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I was never a first adopter so there was a sizable library by the time I made my first purchases. I also managed video stores for 12 years, leaving in 1998, so I had a huge library at my fingertips. I was in college when I got my first VHS player and I started to obsessively tape movies from TV...

You've inspired me. Here's a list of ten favorite TV shows, not necessary my picks for best, but those I will watch again and again. In alphabetical order: Bones Columbo Firefly Homicide: Life on the Street Person of Interest Peter Gunn The Prisoner Route 66 Star Trek (TOS) The Wire For fun...

Fairly broke at the moment but thanks to two $10 off coupons, I treated myself to a Raoul Walsh double feature disc: High Sierra (with western remake Colorado Territory as an extra).

Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's 13-part epic documentary on American silent cinema "Hollywood" was released on laserdisc and on VHS but never on DVD. It had to do with licensing costs for the film clips. Most of the episodes are streaming on YouTube, in unlicensed uploads of home video copies...

The points I was about to make have mostly been made, and made well. Just a few additional notes. Just one other thing about a Criterion Collection release of a movie otherwise exclusive to Netflix: it's a status thing. Getting the Criterion treatment gives a film a stamp of cultural...

Keeping my list short: Elvis (1980) single season half-hour drama about the early years of Elvis as a young man in Memphis just starting to perform and record - NOT ON DISC IN ANY FORM Shannon's Deal (1990-1991) short-lived legal drama created by John Sayles Peter Gunn remastered from original...

I just purchased a 4K TV and was wondering what cable upgrades I needed. This thread answered my questions. Thanks!

Here's a note from NY Post film editor Lou Lumenick http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so8b6k

Meanwhile, there is yet ANOTHER restoration underway at the Cinemateque Francaise, utilizing materials not made available to Brownlow and co-produced by Coppola, that is said to be even longer. The more the merrier, I say, though it is a shame that they did not invite Brownlow's participation...

Mine played fine and I'm using an older Panasonic Blu-ray player (I had to retire my much more recent workhorse player after wearing it out apparently).

The film that gave the world the rocket ship and the countdown.

A lovely, lovely film. A lot of it is set at night and shot in the Florida wilderness, so I look forward to that backddrop coming alive on Blu-ray.

That's my understanding as well. After a decade of music comedy, they needed the a title that made clear that this was a tough crime movie.

I saw the restored The Apu Trilogy when it made the rounds in theaters earlier this year. An amazing job of rescuing world classics for which the negatives no longer exist. They are beautiful and moving films from one of the great filmmakers in the world, inspired in part by the Italian...

Steve De Jarnatt is in Seattle this week to celebrate the release of his two features on disc. On Thursday, July 30, he's at Scarecrow Video (still the greatest video store in the known universe) to sign copies of the discs and show a rare (not on disc) short he made with Timothy Carey...

Ride the Pink Horse has long been a favorite of mine. I am an obsessive collector of film noir and for years my copy of Ride was a DVD-R copy of a VHS recording from American Movie Classics (from the days it actually showed American movie classics). The Criterion edition is a revelation in terms...

I absolutely love this film and am overjoyed it got a Blu-ray release. It's quite well photographed for its budget and production limitations and it's great to see all these supplements.

It's just like they say: you don't always catch sarcasm on the web. :) I asked Lynch about why he does interviews but not commentary. His answer was a good one: You have of course never done a commentary track, but you do load up the Inland Empire disc with a lot of interesting extras and...

David Lynch does not like commentary on his films, just as he does not like chapter stops. Criterion honors the wishes of the directors it works with.

The label on my disc is the traditional black with the beige stripe across the top with the title. The gb reads 3.92.

So glad to see this thread. Twilight Time releases just keep getting better. Looking forward to more film noir!

I've been waiting for this ever since I saw the restored print at Noir City. An underrated noir, very mature in its exploration of adult relationships and doesn't flinch from adressing the fallout. Dick Powell liked it so much that he hired the screenwriter to develop another original screenplay...

Ten favorites from Hollywood from 1939, in alphabetical order: Drums Along the Mohawk Gunga Din Love Affair Midnight Ninotchka Only Angels Have Wings The Roaring Twenties Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz The Women Which, of course, leaves out many fine films, but we're picking favorites...

It's actually more complicated than that -- here's a detailed breakdown of the issues from Indiewire: http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/why-you-still-cant-see-that-porgy-and-bess-movie-starring-sidney-poitier-and-dorothy-dandridge

Goldwyn only had limited rights to the show from the Gershwin estate, which lapsed decades ago. The film has had various one-off screenings at film festivals and special events showings, but the Gershwin estate is withholding the rights from any commercial home video release or theatrical showings.

Sergio Sollima's "Face to Face" may the greatest spaghetti western that has never received an American disc release. Until now. Looking forward to this. My only previous viewing was from an import DVD many years ago.

Kevin Brownlow's complete restoration of Abel Gance's "Napoleon," never before on any home video format (the 2001 restoration is about 90 minutes longer than the version with the Carmine Coppola score from the eighties, and it features a far better score by Carl Davis).

That's an announcement that hits *my* sweet spot.

That is great news. Thanks for all your updates.

Traveling shots had been around 1912 or so, most notably in Griffith shorts, but Peter Bogdanovich claims that the first true "dolly shot" - that is, dollying the camera parallel to a moving actor, rather than traveling in front or behind an actor with a moving camera - was done by Allan Dwan in...