Indicator's transfer on Bunny Lake is Missing and To Sir With Love is decidedly different than TT's; better contrast on both releases, and on TSWL colors tweaked to slightly more vibrant but natural looking tones. Overall, both look better in motion than TT's. I own them both, from Indicator and TT. Indicator gets top marks for adding bonus features to discs that TT only released as bare bones. Their upcoming Lady from Shanghai will restore Bogdanovich's featurette (never released since the old Columbia Classics DVD release from Sony), plus add an audio commentary. Neither of these extras appeared on the Mill Creek states side release of this deep catalog title, although the Mill Creek did advertise theirs as a 4K remaster - so likely, no new upgrade to video there. Experiment in Terror gets an audio commentary - oh boy!!! Can't wait. Price point is in English pounds, folks, so while they are 'cheaper' than TT's $30 price point, with conversion and shipping, not by much!
Finally, its rather perplexing to see Sony release a 50th anniversary of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner only a month or so after Indicator's release and while TT's has yet to sell out; considering no upgrades have been performed to extras or transfer (not that they were likely needed). But why Sony has chosen to submarine TT and Indicator's chances of reaping the profits is just 'odd'. And someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread that The Age of Innocence has yet to get a release states side. I imported mine from Amazon.jp and it looks stunning and is, as all Sony product is when shopped around Europe and Asia, region free. So if you really want it you can have it without having to wait for Sony to get off its lump over here.
While we're on the subject of MIA Sony product, it would certainly be nice to have an indie label pick up some of the 'forgotten' titles either floating around out there via obscure distributors or not available at all as yet. Madman Entertainment has two highly desirable Columbia classics currently under their banner and rendered in region free Blu-rays: Suddenly Last Summer, and Frank Capra's Lost Horizon - both looking magnificent and, IMO must haves. Fright Night is also available in Germany - region free.
We could also stand to see The Awful Truth, Theodora Runs Wild, The Talk of the Town, The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces, as well as reissues of Steel Magnolias, Places in the Heart and Jagged Edge and Peggy Sue Got Married; the latter two originally released thru Image but now out of print. No criticism of Sony here; but their output of deep catalog has been one of the most fragmented marketing traditions in the biz. TT, Madman, Image, Indicator, their own home video releasing apparatus; not to mention having to hunt this stuff down from virtually every continent on the planet. While Grover Crisp's telescopic focus on restoration and preservation has yielded a very precise and award-winning philosophy on 'how' film restoration work ought to be achieved, Sony's marketing arm could certainly use a little more of that same concentration. Distributing them willy-nilly like Pez candy all over the world really isn't a smart plan. At least, IMO.
Finally, its rather perplexing to see Sony release a 50th anniversary of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner only a month or so after Indicator's release and while TT's has yet to sell out; considering no upgrades have been performed to extras or transfer (not that they were likely needed). But why Sony has chosen to submarine TT and Indicator's chances of reaping the profits is just 'odd'. And someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread that The Age of Innocence has yet to get a release states side. I imported mine from Amazon.jp and it looks stunning and is, as all Sony product is when shopped around Europe and Asia, region free. So if you really want it you can have it without having to wait for Sony to get off its lump over here.
While we're on the subject of MIA Sony product, it would certainly be nice to have an indie label pick up some of the 'forgotten' titles either floating around out there via obscure distributors or not available at all as yet. Madman Entertainment has two highly desirable Columbia classics currently under their banner and rendered in region free Blu-rays: Suddenly Last Summer, and Frank Capra's Lost Horizon - both looking magnificent and, IMO must haves. Fright Night is also available in Germany - region free.
We could also stand to see The Awful Truth, Theodora Runs Wild, The Talk of the Town, The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces, as well as reissues of Steel Magnolias, Places in the Heart and Jagged Edge and Peggy Sue Got Married; the latter two originally released thru Image but now out of print. No criticism of Sony here; but their output of deep catalog has been one of the most fragmented marketing traditions in the biz. TT, Madman, Image, Indicator, their own home video releasing apparatus; not to mention having to hunt this stuff down from virtually every continent on the planet. While Grover Crisp's telescopic focus on restoration and preservation has yielded a very precise and award-winning philosophy on 'how' film restoration work ought to be achieved, Sony's marketing arm could certainly use a little more of that same concentration. Distributing them willy-nilly like Pez candy all over the world really isn't a smart plan. At least, IMO.
