2009 film wishlist (1 Viewer)

[CineKarine]

Another vote for a second Esther Williams set!

 

[Daniel BARBIEUX]

Another vote too for a second Esther Williams set as long as it includes a remastered version of "Milllion Dollar Mermaid". I hope Fox will also release a second Betty Grable set. Also a new "Classic musicals from the Dream Factory" (vol. 4) including "Lovely to look at" and "Yolanda & the thief". Fox "The best things in life are free" and finally the Show Boat box set ! And yes indeed, I love the musicals

 

[Kevin Martinez]

Duuhhh.. AnD I 4 want one of them Esther Williams boxxsetss cuz she wuz sooooooo talented, ok? I wood reelly leik one of them Eshter Williams box sets!

In all seriousness, I just want to see a Betty Boop set. You can keep your goddamn Esther Williams

 

[Thomas T]

Regarding the Esther Williams vs. Betty The Boop battle royale ..... don't mind us, Kevin. Some of us prefer a real blood and flesh woman over a drawn cartoon. But whatever floats your boat!

 

[ReggieW]

I would like to see the Jean Harlow set we've been hearing about for FOUR YEARS now. There is no excuse, since Harlow does have fans - lots of them. She draws just as much traffic at fansites and celebrity boards as Davis, Crawford, Garbo, etc. She has more youtube tributes than just about any other star mentioned in this thread.

The absence of a boxset from Warner on her continues to puzzle me.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Sony:
The Inner Circle (1991) [Starring Tom Hulce, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky]
Animation collections of the UPA and 1930s Charles Mintz shorts [most are already restored]

Fox:
Just Imagine (1930) [Starring El Brendel]
Holy Matrimony (1943) [Starring Monty Wooley and Gracie Fields]
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)

MGM:
Yellow Submarine (either repress of OOP '99 DVD or new edition)

Warner:
Greed (1924) [Both cuts, hopefully with good supplements]
The Big Parade (1925) [Same]
Tell It to the Marines (1926) [Lon Chaney]
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) [Lon Chaney]
The Unholy Three (1925/1930) [Lon Chaney]
The Crowd (1928)
Maybe collections of lesser known silents like The Boob and The Fire Brigade.
Restored Tex Avery cartoons

Paramount:
Wings (1927)
The Covered Wagon (1923)
The Last Command (1928) [Might be licensed to Criterion]
Docks of New York (1928) [Same]
Underground (1927) [Same]
The Wedding March (1928) [Same]
W.C. Fields silents (Running Wild, So's Your Old Man, and The Old Army Game)

Universal:
Remaining W.C. Fields features

Miscelleny:

Betty Boop (Paramount/Lionsgate/Republic)
Laurel & Hardy (RHI/Genius)
Hollywood (the Kevin Brownlow miniseries - A&E?)
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (A&E?)
Dave Allen comedy specials (BBC Video?)
A Christmas Carol (1971, Richard Williams - No idea who has R1 rights)
Jim Henson experimental films
Whatever ruffles Kevin Martinez's feathers

 

[Jim_K]

UNIVERSAL

• A Classic Paramount Horror set including - Island of Lost Souls, The Uninvited, Murders in the Zoo
• Continue your Film Noir line for the love of God! - The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, Ministry of Fear, The Dark Mirror, Secret Beyond the Door, Woman on the Run

WARNER

• Hollywood Legends of Horror Collection Volume #2 – Kongo, West of Zanzibar, The Beast with 5 Fingers, The Mad Genius, Svengali, The Walking Dead, The Unholy Three (1925/1930)
• Film Noir set Volume #5 – Desperate, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, The Window, The Mask of Dimitrios, Rogue Cop, Stranger on the Third Floor, The Threat, The Verdict, Cry Terror!, Conflict, Ride the Pink Horse, Armored Car Robbery
• The Sea Wolf
• Dark of the Sun

SONY

• Toho Sci-fi Collection - Mothra, H-man, Battle in Outer Space(Confirmed)
• Columbia Film Noir Collection Volume #1 – Human Desire, My Name is Julia Ross, Scandal Sheet, Framed, The Dark Past, The Lineup, Tight Spot, 711 Ocean Drive, 5 Against the House

FOX

• More Film Noir - Cry of the City

PARAMOUNT

• Dr Terror’s House of Horrors - License to Legend ala The Skull
• Noir – The File on Thelma Jordan, Union Station
• The African Queen

MGM

• Resurrect the Midnite Movie line! - Night of the Eagle, Hands of the Ripper, Twins of Evil, Vampire Circus, Quatermass Xperiment, Blood on Satans Claw
• MGM/UA Noirs Wave #2 - Witness to Murder, 99 River Street, He Ran all the Way, Captive City

BLUE UNDERGROUND or ANCHOR BAY

• Spaghetti Western Collection Vol #2 - The Big Gundown, The Mercenary, Death Rides a Horse, Face to Face

CRITERION or Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters

• More classic Hideo Gosha Samurai Cinema! Hitokiri and Three Outlaw Samurai

Classic Media or Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters

• More Toho Sci-fi! – Gorath, The Human Vapor, Destroy All Monsters (Un-cut, OSL, Subbed and anamorphic), King Kong vs. Godzilla (ditto)

 

[CineKarine]

All of these I would buy in a wink - I can never have enough musicals

They are so much a part of the thread of my life.

 

[Alan Tully]

Warner; "The Big Sky" A big Howard Hawks 50's western. I can't believe it hasn't been released yet!

 

[John Hodson]

Jeff unless I've missed something, you aren't aware that both Eastwood titles have been released in excellent OAR anamorphic transfers in '07s 'Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection' , 'Rooster Cogburn' is similarly re-done in the 'John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection' from Universal and 'WarGames' was nicely transferred in last year's 25th Anniversary reissue.

 

[Jeff Willis]

John,

Thanks for the info! I was trying to locate individual releases (not in boxed sets) of these films but I'll look into the box sets. I figured I might be double-dipping on some films that I wasn't planning on doing with box sets but it's definitely good info.

- Jeff W.

 

[Jefty]

I could probably type for hours, if I let myself, but I'll try to restrict myself to a few items per studio:

Warners:

Yolanda and the Thief

Two Girls and a Sailor

The Firefly (a real gem!)

ALL unreleased Eleanor Powell films

the entire Andy Hardy series

Juarez

The Last Flight

Daybreak (1931)

Till the End of Time

Four Daughters/Daughters Courageous/Four Wives/Four Mothers--yes! a Lane Sisters set!

Film Noir vol 5--ideally with Three Strangers/They Won't Believe Me/The Unsuspected/The Fallen Sparrow/The Locket/The Mask of Dimitrios/Cornered/High Wall/Confidential Agent (not a true noir, but I love it, and the cateogry has been stretched before!)/A Woman's Secret (ditto)

Esther Williams Vol 2 (especially Duchess of Idaho)

Jean Harlow set--Red Dust/Bombshell/Hold Your Man/Reckless/Beast of the City/Suzy

a Borzage set! (Three Comrades/The Mortal Storm/The Shining Hour/Smilin' Through/Green Light/Mannequin)

Columbia/Sony

Capra vol. 2 (emphasis upon the Stanwycks)

Ten Cents a Dance (1931)

Johnny O'Clock

Man's Castle

a Jean Arthur set (any of her unreleased Columbia films would be welcome!)

a Phil Karlson set--5 Against the House/Tight Spot/Scandal Sheet/ Ladies of the Chorus/+ maybe they could obtain the rights to 99 River Street


Universal

You and Me (1938)

Ministry of Fear

another Borzage set! (Little Man What Now?/Desire/Disputed Passage/His Butler's Sister/non-PD A Farewell To Arms)

Margaret Sullavan movies: Back Street, Appointment For Love, Only Yesterday)

Remember the Night

Claudette Colbert set (Gilded Lily/Maid of Salem/I Met Him in Paris/Three Cornered Moon/Bluebeard's Eight Wife)

Flesh and Fantasy

another Deanna Durbin set (any--as long as it includes Christmas Holiday and 100 Men and a Girl)

all of the Ladd/Lake films

a Siodmak set--Phantom Lady/The Suspect/Strange Affair of Uncle Harry/Time Out of Mind/Christmas Holiday, if there is no Durbin II)

a James Whale set

a John Stahl set

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Fox

Betty Grable vol 2!!!! (Tin Pan Alley/Coney Island/Wabash Avenue/Mother Wore Tights/Springtime in the Rockies/Footlight Serenade)

even more Alice Faye (You Can't Have Everything/Barricade/George White's 1935 Scandals + some proper presentation of her debut in the 1934 edition/Sing Baby Sing/Sally, Irene and Mary)

Tales of Manhattan

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Cry of the City

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Paramount

a William Dieterle set!!!! (Paid in Full/Dark City/September Affair/Rope of Sand/The Accused/The Turning Point)

Others--in some cases I'm a bit confused as to who would release them!!

Wyler's Wuthering Heights and These Three (MGM right?)

Mark Robson's I Want You and Edge of Doom (these were also Sam Goldwyn films)

Borzage's Moonrise

Dieterle's Love Letters

Karlson's 99 River Street

Siodmak's Dark Mirror

okay--I'd better stop! But I don't want to!

 

[Simon Howson]

This was on Australian TV a couple of nights ago, it was great watching de Havilland talk to 'herself' constantly

I'd like to see the following released this year:

A third Tyrone Power set from Fox that includes King of the Khyber Rifles and Untamed.

A fifth Film Noir set from Warner, that features ten films (on 5 discs), including Riffraff, The Locket, and I Died a Thousand Times.

A second Warner Home Video Westerns set, concentrating on some excellent Allied Artists 1950s B-westerns, e.g. Wichita, The First Texan, The Oklahoman, Oregon Passage, and others like Colorado Territory, A Thunder of Drums, The Last Hunt, and The Command.

Fox CinemaScope genre boxed sets, e.g.:

Action / Adventure - The Racers, The Egyptian, The Roots of Heaven, Seven Cities of Gold, On the Threshold of Space, The Way to the Gold

Dramas - Woman's World, Prince of Players, Blue Denim, Bottom of the Bottle, A Hatful of Rain, Goodbye Charlie, Tender is the Night

Crime / Thriller - Violent Saturday, Crack in the Mirror, Night People, 23 Paces to Baker Street, Plunder Road

Westerns - Bandido, From Hell to Texas, Tension at Table Rock, Black Whip, Ride a Violent Mile

 

[CineKarine]

Jefty, I would also buy each and every title and set you mentioned! Borzage and Dieterle sets would make me especially happy : their excellent films need to be available for more people to enjoy.

 

[Bryan^H]

I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but....Housekeeping from Columbia/Sony.

The one title that's preventing me from having all my favorites on dvd:frowning:

 

[walter o]

LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR
LAST SUMMER
DAMNATION ALLEY
A DANDY IN ASPIC
RIVERRUN (never gonna happen)
DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG
RED SKY IN THE MORNING
HAMMERSMITH IS OUT

 

[FrancisP]

Since we're dreamin, I'll throw out a few.

Boys' Night Out
They Only Kill Their Masters
Art of Love
Pink Jungle
Three Ring Circus
Don't Give Up the Ship
House of Dark Shadows
Night of Dark Shadows
Dark Side of the Moon
Futureworld
Master of the World

 

[Jay E]

In order to keep this list more manageable, I am only listing some of my most wanted titles and only from 2 decades, the 1960's and 1970's:

1960's:

7 Women
Adding Machine
All Fall Down
America, America
Bed Sitting Room
Biggest Bundle of Them All
Bye Bye Braverman
Chalk Garden
Chapman Report, The
Child is Waiting, A
Countdown
Crack in the World
Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Don't Make Waves
Downhill Racer
Fixer, The
Fox, The
Freud
Games
Good Neighbor Sam
Group, The
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Hot Millions
Incident, The
Isadora
It's Only Money
Jokers, The
Ladybug, Ladybug
Legend of Lylah Clare
Let it Be
Lonely are the Brave
Luck of Ginger Coffey
Monster of Piedras Blancas
Nothing but the Best
Our Mother's House
Out of It
Pumpkin Eater
Rain People
Soldier in the Rain
Sterile Cuckoo
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here
That Cold Day in the Park
Thousand Clowns, A
Three Into Two Won't Go
Tiger Makes Out, The
Trap, The
Underworld USA
Unearthly Stranger
Up Tight!
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out
Who's Minding the Mint?
Who's Minding the Store?
Young Cassidy
Victors, The
Whisperers, The
Wrong Box, The
You Must be Joking

1970's

11 Harrowhouse
92 in the Shade
Agatha
Brewster McCloud
Busting
Cold Turkey
Come Back Charleston Blue
Conrack
Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Deadhead Miles
Dealing
Deep End
Devils, The
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Dirty Little Billy
Drive He Said
Effect of Gamma Rays…
End of the Road
Figures in a Landscape
Freebie and the Bean
Hireling, The
Husbands
Looking for Mr Goodbar
Mind of Mr Soames, The
Monte Walsh
One is a Lonely Number
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Rabbit Run
Report to the Commissioner
Seduction of Joe Tynan
Slither
Sometimes a Great Notion
Strawberry Statement
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Super Cops, The
Taking Off
Tell Me That You Love me Junie Moon
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
When the Legends Die
WUSA
Your Three Minutes Are Up
Zabriskie Point

 

[Scott D S]

There isn't a whole lot left that I really want, but I do have to mention these four little words:

Spies Like Us (widescreen!)

Also:
-additional volumes of Three Stooges shorts
-Executive Decision (remastered, with extras)
-Annie Hall (16x9)
-Everyone Says I Love You (16x9)
-another Jerry Lewis boxset from Paramount (with Who's Minding the Store? among others)
-a 10th anniversary special edition of Ghostbusters II (II, not 2!)
-Inspector Gadget: The Complete Series (where's Time Life?)
-the delayed 10th anniversary edition of Chasing Amy (I think Kevin Smith has petitioned Criterion to release it on Blu-Ray) Will The “Chasing Amy X” DVD Live On Blu-Ray? | News Askew

-I'd love if Universal revisited the Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection but I doubt those films can look any better

-re-releases of Independence Day, Predator, Speed, Robocop, and Master and Commander on Blu-Ray with all their 2-disc DVD extras carried over

 

[cineMANIAC]

RUNAWAY TRAIN SPECIAL EDITION
ICEMAN WIDESCREEN SPECIAL EDITION
FRIGHT NIGHT PART II WIDESCREEN SE
TERRORVISION
DEATH BECOMES HER WIDESCREEN SE
THE TRAIN SE
SCANNERS SE
MOTEL HELL SE
THE ROAD WARRIOR SE
THE NEVERENDING STORY SE
COMA SE
THE CHANGELING SE
THE WONDER YEARS