Wish List 2015 (1 Viewer)

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Tom Jones, my #1 for years.

The Serpent's Egg and The Passion of Anna.

I believe Twilight Time said that they had the rights to TOM JONES.

Pride and Prejudice (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1940)
Bringing Up Baby
Little Women (1933)
The Philadelphia Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Thin Man
The Shop Around the Corner
Gaslight
Ninotchka
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Petrified Forest
Marked Woman
The Big Sleep
High Sierra
Holiday
Key Largo
Dark Victory
Stage Door
Top Hat
Follow the Fleet
The Harvey Girls
Ziegfeld Girl
....more Warner-controlled stuff.

Half of

bruceames said:

Pride and Prejudice (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1940)
Bringing Up Baby
Little Women (1933)
The Philadelphia Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Thin Man
The Shop Around the Corner
Gaslight
Ninotchka
Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Petrified Forest
Marked Woman
The Big Sleep
High Sierra
Holiday
Key Largo
Dark Victory
Stage Door
Top Hat
Follow the Fleet
The Harvey Girls
Ziegfeld Girl
....more Warner-controlled stuff.

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Half of my list is Warner.

trajan said:

Half of

Half of my list is Warner.

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I'd say mine is 75% Warner at least. They've got the best stuff from the pre-1960s, and by far the most of it. The bottleneck is getting pretty extreme now compared to other studios, who have fewer viable classic titles for Blu-ray, but who allow their library to be licensed to others. Hopefully Mr. Harris' words about dramatically increased classic output from them in 2015 will ring true, and that the November layoffs won't dampen those plans.

Anything I didnt get in 2014 lol
Off the top of my head - to name a few dozen titles, Hand of Death, Endless Descent, The Big Sleep, in fact any Bogart film not already on blu ray and released a million times ..The Abyss, Godzilla 1985, Son of Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Son of Godzilla, Mildred Pierce, anything from the Bette Davis' box sets , The Thing from Another World, Them, The Thin Man, The Green Slime, The Valley of Gwangi, the Bat, the Bat Whispers, Octaman, The Kindred, One Million Years BC, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, The Fly II, the 50s Universal monster movies that are Region A , Day of the Triffids, Phantasm, Body Snatchers, Alligator 1 & 2, Night and the City, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Angry Red Planet, Yongary, Railroaded, Panic Room , Day of the Jackal, The Crawling Eye, Omen IV, The Island Earth, The Best of Everything, The Brain That Wouldnt Die. Beware My Lovely, Dr Terrors House of Horrors, Trilogy of Terror 1 and 2 , Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (the Frederic March version), Quatermass II, Behind Locked Doors, Abbott and Costello films, Laserblast, The Night Flier, Holes, the Hidden, Yongary, Gappa and much much more

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" from Disney, and some good old science fiction from the late 50's to early 60's.

The same as last year!

Nothing on my 2014 list was released or has been announced for release. Most titles controlled by Warners.

How come nobody starts a thread about the titles on their wish list that did come out on BD?

When I was in college back in the mid-80's and trying to broaden my movie experience, I picked up a book called "500 Best American Movies to Buy, Rent or Videotape" by the National Film Board of Review. Over the years, I've managed to see most of these movies and it's become a goal of mine to get them all on blu-ray. Almost ten years into the format, I have almost half of the list - 257 to go (111 Warner, 38 Universal, 23 Fox, 21 Paramount, 19 Sony, 15 MGM, 10 Samuel Goldwyn Co, 2 Disney, 18 misc). Around 30 movies came out this year. It will be interesting to see how many are left next year, particularly if the Warner gates open.

BTW bruceames, Petrified Forest came out recently as part of the Ultimate Gangsters Collection from Warner (along with White Heat, Little Caeser and Public Enemy).

Robert Crawford said:

How come nobody starts a thread about the titles on their wish list that did come out on BD?

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Because almost nothing came out on my wish list. I'm almost getting ready to throw mine away.

The Devils
A Matter of Life and Death
Pasqualino Settebellezze
Ryan's Daughter
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
Sullivan's Travels
Tampopo
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Too many to list, but here's a start:

Errol Flynn films (Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, etc)
To Have and Have Not
The Big Sleep
The Greatest Show on Earth
Battleground
Sahara
They Were Expendable
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
John Wayne Films (Chisum, The Train Robbers, McQ, Cahill US Marshal, The Shootist)
Bringing Up Baby
I Was a Male War Bride
Hitchcock Films (The Paradine Case, Suspicion, The Wrong Man, I Confess, Under Capricorn, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Murder!)
BD Upgrades from Criterion (Green for Danger, A Canterbury Tale, Night Train to Munich)
The Satan Bug
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
None but the Brave
Never So Few
Seven Days in May
The Parallax View
Klute
Ryan's Daughter
Them!
The Thing (from Outer Space)
True Lies
Abbott and Costello Collection
Sullivan's Travels
The Shop Around the Corner
The Last of Sheila
The List of Adrian Messenger
The Philadelphia Story
Narrow Margin
Farewell, My Lovely
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

And the list goes on.....and on....and on.

The Warner list is just too long to have any hope that a decent percentage will ever make it to Blu-ray. Besides, their priority is on digital rather than physical, so I think I'm going to get a Roku stick so I can stream Warner Archive Instant movies in HD. It won't be quite up to Blu-ray quality, but it will be more closer to it, than to DVD standards. Was browsing their titles and they've got several hundred to choose in HD with more added all the time.

The Abyss (1989)
Alakazam the Great (1960)
Among the Living (1941)
Beware My Lovely (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
The Black Windmill (1974)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
Breakdown (1997)
Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
Charge at Feather River (1953, 3D + cartoon: 'Lumberjack Rabbit' in 3D)
Charley Varrick (1973)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Crosswinds (1951)
Danger Route (1967)
Darker Than Amber (1970)
Day of the Triffids (1963)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1964)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Fraulein Doktor (1969)
Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964, full 2:35:1 anamorphic for the U.S. release version)
Gog (1954, 3D)
Gorilla at Large (1954, 3D)
Gunn (1967)
Hell's Island (1955)
Hondo (1953, 3D)
The Incident (1967)
I Start Counting (1969)
It Came from Outer Space (1953, 3D + cartoon: 'Hypnotic Hick' in 3D)
I Walk Alone (1948)
Jack and the Witch (1967)
Jivaro (1954, 3D)
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963)
The Mad Magician (1954, 3D + Three Stooges short: 'Spooks' in 3D)
The Magic Serpent (1966)
The Man from Hong Kong (1975)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
The Maze (1954, 3D)
99 River Street (1953)
No Escape (1994)
One Million Years BC (1966, the longer UK version)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954, 3D + cartoon: 'Popeye, Ace of Space' in 3D)
The President's Analyst (1967, Criterion)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
Revenge of the Creature (1955, 3D)
Robot Carnival (1987)
The Satan Bug (1965)
The Scarf (1951)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
The Time Travelers (1964)
Tropic Zone (1953)
True Lies (1994)
Twice Upon a Time (1983)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
War of the Worlds (1953)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Zoo in Budapest (1933)

The Changeling (1980)....please get this in the hands of Criterion! That Japanese release was unbearable.Looking for Mr. GoodbarLittle Darlings The AbyssDemon SeedMiracle MileWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?XanaduCruisingWhat Lies BeneathSilent Scream (1980)InteriorsAn Unmarried WomanStarting Over (1979)Endless Love (1981)Ruby in ParadiseLipstickThe Sentinel (1977)Semi-ToughGrizzly

Robert Crawford said:

How come nobody starts a thread about the titles on their wish list that did come out on BD?

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Good idea as 2014 was the strongest year ever for catalog (IMO).

TOM JONES
TOM JONES

All the Fred and Ginger
Alexander Nevsky
Ivan the Terrible 1 and 2
Captain Blood
The Sea Hawk