Sorry that there was no update last week--I'm in the process of moving from Seattle to Portland, OR, so I hope to update things by August 25th--sooner if possible. Here are some dates to tide you over: Revised Release Dates 22-Aug-06Watkins, Peter1965The War Game / CullodenProject X/New...
7-85604-20022-2 The Film Noir of Anthony Mann: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked By Night 2-disc set This is an excellent, barebones release, especially since all three films were made for small production companies and distributed by Eagle-Lion Films rather than one of the major studios.
July 28th Update has been posted. 29 new listings 4 revised release dates Also, based upon suggestions from several readers, I have reformatted List A so it more closely resembles the list as Donald Brown used to maintain it (e.g., Region 1 releases are no longer listed separately from...
July 20th update is complete. 50 (count 'em) new listings: 19-Jul-06 Otelo / Othello(Welles, Orson/1952/Manga Films/R2 PAL Spain) 07-Aug-06 Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (Clarke, Alan/1985/Network/R2 PAL UK) 26-Aug-06 Dickens Before Sound (Various/NA/bfi/R2 PAL UK)...
Criterion has only hinted that it's coming this fall. Since the September releases are set, we're looking at either October or November for Véronique. Expect Criterion to announce their October lineup within the next couple of weeks
Update 14 July: Since this was another light week for new DVD announcements (at least the ones I care about), I will only update the main list this week. Here are the 19 new releases added this week: 02-Aug-06TwentyNine Palms (Bruno Dumont/1999/MRA/R4 PAL Australia) 08-Aug-06Brick...
The Good News: Two Women/La Ciociara has been released in a beatifully remastered DVD in Italy (you can see the picture quality compared with one of the execrable Public Domain US releases here). The Bad News: This beautiful Italian DVD has no English subtitles. The film has also been...
Greetings. July 7th updates are posted. 26 new listings 3 revised release dates Again, very little on the R1 front (except maybe a third Svankmajer shorts collection and the Aussie western, The Proposition). There is some more good upcoming stuff Down Under: Branagh's Henry V...
Top 5 Actors:Buster Keaton (38) [16 features + 22 shorts]Harold Lloyd (28) [16 features + 12 shorts]James Stewart & Jean-Pierre Léaud (14)Cary Grant (11)
Should I count 25 film cameos by Alfred Hitchcock? (was that acting?) Top 5 Actresses:Mildred Davis (14) [Davis was the love interest in...
Lists have been updated as of July 1st. 30 new listings. Not much of note this week in Region 1 but, over in the UK, three new Buñuel releases are in the works: The Great Madcap / El Gran Calavera (1949) [? / R2 PAL UK] 23-Oct-2006 Ascent To Heaven (Mexican Bus Ride) / Subida al cielo...
You're joking, right? Footnotes in the subtitles? Fine if you're reading an annotated screenplay in book form, but impossible at 24 frames per second. ;)
June 23 updates are now complete: 36 new listings 4 updated release dates Some interesting additions to check out: 4 great films by Max Ophüls in the UK Antonioni's The Red Desert in Australia The Béla Tarr holy grail, Sátántangó from Facets (also expected from Artificial Eye in the...
I agree. Universal's marketing strategy leaves me scratching my head (the same one I need a hole in as much as we need another DVD release of Scarface [1983]). In case anyone's keeping count... Number of Universal stand-alone releases of Scarface: Brian De Palma (1983): 4 / Howard Hawks...
On September 18th, 2006 Second Sight Films Ltd in the UK is releasing four of Max Ophüls' films on DVD under the rubric The Max Ophüls Collection. It appears they are only available separately (i.e., no box set), at a retail price of £19.99 each. Links are to the listings at Play.com. Letter...
I know we've had this discussion in the other thread, Jon, but I responded to your post because Seven Samurai has a large, diverse fan base (it is one of the few 4:3 films that has a large following among viewers under 30). I doubt many of those fans had much interest in that prior thread (or...
As for the windowboxing: I expect Criterion's remastered Seven Samurai to blow away the original release, and to equal or better any existing DVD release of the film worldwide. If Criterion can maintain its high standards for video quality (while reducing overscan), why does the windowboxing...
The best explanation is probably this one: World's Easiest Explanation of Anamorphic 16:9 Widescreen Enhancement in DVDs The way I understand it, the film image (no matter the aspect ratio of the film) is stored in the DVD image standard of 4:3 (also known as 1.33:1). With widescreen films...
June 16th Updates have been posted. 29 new entries 5 Revised release dates. Grey Gardens 2-disc SE, which I listed last week as an August 22nd release (based on info at Movies Unlimited), has been changed back to TBA since that date now seems unlikely and hasn't been confirmed by...
Overview of career from Senses of Cinema Oshima is one of the foremost provocateurs of Japanese cinema. His most famous (infamous?) film is probably In the Realm of the Senses / Ai no corrida (1976). EDIT: Brook beat me to the punch...
Some are questioning the specs for Playtime since they appear identical to the OOP edition, while the price has increased from $29.95 to $39.95, and most were expecting a loaded special edition. Guess we'll have to wait for Criterion to post the official specs on the website.