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Given the weak catalog classics market, it'd be surprising to see many re-dos for films that have had releases already owned by most of the consumers who care to have them. The best hope might be Criterion, which has done some re-dos, since Warner has licensed some films to them. I wonder how...

The Amazon version of The Ladykillers (1955, Ealing Studios, StudioCanal Collection) apparently deletes all of the special features (commentary, interviews, etc) listed on the back of the box and in various reviews. It's a bare-bones, film-only copy. I'm angry and disappointed. One hand: It's a...

If Paramount can't release Roman Holiday once, very unlikely they'll release Hatari twice.

No matter what I do, I get an undiscounted total. Has the deal expired? Is there a promotion code or magic trick?

She's in Asphalt Jungle, new on Criterion ...

Since Warners was gracious enough to send you a second disk, an option is to return the favor by destroying the first disk. Giving it away is friendly to the recipient but reduces sales, which isn't gracious to Warners.

The best surviving elements for older films often contain sections from lower-quality elements used to replace damage. Even if the original camera negative survives, parts of it might have been scratched, torn, or lost, e.g., when making prints. The studio would replace lost or damaged parts...

Timely doesn't matter too much for 90-year-old films. My local Costco has, in addition to The Kid and The Graduate: - Bicycle Thieves - Only Angles Have Wings - In a Lonely Place - The Manchurian Candidate - Nashville - The Player Chances are, many of us can find something worth having in...

Yes. It's a fallacy to project the author's biography into his characters (or vice versa). It's hard not to wonder if Higgins is to some extent a proxy for Shaw, however. They both make a living from words. Shaw married at 40. Apparently the marriage was genuinely affectionate. It's speculated...

She's got options. Higgin's classy, upscale mom, who knows about her son's bet, would put her up long enough for a proper engagement to Freddy. Also her father now has an income equivalent to about $500,000/year. He'd put her up for a while.

Hate the ending. Structurally, the film is plotted like boy-meets-girl rom-com. Emotionally, the audience wants it to end conventionally, with Higgins and Eliza being a couple. The awkwardness comes from it being set up as a love story and not ending like one. Shaw said that, after Pygmalion...

IIRC, the lack of copyright for video transfers is a judicial interpretation of the present law. Is there any hope to get Congress to change the statute to expressly protect transfers? PD properties would remain PD, and anyone with access to elements could transfer and release them. Those...

>If the Blu-ray were to be released without the IDs, which are also important to those who may not be >familiar with the history, the selling price would make the cost too high to release. Yes, same thing with the Chaplin Mutuals. Like most people today, I was unfamiliar with Chaplin, Edna...