What 3 films do you want most on Blu? (1 Viewer)

[John Nelson]

1.) The Man Who Would Be King - Great movie, horrible flipper DVD with atrocious sound and missing dialogue.

2.) Grand Prix - Supposedly the restored HD version using the original 65mm film elements appeared fantastic.

3.) Strategic Air Command - Starring Jimmy Stewart. Not the best movie of all time, but the flying scenes of the gargantuan B-36 bombers are spectacular. Never released on DVD to my knowledge.

 

[Jeff McMillan]

Lawrence of Arabia
Blue Velvet
Holy Mountain

 

[Jonathan_Clarke]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

in that order

 

[Derek M Germano]

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
HELLO, DOLLY!
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (properly mastered)

 

[Jeff Whitford]

Light Of Day
Add that to post 40. Again never released in this country on DVD

 

[shazzerman]

I'm going with:
The Quiet Man
Barry Lyndon
The Thin Red Line
Two more?
The Conformist
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

 

[Gekkou]

Alien
Aliens
The Abyss

There are countless movies that I want on Blu, but those three would round out my entire top ten list of favourite films on HD optical disc.

 

[Simon Caleb]

In no particular order.

Auntie Mame - didn't WB hint at this needing some major restorative work?

Jason and the Argonauts - I'd love to see this (respectfully) cleaned/restored.

Solaris - Soderbergh's preferred longer cut.

And finally,

(Danger) Diabolik - Mario Bava's classic.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Moulin Rouge (coming)
1776
Universal Marx Brothers Films

 

[Jon Lidolt]

The Ten Commandments (a transfer from VistaVision elements)
Spartacus (color timed to resemble original Technicolor prints)
El Cid (a proper transfer derived from Technirama negatives)

 

[PianoPlayer]

Criterion (or somebody) needs to give these the Blu-ray treatment:

1. The Red Shoes
2. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover
3. Theater of Blood (Vincent Price's favorite of all his movies -- the existing DVD uses a terrible print, with lousy video and audio. Surely the elements could be found to restore this!)

 

[Brandon Conway]

Originally Posted by PianoPlayer

Criterion (or somebody) needs to give these the Blu-ray treatment:

1. The Red Shoes
2. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover
3. Theater of Blood (Vincent Price's favorite of all his movies -- the existing DVD uses a terrible print, with lousy video and audio. Surely the elements could be found to restore this!)

Criterion will be releasing The Red Shoes sometime in 2010.

 

[dana martin]

Universal Marx Brothers Films

good choice for universal to really step into the classics on blu

 

[David Deeb]

I cheated kind of and made 3 groups:

1. A John Hughes box set with deleted scenes & commentaries: Weird Science, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck
2. Back to the Future Trilogy
3. The original Star Wars trilogy, not the revisionist versions with extra beeping & blinking creatures

 

[Derek M Germano]

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
THE LION IN WINTER
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT

 

[Patrick Mirza]

1) Barry Lyndon (Terrific film!! I am shocked to see this on so many people's lists... I honestly didn't think this was that popular.)

2) Alien & Aliens "super ultimate" double feature (yeah, I know it's cheating. But these two always have to go together. And the other movies in the series just don't exist for me in my world.)

3) 1941: Extended Director's Cut (Despite all of the criticism, this movie makes me laugh and feel warm and fuzzy everytime I see it. I love Spielberg's misunderstood epic unapologetically. Only one of three full-blown "destruction comedies" - as I call 'em - that Hollywood ever made good and right (the other two being "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "Blues Brothers").

Runners Up:

The Blues Brothers
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Robert A. Harris Restoration)
Back To The Future Trilogy
Legend: Director's Cut
Jaws
Radiers of the Lost Ark
The Abyss: Extended Edition
and more that i just can't think of right now...

 

[Paul_Scott]

3 (more or less) most wanted (from each studio).
My biggest priority is to see things that still either haven't been released on DVD or else have only been issued in a substandard edition i.e. non anamorphic or just poorly mastered. Amazingly, this still applies to many great films.

Sony
1776
The Swimmer

Warner
Outland
Mister Roberts
A Little Romance
The Accidental Tourist
Wolfen
The Year Of Living Dangerously

Universal
The Blues Brothers (will be surprised if we don't see this next year)
Somewhere In Time
Jaws 2
Flash Gordon

MGM
The Great Escape
The Russia House
Jean de Florette/ Manon Of The Spring

Paramount
Days Of Heaven
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
Apocalypse Now (theatrical version. I won't buy Redux if that 's all that is made available)

Lionsgate
Fabulous Baker Boys
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (not sure who actually controls this whether it's Paramount or Lionsgate)


Fox
Seven Year Itch
Oklahoma
Last Of The Mohicans

Disney
The Rocketeer
The Black Hole

Miramax
Amelie

 

[shazzerman]

Interesting choices. I would really like to hear John Williams's Jaws 2 score in HD (as it is one of the mot seriously underrated scores in cinema - and I'm not joking!).

 

[Paul_Scott]

Originally Posted by shazzerman

Interesting choices. I would really like to hear John Williams's Jaws 2 score in HD (as it is one of the mot seriously underrated scores in cinema - and I'm not joking!).

Absolutely.
And sadly out of print at the moment.

 

[Marco S]

RYAN'S DAUGHTER
STAR! (with original B&W footage)
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (from a newly discovered mint print)