Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays

[FrauBlucher]

Domino, any write ups on Out of the Fog?

[domino harvey]

Haven’t seen it, but planning to pick it up!

[FrauBlucher]

A couple of years ago it was on Noir Alley. Here are the Muller Intro and Outro

[mteller]

https://martinteller.wordpress.com/2012 ... f-the-fog/

[knives]

Domino, any write ups on Out of the Fog?

I like it. It’s moody and one of the better Litvak’s although I wouldn’t call it a great movie.

[domino harvey]

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

This is getting a release outside of the Archives with a slipcover, no sequel, and a new commentary track

[Matt]

A Date with Judy is $17.99 at Amazon, $2 less than when I thought I got a great deal on it the day before #-o

[domino harvey]

15.99 now if you wanna feel worse

[Zot!]

Release of the damn year. NEVER thought we'd get them all in one set and uncensored.

You might want to wait until you have the set in hand & fully screened before saying this. (Not that I'm superstitious, just cautious)

Oh, I know I shouldn't count my chicks before they're hatched, but fans have been roaring for this for over a decade, and this close to release (and with social media buzzing), it'd be a very bad look if WB decided to cancel it. I choose to remain cautiously optimistic.

That's exactly what happened last time, Vol. 2 was ready to go, cover art, everything, and then they cancelled it last minute. So this is nothing short of a miracle thus far. I am preordering.

I would pay double if they dropped the FORCED warning screen on the original release that was absolutely interminable when I want to watch a short that may or may not even have the triggering content. Can't they just package it like cigarettes with a tracheotomy photo and intimations of a slow and painful death + an eternity in hell and let me enjoy my funny pictures? They'll most likely just make the warning screen even longer. Nevertheless, thrilled!

[Matt]

A Date with Judy is $17.99 at Amazon, $2 less than when I thought I got a great deal on it the day before #-o

Even worse, I got this movie mixed up with Nancy Goes to Rio. I kept waiting for Jane Powell to get to South America. Regrettably, this does not look as good as most of the 3-strip Technicolor Warner Archive releases. Colors look good, but there isn't a lot of detail in the image. Focus looks soft and shallow throughout the whole film, and there is pronounced grain throughout as well. Everything just looks a little fuzzy, and more so the further away from the camera it is. It's a new 4K scan from the original negatives, so it's not a case of second- or third-generation elements. Could be that cinematographer Robert Surtees was still finding his footing in Technicolor, or MGM wouldn't give the Joe Pasternak unit the good film stock. Who knows?

Still, it's got Carmen Miranda and she does her "Cuanto Le Gusta" number, but no tutti frutti hats in this one.

While I'm on the subject of these discs, Romance on the High Seas (from way back in 2020) looks amazing. Incredible detail in the textiles and perfect color reproduction.

[yoloswegmaster]

Coming in November:

The Bride Came C.O.D (1941)
Silver River (1948)
At the Circus (1939)
Iron Mistress (1952)
I Love You Again (1940)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
The Miracle (1959)

[domino harvey]

What in the world is this slate

[JSC]

What in the world is this slate

Well, from what I see here... At the Circus begins the Marx Brothers three picture
decline at MGM. I Love You Again is actually an amusing little comedy with Myrna
Loy and William Powell (so I'll watch it regardless). It's Love I'm After is another
reteaming of Bette Davis and Leslie Howard as bickering married stage actors. The others
I haven't seen (a lot of star power in this bunch, though).

[domino harvey]

I didn’t find the Powell/Loy film charming and frankly none of the films in the old TCM box they’re now prioritizing upgrades for are worth seeking out. Here’s my write up on the Bride Came COD

the Bride Came COD (William Keighley 1941) James Cagney is a cash-strapped pilot who plots with Eugene Pallette's millionaire to avert errant debutante Bette Davis' impending nuptials to Jack Carson via quasi-kidnapping. The film does manage to subvert expectations, but not narratively. Rather, Davis, who I figured was miscast as the screwball protagonist, throws herself (and her posterior) into the silliness (and the cacti) with game effort while it's Cagney that really sticks out here as a bad fit. It does not help matters that the creaky ghost town complications of the second half of the film aren't nearly as amusing as the film believes them to be. There are few things more tortuous than a screwball comedy that isn't working and yet keeps pummeling along at you!

[swo17]

It's Love I'm After is great. It made our forum's top 25 screwballs list

[Saturnome]

I barely ever pick any Warner Archive release but It's Love I'm After is a must for me.

[starmanof51]

It's Love I'm After is great. It made our forum's top 25 screwballs list

Caught up to it 4 or 5 years ago, left me shocked that it didn't become bedrock canon decades ago

[FrauBlucher]

Once again underwhelmed. But lots of titles will be coming, so fingers crossed

[Lowry_Sam]

It's nice that the're finally getting another Davis out, but the slow trickle of random titles is rather frustrating if the Warner dvd box sets of yore helped foster your media collecting compulsion. Top on my Davis list though would probably be The Catered Affair, ideal for Criterion to rescue, though neither Warner (I assume as its an older MGM) nor Criterion seem particularly interested in extras on writers (Chayefsky & Vidal).

[Feego]

Three more star-focused collections are also up for pre-order on Amazon:

Doris Day (Romance on the High Seas, Lullaby of Broadway, Love Me or Leave Me, Billy Rose's Jumbo)
Gene Kelly (For Me and My Gal, The Pirate, An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain)
James Cagney (The Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat)

[FrauBlucher]

The 2 I'm waiting on are Stage Door and Ball of Fire, which Feltenstein said the latter is being worked on. But there are plenty of high end titles that still need releases

[FrauBlucher]

Here is another one from earlier in the week by Ronald Epstein of HTF …

It was a little over two years ago that I made a post indicating that THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER would be released in time for the holidays. This was based on initial conversations with Warner Bros.

Since then, the title has faced numerous delays. While the film has always been a top priority for WAC, its release has been plagued by the usual obstacles that tend to push it back by months or even years.

This will be yet another holiday where THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER will not see a release.

However, knowing the disappointment that would follow, and the current status of the film's restoration, I reached out to George Feltenstein and asked if I could officially post an update:

"The restoration and mastering are almost complete, and the long wait will have been worth it when people see the final result."

Maybe we’ll see this in time for Christmas. Not sure how fast a turnaround this can be from where it’s at now

[pistolwink]

Was Feltenstein re-hired by WB or does he still work for them as a "consultant"?

[domino harvey]

How long have the Warner Archives been doing the moving subtitles like Universal, where the dialog appears on the side of the screen of the speaker? I ask because it is employed on His Kind of Woman and WA did it wrong and they have the subs set to align directly with the edge of the Academy frame (which Universal does not) and it looks awful and is so distracting I had to rewind a few times in the first fifteen minutes because it kept derailing my attention. I’m impressed they discovered a new way to make bad subtitles, though!

[dwk]

December:
Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series
Wally Gator: The Complete Series
On Borrowed Time