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Seems to me like there are some interesting titles here, most of which I haven't seen before. As always, I enjoyed listening to the podcast.

I have the blu-ray from ten years ago, but this new restoration of East of Eden is really impressive. What a great adaptation of the last quarter or so of this huge novel by John Steinbeck. Great performances all around, including by James Dean, Raymond Massey, Jo van Fleet, Julie Harris, and...

It's good to hear that the CEO really supports the work to restore older movies. Nice also to get a little glimpse into the meetings of The Film Foundation. I've been going through and pulling out a few my old blu-rays, titles like East of Eden, and putting them in my get-rid-of pile, in...

Wow, this is fascinating stuff. Thanks. Really takes you back to the decades involved. Sometimes they used to call the good use of publicity/advertising/word of mouth by the theater employees "exploitation." Warner and the other studios had this continual flow of movies, thirty to fifty films...

I'm surprised that The Maltese Falcon 4K didn't go to Warner Archive. It's a bit mysterious to me how titles end up on one side or the other. Makes sense that the Casablanca 4K went to WHV, but The Maltese Falcon doesn't have that kind of reputation with the more general public imho. I would...

If they release about six or so titles a month starting in May, that should mean that we'll have somewhere around 50 more titles to look forward to for the rest of 2023, and then another 70+ or so in 2024. If they really get 120 or so movies out by the end of next year, there should be a lot of...

Politician Huey Long was a demagogue in the 1920s and 1930s who amassed power by almost any means, and served as both governor and Senator for Louisiana. Huey Long planned to challenge FDR in the 1936 election, but was assassinated in September of 1935, apparently by a member of one of the many...

Now watching on HBOmax the insightful introduction by Martin Scorsese for Land of the Pharaohs, who admits that the movie has serious flaws. Next I'll watch the movie for the very first time. PS Watching the movie now. As Scorsese says, the score by Dimitri Tiomkin is magnificent. PPS Like The...

As most of you probably already know, movie zyng is having a sale on many Warner Archive titles. These are the titles I picked up today that I've never seen before: Million Dollar Mermaid, Moonfleet, Ride the High Country, and Summer Stock. The two titles I've already seen that I got are Night...

I'm having trouble finding this HBO miniseries. I know there was a wonderful miniseries of Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pierce, and Evan Rachel Wood, but I'm not seeing Flamingo Road. What year was it made?

The good news, if I heard it right, is that they are hoping to have almost fifty releases in 2023. Did I hear that, or was I dreaming?

Although some scenes in the current Quo Vadis blu-ray look very good, at other times there are slight registration issues, as well as occasional flecks and other imperfections. If the original 3-strip negatives survive, maybe this could even be considered for a 4k UHD release?

The HD master for 1951's Quo Vadis was released at the dawn of the blu-ray era, and from my pov would benefit from remastering if the original 3-strip Technicolor negatives still exist. Every time I watch Quo Vadis I wistfully wish that they'd stuck with the original casting of Gregory Peck and...

A war movie I'd like to see someday from Warner Archive is Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. This hit from 1944, closely following the book written by one of the participants in the Doolittle raid, won an Oscar for best special effects, and was nominated for best cinematography. Doolittle and others...

As we've know, 2023 is the 100th anniversary of Warner Bros., and apparently Warner Archive has a blockbuster year in store for us when it comes to blu-ray releases. But while we wait, what Warner Archive blu-rays from the past are still on your wish list? And which Warner Archive blu-rays that...

I'd be interested to read about this too. As far as I know, the Ultra Resolution process for recombining 3-strip Technicolor negatives is a proprietary thing owned by Warner. I imagine Warner would lend their expertise and tools at an affordable price to another company as a professional...

This is a great list! Hope we get to see as many as possible of these sooner rather than later. Ryan's Daughter would be a good candidate at some point for a 4k release. And The Searchers, as a VistaVision production, might possibly get a 4k release someday as well. PS I know that Warner...

I wonder how many 3-strip Technicolor movies, for which the original camera negatives survive, are in the Warner Archive vaults but haven't yet gotten a blu-ray release? I've been stunned by the 3-strip Technicolor Warner Archive releases that use what they used to call their Ultra Resolution...

Glad to see there are so many fans of Random Harvest. My guess is that we'll get this one in the next year or two.

Yes, of course. I need to drink my morning coffee lol!

Fair enough. I'd take newly mastered versions of any of these in regular blu-ray as well. The Warner Archive release of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex looked almost as good as a 4k release.

Don't know about profit, but the 1996 Hamlet is considered by some to be a very good film. It has a 7.8 rating on imdb and a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I think it stands with Olivier's 1948 Hamlet, but the 1996 is special in part because it was filmed in 70mm. The 1996 Hamlet also got some...

If Warner Archive starts making 4k discs, here are a few movies that seem worthy of 4K that I'd certainly buy.... The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938, 3-strip Technicolor Probably any other 3-strip Technicolor movie they chose for which the original negative survives Mutiny on the Bounty, 1962...

I keep telling myself that I need to watch my previously unwatched blu-rays before getting new ones, and although I have been doing that recently, there are still several that need their first spin. But that didn't stop me from getting four in this sale. Item : 36 Hours [Warner] Item...

Perhaps everyone here already knows of this visual and chronological list of apparently all of the Warner Archive blu-ray titles, but just in case.... https://letterboxd.com/cinemaviscera/list/warner-archive-blu-ray-releases/ Looking it over, there are still several titles on my wish list.

Even way back in the 1970s I enjoyed Barbara Stanwyck in various roles. Since I read the novel The Thorn Birds as a teenager, after my Mom was finished with it, I also enjoyed her last role in The Thorn Birds miniseries that came out in the early 1980s. Looking it up it seems like Warner owns...

If Warner Archive ever does a 4K disc then Ryan's Daughter, which was of course filmed in 70mm, might be a good candidate. But just a regular blu-ray would be most welcome too. I haven't seen this movie since I got rid of my 2-tape VHS set 20+ years ago, and that VHS tape from the Columbia video...

I haven't seen this 1935 version, but it sounds promising.

I haven't seen this Shakespeare adaptation from 1935, but it sounds interesting.

I haven't ever seen it, but it sounds good.