Search results

Ryan’s Daughter was never released on HD DVD. It has been released in HD digitally. My guess is that it hasn’t made it to blu-ray (aside from the Spanish bootleg) because that existing HD master is no longer considered up to snuff. I think it will see a release eventually but where it is in the...

More corporate consolidation is never good for consumers.

I’m pretty sure the Warner title being referenced is The Exorcist.

But will Warner want to celebrate MGM, given that MGM (sort of) still exists as a separate entity?

it looks great, but it doesn’t look anything like the 35mm presentation I saw a couple of years ago. And I’m sure it cost a fortune to remaster.

I'm just surprised there wasn't a department charged with looking out for things like that. Though I suppose that prior to the rise of home video in the 80s, there didn't seem to be much value in older films, aside from a handful of huge successes.

How does a major studio film lapse into public domain?

Some of us both buy discs and stream regularly. I buy discs I know I want to have, but unfortunately, I can't afford to drop $30 every time I want to watch something I'm interested in.

I don't know that I'd call something over 40 years old 'contemporary.' I doubt that anyone considered the original King Kong contemporary in 1977, when The Late Show was released.

Apparently, the ones Shout Factory released didn't sell very well.

That's too early. Tape based post-production didn't start until the mid-80s.

Maybe they will, then. I'm surprised they went to the trouble.

At best, the old clips would have come from an interneg, so at least two generations removed from the camera original. I can't imagine they'd replace the old clips with ones taken from new transfers - it would be too time consuming and expensive for a title that's not going to sell a lot of...

It was made in 1985 for a theatrical release, so all of the clips would have been sourced from 35mm, not video.

America America is available in HD on iTunes, from Warner.

Are you referring to the Gable Mutiny? That one is on blu-ray. For that matter, so are the Brando and Mel Gibson versions.

But that was never about promoting nostalgia or "the classics", that was about cheap programming. Somewhere along the line someone invented the infomercial and it all went bye-bye.

The Night Shift DVD has both 4:3 and 16:9 versions.