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    The Greatest Story Ever Told renovation

    There's nothing really to "investigate." Stevens was massively behind schedule on the picture and had to bring in Lean to do all of the interior scenes with Claude Rains, and Negulesco for the Nativity and some scattered other shots early in the first act. The documentary He Walks in Beauty...
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    Press Release PHE Press Release: Star Trek: The Motion Picture Restored Director's Edition and Six-Movie Collection (4k UHD)

    Is this the usual Paramount special of putting a new coat over the same old disc with the same old special features?
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    Biblical-Roman-Egyptian epics not yet on Blu-ray

    I've got my preorder locked in, so fingers crossed for at least something of an improvement of prior releases.
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    RYAN’S DAUGHTER: Discussions for a BD Release (2015 - 2024)

    There's a UK 3-disc blu-ray coming out at the end of the month for TGSET. I just preordered it, though I have little hope it'll be a better scan than the previous releases.
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    Coppola/Zoetrope version of Napoleon?

    Wow, so this version will be almost two hours longer than the Brownlow version that was released on DVD back in 2016? That's amazing!
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    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Peeping Tom (1960) (4k UHD Combo) (Blu-ray)

    I just bought that along with 10 or so other StudioCanal Vintage Classics discs earlier this month, so of course Criterion would announce this now... But hey, maybe this means Criterion will be getting other StudioCanal titles back, like The Third Man, Kurosawa's Ran, the Ealing comedies, etc.
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    Warner DVD's not working thread - watch to make sure they still play

    I haven't had issues with my copy of Fisherman, and I play that one fairly regularly, a few times a year or so.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Cleopatra (1963) - U.S. Release -- in Blu-ray

    Or, as I posited upthread, someone does an Ambersons-style animated recreation of the missing scenes using the available archival documentation.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Cleopatra (1963) - U.S. Release -- in Blu-ray

    Funny you mention Titus the Moneylender, because he was already omitted from this first cut. I even have a letter that Walter Wanger sent to Currie in September 62, apologizing that they had to cut his scenes in the film.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Cleopatra (1963) - U.S. Release -- in Blu-ray

    Apologies for necro-posting this rather old discussion, but I've recently added a "smoking gun" document to my Cleopatra collection that made me think of this thread. I happened to discover an auction for a complete dialogue continuity for the original assembly cut, with markups for lines to be...
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    Pre-Order The Big Country (1958) (Reissue) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    I'd be curious if any of the deleted scenes survive in any form anywhere? A few years back, I did a bunch of digging in Gregory Peck and William Wyler's collections out here in LA and discovered just how much material was filmed that was excised. I'd say another half hour or so, based on the...
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    Will Around the World in 80 Days ever get a special deluxe edition like The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm?

    The 30fps 65mm YCMs survived in good condition?! I feel like Christmas came early, just hearing that! My wallet is ready and willing to shell out the quatloos needed to see the final product, Dave.
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    Arrow releasing (Limited Edition Blu-ray) of "The Shootist" (1976) on 03-12-24

    The Shootist is one of my favorite Wayne pictures, so this is instantly going on my preorder list!
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