Recent content by Harold Chasen

Here's Robert Harris interviewing Ned Price and George Feltenstein, from 2005 at the time of this film's release on DVD. You'll see that while they didn't find the negative, they also didn't find a record of its destruction. So, it's possible to hope that better material can be found, but...

It's very confusing, and I don't claim to understand it all. But almost all of the films from what we all think of as "MGM" - the studio of Clark Gable and Judy Garland and Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli - are now owned by Warners, not MGM. Warners also owns almost all of the RKO titles, as...

I've never seen this movie, but Mick LaSalle and Richard Barrios are two of my all-time favorite writers on film. So, I'm in for this disc for sure. In his book Complicated Women, Mick LaSalle had an....interesting...take on Crawford's performance. I wonder if his view has changed since the...

Lured is on Blu-Ray from Kino, as a double feature with A Scandal in Paris. I don't see it on Amazon (so I can understand how you were not aware of it). It's back-ordered on Kino's website: https://www.kinolorber.com/product/a-scandal-in-parislured-two-films-by-douglas-sirk-blu-ray

Just a nit-pick: the 1942 Judy Garland film is For Me and My Gal. Me and My Gal is a 1932 Raoul Walsh film starring Spencer Tracy and Constance Bennett. As for them being in black and white, as Thomas T said, all of her starring color films have already been released on Blu-Ray. Of course, her...

It may not be a matter of Warners not "seeing that." The ways of the Warner Archive are mysterious and varied, and series are no exception to this. 1) When the Thin Man series was released to DVD, it was as a box set, but on Blu-Ray, they came out one at a time. However, they did all come out...

While there are several John Sayles films I want, my most wanted is City of Hope. It was filmed in Panavision and has never been released to home video in its proper aspect ration (it was on Amazon Prime for a while in widescreen, and it's still available to purchase there, but no physical media).

One quirk of this fabulous looking release: On this disc, the trailer for the film is unrestored and looks quite dim and fuzzy compared to the restored film. But, on the disc of the 1954 version, the trailer for the 1937 version looks just as good as the restored film itself. So, those of you...

For me, that's putting it mildly. If they wanted a cover that would make sure I didn't buy this disc, they succeeded. I haven't seen this film since it was new and have only a vague memory of it, so this is not a slam against the film itself - just the hideous and very off-putting cover art.

And Broadway Melody of 1940 on Blu-Ray is, at the time I'm typing this (5:38 PM EST on Tuesday, December 21, 2021): only $9.99! At that price, I grabbed it.

Great review, Matt - love the Follies reference! [For those not aware, in 1971, Gene Nelson was part of the original cast of the Broadway musical Follies. In the show, older characters like Nelson's were paired with the ghosts of their younger selves.] When I first saw the Lullaby of Broadway...

To pick up on the point by Ruz-El a few posts above mine, Vinegar Syndrome has all kinds of "gay discs." I actually saw Buddies when it was new, with Artie Bresson Jr. speaking afterward, so it was a must-buy when this film resurfaced. And Liquid Sky was another must-buy. It's both a time...

Since this threat has been brought to the top, it's a bit discouraging that it's three and a half years old, and there is still no official announcement of a Blu-Ray release of High Society. However, I looked through the thread at the many, many titles that people had on their various wish...

And... In the case of Lullaby of Broadway, it turns out "soon" means one year! Here's hoping that Tea for Two is not far behind.

This is the first Warner Archive Blu-Ray I know of that did NOT include a commentary found on the DVD. I wonder if there's a specific reason it had to be dropped, since it's so atypical for WAC.