What's left? (1 Viewer)

[Jason Bovberg]

A HUGE one for me is "After Hours" by Martin Scorsese.

 

[LarryDavenport]

It's been a terrific year for music DVDs (though I can think of dozen more on my wish list) and TV shows (ditto). And most of my top 25 movies have been released in the past year or will be soon.

Still, off the top of my head I'm still hoping for:

The President's Analyst
The Night of the Iguana
Mirage
Our Man In Havana
Fear Is The Key
Alex In Wonderland
Billion Dollar Brain
The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini
the rest of the Thin Man movies
The Ex Mrs. Bradford
It's A Bikini Summer
Porklips Now
Drive In
Busting

 

[Ronald Epstein]

So those of you with long lists of 30s films I wouldn't bet on them all reaching DVD. Technology moves so fast these days and I'm concerned a few won't make it before the next new video format comes along.

I tend to agree on this.

There was sooo much time for the studios to
throw just about everything they had onto VHS.

The current DVD format may be too short-lived
to see everything everyone wants released. Then
again, who knows how long it will take HD-DVD to
become mainstream.

 

[LarryDavenport]

At that rate many of the movies on my list will never be released on video on any format. Our Man In Havana, The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini, It's A Bikini Summer and The Billion Dollar Brain didn't even come out on VHS (the last two for music right's I'm sure).

 

[Paul_Scott]

The current DVD format may be too short-lived
to see everything everyone wants released. Then
again, who knows how long it will take HD-DVD to
become mainstream.

i think that backward compatability is going to be a must have for any HD dvd devices...for at least quite a while.
also, while i won't dispute the merits and benefits of HD, it really becomes evident with shot on HD video.
yes, there is improvement with most movies, especially 2.35 wide recent (last 30 yrs or so) epics, but i really don't see a substantial amount of benefit to be derived from an HD resolution copy of an academy ratio film from the thirties that has only had the most minimal of restoration...if any.
unless we are going to start getting into some inverse kind of anamorphic where the 1.37 film is horizontally stretched on disc to accomodate all available screen space and then pillar boxed at the display for improved resolution.
but that seems highly unlikely.

i think that 20's-50's films on dvd can happily co-exist with modern blockbusters on HD-dvd.
the buffs and fans seeking out the former are a little more forgiving of the circumstances and as long as the film looks properly transferd in its respective format, there shouldn't be a reason to bemoan the lack of a few pixels.

 

[george kaplan]

I think that's overly pessimistic. Sure, some of these may not show up, but lots of films as equally unlikely as these have come on dvd (I never thought I'd see a criterion version of Hopscotch ), so I think there's hope. I don't know the economics, but it seems new product is always a must for the studios, and some of these are bound to come out.

 

[Greg Black]

I know this has been mentioned several times already, but Dial M For Murder. The world of DVD needs as much Grace Kelly as it can get!

 

[MarkHastings]

but i really don't see a substantial amount of benefit to be derived from an HD resolution copy of an academy ratio film from the thirties that has only had the most minimal of restoration...if any.

Interesting point. I wonder just how much resolution you can go with before you get to the point where there is no need for more resolution.

Can an old movie benefit from HD-DVD? I assume so, but how much so? You can probably get a better picture on HD-DVD than with the standard DVD format, but is it as noticable a difference as the new movies that go from standard to HD?

It would seem that most of the 'detail' you'd get with an HD-DVD would be through image enhancements. And is this what historians really want? Don't you want what the original print was like and not added resolution?

I guess the best argument is in the compression. Since HD-DVD will have less compression, it's safe to assume that anything transfered to HD-DVD will look better than standard DVD because of the bit rates.

 

[JeremySt]

Im going to coninue to buy DVDs like they'll be here forvever.

My biggest MIAs are

STAR WARS OT
KING KONG
GRAND PRIX
THE NAKED PREY
AFTER HOURS
SCHINDLERS LIST
PINK FLOYD PULSE

 

[Greg Black]

I guess the best argument is in the compression. Since HD-DVD will have less compression, it's safe to assume that anything transfered to HD-DVD will look better than standard DVD because of the bit rates.

Ah, but compression is a relative factor. It takes higher bit rates to encode HD material because of the higher resolution of the image, but that does not necessarily mean that the percentage of compression applied to the image is any less than an average SD DVD release.

I'm just a little worried that when HD-DVD hits, there will be alot more mpeg artifacting than people are used to seeing on standard DVDs.

 

[MarkHastings]

but that does not necessarily mean that the percentage of compression applied to the image is any less than an average SD DVD release.

...but I'm assuming the bit rate will be high enough to allow for even less artifact than standard DVD. i.e. I thought the HD compression to resolution ratio was better than standard DVD, but I could be wrong.

 

[Walter Kittel]

I managed to find this older wishlist on my computer today. I've tried to cull everything that has been released since I first put together this list, but may have missed a few titles. Suffice to say that if everything on this list gets released, I'll be a pretty happy camper -

1920's

Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ
Big Parade, The
Greed
Iron Horse, The
Napolean
Safety Last
Way Down East
Wings

1930's

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Angels with Dirty Faces
Beau Geste
Big House, The
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The
Black Cat, The
Bringing Up Baby
Broken Lullaby
Bullets or Ballots
Captain Blood
Captains Courageous
Charge of the Light Brigade
Dark Victory
Day At The Races, A
Each Dawn I Die
Front Page, The
'G' Men
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Gunga Din
Hound of the Baskervilles
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
If I Had a Million
Jezebel
King Kong
Little Caesar
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The
Mutiny on the Bounty
Night at the Opera, A
Ninotchka
Olympia 1
Olympia 2
Petrified Forest, The
Public Enemy, The
Ninotchka
Roaring Twenties, The
Rules of the Game, The
Swingtime
Top Hat

1940's

49th Parallel
Act of Violence
Barkleys of Broadway, The
To Be or Not To Be
Big Clock, The
Black Swan, The
Broken Arrow
Brother Orchid
Call Northside 777
Cat People
Christmas In July
Criss Cross
Crossfire
Cry of the City
Dark Corner, The
Dark Mirror, The
Dead of Night
Deadly Is The Female ( Gun Crazy )
Destination Tokyo
Father of the Bride
File on Thelma Jordan, The
Force of Evil
Gaslight
Glass Key, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great McGinty, The
This Gun For Hire
Hail The Conquering Hero
Heaven Can Wait
Horn Blows at Midnight, The
House on 92nd Street, The
I Walk Alone
It Happens Every Spring
Johnny Angel
Johnny Eager
Kiss of Death
Knock on any Door
Laura
Leave Her to Heaven
Letter From an Unknown Women
Letter to Three Wives, The
Love Crazy
Magnificent Ambersons, The
Meet Me In St. Louis
Ministry of Fear
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The
Murder, My Sweet
Out of the Past
Palm Beach Story, The
Passage to Marseille
Reckless Moment, The
Road House
Scarlet Street
Sea Hawk, The
Sea Wolf, The
Set-Up, The
Silence de la Mer, Le
Stormy Weather
Street With No Name, The
Suspicion
They Drive By Night
They Live By Night
Unfaithfully Yours
White Heat
Woman In The Window, The

1950's

5 Fingers
99 River Street
African Queen, The
Asphalt Jungle, The
Bad Day at Black Rock
Bend of the River
Beware, My Lovely
Born to be Bad
Browning Version, The
Burmese Harp, The
Big Carnival, The
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Clash By Night
Damn Yankees!
Dial M For Murder
Diary of a Country Priest
Earrings of Madame De..., The
Enemy Below, The
Enforcer, The
Fires on the Plain
Floating Weeds
Fourteen Hours
House of Bamboo
Human Desire
Incredible Shrinking Man, The
Johnny Guitar
Man of the West
League of Gentlemen, The
Life of Oharu
Lust for Life
Narrow Margin, The
Naked Spur, The
Night and the City
Olvidados, Los
On Dangerous Ground
Panic in the Streets
Phenix City Story, The
Pickup on South Street
Rancho Notorious
Richard III
Run of the Arrow
Sansho the Bailiff
Side Street
Spirit of St. Louis, The
Strategic Air Command
Tales of Hoffman
Tall T, The
Tall Target, The
Ugetsu monogatari
We're No Angels
Where the Sidewalk Ends
While the City Sleeps
Wild One, The
Witness To Murder
Wrong Man, The
Young Man with a Horn

1960's

Bad Sleep Well, The
Beach Red
Bedazzled
Blowup
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Coogan's Bluff
Danger: Diabolik
Darling
El Cid
Electra Glide In Blue
Dolce Vita, La
Fall of the Roman Empire, The
Harper
Hell in the Pacific
If...
Innocents, The
Je vous salue Mafia
King Rat
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The
Lonely are the Brave
Mouchette
Muriel or The Time of Return
Naked Prey, The
Night of the Iguana, The
Nothing But A Man
Pawnbroker, The
Persona
President's Analyst, The
Point Blank
Repulsion
Le Samourai
Sergeant Rutledge
Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The
Sundowners, The
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


1970's

3 Women
Allegro non tropo
Bye Bye Brazil
Charley Varrick
Conformista, Il ( The Conformist )
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Emperor of the North Pole
Ryan's Daughter
Scarecrow
Tristana
Unmarried Woman, An
Vanishing Point

1980's

Crossroads
Dresser, The
Fast-Walking
Grey Fox, The
Jesus de Montreal
Kagemusha
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Makioka Sisters, The
My Neighbor Totoro
Name of the Rose, The
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Norte, El
Prick Up Your Ears
Quiet Earth, The
Ragtime
Reds
Romero
Siege of Firebase Gloria, The
Thin Blue Line, The

1990's

Before the Rain
Double Life of Veronique, The
Hamlet
Hoop Dreams
Microcosmos
Naked (1993)
Rapture, The
Reflecting Skin, The
Until the End of the World


- Walter.

 

[Rob P S]

What in the world is holding up King of the Hill (1993)?

 

[rich_d]

Sometimes things look better when you don't see everything perfectly. HD-DVD (in some cases) might be a 50 dollar saddle on a 10 dollar horse.

Perhaps that is why your grass looks better from your neighbor's side. You don't see the weeds and the bad spots ...

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

Dennis Nichols:

Eating Raoul

YES! Where the heck IS that one?! Should've been on DVD by now, I feel. A gem of a movie.


Gordy

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

Ronald Epstein:

Then again, who knows how long it will take HD-DVD to become mainstream.

That's the Big Question, as far as I'm concerned. That's going to be a marketing nightmare: How do you entice and convince Joe Sixpack to buy a new DVD player? As far as Joe is concerned, there was the standard DVD player, DVD recorders and now HD-DVD - "But I have already got a DVD player!", he will say, and when you try to explain that HD-DVD is better, he will say "Prove it!" and so you present a demonstration... on a HD-TV! "But I already bought a new $1000 TV!!!", he'll say. If you ask me it's going to take a long time for HD-DVD to become mainstream and the norm. It may end up like DVD-Audio and SACD - badly marketed and reserved for hardcore HT consumers. At this point, it is all speculation and everyone is still looking forward to buying many, many films on standard DVD, so the Big Studios won't be in any hurry to leave the cow's udders half empty!


Gordy

 

[David Lambert]

Agreed...Eating Raoul should have been on my list as well. Fantastic flick, very funny.

 

[Angelo.M]

Walter:

I'm certain your listing of My Neighbor Totoro was an oversight. It exists on DVD, albeit in a full-screen, bare-bones edition. I've heard that a re-release is forthcoming.

 

[Nick T Robot]

In Short, When EVERY movie is available on DVD, then we'll be done (Of course they keep making movies, so it'll never end)

For me it's really just:

- The Star Wars Trilogy (Original, SE, and New SE I want them all!)
- As much MST3k as possible!
- Schindler's List

 

[Lew Crippen]

Agreed...Eating Raoul should have been on my list as well. Fantastic flick, very funny.

It was available a couple of years ago in an R4, PAL DVD. Don’t know if it is OOP or not.