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post #31 of 184
4/6/09 at 1:25am

Re: Hitchcock on Blu-ray?

Just one note: North By Northwest is owned by Warner Bros. and it is being restored for a release later this year.
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post #32 of 184
4/6/09 at 6:00am

Re: Hitchcock on Blu-ray?

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Originally Posted by NetworkTV
I don't know about Universal, but if Paramount does a good job with the HD transfer of "North By Northwest" like they did with the SD version, I'll be very pleased.

I'm sure you mean TO CATCH A THIEF which is the one Hitchcock Paramount still retains rights to. NORTH BY NORTHWEST is an MGM film controlled now by Warners.
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post #33 of 184
4/6/09 at 9:56am

Re: Hitchcock on Blu-ray?

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Originally Posted by MattH.
I'm sure you mean TO CATCH A THIEF which is the one Hitchcock Paramount still retains rights to. NORTH BY NORTHWEST is an MGM film controlled now by Warners.
Thanks for the correction. I'm not sure why I said Paramount. My DVD clearly has the WB logo on it.
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post #34 of 184
7/22/09 at 11:49am
North by Northwest officially on the way in November. C'mon, Universal!
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post #35 of 184
7/22/09 at 12:10pm
My Hitch wish list is:

Psycho
The Birds
Rear Window
Vertigo
Frenzy
Man Who Knew Too Much (James Stewart version)
and Trouble With Harry

And North by Northwest will be mine as well!
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post #36 of 184
7/22/09 at 2:07pm
Depending on how often they were released, I might pick them all up but the definite buys for me would be:

Shadow Of A Doubt
Lifeboat
Notorious
Rope
Strangers On A Train
Dial M For Murder
Rear Window
Vertigo
North By Northwest (coming soon)
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie
Frenzy

On a semi-related note, I'm going to see an HD presentation of Vertigo tonight at a local art theater
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post #37 of 184
7/23/09 at 1:13am


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Depending on how often they were released, I might pick them all up but the definite buys for me would be:

Shadow Of A Doubt
Lifeboat
Notorious
Rope
Strangers On A Train
Dial M For Murder
Rear Window
Vertigo
North By Northwest (coming soon)
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie
Frenzy

On a semi-related note, I'm going to see an HD presentation of Vertigo tonight at a local art theater

Universal could release the same Masterpiece Collection, but this time in Blu-ray and make the outer box blue instead of red. Not only because it's Blu-ray (and every cover apparently has to have something blue in it) but I think that would look classy :).
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post #38 of 184
7/23/09 at 5:19am
I imagine Universal will someday in the mist shrouded future test the waters with one of the most popular titles first (probably Psycho or Vertigo).  If they sell to their expectations, we'll probably get some more trickle out.

A Masterpiece collection is years away if ever and very probably a pipe-dream.


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post #39 of 184
7/23/09 at 6:14am
 Well Universal are remaking The Birds (ugh!) so that may be a prime time to release some of Hitchcock's back catalogue on BD.
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post #40 of 184
7/23/09 at 6:39am
The Birds huh?  Wasn't aware of that.

Now who said Hollywood was devoid of original ideas.
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post #41 of 184
7/23/09 at 6:59am
Yeah, it's being directed by Martin Campbell and is due for release in 2011: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884788/

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post #42 of 184
7/23/09 at 7:23am
I'll buy pretty much any Hitchcock title on blu, but I'm really hoping Vertigo shows up sooner rather than later...
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post #43 of 184
7/23/09 at 2:39pm


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The Birds huh?  Wasn't aware of that.

Now who said Hollywood was devoid of original ideas.
 


Oh dear god why?!

Didnt they learn anything from remaking Psycho?! 

*sigh*
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post #44 of 184
8/17/09 at 8:39am
Two classes of excitement for me, not including North by Northwest, which I can't wait for, and have on pre-order.

Phase 1) Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window

Phase 2) The Birds, Marnie

That first group are the ones, along with The Birds (thanks to the remake) we're most likely to see; its just taking so long for them to be announced. North by Northwest was announced deep back into 2008, and its coming out at the end of 2009... What does that say for when we'll see the titles they've already announced, like Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia... Let along those they haven't, like Psycho...

Ben
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post #45 of 184
8/25/09 at 1:36pm


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That first group are the ones, along with The Birds (thanks to the remake) we're most likely to see; its just taking so long for them to be announced. North by Northwest was announced deep back into 2008, and its coming out at the end of 2009... What does that say for when we'll see the titles they've already announced, like Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia... Let along those they haven't, like Psycho...

Ben

It doesn't really say anything, giving that you're talking about three different studios here. And I still prefer that they postpone a release to work on it than to respect the release date whatsoever. Of course Psycho will come eventually, there's no doubt about that. It's just a matter of when, I wouldn't worry.
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post #46 of 184
8/25/09 at 5:45pm
And when it comes to Universal, they are still seriously behind the other studios with their catalog releases because of their late start into BD. The still have 100+ films they released on HD-DVD that they haven't yet released on BD.
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post #47 of 184
8/25/09 at 11:13pm
Some good news here:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/71380/itv-blu-ray-4-classics-in-october.html

It looks like ITV is releasing "The 39 Steps" on Blu-ray in the UK on Oct 12 with a few other classics. Hopefully, it'll be region free since I believe this is a public domain title in North America. 

On a side note, It's cool to see Hamlet (1948) and Henry V (1945) are being released on Blu as well. Also, The BFI (whose discs have all been locked to "b" thus far) will be releasing The Leopard (1963).

It looks like classics are making it to Blu at a faster rate in the UK market than here in the states. I was impressed with ITV's Black Narcissus and Great Expectations, so I really look forward to picking these up.
Edited by ReggieW - 8/26/09 at 1:12am
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post #48 of 184
8/25/09 at 11:49pm
No, it's not true to say that the BFI's BD releases are locked to region 'B'; there are several that are region free. Henry V has been recently restored, BTW, and should look fantastic on Blu-ray.
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post #49 of 184
8/26/09 at 12:51am
Thanks for the correction John.

It just seems that the titles I'm personally interested in (Salo, Saturday Night SundayMorning, etc) from the BFI are all locked, so I incorrectly assumed that all of their BD's were locked to "B".
Edited by ReggieW - 8/26/09 at 1:11am
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post #50 of 184
8/26/09 at 10:11am
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It doesn't really say anything, giving that you're talking about three different studios here.

I hope you're right Brian.
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post #51 of 184
8/26/09 at 2:26pm


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Originally Posted by ReggieW View Post

Some good news here:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/71380/itv-blu-ray-4-classics-in-october.html

It looks like ITV is releasing "The 39 Steps" on Blu-ray in the UK on Oct 12 with a few other classics. Hopefully, it'll be region free since I believe this is a public domain title in North America. 

On a side note, It's cool to see Hamlet (1948) and Henry V (1945) are being released on Blu as well. Also, The BFI (whose discs have all been locked to "b" thus far) will be releasing The Leopard (1963).

It looks like classics are making it to Blu at a faster rate in the UK market than here in the states. I was impressed with ITV's Black Narcissus and Great Expectations, so I really look forward to picking these up.

Most. if not all of these titles are probably being prepped for BD in the US by Criterion.

Part of the reason the UK is getting classics on BD sooner through such distributors as BFI is that BFI is a charitable organization dedicated to promoting world cinema. The US really doesn't have something so able to disregard realities of turning a profit.
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post #52 of 184
8/26/09 at 11:13pm
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Part of the reason the UK is getting classics on BD sooner through such distributors as BFI is that BFI is a charitable organization dedicated to promoting world cinema. The US really doesn't have something so able to disregard realities of turning a profit.
 

Really interesting point, Brandon. Still, via ports the rest of the world might sometimes be able to benefit? Depending on the international rights situation. Or can the US and Asia only benefit via region free players?
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post #53 of 184
9/8/09 at 6:53am
Well, our first Hitchcock film on blu is North by Northwest. Does anyone know what has been done for this transfer, and who is in charge? I think I read somewhere that they scanned the original elements at 8k, which seems like a good thing. Here's hoping this will be a knockout like some other classics from the 50s like South Pacific and Sleeping Beauty...

What's the next title to get the blu treatment, do you think? Vertigo? Rear Window? Psycho?
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post #54 of 184
9/8/09 at 8:08am
39 Steps comes out in region B next month

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What's the next title to get the blu treatment, do you think? Vertigo? Rear Window? Psycho?
 


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post #55 of 184
9/8/09 at 9:21am


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Really interesting point, Brandon. Still, via ports the rest of the world might sometimes be able to benefit? Depending on the international rights situation. Or can the US and Asia only benefit via region free players?
Often it takes a company like Criterion for the US to benefit. I'd say the chances of Criterion releasing a film like The 39 Steps on BD is a lot higher than, say, Fox releasing Sunrise on BD.

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post #56 of 184
9/8/09 at 11:17am
Brandon: I think you have a point. And the Criterion DVD releases of Hitchcock from about 5 years ago were excellent. I wonder if, just maybe, when they did those masters for those DVDs if they did them all the way to 1080, and then downscaled them (or whatever it's called) for DVD. In that case, maybe if Criterion could get the rights again, even if for a few years, they could without that much added expense release some fine blu-rays of early Hitchcock films from the 30s and 40s...
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post #57 of 184
9/9/09 at 8:12pm


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Brandon: I think you have a point. And the Criterion DVD releases of Hitchcock from about 5 years ago were excellent. I wonder if, just maybe, when they did those masters for those DVDs if they did them all the way to 1080, and then downscaled them (or whatever it's called) for DVD. In that case, maybe if Criterion could get the rights again, even if for a few years, they could without that much added expense release some fine blu-rays of early Hitchcock films from the 30s and 40s...

Given that MGM/Fox released new DVD editions of REBECCA, SPELLBOUND and NOTORIOUS just a year or so ago, I'd be shocked if they gave them to Criterion for blu-ray. THE 39 STEPS and THE LADY VANISHES might be a different story, however...




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post #58 of 184
9/10/09 at 9:37am


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THE 39 STEPS and THE LADY VANISHES might be a different story, however...

Especially since they had a DVD re-release of The Lady Vanishes just a couple years ago, along with The 39 Steps getting a BD release in the UK. It's possible.
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post #59 of 184
9/10/09 at 2:05pm
Psycho will probably be released next year for its 50th Anniversary. The current dvd is good, but not great. There are a few places where the audio is out of sync...but the sound is better than the old dvd.
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post #60 of 184
9/10/09 at 3:00pm
Good point, Eric. Make it happen, Universal!
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