Sydney Lumet - Missing Movies... (1 Viewer)

[Neil_Duffy]

Prince of The City is on TV tomorrow night, and I'm wondering... where is this classic on DVD? There's a lot of Lumet films crying out to be on the format... the only hope is that I recently read an interview wih Laurent Bouzereau claiming he is working on Lumet DVDs... anyone know anything?

 

[Michael Flynn]

Yeah...definitely an underrated movie that I'd buy if released on DVD.

Thankfully, Paramount answered my Sidney Lumet fix and call for a Serpico DVD...and it has lots of extras. Good stuff.

 

[Michael Flynn]

Oh, an add:

There are indeed Lumet SEs coming this year IIRC from the WB chat. Does that mean Dog Day Afternoon and Network too along with Prince of the City? Sadly, I got the current Network release for Christmas...such a soon double-dip if an SE is in the works... :frowning:

 

[Paul_Scott]

Network was seriously disappointing in regards to a/v quality.
i would hope that gets a re-master eventually.
i was ecstatic when i was able to ebay it (although i did enjoy the movie).
you look at Fox/Fox news channel and the movie just looks so damn...close to what its like today.
Vox Populi!

 

[Haggai]

Yeah, I thought it was weird when Fox News recently announced the hiring of Sybil the Soothsayer. Or was it MSNBC that did that?

 

[Mark Edward Heuck]

Some more Lumet movies missing from DVD:

Paramount - CHILD'S PLAY, DANIEL, LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Warner Bros. - BYE BYE BRAVERMAN, THE SEAGULL, THE APPOINTMENT, LAST OF THE MOBILE HOT SHOTS (one of his few scope outings)
MGM - THE GROUP, THE OFFENCE
Columbia - THE DEADLY AFFAIR

 

[Dick]

Michael, NETWORK belongs to MGM, so I doubt you'll be seeing an SE anytime soon.

 

[Mark Cappelletty]

Dick, NETWORK is actually a Warner title now, I believe. Warner has the MGM library prior to 1985 (if it's a UA title, I'll hold my tongue).

 

[Jay E]

I would love to see Prince of the City on DVD, it's one of the best films of the 80's and doesn't deserve to remain in obscurity.

There are quite a few other Lumet films That I would love to see on DVD:

Bye Bye Braverman
Daniel
Deadly Affair, The
Fugitive Kind, The
Group, The
Hill, The
Long Day's Journey into Night
Murder on the Orient Express
Offence, The
View From the Bridge, A

And a widescreen version of Running on Empty.

 

[Gabe D]

Long Day's Journey into Night was just released on DVD by Republic Pictures. I wouldn't have known except for a blurb about it in Entertainment Weekly. Anyway, I rushed to buy a copy only to discover that it is a 4:3 MAR version. Quite sad, as I'm dying to add this film to my collection.

 

[Roger Rollins]

Actually NETWORK was an MGM and UA co-production..which means rights are split.

Warner Brothers (as owner of Turner) has domestic rights and the current MGM (UA) has international.