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DVD Times - El Dorado & The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Centennial Collection) in May
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Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of a further two titles as part of their Centennial Collection.
Arriving on 19th May 2009 are two westerns starring John Wayne - El Dorado and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Aside from the theatrical trailers, extras on these Centennial Collection releases are all-new to these editions. Features are outlined below...
El Dorado
- Mono audio
- Commentary by Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Ride, Boldly Ride: The Journey to El Dorado
- Commentary with critic and film historian Richard Schickel featuring actor Ed Asner and author Todd McCarthy
- The Artist and the American West (1967) - Vintage Featurette
- Behind the Gates: AC Remembers John Wayne
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Galleries
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Mono & 5.1 audio
- The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
- Commentary by Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich along with his archival recordings with John Ford, John Wayne and James Stewart
- Selected Scene Commentary with intro by Dan Ford along with his archival recordings with John Ford, James Stewart and Lee Marvin
- Galleries
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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This is awesome news.
Another JF picture getting the deluxe treatment
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
Interesting news. I'll definitely check out
El Dorado - I reviewed the original disc, so I always review re-issues. Never saw
Valance - this seems like a good reason to do so!
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
Valance is actually pretty good especially when you consider that B&W pictures were not really made at that time.
Wayne & Ford at their peak
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
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Originally Posted by Dave B Ferris
If I remember correctly, Bogdanovich created a documentary film about John Ford that was broadcast on Turner Classic Movies a year or so ago (maybe a little longer).
Seems like this new release of 'Liberty Valance' would be a good opportunity to include the documentary as a supplementary feature.
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There is a documentary called The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth.
Is this what you are referring to ?
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
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Originally Posted by John Hodson
I've promised myself no double-dips until Paramount ante-up with the BDs on their Centennial Collection releases, but these will be almost impossible to resist.
Hawks and Ford; there's a couple of aces for ya...
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I'm going to hold out because there is little doubt these two titles will make it to Blu-ray in the future.
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
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Originally Posted by John Hodson
Dave, someone over at the Criterion forum posted a quote from Bogdanovich recently about the doco: "... I re-did the film in 2006 and that it was shown on TCM that year... And will be available on DVD in May through Warner Home video... I feel that the new version is infinitely better than the original and I hope you get a chance to see it!"
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I read a direct quote from Bogdanovich that a dvd is coming this year. Perhaps we can nut that down when we talk with Warner is the not so distant future.
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
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Originally Posted by Bruce Morrison
What?! Valance was released in 1962. There were still plenty of films being made in B&W at that time and for another few years afterwards. In 1962 alone, other classic B&W films included 'The Manchurian Candidate', 'Lolita', 'Days Of Wine And Roses', 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and 'The Miracle Worker'.
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Nah, are any of those B&W films really good and do they stand the test of time like LOA.
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Re: Centennial Collection : El Dorado & The Man who shot Liberty Valance
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Originally Posted by Livius
Gary's comparison at the Beaver site is here. And the DVD Times review is here. |
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