Regarding LORD JIM and other Sony titles... (1 Viewer)

This list comes from a 2012 article in Home Theater Magazine and was posted on a DVD Forum thread called "The Official Mill Creek Sony Firesale Appreciation Thread." Notice that LORD JIM and AGNES OF GOD among many others we thought might come from TT have been licensed by Mill Creek instead. Whether or not most of these will appear on Blu-ray appears to be uncertain. Please forgive me if this list was already posted on HTF.


POSSIBLE FUTURE RELEASES CONFIRMED BY MILL CREEK & SONY
20 Million Miles to Earth

[*]Agnes of God
[*]All the Pretty Horses
[*]Already Dead
[*]American Crude
[*]Another You
[*]April Fools Day (remake)
[*]Avalon
[*]Baby, The Rain Must Fall
[*]Baadassssss!
[*]Bachelor Party Vegas
[*]Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
[*]Behold a Pale Horse
[*]Bingo
[*]Birdy
[*]Black Water
[*]Blame it on the Night
[*]Blood Crime
[*]Bobby Deerfield
[*]The Body
[*]Born Free
[*]Bottoms Up
[*]Breakout
[8]The Breed
[*]The Brothers Solomon
[*]Buddy
[*]Calendar Girl
[*]Can't Hardly Wait
[*]The Cave
[*]Charm School
[*]The Chase
[*]Club S: Seeing Double
[*]Cops and Robbersons
[*]Conspiracy
[*]The Contractor
[*]Crazy In Alabama
[*]Crush
[*]Dancer, Texas - Pop. 81
[*]Das Boot
[*]D.E.B.S.
[*]The Devil's Own
[*]Doctor Faustus
[*]Driving Lessons
[*]The End of the Affair (remake)
[*]Excess Baggage
[*]The Fan
[*]Face of Terror
[*]Fast Forward
[*]Feel the Noise
[*]Finding Forrester
[*]A Fine Mess
[*]Fired Up
[*]The Forsaken
[*]Fortress 2: Re-Entry
[*]Fresh Horces
[*]The Freshman
[*]Gardens of Stone
[*]The Giant Claw
[*]Go
[*]Golden Boy
[*]Hanky Panky
[*]Hardbodies
[*]The Hard Corps
[*]The Harvest
[*]Hero
[*]Hexed
[*]High School High
[*]The Hunt for Eagle One
[*]The Hunt for the BTK Killer
[*]I Know What You Did Last Summer
[*]I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
[*]I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
[*]I'll Do Anything
[*]I'm With Lucy
[*]If Lucy Fell
[*]Imaginary Heroes
[*]Immediate Family
[*]It Came from Beneath the Sea
[*]Jersey Girl (not the Kevin Smith one)
[*]John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
[*]John Carpenter's Vampires
[*]Just Add Water
[*]Knock Off
[*]The Last Detail
[*]Last Orders
[*]Leonard Part 6
[*]Lies and Alibis
[*]Life Without Dick
[*]Like Father, Like Son
[*]Limbo
[*]Little Black Book
[*]Little Nikita
[*]Little Secrets
[*]Living Free
[*]Lone Star State of Mind
[*]Lord Jim
[*]Lords of Dogtown
[*]Lords of Flatbush
[*]Look Who's Talking Now
[*]Loose Cannons
[*]Loser
[*]Love Lies Bleeding
[*]Lovelines
[*]A Love Song For Bobby Long
[*]Mary Reilly
[*]The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
[*]The Messenger
[*]Micki and Maude
[*]Modern Romance
[*]Moscow on the Hudson
[*]Mothra
[*]Motorama
[*]Mr. Jones
[*]My Life
[*]My Stepmother Is An Alien
[*]National Lampoon's Pucked
[*]The Net 2.0
[*]Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
[*]Off the Map
[*]The Pact of Silence
[*]The Point Men
[*]Physical Evidence
[*]Puff, Puff, Pass
[*]Private Resort
[*]The Quiet
[*]Race the Sun
[*]Red Water
[*]The Return of the Vampire
[*]The Revenge of Frankenstein
[*]Ring Around the Rosie
[*]The Russian Specialist
[*]Saving Silverman
[*]Shamus
[*]She-Creature (remake)
[*]Side Out
[*]Simon Sez
[*]The Slugger's Wife
[*]Spring Break
[*]Still Crazy
[*]Stomp the Yard
[*]The Suburbans
[*]Sweet Heart Dance
[*]Swept Away (remake)
[*]Sylvester
[*]The Tattooist
[*]There's a Girl in My Soup
[*]Threesome
[*]To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday
[*]True Believer
[*]Vampires: The Turning
[*]The Velocity of Gary
[*]Vibes
[*]Vice Versa
[*]Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
[*]What Planet Are You From?
[*]When a Stranger Calls (remake)
[*]Wholly Moses
[*]Who's Harry Crumb?
[*]Wieners
[*]Wilder Napalm
[*]Wolf
[*]XXX: State of the Union
[*]You Got Served
[*]You Light Up My Life
[*]Young Adam
[/list]

I thought I would like to have LORD JIM on bluray until I watched it again on dvd. What a silly movie. Peter OToole runs around like a teenager trying to prove to himself that he no longer a coward and can show courage in situations in his new world.Waste of talent of Richard Brooks and OToole..

trajan said:

I thought I would like to have LORD JIM on bluray until I watched it again on dvd. What a silly movie. Peter OToole runs around like a teenager trying to prove to himself that he no longer a coward and can show courage in situations in his new world.Waste of talent of Richard Brooks and OToole..

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Possibly you should see this in a theatre on a huge screen. Mr. Brooks was one of the most literate of directors. Have you read the novel?RAH

Robert Harris said:

Possibly you should see this in a theatre on a huge screen. Mr. Brooks was one of the most literate of directors. Have you read the novel?RAH

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I did see it in 35mm when it first came out and thought it was somewhat of a bore.Maybe it needed to be less literate. You would think that OToole would of been the perfect choice for this role, but something about his performance just does not ring true for me. I will say he was nicely lit by Fred A Young.

Robert Harris said:

Possibly you should see this in a theatre on a huge screen. Mr. Brooks was one of the most literate of directors. Have you read the novel?RAH

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I saw it twice in new 70mm prints and I can see what he means. While it has its merits with regard to acting, directing, cinematography and soundtrack I found it to be a strangely unsatisfying movie.

Before watching it the second time an introduction claimed that the movie really transports the spirit of the novel to the big screen but that is just wasn't the kind of novel that was suited for producing a successful movie from it. After what I have seen I would tend to agree although I'd still like to watch it again.

My first screening was a very special one by the way: It was at the 70mm retrospective of the Berlinale and it also had a short introduction by Grover Crisp.

I would love to love Lord Jim more than I do, if you get my drift. I like the idea of it. But in truth the movie is a bore. As Mr Harris says, Richard Brooks was a highly literate director which is another way of saying he didn't know what to do with a camera. For much of his career this didn't matter. But with Lord Jim he wanted to make another Lawrence of Arabia and quite apart from his tussles with Conrad's complex and almost entirely metaphysical novel he had this gargantuan Super Panavision 70 camera to lug around in the Cambodian jungle. I happen to have been to his major location - Angkor - a few times and I can tell you that he completely squandered it, proving that even if you have Team Lean at your side you can still end up with a gloomy-looking mess.

I saw this movie in 70mm at the Odeon Leicester Square. I'd love to see a decent Blu-ray. But I know I'll never really ever like the movie.

AdrianTurner said:

Richard Brooks was a highly literate director which is another way of saying he didn't know what to do with a camera.

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He did know what to do with the camera! He hired Freddie Young!

Yeah, Lord Jim doesn't quite work, & I understand it wasn't a success, but I enjoyed it, I love those BIG movies of the sixties. I'd love to see a stunning picture on Blu-ray. Peter O'Toole must have had to most effeminate run of any star, with his arms straight down, hopping along, in fact he really pushes his whole fey persona in this movie, & golly, wasn't he good looking before the booze & age got to him. Another mistake, having James Mason in a small part, you just want to see more of him. Yup, a great looking Blu-ray please.

Sign me up for LORD JIM, too, since I'm also a huge fan of the epic widescreen films of the 50's and 60's. The French BD did not look so hot as it was displayed over at DVDBeaver. I'm just hoping that there are better elements available. Whatever the limitations, missed opportunities or mistakes, these historical epics were always great fun to look at and get lost in. Wish I could say that about their modern counterparts like, say, NOAH.

trajan said:

I thought I would like to have LORD JIM on bluray until I watched it again on dvd. What a silly movie. Peter OToole runs around like a teenager trying to prove to himself that he no longer a coward and can show courage in situations in his new world.Waste of talent of Richard Brooks and OToole..

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I don't think it's silly but it could have been a lot better with a better director. Conrad's novel is exceptional. Brooks' film is average. It's enough to respect the source novel but sometimes the director has to direct the picture like he wrote the novel as Welles would say.

I never had a problem with LORD JIM. I thoroughly enjoyed it when seeing it at the Odeon Leicester Square in 70mm. But to appreciate films like that, one really had to see them in their reserved seat, roadshow presentations, not on TV screens years lately, greatly reduced in scope. it wasn't just the film but the whole "event" nature of those film presentations which left such an indelible impression. I certainly found it far more entertaining than some other epics from that period such as the ponderous KHARTOUM and CLEOPATRA.

Somehow I retain a clear memory of that perfect, beautiful 70mm picture on the great screen of the long gone Cardiff Capital.

Rather later in life I was told the funny story of how, during the run of HAMLET, at The National Theatre at The Old Vic, the graveyard scene had to be re-rehearsed in order to grapple Peter O'Toole more gently in deference to all the pre-jungle injections he'd been given.

I saw "Lord Jim" as a boy when it was released, sandwiched between theatre viewings of "Mary Poppins" and "My Fair Lady". People have issues with all three of these films, but I certainly do not, and not solely because the child is father to the man. Bring on a nicely restored "Lord Jim" on Blu-Ray. It is, was, and always will be a minor classic in my opinion.



That's the 2004 Columbia DVD I'm holding. It's nice, but I'd like better, please.

I'd certainly buy a good Blu-ray of Lord Jim. Almost bought the French one until I read the reviews and it kind of surprised me since Columbia seems to have done so well of late. Not the best epic, but I certainly enjoyed it and used to watch it whenever ABC showed it on television as a kid (usually over 2 days).

I'd certainly buy a good Blu-ray of Lord Jim. Almost bought the French one until I read the reviews and it kind of surprised me since Columbia seems to have done so well of late. Not the best epic, but I certainly enjoyed it and used to watch it whenever ABC showed it on television as a kid (usually over 2 days).

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I don't think the transfer is the problem but that they put two versions on the same disc which compromised the PQ.

Lord Jim imo was one of the biggest Roadshow disappointments of the 1960's. Even seeing it in 70mm at the Loew's State in NYC during it's original run couldn't save this turkey. Beautiful to look at, good score and valiant attempts by the actors could not make up for a slow moving epic bore. Brooks was a good director but not on this one.

john a hunter said:

I don't think the transfer is the problem but that they put two versions on the same disc which compromised the PQ.

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That is the old master that was used for the DVD most probably. It is not state of the art and no amount of bitrate could make it look anywhere near as good as it should look when released on Blu-ray.

Lord Jim needs to be revisited by Sony and to be honest if they are to tackle one of their few large format titles I would rather see them start with Barabbas if indeed the rights situation makes it feasible to move forward with it (it was a joint production with Dino De Laurentiis).

Paul Rossen said:

Lord Jim imo was one of the biggest Roadshow disappointments of the 1960's. Even seeing it in 70mm at the Loew's State in NYC during it's original run couldn't save this turkey. Beautiful to look at, good score and valiant attempts by the actors could not make up for a slow moving epic bore. Brooks was a good director but not on this one.

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I've always compared Richard Brooks somewhat to John Frankenheimer....when he was good (The Professionals, etc), he was good, but when he was bad (Lord Jim, Wrong is Right), he could be very bad.

atfree said:

I've always compared Richard Brooks somewhat to John Frankenheimer....when he was good (The Professionals, etc), he was good, but when he was bad (Lord Jim, Wrong is Right), he could be very bad.

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And while I really like Brook's The Professionals I can't 'get into' Bite the Bullet.

It's not that it's slow moving so much as that it is, for almost the first half of the film, absent a certain kind of (for lack of a better word) zing. And as soon as James Mason shows up, he zings all over the place and you realize, hey, that's what was missing. But that's the character. That's the whole point of Jim. He lacks zing. He looks the part, this handsome, perfectly formed English gent, but looks are deceiving, and his soul is not of the same sterling quality, and so he disappoints almost everyone who has to do with him. And that's the concept of the character from the novel. I don't think that kind of Conradian innerness translates really well to the screen, but it is a fairly faithful reflection of the character from the novel. And I actually did like the movie a lot, and would love to see it in a fresh copy. Like I said, a slow speed doesn't really bother me that much; as long as it has something to catch the interest and the imagination, I'll keep watching, and character of Jim is, to me still, a fascinating one.