What titles from your wish-lists made it to dvd in '03? (1 Viewer)

[Paul_Scott]

yeah there are still plenty of classic titles that remain stashed in the vaults, but you still gotta admit it was a great year for catalog releases.
i know I wasn't expecting many of these to show up this time last year, and while there are still plenty of titles i hold out a small hope for in '04[although i've pretty much written off just about anything good from Universal pre-1980:frowning: ], at least i can ride out the rest of the winter with these;

A Little Romance
Mildred Pierce
Summer of Fear
The In-Laws
The Swimmer
Adventures Of Robin Hood
The Thing from Another World
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
and before the year is out, Darling , the Escape From NY SE, and what looks to be a spanky refurb of Alien
in fact, with the exception of the last three which i haven't seen yet, thankfully they all had fine a/v quality-sure you can ask for more, but that's really all it takes to make me happy.

and thats not to mention the catalog stuff i wasn't especially looking for, but turned out to be great blind buys anyway

so how many titles did you get to cross off your master wish-list in '03?

 

[ScottRichard]

This was in many ways a great year for some classics! Here are the titles from my wish-list that I had been waiting and hoping for:

The Swimmer
The Crimson Pirate
Man's Favorite Sport?
Send Me No Flowers
The Thrill Of It All
Imitation Of Life
Giant
The Talk Of The Town
The Courtship Of Eddie's Father
Winchester '73
The Far Country
Bend Of The River
Pursued
Les Girls
Cover Girl
High Sierra
They Drive By Night
To Have And Have Not
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Adventures Of Robin Hood
The Thing (From Another World)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Little House On The Prairie

Wow, that's a pretty long list! I hope next year is as good though, since my wish-list still has at least that many titles on it awaiting release!

 

[Garrett Lundy]

Nekromantik 2
The Howling SE
Indiana Jones trilogy
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Family Guy set 2
The Outer Limits

 

[DouglasBr]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Mission
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
Scrooge
What's Up Doc
Three Musketeers/Four Musketeers (done right)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection (it's a start. . .)

Now that I look at this list, I'm actually surprised this many came out this year.

 

[Jaxon's Dad]

A Christmas Story SE
Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

Looney Toons
Adventures of Indiana Jones
Simpsons Season 3
King of the Hill, Futurama, and Family Guy seasons
Dick Van Dyke Show

and probably a few others I'm missing.

2004 is looking good as well, especially if Star Wars comes out.

 

[Douglas Bailey]

Titles with (*) are improved versions I'd been waiting/hoping for...

I'm All Right Jack
The Three Musketeers (*)
The Four Musketeers (*)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (*)
Eraserhead
1984
The Beatles Anthology
The Singing Detective
Little Big Man
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Yes Minister
Zulu (improved, legit version of)
Yes Prime Minister
Throne of Blood
Paper Moon
All That Jazz
House of Cards
To Play the King
Lawrence of Arabia (*)
Shogun
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Who: The Kids Are Alright
Cracker (Season 1)
Battlestar Galactica
Dragonslayer
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Looney Tunes

...and soon...

To Live And Die in L.A.
Alien (*)
Aliens (*)
Alien^3 (*)
The West Wing (Season 1)
Escape From New York (*)

 

[Robert Dunnill]

The House That Dripped Blood
More American Graffiti
Vampire Lovers
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Battle of Britain
Indiana Jones box set

 

[Greg_M]

This was a good year for DVD's

Lawrence of Arabia - Superbits
Once Upon a Time in the West
Little Big Man
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Plus countless Musicals:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Widescreen
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Sweet Charity
A Chorus Line
Kiss Me Kate
Silk Stockings
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Chicago
Hello Dolly
Scrooge
Star!*
(All That Jazz)"

 

[Larry Sutliff]

Quite a few of my favorites made it to DVD this year. The INDY Trilogy, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD and the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films are titles I've been wanting since the dawn of DVD.

 

[StacyV]

Well, since I'm sort of into cheesefests, I was happy to see not only Breakin' released this year, but also Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. As well as Beat Street, Claudine, Fame, Krush Groove and Popi.

 

[StephanieC]

A GREAT year for things I've been waiting for, hope 2004 is even better

Valley Girl
The Haunting
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3- and with the commentary I wanted! (as panned as it is, this has been on my top three wishes for about 2 years)
A special edition for Casablanca
Indiana Jones films
Strangers with Candy
Family Guy
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Casper
Day of the Dead SE
Empire Records SE (but where's Lily?)
A new Halloween SE
A Hard Day's Night
The Howling SE
I.Q.
A Rob Zombie music video collection
Run Ronnie Run!

 

[Haggai]

Plus countless Musicals:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Widescreen
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Sweet Charity
A Chorus Line
Kiss Me Kate
Silk Stockings
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Chicago
Hello Dolly
Scrooge
Star!*
(All That Jazz)"

A good list indeed, Greg M., but hello, West Side Story SE! I was so all over that when it came out back in April, and man, what a great experience with an HT setup.

On TCM a few months back, I saw the rarely shown final collaboration between Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen: It's Always Fair Weather. The plot gets ridiculous in the end, but what a great movie! I would be overjoyed if it got a nice anamorphic release, but who knows if that's going to happen anytime in the near (or not-so-near) future.

 

[Haggai]

Hmmm, I hadn't realized that the previous non-SE release of West Side Story had the same transfer, so maybe it wasn't such an obvious candidate for Greg's list of musicals that arrived this year. Anyway, the SE documentary and scrapbook are fantastic.

 

[Brian PB]

The Highlights of 2003 for me (Region 1 only; and leaving out recent theatrical releases):

*Sunrise (Murnau/1927/Fox)
Band of Outsiders (Godard/1964/Criterion)
*Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch/1932/Criterion)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz/1950/Fox)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz/1945/Warner)
Beauty and the Beast/La Belle et la bête (Cocteau/1946/Criterion)--re-release
Metropolis (Lang/1927/Kino)
Eraserhead (Lynch/1977/Absurda)
*Three Colors: Blue/White/Red (Kieslowski/1993-4/Miramax)
Straw Dogs (Peckinpah/1971/Criterion)
*L'Atalante (Vigo/1934/New Yorker)
The Singing Detective (Amiel/1986/BBC)
*The Adventures of Antione Doinel Box Set (Truffaut/1959-79/Criterion)
Barton Fink (Coen/1991/Fox)
Beautiful Thing (MacDonald/1996/Columbia TriStar)
*by Brakhage--an anthology (Criterion)
Strangers with Candy: Seasons 1 & 2 (Comedy Central)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder/1974/Criterion)
Il Posto (Olmi/1961/Criterion)
*I Fidanzati (Olmi/1962/Criterion)
Casablanca SE (Curtiz/1942/Warner)
*A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman: Through a Glass Darkly/Winter Light/The Silence (1961-3/Criterion)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle/1941/Criterion)
Fargo SE (Coen/1996/MGM/UA)
*Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy: The Marriage of Maria Braun/Veronika Voss/Lola (1979-82/Criterion)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston/1948/Warner)
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville/1970/Criterion)
*Tokyo Story (Ozu/1953/Criterion)
To Have and Have Not (Hawks/1944/Warner)
La Strada (Fellini/1954/Criterion)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone/1968/Paramount)
Underground (Kusturica/1995/New Yorker)

* = my ten favorites (I haven't yet seen the last seven listed, with the exception of Tokyo Story).

All I can say, is what an absolutely STELLAR year for classic films.

 

[Craig Beam]

Man, it was a great year! My wishlist is considerably smaller....

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Criterion version 2.0)
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
CASABLANCA (Special Edition)
INDY!
THE OUTER LIMITS (season 2)
1984
WINGS OF DESIRE
SLEEPING BEAUTY (now where's BAMBI?????)
A CHRISTMAS STORY (Special Edition)
BABE (finally in widescreen!)
CHARADE (anamorphic transfer)

and....

NAKED LUNCH!

 

[Dan Rudolph]

Indiana Jones, Looney Tunes and widescreen versions of A Christmas Story, the Vacation movies and Babe.

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Kids In The Hall
Upright Citizens Brigade
Married... With Children
Ben Stiller Show
Indy Trilogy
The Tick
Fletch Lives
Family Guy
Citizen Toxie
Red Dwarf
Futurama

A lot of TV I've been waiting for