Your want/prediction list for 2011

Well Citizen Kane in 2011 is muted, but I'd sure like to (finally) see The Magnificent Ambersons given a proper release, ideally with Rick Schmidlin-type reconstruction of the original version.

Ben Hur is also slated for 2011, but if it doesn't include the 1925 version in high def, it'll be a deal breaker for me.

I'd love to see Lawrence of Arabia on blu, but given the studios GD predilection for all these silly anniversaries, I won't be expecting that one until 2012 at least.

Finally, I received word from Criterion's Jon Mulvaney that "The Passion of Joan of Arc," is "possible" in 2011, and I fervently hope this will bear out.  That film is my all time favorite, and I've longed for a blu-ray to replace my well worn Criterion DVD version.  It was a fine release to be sure, but it's ten years old, and single layered DVD, so I'm sure all the latest advances could produce an even better transfer than we've ever seen before!

BR

Titles I fully expect to see released in 2011

Jaws

Ben-Hur

Sweet Smell Of Success

Mysterious Island

Badlands

Titles I wouldn't be surprised to see released in 2011

The Howling

The Ten Commandments

Bicycle Thieves

Two-Lane Blacktop

Anatomy Of A Murder

Rear Window

Dial M For Murder

The Great Escape

The Ten Commandments is rumored for relase around Easter from Paramount

West Side Story is having a theaterical release followed by the Blu-ray (50th Ann)

Ben Hur is also coming next year

Wouldn't be surprised to see

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) already on HD

Oklahoma! (1955)

Hoping for "My Fair Lady"

I always enjoy a wish list.  Just thinking about favorite films is a fun activity.  I haven't been keeping up with confirmed or rumored 2011 releases, but here are some films I'd love to see on Blu-ray (arranged alphabetically):

Barry Lyndon

The Big Country

The Big Sleep

Blue Velvet

Chariots of Fire

Chinatown

City of God

Hud

The City of Lost Children

Jaws

The Last Picture Show

Miller's Crossing

Mulholland Dr.

On the Waterfront

Once Upon A Time In The West

Platoon

Rebecca

Red River

Some Like It Hot

Taxi Driver

I'm sure this won't happen but one of the absolutely most gorgeous films I've ever seen in terms of color cinematography is 1936's The Garden of Allah.  Given a good source, this would look incredible on Blu-ray.

- Walter.

Hi Walter!

A few personal favorites I would like to see released:

1776 (with all the extra scenes included in the film)

Once Upon A Time In The West

All That Jazz

Scrooge

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Jurassic Park

E.T.

Jaws

Mary Poppins

Pete's Dragon

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Originally Posted by Walter Kittel 

I always enjoy a wish list.  Just thinking about favorite films is a fun activity.  I haven't been keeping up with confirmed or rumored 2011 releases, but here are some films I'd love to see on Blu-ray (arranged alphabetically):

 

Barry Lyndon

The Big Country

The Big Sleep

Blue Velvet

Chariots of Fire

 

Chinatown

City of God

Hud

The City of Lost Children

Jaws

 

The Last Picture Show

Miller's Crossing

Mulholland Dr.

On the Waterfront

Once Upon A Time In The West

 

Platoon

Rebecca

Red River

Some Like It Hot

Taxi Driver

 

I'm sure this won't happen but one of the absolutely most gorgeous films I've ever seen in terms of color cinematography is 1936's The Garden of Allah.  Given a good source, this would look incredible on Blu-ray.

 

- Walter.

Nice list Walter, but you only have to wait a couple of weeks for The Last Picture Show

Hey Ron!

All That Jazz 

Mary Poppins

Raider of the Lost Ark

would be most welcome.  

Also  Sweet Smell of Success from Paul's list (another excellent choice featuring the work of James Wong Howe, along with Hud from my list.)

Oh yeah, how could I forget to mention  Zardoz ?

- Walter.

Thanks John,  Yep I forgot about the new Criterion release featuring a host of excellent films from the late '60s and early '70s including The Last Picture Show.

- Walter.

I forgot about Red River and West Side Story.

I expect both of those before '11 is over.

Aren't we also due for a Fred & Ginger release?

I would love to see 1776 this coming July 4th, but I won't be surprised to see them wait for the anniversary year. Disappointed a little, but not surprised.

As far as other Sony owned titles go, Taxi Driver is overdue. I would also like to think they are finally going to kick out some of the 4:3 B&W classics they have like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, It Happened One Night, Gilda, etc.

Chinatown is overdue, but who knows whats going on in Paramount's rock-head. Thank God they at least are licensing stuff.

Criterion has become pretty bullish on Bd in 2010, so I'm guessing that quite a few of the really exciting catalog releases (for film buffs) from MGM, Universal, Fox, and Paramount, will be released by them. Of what they already have rights to, what I hope to get sooner rather than later are the Universal Doug Sirks.  All That Heaven Allows and Magnificent Obsession especially.

As much as I would love to see it, I'm not holding my breath for All That Jazz anytime soon. I think a much safer bet would be something like Miller's Crossing, which might have just a little more appeal to the apparently still dominant 15-35 demo.

MGM films being released by Criterion (confirmed by Newsletter hints/ATP Festival):

The Sweet Smell of Success

Kes

The Four Feathers

Blow Out

The Killing

Kiss Me Deadly

Something Wild

Rumored MGM films being released by Criterion:

Cul-de-Sac

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Qatsi Trilogy

Red River

Love Streams

The Misfits

King of Hearts

La Cage Aux Folles

My Beautiful Laundrette

How I Won the War

Killer's Kiss

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Burn

Satyricon

Roma

Europa Europa

Thief

Heaven's Gate

Criterion has also confirmed for release next year:

Andrei Rublev (+ 1 other Tarkovsky)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Game

Senso

Warner also stated that Barry Lyndon and Lolita are coming next year.

Sales figures for late week will surely make a difference it what get's released next year

If Sound of Music does very well  = more musicals

If Bridge on the River Kwai does very well = more epics (maybe more Lean)

If Chitty Chitty Bang Bang does well - more children's live action (Mary Poppins)

Psycho did okay so maybe more Hitchcock

Apocapylse Now = more 70's

overall more catalogs

If sales are not great, then we wait until 2012

Well, we know we're getting...

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (DISNEY)

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

ARMY OF SHADOWS

BAMBI

BARRY LYNDON

BEN HUR

THE BIRDS

BLOW OUT (Criterion)

BROADCAST NEWS

CITIZEN KANE

DON'T LOOK NOW

EXCALIBUR

THE GAME (Criterion)

THE INCREDIBLES

LOLITA

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

THE NAKED KISS

NETWORK

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA

SHOCK CORRIDOR

STAR WARS SAGA

And we're rumoured to be getting...

BRIGHTON ROCK

THE CONVERSATION

CROSS OF IRON

THE CRUEL SEA

DIABOLIQUE

LA GRANDE ILLUSION

ICE COLD IN ALEX

INSIGNIFICANCE

KES

KILLER'S KISS

THE KILLING

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS

KISS ME DEADLY

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

LOLITA

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT

THE QUINCE TREE SUN

THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

TRUE LIES

TWINS OF EVIL

WHISKEY GALORE

And personally, I suspect we'll see

A.I

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD

JAWS (I have good reason to suspect this)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

SOME LIKE IT HOT

TAXI DRIVER

More HITCHCOCK and more HAMMER

Sadly, I don't think we'll see THE INDIANA JONES TRILOGY next year, but that depends on the 5th instalment.

And I'd like to see (to name but a very few)

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (well overdue for a re-release)

COME AND SEE

CHINATOWN

MANHATTAN

MARATHON MAN

OUTLAND

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 (original)

THE OTHERS

MY FAIR LADY

MARNIE

THE HAUNTING

JEAN DE FLORETTE

ROSEMARY'S BABY

THE DUELLISTS

THE DEVILS

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

But I don't hold out much hope for any of them...

What I mainly want to see on Blu are the wide vista pictures, including:

Ben-Hur

The Ten Commandments

Cleopatra

King of Kings

The Big Country

Lawrence of Arabia

Zulu

Zulu Dawn

Several John Wayne westerns

Would like to see more Spielberg and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but I'd settle for the list above.

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Originally Posted by Rick Thompson 

What I mainly want to see on Blu are the wide vista pictures, including:

 

Ben-Hur

The Ten Commandments

Cleopatra

King of Kings

The Big Country

Lawrence of Arabia

Zulu

Zulu Dawn

Several John Wayne westerns

 

Would like to see more Spielberg and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but I'd settle for the list above.

Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments should be out by March, Cleopatra - will look incrediable if the recent 70MM screenings are any indication.

The Big Country was recently remastered and I was told it looks much better then the DVD - this is from MGM so it may take a while until they get their finances in order

SONY only knows what's holding up "Lawrence of Arabria" also "Taxi Driver" & "Oliver!" all rumored for last year

The Freshman (1990)

Scrooge (including the televised bumpers and end credits)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Beautiful Girls

Life on Mars (US)

The Rocketeer (with Rocketeer: Excitement in the Air)

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Originally Posted by Brianruns10 

Well Citizen Kane in 2011 is muted, but I'd sure like to (finally) see The Magnificent Ambersons given a proper release, ideally with Rick Schmidlin-type reconstruction of the original version.

I almost feel that if they don't get Ambersons out at the same time as Kane's release we may never get it. It's been, what, 7-8 years since they first stated their plans to release it on DVD?

I predict that Universal will finally open their catalog of Spielberg titles, giving us either Jaws or Jurassic Park, but not both.

My biggest want, that I don't think will happen, is to get a nice 4-pack of the Reeve Superman movies (including all versions of the movies that were offered in the 2006 DVD set via seamless branching).

Robb,

Talked with someone from Universal last week 

while out in LA.

Spielberg is still going to be a slow go.  I think

we will see at least one of his titles next year (the

most obvious one) but there certainly won't be an

onslaught of them for a while to come it seems.

Also, I would not expect Indiana Jones next year.

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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein 

Robb,

 

Talked with someone from Universal last week 

while out in LA.

 

Spielberg is still going to be a slow go.  I think

we will see at least one of his titles next year (the

most obvious one) but there certainly won't be an

onslaught of them for a while to come it seems.

 

Also, I would not expect Indiana Jones next year.

That's disappointing to hear.  The Indy part doesn't surprise me, since we are getting Star Wars, but I hoped that Universal having all of those other catalog titles on the way by early 2010 meant that Q3 and Q4 would start to get into Spielberg's big hits.  Since I doubt we'll see it soon, I hope we at least get E.T. for the 30th anniversary in 2012.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GMpasqua 

 

The Big Country was recently remastered and I was told it looks much better then the DVD - this is from MGM so it may take a while until they get their finances in order

 

Glad to hear that. I hope they corrected the first big mistake in the DVD: The copper wash over the opening credits was gone (though you can see traces in the various dissolves). It was correct in the VHS issues, so why it was wrong on the DVD is a mystery. This is a film that should look spectacular in Blu.
 

If the ABC HD broadcast from this year is any indication, then we are in for a real treat when The Ten Commandments arrives!!

I´d like to see the following titles:

1) Beverly Hills Cop 1+2

2) Jaws

3) Scarface

4) Jurassic Park 1+2

5) True Lies

6) Cobra

7) Assassins

8) Sharky´s Machine

9) Indiana Jones 1-3

10) The Silver Streak

and the rest of the Bond movies!

Bill Hunt's column yesterday indicated a surge in catalog titles in 2011.  So hopefully that will remain true.

Some of my predictions:

SONY:
Mysterious Island (Winner of recent Harryhausen poll)
Taxi Driver (35th Aniv)
Stripes (30th Aniv)
Boyz N the Hood (20th Aniv)
The Guns of Navarone (50th Aniv)

The Fisher King (20th Aniv)

A Man for All Seasons (45th)

UNIVERSAL:

Jaws

FOX:
The Commitments (20th Aniv)

Grand Canyon (20th Aniv)
Coen Bros Box Set: Barton Fink, Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona

All About Eve

9 to 5

The King & I (55th Aniv)
The Posiedon Adventure

The Seven Year Itch

I only want to watch Blu.  DVD just doesn't cut it anymore.  

We need truly special editions of all the John Hughes films with all those deleted scenes please.  My want list includes: 

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Uncle Buck 
• Weird Science
• Sixteen Candles
• Jaws
• Almost Famous (US release with both versions of the film)
• A.I.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom & Last Crusade
• Man on the Moon
• Old Yeller & those classic Disney live action films!
• Marx Brothers films:  all of them! 
• Concerts from The Eagles, R.E.M., and new Roger Waters

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein 

Robb,

 

Talked with someone from Universal last week 

while out in LA.

 

Spielberg is still going to be a slow go.  I think

we will see at least one of his titles next year (the

most obvious one) but there certainly won't be an

onslaught of them for a while to come it seems.

 

Also, I would not expect Indiana Jones next year.

Ron, Have you heard if Paramount plans to put "My Fair Lady" on Blu-ray? and did they ever responed to your inquiry for "Once Upon a Time in the West"?
 

I posted some of this in another thread....

Once Upon A Time In The West is currently not on

their release slate for next year.  They will consider

it based on sales for True Grit.

I have seeded the request for the musical Scrooge.

Did not ask about My Fair Lady, but isn't that a

Warner title?  

There is a major Paramount catalog title from the

late 50s about to be announced soon and another

from the 60s sometime thereafter.  Stay Tuned!

Ten Commandments and Breakfast At Tiffany's? Given how often they have dipped on BAT, I expect that to show up on Bd sooner rather than later.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein 

Did not ask about My Fair Lady, but isn't that a

Warner title?  

My Fair Lady is owned by CBS which is now part of Paramount (which is why Paramount issued the last DVD) Warner would do a box set for this film, but they have to get the rights first. I would expect Paramount will release it at some point

Quote:

Ten Commandments and Breakfast At Tiffany's? Given how often they have dipped on BAT, I expect that to show up on Bd sooner rather than later.

"Romeo and Juliet" was the other big 60's title Paramount is rumored to have in the pipe line so possibly?  High school kids would rather watch the film then read the book so.....

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Deeb 

I only want to watch Blu.  DVD just doesn't cut it anymore.  

 

We need truly special editions of all the John Hughes films with all those deleted scenes please.  My want list includes: 

 

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Uncle Buck 
• Weird Science
• Sixteen Candles
• Jaws
• Almost Famous (US release with both versions of the film)
• A.I.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom & Last Crusade
• Man on the Moon
• Old Yeller & those classic Disney live action films!
• Marx Brothers films:  all of them! 
• Concerts from The Eagles, R.E.M., and new Roger Waters

Look at blu-ray.com.

Universal will release "Uncle Buck" at the beginning of next year...-it´s official.