DVD wants for 2005 (1 Viewer)

[John Goodwin]

Fox

The Chase (was supposed to have been out in 2004)

Warner

Blade Runner (any version with improved transfer etc)

The Gumball Rally (again,anything would be better than nothing)

Quick Change (rumoured to be out in 2005)

Risky Business (SE to replace the old disc if possible)


Paramount

Black Rain (SE to replace the old disc)


Universal

The Choirboys

I'm not sure who would hold the rights to the next two on my list,maybe you can correct me if i'm wrong.

MGM ?

Convoy


HBO ?

Heaven Help Us


Hope at least some of these come out soon .

 

[ScottCor]

I would be happy if these showed up this year:

Nightwing
Carny
Night of the Comet
High Road to China
The Stalking Moon
Made in Heaven
The Seven Ups
Late for Dinner
All the Marbles
Neighbors
Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow
Quick Change
Trancers 3
The High and the Mighty (which I guess is supposed to be on the way)
The Kansas City Bomber

 

[Michael Elliott]

There's too many to name but here are a few off the top of my head:

MGM

Rest of their Bronson titles.
Any early UA films, including DEAD END (coming)
50's horror in Midnite Movie line
BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA
SEs of The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy

PARAMOUNT

Detective Story
Ace in the Hole
African Queen
We're No Angels
Wings
Their silent DeMille titles
Their sound DeMille titles

FOX

Charlie Chan films
Mr. Moto films
Laurel and Hardy films
Any Ford, Fonda, Tracy they might own

WARNER

Spencer Tracy titles (Signature Collection perhaps)
--San Fran, Murder Man, Edward My Son, Captains Cour., Boys Town/Men of Boys Town, Bad Day at Black Rock)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Mutiny on the Bounty
Mad Love/Beast With Five Fingers DF
Return of the Ape Man/Voodoo Man (if they own)
Mark of the Vampire
Val Lewton titles
Attack of the 50ft. Woman
Buster Keaton Double Feature: What No Beer/Passionate Plummer
More Chaney + other silents

Plus hundreds of others from Warner.

 

[RISUG]

I have one DVD wish : a single high-def DVD format.

 

[soop.spoon]

Since the obvious big-budget and classic titles will be well-covered by many others, I'll post the more obscure "gems" from my wishlist:

Warner:
Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
O Lucky Man
Hammet
Demon Seed

Universal:
Brides Of Dracula
Flash Gordon re-issue

Columbia:
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Warlords Of Atlantis
ALL HAMMER TITLES!!!

Paramount:
The Naked Prey
Robinson Crusoe On Mars

MGM:
I Love You, Alice B Tolkas
200 Motels
Master Of The World
Witchfinder General

Fox:
High Anxiety (c'mon, Fox)
The Lost World
One Million Years B.C. (full version)

Other:
Propero's Books
Attack Of The Mushroom People
Repulsion
more MST3K!!!

 

[Matt Stieg]

WARNER:
Any of their silent films, particularly The Wind, The Crowd, and the 2-hour Greed.

It's Always Fair Weather (we need this one bad, the pan-and-scan VHS is horrendous)

Val Lewton films

more Keaton talkies

James Whale's Show Boat (and any other Whale films they have)

UNIVERSAL:
any of their remaining monster movies plus some Hammer titles.

More W. C. Fields titles, particularly ones that have never been released on video like The Old-Fashioned Way and Mississippi.

Any James Whale films they have in their vaults.

PARAMOUNT:
They've got a ton of great silent films in their vaults besides Wings. Hopefully we'll some day get The Docks of New York, The Last Command, The Wedding March, Running Wild, The Covered Wagon, and others.

FOX:
Bigger Than Life
Steamboat 'Round the Bend
Seventh Heaven (the 1927 movie)
City Girl

OTHER STUDIOS:
Letter from an Unknown Woman

There's a ton of others that I just can't think of right now.

 

[Moises]

The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou)
Red Sorghum (Yimou)
Carmen (Carlos Saura)
The Wizard
Blade Runner: The Massively Huge Edition
Fantastic Four (Corman)

 

[Will_B]

My wish list (includes films and some series):

Blade Runner: The Definitive Collection please
Until the End of the World: Wim Wenders' Directors Cut please
Batman (special edition please)
Aeon Flux: Complete Animated Series please
The Tick: Complete Animated Series please
Get A Life: Box Set of Chris Elliott's cult hit tv show please
Batman Beyond: Season Sets please
Wild Palms: the tv mini series (not twin peaks, this is different)
The Crow: Special Edition. Not the so-called special edition that was released which had had half its extras removed at the last minute, but the actual full fledged special edition.
Lost Highway
Innocent Blood: in widescreen please
Dune: the superlong extended Alan Smithee version of the David Lynch film

I'm sure I've forgotten a few on my "will buy if ever released" list, but those came to mind.

 

[Tim_C]

The Crowd
Raise the Red Lantern...
(see signature for the full list.)

If they'll just release these... I can stop buying DVDs (yeah right.)

 

[Mike Frezon]

Like Paul said earlier: I love these threads, too.

But, c'mon people...let's have a little love for The Sting.

With the announcement of an SE for Chariots of Fire in 2005, The Sting will be the only Best Picture winner of the past 50 years NOT to have an OAR DVD release!

 

[Mark Bendiksen]

C'mon, Universal! How much longer will I have to beg before you finally deliver The Pirates of Penzance?!?!?

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[Patrick McCart]

Warner:

Greed: 2-disc SE (with both the 4 hr. reconstruction with Robert Israel score, plus the theatrical cut with Carl Davis score)

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 3 (if they put one banned or very rare cartoon on the set, that'll make it even more valuable than it already would)

The Lon Chaney Collection Vol. 2 (My picks: Tell It to the Marines, both versions of The Unholy Three, and While the City Sleeps)

Popeye the Sailor, Vol. 1 (2-disc set with 40 cartoons, all from the new Warner restorations. Hopefully, they'd have a good mix of Fleischer and Famous Studios cartoons.)

Paramount:

The Betty Boop Collection, Vol. 1 (Nearly all of the Boops have been fully restored by UCLA, so all they'd need is new HD transfers. This is one cartoon series that should be chronological since the restorations are on the shelf.)

The Quiet Man: Watchable Edition (use the original 3-strip negatives in UCLA's archive to make a DVD that even a blind person could tell is better than the Artisan version)

Paramount Silents wave (they own roughly a dozen silent films from the 1920's, that weren never sold to MCA. I'd like to see the first wave contain Wings, Running Wild [W.C. Fields], The Covered Wagon [James Cruze], and The Last Command [Josef von Sternberg]]

Fox:

Holy Matrimony (Monty Wooley comedy from 1943, that Fox has never released on video)

Universal:

W.C. Fields Vol. 2 (I'd like to see You Can't Cheat An Honest Man, Mississipi, Poppy, The Old Fashioned Way, and maybe even Alice in Wonderland on this set)

The Projected Man (in its original 2.35:1 AR, 16x9)

Gemini Man/Riding with Death (with commentary by the very mellow Ben Murphy and talented songwriter Jim Stafford)


All of these are big wants, except for the last one.

 

[RafaelPires]

Here is my wish list for each studio

Fox:
-In Old Chicago
-Ramona
-Suez
-Rose of Washington Square
-The Rains Came
-Young Mr. Lincoln
-The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
-Jesse James
-Down Argentine Way
-Drums Alomng the Mohawk
-Tin Pan Alley
-Moon Over Miami
-I wake up Screaming
-That Night in Rio
-Blood and Sand
-Son of Fury
-The Gang's All Here (really hoping that the rumour that it is in the works is true)
-The Black Swann
-Hello Frisco, Hello
-State Fair
-Laura
-Heaven Can Wait
-Leave Her to Heaven
-Margie
-The Razor's Edge
-Fallen Angel
-Jane Eyre
-Anna and the King of Siam
-Dolly Sisters
-Three Little Girls in Blue
-Centennial Summer
-Forever Amber
-Sitting Pretty
-Mother Wore Tights
-That Lady in Ermine
-Father was a Fullback
-A Letter to 3 Wives
-Pinky
-Kiss of Death
-Nightmare Alley
-House of Strangers
-Boomerang
-Yellow Sky
-The Gunfighter
-Cheaper by the Dozen (a decent version)
-The Foxes of Harrow
-When my Baby Smiles at Me
-Unfaithfully Yours

Warner
lots of Bette Davis, Gable, Crawford, Tracy, Harlow, Garbo, Flynn
Plus all the Astaire & Rogers musicals
-some Jeanette Mac Donald & Nelson Eddy operettas(Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, Maytime, Sweethearts)
-more Thin Man movies and others Powell and Loy duets.
and
-Bachelor Mother
-Love Affair (can't stand those pd copies)
-Kitty Foyle
-Born to Dance
-Rosalie
-The Good Earth
-The Mortal Storm
-Waterloo Bridge
-Pride and Prejudice
-The Human Comedy
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Romeo and Juliet
-Johnny Eager
-Two Girls and a Sailor
-Two Weeks with Love
-A Date with Judy
-Nancy Goes to Rio
-Lady Be Good
-Madame Curie
-Words and Music
-Tom Dick and Harry
-Tender Comrade
-Irene
-Kings Rows
-Torrid Zone
-Four Daughters
-The 3 Musketeers
-Royal Wedding...

Columbia
-Golden Boy
-Arizona
-Tonight and Every Night
-My Sister Eileen (Rosalind Russell version)
-You Belong to Me
-It Had to Be You
-Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Paramount
-Miracle of Morgan's Creek
-Let's Dance
-Forever Female
-Elephant Walk
-Ace on the Hole
-Branded
-Red Garters
-Anything Goes
-Mr. Music
-Little Boy Lost
-Here Come the Girls
-September Affair

Universal
All the Sturges, Leisen, Wilder vehicles.
More Deanna Durbin
More Film Noir
Carole Lombard and Betty Hutton More Crosby
-Cleopatra
-Bluebeard's 8th Wife
-Zaza
-The Gilded Lily
-Angel
-Desire
-Morocco
-Design for Living
-Kitty
-Lady in the Dark
-To Each His Own
-The Heiress
-Forest Rangers
-Union Pacific
-California
-Monte Carlo
-An Hour with You
-Frenchmen's Creek
-The Affairs of Susan
-Love Letters
-Beau Geste
-The Cat and The Canary
-North West Mounted Police
-So Proudly We Hail
-Unconquered
-Standing Room Only
-The Lady Has Plans
-I wanted wings
-Take a letter Darling...

 

[Jim_K]

UNIVERSAL
Island of Lost Souls
Beau Geste
Great McGinty, The
Blue Dahlia, The
Glass Key, The
Black Cat, The
Brides of Dracula, The
Curse of the Werewolf, The
Twins of Evil

FOX
Innocents, The
Kiss of Death
Black Swan, The
Laura
Nightmare Alley

WARNER
King Kong
Naked Spur, The
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Ride the High Country
Ballad of Cable Hogue, The
Sea Hawk, The
Captain Blood
Crossfire
Point Blank
Yakuza, The
Cat People, The
Bad Day at Black Rock
Body Snatcher, The
Fort Apache

COLUMBIA
Matter of Life and Death, A
Seven Men From Now
Tall T, The
Major Dundee
Jubal

MGM
Man of the West
Duck, You Sucker
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General

??????
Fall of the Roman Empire, The
Harakiri
Samurai Assassin
Sansho The Balliff
Sword of Doom
Tales of Ugetsu
Gojira 1954
Mothra
Godzilla vs. Mothra 1964
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster
Rodan
War of the Gargantuas
Forty-Ninth Parallel
Steel Helmet, The

many more but I'm too tired right now.

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

This list is way too long, but I'd like to see at least some of these make it onto R1 DVD in 2005 (all in their proper aspect ratios; are you listening, Universal, MGM and Columbia?):

Disney (and subsidiaries):

SONG OF THE SOUTH (1946)
MICROCOSMOS (1996)
EL CID (1961)

Columbia:

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (1946, aka MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH)
MOTHRA (1962)
THE H-MAN (1958)
BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE (1960)
UPA & SCREEN GEMS cartoon shorts (1930s-1950s, in collections similar to Warner's LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION series and the DISNEY TREASURES sets)
THE CRIMINAL CODE (1930)
THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (1941)
REPULSION (1965)
SCREAM OF FEAR (1961)
RIDE LONESOME (1959)
JUBAL (1956)
THE LITTLE PRINCE & THE EIGHT-HEADED DRAGON (1963)
HUMAN DESIRE (1954)
EDGE OF ETERNITY (1959)
711 OCEAN DRIVE (1950)
THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (1950)
THE SNIPER (1952)
WOMEN'S PRISON (1955)
THE LOVE-INS (1967)
SCREAMING MIMI (1958)
CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955)
THE WEREWOLF (1956)
THE GIANT CLAW (1957)
ZOTZ! (1962)
13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS (1963)

Criterion/Home Vision:

THE LAST HOLIDAY (1950)
THE TROUBLEMAKER (1964)
HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954)
ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING (1942)
THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949)
THE SPY IN BLACK (1939)
THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960)
ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY (1947)

Fox:

EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (1973)
FOURTEEN HOURS (1951)
ROAD HOUSE (1948)
CRY OF THE CITY (1948)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1944, possibly coming in July)
THE INNOCENTS (1961)
HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943)
THE BLACK SWAN (1942)
THE FLIM-FLAM MAN (1967)
SITTING PRETTY (1948)
EVERYBODY DOES IT (1949)
MAN ON A TIGHTROPE (1953)
UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (1948)
DECISION BEFORE DAWN (1951)
THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956)
YELLOW SKY (1948)
MAN HUNT (1941)
THE LODGER (1944)
HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)
THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT (1956)
ZOO IN BUDAPEST (1933)
THE LOST WORLD (1960)

Lion's Gate/Artisan/Republic (your last chance, before Paramount gets 'em!):

SHACK OUT ON 101 (1955)
THE PITFALL (1948)
TRY & GET ME (1950)
DARK MIRROR (1946)
HOUSE BY THE RIVER (1950)
SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (1948)
MR. PEABODY & THE MERMAID (1948)

MGM:

NORTH WEST FRONTIER (1959, aka FLAME OVER INDIA)
BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (1967)
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (1934)
BURN WITCH BURN (1962)
THE QUATERMASS X-PERIMENT (1956)
BEACH RED (1967)
PLAY DIRTY (1968)
DAY OF THE OUTLAW (1959)
MAN OF THE WEST (1958)
99 RIVER STREET (1953)
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952, legit studio release)
THE MANSTER (1959, legit studio release)
THE TIME TRAVELERS (1964)
ALAKAZAM THE GREAT (1960)
DEATH RIDES A HORSE (1967, legit widescreen studio release)
THE MERCENARY (1968)
SABATA (1969)
RETURN OF SABATA (1971)
ADIOS SABATA (1970)
VIVA MARIA! (1965)
THAT MAN FROM RIO (1964)
DANGER ROUTE (1968)
SOME GIRLS DO (1969)
CANON CITY (1948)
WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)
SHOUT AT THE DEVIL (1976, uncut 144 min. version)
THE GHOST GOES WEST (1935)
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (1938, restored)

Paramount:

THE NAKED PREY (1966)
TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE (1959)
TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT (1960)
CRACK IN THE WORLD (1965)
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (1964)
ACE IN THE HOLE (1950, aka THE BIG CARNIVAL)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1946)
THE BLISS OF MRS. BLOSSOM (1968)
DARK CITY (1950)
MONTE WALSH (1970)
PHASE IV (1973)
THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959)
DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS (1965)
WINGS (1927)
POLICE SQUAD! (1982, TV series)
THE QUIET MAN (1952, a proper restoration, after Artisan's license expires)
THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)

RM Productions:

MOTOR PSYCHO (1965)
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965)

Universal:

MURDER, HE SAYS (1945)
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957)
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1933)
MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933)
WOODY WOODPECKER SHOW/Walter Lantz cartoon classics (1930s-1950s, basically the same cartoon shorts featured on the Columbia House DVDs, but with *all* the cartoons in uncut form)
THRILLER (1961-62, TV series)
W.C. FIELDS COLLECTION 2
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
THE BLACK CAT (1934)
THE RAVEN (1935)
THE PHANTOM LADY (1944)
MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944)
TARANTULA (1955)
THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)
GAMBIT (1966)
ARABESQUE (1966)
WOMAN IN HIDING (1949)
NAKED ALIBI (1954)
EASY LIVING (1937)
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940)
THE GREAT MCGINTY (1940)
CHRISTMAS IN JULY (1940)
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944)
KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962)
KING KONG ESCAPES (1968)
BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961)
PETER IBBETSON (1935)

--and anamorphic widescreen reissues of THE STING (1973), COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT (1970) and CHARLEY VARRICK (1973)

Warner:

POINT BLANK (1967)
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)
SERGEANT YORK (1941)
GENTLEMAN JIM (1942)
THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. (1941)
THE NAKED SPUR (1953)
THE BIG SKY (1952, restored)
ON BORROWED TIME (1939)
MAD LOVE (1935)
COLORADO TERRITORY (1949)
STARS IN MY CROWN (1950)
THE SEA WOLF (1941)
TENSION (1949)
CRIME WAVE (1954)
BORN TO KILL (1947)
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952)
THE WINDOW (1949)
THE THREAT (1949)
THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE (1947)
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1949)
DARK OF THE SUN (1968)
GOLD (1974)
NO BLADE OF GRASS (1970)
THREE STRANGERS (1946)
BORDER INCIDENT (1949)
SIDE STREET (1950)
THE TALL TARGET (1951)
DEEP VALLEY (1946)
A BOY TEN FEET TALL (1963, aka SAMMY GOING SOUTH, full 118 min version)
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES (1960)
CAPTAIN SINDBAD (1963)
WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (1969, uncut version)
CALTIKI (1959)
THE GIANT BEHEMOTH (1959)
NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS (1957)
CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER (1962)
Max Fleischer's (and early Famous Studios) POPEYE cartoons (1930s-1940s)

--and a dual-layer reissue of THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975)

Other (current owners unknown):

SANDS OF THE KALAHARI (1965)
ZATOICHI'S PILGRIMAGE (1966)
UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963)
HOUSE OF MYSTERY (1961)
THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT (1961)
INFRA-MAN (1976, widescreen/dubbed/stereo "Joseph Brenner" version)
THE MAN FROM HONG KONG (1975, aka THE DRAGON FLIES)
CUL-DE-SAC (1966)
RIDER ON THE RAIN (1970)
INVASION (1966)
I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957)
I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (1957)
BLOOD OF DRACULA (1957)
HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (1958)
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956)
THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1956)
INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN (1957)
EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958)
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957)
WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958)
THE SHE CREATURE (1957)
THE UNDEAD (1957)
THE BRAIN EATERS (1958)
SORORITY GIRL (1957)
VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1971)
HANDS OF THE RIPPER (1971)
TWINS OF EVIL (1971)
PLANETS AGAINST US (1961)
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER (1971)
GOKE, BODYSNATCHER FROM HELL (1968, a legit R1 release)
THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH (1964)

 

[Jeff(R)]

I want this too.

 

[Jim Barg]

Hmm, let's see:

The Sting (OAR)
Dune (some sort of multiple cut, Legend-style Ultimate Edition)
Blade Runner (ditto)
Forbidden Planet: SE (WB will probably hold out for the spring of 2006, since that's the 50th anniversary, but you never know)
Batman: SE (if this isn't out before June 17, I'll be very surprised)
Decent treatment of the Batman sequels (something more than what the Superman films got - if that happens, then I'll buy the likely box set)
Flash Gordon: SE

 

[Chad A Wright]

I'd be more than happy to have

Batman SE
Men in Tights
Sting SE (OAR please!)
Spaceballs SE
Office Space SE
King Kong

 

[TravisR]

Everyone here wants the director's vision of a movie protected (understandably). So why do people some people want a long cut of Dune? Lynch's version of the movie is his version of the movie. It seems to me that a long version would be like saying "Well, sorry David you're wrong and we're gonna re-edit your movie our way."

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind seeing the deleted footage as a bonus feature but Lynch must feel pretty strongly about the movie being re-cut if he removed his name from the long version of the movie.

I'm not trying to troll (and this is the wrong thread for this) but I'm just curious about people's thoughts on it.

Back on topic, I really want to see Lifeboat, Laura, Twin Peaks: Season Two, Lost Highway, more Star Wars animation (in seasons or series sets), King Kong and The African Queen on DVD next year.

 

[Will_B]

I think the reason you see this is because many people think of Dune as being by Frank Herbert, and those who have tried to make the visions real (such as Lynch) are sort of like hired seers.

I don't think you'd see so much willingness for the Alan Smithee panultimate long version if the film did not have that powerful origin as a legendary book first.

Just a theory.

And I'll add to that the sense that Lynch seems to have overreached when he tried to make this big film. If this was one of Lynch's usual small quirky films which he is a master at, you also wouldn't see second-guessing of his work.