Warner Archive Announcements Thread (11 Viewers)

[DannyLewis]

Wonderful lineup! All of them will be Day One for me!!! Thanks Mr. Felteinstein!
Most excited about Camille and Neptune's Daughter.
I read before here that both Flamingo Road and Confessions were available at TCM / HBO Max in new pristine masters, so here we have them. This must be a sing that Caged is also coming in the months to come.

 

[Thomas T]

Finally, The Prince And The Showgirl in its proper wide screen ratio!

 

[plektret]

MARILYN

 

[RICK BOND]

I did not want to step on Mr E or Mr C what happened I was chatting with Tim on the chat and I told him about the two that were announced he asked where I heard it I said HERE and I said to him wish Mr F would just announce all six to give pple more time and he reached out to Mr F and got the okay and gave his okay to post! So wanted to get it here b4 the other forum!


@everyone Per George Feltenstein of the Warner Archive, the following 6 Blu-rays will be released in March.


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What about February ?? Nothing there on my Wish or Want list. Next batch will be in April ??

 

[jim_falconer]

I don’t mean to disparage those who are excited about these releases, but what about the John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and other huge starts from the golden age of cinema that are still locked away in Warner’s vaults. I mean, I’ve been hoping for John Ford’s 3 Godfathers since the Blu-ray format was introduced

 

[TPWard]

I'm in for all six!

Me too!

 

[Mark-P]

What about February ?? Nothing there on my Wish or Want list. Next batch will be in April ??

Tough customer!

 

[Filmgazer]

Finally, The Prince And The Showgirl in its proper wide screen ratio!

We hope.

 

[Thomas T]

We hope.

It's the Warner Archives. They won't release it unless it's done right. Otherwise, we'd have had Raintree County, Around The World In 80 Days and High Society years ago!

 

[Thomas T]

What about February ?? Nothing there on my Wish or Want list.

With all due respect, it's not about you!

 

[Filmgazer]

It's the Warner Archives. They won't release it unless it's done right. Otherwise, we'd have had Raintree County, Around The World In 80 Days and High Society years ago!

I was thinking that "The Prince and the Showgirl" might suffer the same fate as "Summertime" did on Criterion with the aspect ratio controversy.

 

[mark brown]

Disappointing group.

 

[Thomas T]

Disappointing group.

Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Crawford, Esther Williams, Susan Hayward, Robert Taylor. If this is a disappointing group, please Warners, give us more disappointing groups!

 

[Thomas T]

I don’t mean to disparage those who are excited about these releases, but what about the John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and other huge starts from the golden age of cinema that are still locked away in Warner’s vaults. I mean, I’ve been hoping for John Ford’s 3 Godfathers since the Blu-ray format was introduced

Poor Warner Archives. It's a no win situation! No matter how many jewels they give us on blu ray, there's always a "but what about .....?" post.

 

[Andrew Budgell]

I don’t mean to disparage those who are excited about these releases, but what about the John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and other huge starts from the golden age of cinema that are still locked away in Warner’s vaults. I mean, I’ve been hoping for John Ford’s 3 Godfathers since the Blu-ray format was introduced

John Wayne has to be one of the most well-represented stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood on Blu-ray. Greta Garbo, while certainly not as prolific as Wayne, has only two of her films released on the format. Camille makes it three. While I won't be purchasing the entire slate, I couldn't be more thrilled that a handful of talented actresses will be given a chance to shine in March.

 

[Matt Hough]

My Flamingo Road DVD went bad a couple of years ago, so I've had the iTunes stream since then. I'm sure the Blu-ray will be an improvement on it.

 

[Dave Lawrence]

Mr F just let Tim Millard announce all six titles for March he gave me the okay to mention them here
Flamingo Road

I was interested to see this listed until your next post elaborated that it will be the Crawford film. I was hoping we might see a release of the 1980 TV movie and the series that followed. I never saw it originally but based on clips I’ve seen I would purchase it if released. Disappointing, but not surprising as WAC seems done with TV material that’s older than a few years.

But congrats to fans of the original film.

 

[Dave Lawrence]

Poor Warner Archives. It's a no win situation! No matter how many jewels they give us on blu ray, there's always a "but what about .....?" post.

One person’s jewel is another person’s cubic zirconia.

But WAC does do a great job overall so I usually try to avoid making “but…” posts…with rare exception. As long as it’s not done in an over the top way, I think there’s room for admissions of disappointment mixed in among the praise.

 

[Thomas T]

One person’s jewel is another person’s cubic zirconia.

But WAC does do a great job overall so I usually try to avoid making “but…” posts…with rare exception. As long as it’s not done in an over the top way, I think there’s room for admissions of disappointment mixed in among the praise.

I've always tried (tried be the operative word) to be a glass half full rather than glass half empty person. Certainly everyone's opinion has value and the right to express it. It's just that the usual "what about?" posts are as regular as clockwork and about as interesting. Maybe I'll wait till the April announcements and do my own "what about?" posts, might be fun

 

[Alan Tully]

Poor Warner Archives. It's a no win situation! No matter how many jewels they give us on blu ray, there's always a "but what about .....?" post.

Ha, as I suspected, an interesting batch, but nothing for me. My last Archive purchase was a year ago (Ivanhoe & Gold Diggers Of 1933), but that's going to happen with Warner's vast library of films. If I get 3-4 films a year I'm doing well (only two last year).