benbess
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Like many of you, I've been thrilled by how good most classic films look on blu-ray. Even the first King Kong from 1933 has really benefited from the blu-ray treatment. Let's go year by year, starting somewhat randomly at 1925, and suggest films that would make good blu-rays. Like our VistaVision year by year of several months ago, I suggest we go fairly rapidly--perhaps a year every few days--and stop when we reach the dawn of the ago of television--1950. So that's a quarter of a century of movie history. If possible, recommend films that are not only entertaining and critically acclaimed, but--if possible--films for which you know a decent print or negative of some kind still survives. Like with our VistaVision year by year, I hope folks will post some of those great old Hollywood posters. For each year, as a reminder, I'll try to post the wikipedia page for that year, starting with "1925 in film" according to that online ecyclopaedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_in_film My nominee for that year is one of the funniest films ever made--Charlie Chaplin's epic comic adventure, The Gold Rush. I think I heard somewhere that wishes will come true with this one, as Criterion may well have a blu-ray for us sometime in 2012. If it looks anywhere close to as good as Criterion's Modern Times, it'll be terrific... What other films from 1925 (or earlier!) do you think might make good blu-rays? (I do realize that most of the recommendations will never make it to blu-ray--but we can dream, right? And even if they aren't ever on blu-ray, some of us can search out worthy films we haven't seen on DVD, netflix streaming, etc.)