -- if they can figure out how to reimburse a rights-holder for a TV broadcast, how much harder would it be for a company to figure out how to reimburse a rights-holder for a DVD release?
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7/18/09 at 5:52am
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So with the new Guy Ritchie-Robert Downey Jr. film getting ever closer to release wonder if somebody has decided to get some of these great missing Holmes films out on DVD?
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7/22/09 at 6:00am
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Innit a Study in Terror coming out in November? 

I would miss my VHS of Masks of Death since it was the first bit of media I ever bought when I got my first paycheck, sniffle.  

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7/22/09 at 6:16am
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I do have fond memories of They Might Be Giants- the supermarket sequence is priceless!  I never knew that it had been put on disc earlier, and second the call for a Criterion edition with all the extras.  Maybe Joanne Woodward can give a commentary.....
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