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That's clearly what they're indicating from their latest newsletter: I'm very glad they'll be releasing it. I'd been expecting this since I saw it in a theater last year on a Janus Films re-release. The hint also seems to indicate that they'll be releasing other Max Ophuls movies as...

Universal sure didn't wait too long before double-dipping this one. I didn't get the 2-disc release because there were more extras on the HD and Region 2 SD releases, so I figured something like this was coming, but I didn't know it would be that quick!

Chuck and I saw this last night at a preview screening. I've also seen the original 1957 version. I thought this new version was quite good, although not a great movie like the original, which was elevated by its brilliant direction and cinematography. The basic storyline hasn't changed much...

OK, why have I only just now heard of this, from a different thread about the MGM Lean and Hitchcock boxsets that never happened? A few questions: -- That's only five movies, not six. Maybe the "six" is a mistake. -- These are the first non-public-domain R1 releases of these movies...

From DVDActive: Full cover art is also up at the link. That 2-disc cover is...pretty lame.

...some stuff we all wish we could have seen! Two beauty queens making out with each other in public? And the story has an extra amusement factor for me, since the Miss USA girl is from a small town in my home state. Whoo-hoo, Kentucky represent! :D I was a little confused by the...

Criterion's monthly e-newsletter often contains little cartoon hints of upcoming titles. Here's the one for this month, December '06: Notice that they're all seals, and there are...seven of them. The logical guess is that they're going to be releasing a 5-movie Bergman boxset of...

This boxset release is the expected aftermath of the touring film series that 's been playing around the country:

The almost unanimously ecstatic reviews for this movie had my expectations set pretty high for when I saw it earlier today, and I was happy to find that it was definitely worth the hype. As can be expected, Helen Mirren is brilliant, and the rest of the cast is great as well. The interplay...

Figured I'd start a thread for this. ESPN2 shows some games here in the US, and back during my grad school days, I could usually watch them live, but joining the real world put a stop to that. Fortunately, DVR service will do the trick for me now. Plus, I'm getting the Fox Soccer Channel now for...

My car stereo's been acting strangely of late, so I was wondering if anyone around here might have any advice. My car is a little over six years old now, with a built in CD/AM-FM-radio stereo. A few weeks ago, upon returning from out of town, the car wouldn't start in the airport parking lot...

The Queen of New York!

Finally a release date, with hopefully some more details soon. From DVDActive:

I'm excited to see this news, I wasn't even sure who owned the DVD rights: I'm not very familiar at all with HBO's track record on DVDs; is it generally pretty good? The announcement doesn't even say whether it's going to be 16X9 or not (the movie is 1.85:1), which one would assume, but I...

This is a really basic question, but I'm wondering what my options are here. I have a Cox cable HD-DVR, and I'm trying to figure out if I can connect a DVD recorder to it for recording movies. I'm not planning on using this for anything HD, basically just for stuff from Turner Classic Movies. I...

UPDATE: The COMPLETE Joe McDoakes Collection is now available in a 6-disc set through Warner Archives! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I know there are some other fans of this '40s and '50 series of comedy shorts around here on HTF, so I thought it'd be...

I know from various threads in Software that there are some serious fans of Wilder's "Ace in the Hole" out there, so if any of them who don't live in this area (plus those who do, of course) are interested, the National Gallery of Art is having a big Wilder retrospective in April and May, with...

These spoofs of some popular US comic strips are classic!

Thought I'd start up a rumor/speculation thread for this, since Todd Doogan of The Digital Bits has just posted some informed speculation about Angelina Jolie being cast in the movie. Several stories I've seen have attributed both Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez as claiming that "A Dame to...

From DVDTimes: In other Wong Kar-Wai related matters, anybody know anything about an R1 release for Eros? It was distributed by Warner Independent Pictures, so I assume it would be a Warner DVD, but I haven't seen any news yet.

EDIT: Ignore the problems mentioned in this post, there do not appear to be any subtitle problems with this DVD...see post #7. I just got this DVD today, which was released last week. No reviews up yet on DVD-Basen. I saw the movie in a theater earlier this year, and it's very good, so I was...

Figured I'd go ahead and start a thread for this. Criterion's September newsletter says: No more details given yet.

From DVD Times:

Big news around town here in the Washington DC area is the baby panda that was born in the past month at the National Zoo. They just managed to get a few minutes to examine him yesterday. One blog I read points out that when they're born, baby pandas look "bizarre and evil," as demonstrated in...

Thought we might have a new thread for the various coaching/personnel moves. Looks like Kwame Brown is going to the Lakers, in exchange for Caron Butler and Chucky Atkins. Not sure how much Phil Jackson will be able to get out of him, I wouldn't count on any sudden improvement. Dr. Jack is...

The Michael Jordan of competitive hot dog eating won his fifth straight title yesterday, to nobody's surprise. 49 hot dogs in 12 minutes, a little short of his previous record of 53 1/2 from last year. But look who finished second: Gotta root for someone who lives in the same city as...

DVDAnswers has the announcement. For extras, the only info given for now is "a making of featurette" and "some cast and crew interviews." I think the German R2 DVD has a longer doc and lots of interviews, but none of them have English subs. Corrections welcome on that info.

So sayeth the Digital Bits: Rodriguez has already talked about including some deleted scenes in various interviews. It'd be annoying if they didn't just get it right by releasing the SE the first time around, but I guess we'll see.

In Germany. Via the Tony Kornheiser show:

Just want to see if I understand what a possible switch to a 1080i-upconverting DVD player might do for 4X3 material. I have a Mitsubishi WS48313 TV. With the HD cable box I have for watching TV, in 1080i, standard-def channels are pillair-boxed with gray bars on both sides. But with DVDs in...