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Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

Hard to believe there are more than 1600 "views" of this thread, but only 60 replies in support of the release of this movie (and Lolita) on Blu-ray.

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

Make it 61.

I'd have Barry Lyndon on pre-order the moment it's available. Absurd that Warner didn't drop the other shoe with the other five titles.

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

Dear Warner Bros:

We have bought over 500 DVDs and 44 Blu-Ray titles, even a dozen HD-DVDs too. Many were Warner Bros product. (Including the first 2 Kubrick DVD sets, the first one which was technically impaired, then reissued).

The fact that you have no plans yet to release Barry Lyndon or Lolita on Blu-Ray is most dumbfounding.

I think whomever was presumptuous enough to make the decision to exclude these from your Blu-Ray Kubrick set, has made an unprecedented mistake in compromising the loyalty of Warner Bros customers like us.

It goes well beyond short-term commercial considerations, when you own and control an artwork like these. Please right this grievous sin, and prepare the rest of the Kubrick titles for Blu-Ray now.

Thank you,

Craig

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

I'll throw my hat into the ring. I don't even care of they are bare-bones discs, as long as they have high-bitrate film-like (non DNR'd) transfers and lossless audio I'll step up to the plate and help the Warner Bros. cause.

A Word from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Bought my Blu-Ray of "Dr. Strangelove" out today.

Nice booklet and presentation. Prestige treatment.

Inside treatment "Stanley Kubrick is indisputeably a true artist and pioneer of motion pictures . . ." and the tribute gives equal mention to "Lolita" and "Barry Lyndon" as the rest.

Someone at Sony, please copy Warner Bros and remind them of what they should already know, "Lolita" and "Barry Lyndon" are not B-grade nor inferior in any way.

If you are going to do this project right, and re-release 5 of Kubrick's titles on Blu-Ray you own and control, it is poor taste and artistically indiscrete not to offer the other 2 as well!

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

I'd buy "Barry Lyndon" on Blu-ray in a heartbeat

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

I don't have a BD player. Plus, I just bought Barry Lyndon for $3 from Big Lots. It's still in the plastic.

With that said...I'd upgrade the film when I get a BD player. Along with the shining, 2001, Dr. Strangelove.

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

What other deceased director has had an exhibition based on his works touring Europe for the last few years? He is one of the most talked about filmmakers of today. Barry Lyndon and Lolita are two of his major works.

These films need to be released on Blu-ray. I would pick them up in a sec.

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

Well, I'm sure you've seen the ten or so title list of Blu-Rays that Warners thinks will make them scads of money (they won't) and they obviously think those are much preferable to non-commercial and unimportant titles like Barry Lyndon and Lolita.

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

I'd buy them both on release day.

Re: Barry Lyndon and Lolita - show your support here.

We just watched Lolita last weekend. It was a letterboxed SD version on our local PBS station. Despite the poor PQ, the brilliance of the film and the performances (especially James Mason and Shelley Winters) shone through. What a simultaneously funny, shocking, and sad film. I'd love to have it on BD.

This may be old news, but it occurred to me that the theme of the book and film is Old Europe's fascination with Young, Gauche America. But how has Europe ruined America like Humbert ruined Lolita and her mother? That doesn't fit. Another half-baked idea of mine...

Doug

Warner Bros Has High Priorities!!
(Please be patient now for the rest of the Stanley Kubrick legacy)
Plans Direct-to-Video "Scooby Doo" Blu-Ray instead !

Direct-To-Video and Catalog are completely different departments. It's not a fair comparison.

It is a totally fair comparison, IMO.   

Why? The catalog department releases Woodstock, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind et al, while the DTV department releases a Scooby-Doo sequel and Mr. Troop Mom. This isn't just apples and oranges, but apples and screwdrivers.

Don't forget Warner is also giving us modern classics such as Catwoman, Over the Top and The Postman. and look for more highly requested catalog heavyweights in the coming months such as Battlefield Earth, Wild Wild West and The Avengers. 

Who needs Kubrick with all these fantastic titles?

To not have Barry Lyndon on Blu-ray is a sin. One of the most beautifully shot films ever! It deserves more than just a non-anamorphic SD DVD treatment. Does Barry Lyndon need a restoration, and is this purely a financial issue? If that were the case, I could maybe understand WB. But I doubt it, and I will try my best to not support WB in any way, shape, or form. They've already messed up transfers, are preparing to rip us off with box sets (i.e. Oz) when many may just want the Blu-ray of the film, etc. No thanks WB! WB - the invetors of those cardboard cases....Shame on you!

Barry Lyndon please Warner!
New film-like transfer.
BD and new anamorphic DVD!
ASAP!

It's so weird to me how studios take turns being THE one for great DVD release schedules. Maybe its simply change in home video division personnel. Warner Bros has several times been absolute King (thanks largely to Mr. Feltenstein) with bad periods between, and I'm feeling another of those coming on now. Overpriced box sets of Blu-ray classics with no announcements of more affordable 2-disc editions, introducing a great concept (Archives) and then overpricing the product, announcing four "horror" films for Halloween that most would consider iffy while leaving BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS and upgrades of the Hammer Films (HORROR OF DRACULA was recently restored) in the dust, and, of course, omitting LOLITA and especially BARRY LYNDON from their Blu-ray series. Meanwhile, Sony (of all studios!) seems to be wanting to win back a bit of its early reputation by giving us a slew of nice catalog sets after a half-decade of abysmal crap and pan-and-scan re-issues. If they would revive the Midnight Movies series long enough to finally get out the forty or fifty titles we've all been begging (and will pay) for, and get the remaining David Lean titles out on Blu, they might even surpass Warner for catalog titles this/next year. I was thinking Universal might be stepping up to the plate, but they have burned out again recently (although I keep praying THE UNINVITED, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS and CAT AND THE CANARY will be revealed as part of the upcoming Fall of Fear promotion) . Who'll be next? Of all these studios, though, I am only sure that Warner Bros reads these threads, so maybe things will change sooner than later.

Well put!  Thank you!

I can't believe Warner's has no plains to release Barry Lyndon or Lolita. Lyndon is made for Blu Ray, it won the oscar for best cinematography. Lolita is a classic. Both of them are. Kubrick fans were upset they were not included in the box set and we asked at that time. Warner's this is not like you, these should have been released last year.

I just bought 2001 awhile ago for only $10.49 and am planning on purchasing both The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket on Blu-ray. I'm also planning on purchasing Dr. Stranglelove.
So yeah I'd buy Barry Lyndon on Blu-ray also, ONLY if it gets the same treatment as all the Kubrick titles on Blu have received. Lolita would be alright too even though I've never really seen it besides the trailer and other random snippets.
I'm even waiting for Criterion to release SPARTACUS on Blu-ray.
Makes me wish Kubrick was still around. Even get commentaries from him.
For Eyes Wide Shut, not really sure if I'd buy it.

I would so love to see "Barry Lyndon" on Blu-Ray.  Sure purchase.

The missing Blu Ray release of Barry Lyndon is the main reason why I haven't bought the Kubrick Collection on Blu Ray yet. To not release a beautiful, visually stunning film like Barry Lyndon in High Definition shows a profound lack of appreciation for both the Blu Ray format and Kubrick's filmmaking. For may people (including Martin Scorsese), Barry Lyndon is Kubrick's best film.

Yes, Warner Brothers -- I'd throw down the money in an instant, were Barry Lyndon and Lolita both released on Blu-Ray. Not much more that I can add here that hasn't already been said, but...not putting out what many consider to be Kubrick's most visually-sumptuous film in high-definition? Taking the time to remaster Lyndon in HD is one thing, but I can only hope that the silence we've received thus far is an indicator that something's indeed in the works.

Make it happen, WB. I have money to spend on this...I want to give it to you...why won't WB let me give them my money?

It is astounding that one of the most beautifully photographed films of all time, directed by one of the greatest directors of all time, has "no plans" for release on the current high-definition format.

If done properly, a Barry Lyndon release on the Blu-Ray format would be a Day 1 purchase for me, and many other film lovers like me (who might not have access to this forum).

Thanks!

+1 for this worthy cause.

Without exception, one of the very few directors whose complete body of work is still discussed continually, even his “gun for hire” Spartacus, stands well above most other period pieces of the same area and has aged well while other costume dramas from that time have not. 13 official films that the director felt that were good enough for home video release. Only 13, how many other Auteur’s hold as much weight a Kubrick, maybe Wells’, Hitchcock only by volume of work. This is something that needs to be corrected, I agree with all the parties before me that Barry Lyndon and Lolita, both deserve a proper restoration and release on Blu ray, that fact that Kubrick was able to do something with Barry Lyndon that had never been done before or since, with the aspect of natural lighting and the only time that style of lens was used alone is a special feature in its self.

Along with this what I would also like to see is MGM and there fine company , delve into its classics , and do correct restorations and proper Blu releases of Killers Kiss, The Killing and Kubrick’s first truly masterpiece, Paths of Glory, along with cooperation from Universal and Criterion, I would like to see a partnership effort in presenting Spartacus. That only would leave Fear and Desire. As being the only Kubrick true film unreleased. Uncertain if, or who would own the rights to that. But I think completest would go after that as well.

Ben,

That Full Metal Jacket was superseded by a re-release, and Dr. Strangelove was theatrically distributed at 1.66:1. (It would not have changed aspect ratios in the theater).