What 3 films do you want most on Blu? (1 Viewer)

[Citizen87645]

Although it's not my absolute favorite film, I feel it would be appropriate for the first title I ever bought on DVD to come out on Blu-ray. That would be "My Fair Lady."

"Roman Holiday" would also be nice.

As would "The Empire Strikes Back."

 

[Derek M Germano]

I know I have had my three, but I would like to see properly mastered Blu-ray versions of the Samuel Bronston films:
EL CID
55 DAYS AT PEKING
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

 

[Simon Massey]

Moulin Rouge
AI
Empire Strikes Back

 

[Robin_B]

All the President's Men

No Way Out

Outland

 

[ajabrams]

CLEOPATRA (1963) - with any restored footage

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (one of my favorite color films)

BECKY SHARP (1935 - the Robert Gitt/UCLA 84 minute restored version - this really should be made available!)

 

[Simon Howson]

East of Eden
Exodus (restoration from 65mm please)
Taxi Driver

 

[mconwell]

I would like these

Batman Television series from the 60's (never released on DVD)
Six Million Dollar Man (never released on DVD in the US)
Empire Records (would love to have original and extended cut)

 

[Peter Neski]

Why can't this come out with English titles,Its just too bad People don't know how good it is,

 

[Richard--W]

El Sur looks like a film I would be interested in.
I'll have to check it out soon.

The film I want to see most on Blu-ray is Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.
It is a unique and very special film; no other film is quite like it.

I would like to see McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Long Goodbye remastered for Blu-ray because of how they are lit, lensed, and processed.
Zsigmond and Altman, Altman and Zsigmond.
The DVD's are fine, but there is considerably more information in theatrical negs than meets the eye on DVD.

John Boorman's Excalibur and The Emerald Forest offer visual aesthetics that need to be seen in Blu-ray.
The latter is one of the most vastly under-rated films ever made.

John Coquillon's work on Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is in dire need of rescue.
Blu-ray could really bring out the autumnal color pallette and the lawmen stepping like ghosts out of the darkness

I would like to see Douglas Sirk's color masterpieces on Blu-ray.
All that Heaven Allows, Magnificent Obsession, Written On the Wind, Battle Hymn, Imitation of Life.
Perhaps even A Time to Love and a Time to Die.
The story is in the carefully designed color and in the grain.

Ben Johnson once told me that Charles Lang was the real director of One-Eyed Jacks.
The change in directors and Brando's frustrations didn't matter, Lang just shot the film the way it should be shot and in effect directed it.
Beautiful looking western.

Is that 3 or did I leave one out?

 

[Robin9]

That's a very interesting piece of information. I'd like to hear more about that.

It's not unknown for cinematographers to be in effect the co-director on a movie. For example, Leon Shamroy working on A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Elia Kazan's first movie as director, took responsibility for all the staging etc. Shirley Jones, in her commentary track for the DVD of Oklahoma! says that Robert Surtees worked out all the camera angles, not Fred Zinnemann.

Originally Posted by Richard--W
Ben Johnson once told me that Charles Lang was the real director of One-Eyed Jacks.
The change in directors and Brando's frustrations didn't matter, Lang just shot the film the way it should be shot and in effect directed it.
Beautiful looking western.

Is that 3 or did I leave one out?

 

[Peter Neski]

"El Sur looks like a film I would be interested in.
I'll have to check it out soon."

well you will have a hard time,unless you can watch a pal or Japanese dvd withoiut english,I don't think the film
ever came out here in any form,It did have subtiles in the Theater

 

[hampsteadbandit]

I WANT !!!

Saving Private Ryan

Cronenberg's EXistenZ

and Bigelow's Strange Days

thank you!

 

[Edwin-S]

Right now I'd like

The Big Lebowski

I haven't been able to watch the tribulations of "The Dude" for awhile now, because my HD DVD freezes up halfway through the film.

 

[dpippel]

Originally Posted by Edwin-S /forum/thread/293359/what-3-films-do-you-want-most-on-blu/150#post_3645853

 

[Peter Neski]

how about a new Last Tango in Paris?? The DVD is 16x9 but is pretty lame,

 

[Tarkin The Ewok]

The Sound of Music
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid

Runner-Up: Star Wars Saga 6-Film Set

 

[Bradley-E]

Le Samouraï
Network
Out of Sight

 

[John Stuart]

Only 3?
Brazil (1985) - Criterion

Back to the Future Trilogy (if Universal don't mess with this one like they did with recent BD releases offering very poor image quality)

Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Warner

I would vote for more titles like Lawrence of Arabia, Star Wars, Fright Night, etc. but those are my current choices.

 

[john mcfadden]

STAR WARS -original versions-

Howard The Duck (Yes, im serious)
Because I am a major Stallone fan....

Demolition man (with 6.1 DTS-HD Please) Why in gods name did Over the top and Tango & Cash get blu releases before Demolition man & Assassins?? Seriously Warner...why ??

 

[JohnMor]

West Side Story
The Lion in Winter
Any of the original Universal monster classics or Hitchcock film.