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Well I suppose I'll have to see it to believe it, but that that would be very welcome. They've been having kind of a rough time financially of late which may make them more open to potential revenue sources they've been quite happy to ignore for too long.

What do we know about this so far? Will they be licensing to boutique labels? I had been prioritizing old Fox blurays from before the acquisition on the assumption that rereleases and remasters were not especially likely.

Someone uploaded that old field sequential bootleg to youtube a few years back and so I was finally able to watch it in 3D. It's not going to look as good as a full WB or 3-DFA restoration, but on my smaller bedroom 3dtv it was at least watchable. There is also a more recent version with some...

Well there's multiple reasons to see such a proposed merger/acquisition as not such a great thing. Expressing concern for one aspect of this need not imply disregard for others.

My concern is for unreleased deep catalog titles. WB already has such a vast catalog of films that at the current rate they'll simply never get through remastering them all. It'll take decades. Add the Paramount library of titles to that, and some are just never going to make it.

That's a different situation, and not the case on The Fastest Gun Alive. The soundtrack was only ever optical, either mono or Perspecta. There never was a true stereo version. In such a case, I would've certainly appreciated the Perspecta option on the blu-ray. Do others feel differently?

Not enough! In terms of physical releases: This Island Earth (Shout! Factory Region A, Medium Rare Region B) The Man Who Knew Too Much, UHD only The Barefoot Contessa (Twilight Time only, OOP) - Not included on Masters of Cinema release Kurasowa films: The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo from...

The announcement mentions a remaster by Arrow at 2k, but they don't mention the scan resolution. It would be standard practice to perform all scans of OCN or best surviving archival elements at 4k. If you look in the Kino thread for example, many of their recently announced Paramount titles...

I would assume Paramount scanned the OCN at 4k.

The release mentions nothing of the scan resolution. It is the remaster by Arrow that has been finished at 2k.

I wonder how many more chances there will be. Maybe there'll be some 75th anniversary screening. Great distances might have to be traveled. For a long time I was hoping Kino could somehow put together a deal with Batjac and Paramount for the title, but I don't see any cause for optimism. I...

I found Human Desire an unconventional, more interesting film. Perhaps The Big Heat has been so influential over the years, such that when I came to it I'd already seen enough echos of it, that I had a pretty good idea where they were going with it. Human Desire is one of my favourite noirs...

I don't consider this a step below The Big Heat, I like it better than that film. I was especially struck by the performance of Gloria Grahame. It should be noted that while this may be the US blu-ray debut, it was previously released as part of Eureka's Masters of Cinema series a few years ago.

That sounds wild! I had all kinds of theories about this, but I never would have guessed. Communism vs Christianity against a colourful French backdrop “the fast-moving action involves the couple in mystery, arson, and murder " What an unexpected Cold War curiosity. I'd love to see it.

... maybe they can get something together for the 75th. I don't suppose anything is likely to happen unless there are internal changes at Sony and whatever scuppered Kino's deal with them is sorted out. Which would be very welcome. The advertising here doesn't make a big deal of it, but Lee...

The last film I saw theatrically with an intermission was the 70mm Hateful 8. A superbly placed intermission. I thoroughly enjoyed Killers of the Flower Moon. It's a brilliant and evocative film from a master who has not lost his touch. The underlying conflict unfolds very believably and is...

I love this film, I have Kino's previous release, but went ahead for the double-dip. It ticks all the right boxes for me.

I think in the early days of colorization, there may have been the concern that the original B&W versions of those films would disappear from circulation. There was the idea that younger people would change the channel if B&W content came on. I wasn't expressing the sentiment you attribute...

It's remarkable for what it is, but definitely not as good as true native Golden Age 3-D. So long as the original film remains available in it's unaltered form, it's harmless, and fun for some, especially in this time where there are just a handful of 3-D releases per year. I definitely...

If they don't have such files for The Iron Giant, a WB Animation production, I can't imagine they would for Turner Animation's Cats Don't Dance. Unlike Disney, who have a more consistent pipeline and a series of features to preserve, other studios have more of a spotty series of animated...

It says this has been mastered from the camera negative, however this wasn't photographed under a rostrum camera in the traditional way with physical cels and painted backgrounds. The artwork would've been scanned in and computer coloured, as Disney and Amblimation had been doing since early...

I'm still waiting for them to digitally remaster their remaining vintage 3-D titles. The ones they put out were among my favourite Twilight Time releases. They have not done: The Nebraskan(1953) Fort Ti (1953) Jesse James Vs the Daltons(1954) Drums of Tahiti (1954) 2D only: The Stranger Wore...

That's a really nice slipcase, but I already have the movie and it never did much for me.

Unpersuasive. I frequent a small boutique shop in a local arthouse cinema, and I regularly hear the questions. Someone asks about a title, and if they only have the blu- ray, many simply won't buy it because they can't play it. A lot of people simply never bought blu-ray players, were...

Warner's last Golden Age 3-D release was Kiss Me Kate, back in 2015. Look how many titles 3-D Film Archive have put out since then. I've been checking ever since then, wondering what would be next from WB, hoping one of the titles on the above list would be announced. It's been a fruitless 8...

Work in Progress mockup replacing colour scans of 1953 comicbook covers seen in Robot Monster title card

If only that were true of every 4K TV.

Good choice. What is amazing is that the UHD format simply lacks the capability to show the film as Scorsese intended. It can't do what 3D-Bluray can. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where the industry had returned to the 4:3 aspect ratio. Would cinephiles consider 4k and HDR enough of an...

The complete film is posted on youtube. Quality could be better. I like to read some of the translated comments There's more information about May Night or the Drowned Woman here, including a low-res, but very effective side by side clip...

According to Nicolai Mayarov's list, Mysterious Monk has been converted to DCP, but unrestored. If I were to guess what is meant by that, perhaps the DCP was created from scans of 35mm reduction print rather than the large format camera negatives or best surviving elements. A number of the...