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  1. Douglas Bailey

    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Witness for the Prosecution (re-dux) -- in Blu-ray

    I love this as a Charles Laughton character piece, and it's worth having just for his amazingly sly performance, but I can't say the plot holds up. I've shown it to someone who'd never seen it before, and they immediately saw through a key plot element that's supposed to be a surprise. Not much...
  2. Douglas Bailey

    Disc sleeves for 4K UHD

    I keep slipcovers, and put J-cards and stickers and suchlike away for storage, but I give all the digital-copy slips to my local charity bookstore. Hopefully someone will appreciate those; I don't find them appealing, so am happy to give them away.
  3. Douglas Bailey

    How many times do you watch a TV series you have bought on DVD/Blu-ray?

    I usually watch the series straight through once, then keep it for reference (so I can go back and rewatch a specific episode or a specific scene when the mood takes me).
  4. Douglas Bailey

    HTF AWARDS 2023: Nominations for WORST 4k PACKAGING 2023 (Nominate 2)

    The Guns of Navarone and Black Hawk Down Dolby Vision re-releases, for being in steelbooks instead of easily-replaceable keep cases.
  5. Douglas Bailey

    HTF AWARDS 2023: Nominations for Worst 4k Release 2023 (Nominate 2)

    The Manchurian Candidate [Kino Lorber] – improperly encoded stereo mix Rosemary's Baby [Paramound] – missing dialogue at 0:52:22 and 1:57:25
  6. Douglas Bailey

    HTF AWARDS 2023: Nominations for Best 4k Release 2023 (Nominate 2)

    The Three Musketeers (The Queen's Diamonds) [StudioCanal] The Four Musketeers (The Revenge of Milady) [StudioCanal]
  7. Douglas Bailey

    HTF AWARDS 2023: Nominations for Worst Studio 2023 (Nominate 2)

    Disney and Warner Bros for me, too.
  8. Douglas Bailey

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Red Dragon -- in 4k UHD

    I enjoy the Fiennes/Watson/Hoffman parts of the film, and think they're worthy to stand alongside their equivalents from Manhunter. But I agree that Norton is miscast, and for me, Hopkins' performance finally goes over the ham line which he'd tiptoed right up to in Silence of the Lambs and...
  9. Douglas Bailey

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Mildred Pierce -- in 4k UHD

    Is this worth an upgrade for those of us who'd already bought Criterion's Blu-ray edition?
  10. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release Criterion Press Release: Mildred Pierce (1945) (4k UHD Combo)

    I'm in the same boat on both points. Will wait for reviews before putting this on my Criterion-4K-upgrade list.
  11. Douglas Bailey

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ 2001: a space odyssey -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    I saw this presentation, too, and it was fantastic. The Star Gate sequence was so intense for me that I got a nosebleed. :)
  12. Douglas Bailey

    R.I.P Robbie Coltrane

    As much as I've enjoyed his Falstaff and other roles, to me, he'll always be Fitz from Cracker first and foremost. That series is both amazing and incredibly tough going, and Coltrane's bigger-and-more-irritating-than-life central performance anchors it. RIP, Mr Coltrane!
  13. Douglas Bailey

    CRITERION.COM FLASH SALE Starting OCTOBER 11, 2022 starting Noon ET for 24 HRS

    I ordered Le Corbeau, Babette's Feast, and Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman on Blu-ray, and then got a $50 coupon, so went back to the storefront and ordered I Married a Witch, Kameradschaft, and Police Story/Police Story 2. A goodly and varied haul!
  14. Douglas Bailey

    Pre-Order Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD Collection (4K UHD) Available for Preorder

    I'd love a 4K UHD release of La Cité des Enfants Perdus, a long-time favourite of mine, but I'm not interested in the opportunity to pay for the 10 other films into the bargain. I'll live with my Blu-ray edition until/unless Sony releases a standalone 4K UHD version.
  15. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release Lionsgate Press Release: The Limey (4k UHD Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook)

    Glad to see this great film finally getting a US release, even if it is a in a steelbook (a case format that I don't care for).
  16. Douglas Bailey

    Songs with the word "cat" in its title

    "Cat Ballou" - Nat King Cole
  17. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release SPHE Press Release: Bram Stoker's Dracula: 30th Anniversary (4k UHD SteelBook)

    As ever, I'm torn. I have a real love/hate relationship with this film. And the things I can't abide in it include Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and the entire revisionist long-lost-dead-love plot. Which is a pretty significant list of objections, honestly, so the film is always...
  18. Douglas Bailey

    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Heat -- in 4k UHD

    I still prefer the theatrical cut (as is often the case when Mann recuts his films). Just as with The Last of the Mohicans, I'd buy a Blade Runner-style 4K UHD set with both cuts, but not this one that includes only the revisionist cut.
  19. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release BVHE Press Release: Heat (1995) (4k UHD Combo)

    Doesn't include the original cut? I'll pass…
  20. Douglas Bailey

    Columbia Classics Vol 3 Suggestions

    Personally, I'd vote for Lawrence of Arabia again, since I missed getting it in Volume 1 and it still hasn't been released on its own.
  21. Douglas Bailey

    Pre-Order The Apartment (1960) (4k UHD Combo) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    I'm excited, but given that it's Kino Lorber I will wait for reviews rather than pre-ordering. Fingers crossed for this being one of their good releases.
  22. Douglas Bailey

    UHD Review Mad Max Anthology UHD Review

    The third film (which I still think of as Slightly Cheesed-Off Max Beyond Thunderdome thanks to Barry Norman) is my least favourite of the four, too, but de gustibus non est disputandem; I wouldn't begrudge anyone else their liking of it.
  23. Douglas Bailey

    4k Wish List 2022

    Lawrence of Arabia, plus the works of Kubrick, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Wilder, and Fincher that aren't already available on 4K UHD. (And no, I'm not holding my breath…)
  24. Douglas Bailey

    Pre-Order Song of the Thin Man (Warner Archive Collection) (1947) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    I think Song is the weakest of the Thin Man films, but I'll still pick it up just to have that much more time spent with Nick and Nora. Glad WAC made it all the way through the series!
  25. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release BVHE Press Release: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (4k UHD)

    What are the odds it'll be the unaltered theatrical version? Pretty low, I'm sure.
  26. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release PHE Press Release: Crocodile Dundee Trilogy (Blu-ray)

    Since there's no mention of remastering or improvement, I will probably wait for this to come out and drive down prices for the existing Blu-ray set with the first two films. At least that way I'll only get one unwanted film. I would happily buy a single-film release of Crocodile Dundee that...
  27. Douglas Bailey

    Press Release SPHE Press Release: Columbia Classics Ultra 4K HD Collection Volume 2

    Hunh. I passed on the first box because it had two films that didn't interest me (Gandhi, A League of Their Own) and one (Jerry Maguire) that I have no interest in ever seeing again. This one has five films that I love and one (Oliver!) that I've never seen but don't object to picking up. I...
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