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St. Louis Blues has been a hard film to see for a long time. It never had a DVD release in the USA. I'd love to see it on blu-ray. Nelson Riddle is not credited, as I recall, but he is responsible for original music cues and for orchestrating the source music in the film. Any music by Riddle...

After six years of stonewalling the issue a polite request isn't going to get you anymore of a response than a polite demand. See previous posts.

Not so. Again, I have conceded that my disgust with Warner Brothers is beginning to show. Some of us knew what was wrong the minute we read Ned Price's responses on digitalbits and associated the oversaturation of yellow in The Searchers with the oversaturation of yellow in other films he...

If you want to see how THE SEARCHERS should look in color, and just how far wrong the 2006 transfer is, compare it (and SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON for that matter) to this 1949 documentary shot in Monument Valley: No willful over-saturation of yellow, no surreptitious colorizing, no subtraction...

My posts regarding The Searchers are straightforward, blunt, correct, honest and in a constructive spirit, although after six years of waiting for Warner Brothers to do something about the transfer, I concede my disgust with them is beginning to show. Their handling of The Searchers has not...

Ned Price's chronic habit of oversaturing films with yellow, evidenced in a number of disparate DVD and blu-ray releases, calls his explanation of The Searchers 2006 transfer into question. I can't fully accept his explanation. Additionally, there is no statement or acknowledgement of any kind...

Do you have insider information, or are you indulging in wishful thinking? I remind you that the so-called restoration of The Searchers is now SIX YEARS old going on SEVEN YEARS old. Since 2006, Warner Brothers has flooded the market with a corrupted disc that they mis-represent as an accurate...

Yes indeed, do post more often, Jack. Everybody loves the Aspect Ratio Thread.

Did the process over-saturate GONE WITH THE WIND with too much yellow? Did the process over-saturate SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON and other early color titles from Warner Brother with too much yellow? Does the process account for the additional color timing that is a matter of personal judgment on...

Quibble about the color? The color looks like shvt. At one point in the film even John Wayne's horse looks yellow. It ain't no little thing. It's an artistic rape, a violation willful and deliberate. Warner Brothers gets away with it because nobody is complaining. Fans should be demanding...

Nicholas Ray's RUN FOR COVER (1955) on Blu-ray from Olive Films May 22, according to the DVD thread. There's nowhere near enough westerns on Blu-ray and the handful of rare titles announced recently is a good start.

Not to sidetrack the thread, but why would Steven Spielberg "generously donate Oscar statuettes back to the Academy"?

II saw Strategic Air Command a number of times on American Movie Classics when that station still observed no commercials and original aspect ratios. I understand the film served as the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove.

Did I say Australia? Oops. I know you live in merrie olde England. Warner Brothers didn't turn the snow yellow when they timed Doctor Zhivago, so you never lost David Lean to begin with. Don't leave us, John. We'd miss you.

Bring it on when it's done. Money From Home at the 3-D Expo gave me a new perspective on Martin and Lewis. No 3-D Blu-ray in sight, but I'm wanting to see more of their films. Artists and Models sounds particularly interesting. I vaguely remember watching Jerry Lewis films on television when I...

I'm confident Hitichcock's VistaVision films will be out soon on Blu-ray. I know they're out on DVD or MOD, but I'd like to see the westerns filmed in VistaVision on Blu-ray most of all: A film I'm curious about is The Search For Bridey Murphy. The book about hypnotic regression...

Some people don't care what a film looks like so long as they have it on Blu-ray. Think, John, think. That's the whole point. After six years, the mistake has not been corrected. The artistic crime has not been rectified. To pretend it doesn't matter is to care nothing about film. You accept...

Bruce Kimmel states the facts of the matter. Ned Price's explanation in that interview does not account for the color-timing nor for his personal history of over-saturating films with yellow. The Searchers is oversaturated with yellow because he put it in there after the fact of restoration...

Loving You is a vastly under-rated film. Photographed by the great Charles Lang. A stylish and well-mounted production. All the craftsmanship one expects from a Hal Wallis production. Love the color and the whole rockabilly aesthetic. It feels like the 1950s. Check out the DVD sometime, it...