Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays

[agnamaracs]

Looney Tunes Cartoons is the most recent reboot by the same people who did The Day the Earth Blew Up.

[Peacock]

May titles:

It’s A Wise Child (1931)
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Follow Me Quietly (1949)
The 5-Man Army (1969)
Monogram Matinee Vol 3 - Under Arizona Skies (1946) / Range Justice (1949)
Possessed (1931)
The Late Show (1977)
HBO Max - Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020-2024)

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Wrong thread

[therewillbeblus]

It’s A Wise Child looks like a pre-code screwball that has very few LB logs.. anyone seen it?

[domino harvey]

Back to doing weird choices no one asked for, I see!

Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer 1949) Anthony Mann co-wrote this weird bit of business chiefly memorable for its central conceit: A harried cop investigating a serial killer known as The Judge constructs a life-size doll representation of the killer to show witnesses and other cops. The scenes with the life-size, blank-faced dummy are exactly as unsettling as they sound, and even though the film doesn't have much more to offer than that, it's certainly an inescapable image. The film also features a fun segment that points out the perils of handcuffing yourself to a criminal!

[domino harvey]

Okay well people have actually been wanting the Late Show, so that’s something. Kinda surprised it didn’t go to one of their partners though!

Possessed I haven’t seen but that’s the one that Zizek opens Pervert’s Guide to Cinema with

[domino harvey]

Incredible first line of Kael’s review of the Late Show

In repose, Lily Tomlin looks like a wistful pony; when she grins, her equine gums and long, drawn face suggest a friendly, goofy horse.

[therewillbeblus]

LB tells me I thought Possessed was fine, but remember nothing about it. And I'm not one of those people awaiting The Late Show!

The Late Show: I was with this movie for its first act, transplanting the physically deteriorating yet tough austerity of an aging Art Carney into the role of the typically younger but still wise-beyond-years noir hero, which should be perfect for the atmosphere of the neo-noir. However, the appeal is lost too fast, the script is lame and turns the already-irritating leads and side characters into head-slapping caricatures (the "I'm not going back to the hospital" speech alone ruins Carney's character), and I lost pretty much all interest by the halfway mark. Lily Tomlin is an awful sidekick- I get what the film is going for and some of her lines reveal fragments of decent ideas for how to repurpose the silly half of buddy-cop naivete into the cruelty of the noir milieu- but it's ultimately all for naught, and even when it does kinda work in the last act, the buildup from before still rings hollow. It might be cute for Carney to use ageism at the end to best the baddies in another, more definitively comedic exercise, but what an anticlimax- from the anti-twist of the culprits to the fizzle of action amidst the overexplanation.

[TechnicolorAcid]

Possessed I haven’t seen but that’s the one that Zizek opens Pervert’s Guide to Cinema with

Haven’t seen it too but I noticed it does come with Love-Tails of Morocco, which I don’t remember being a masterpiece but is still a very enjoyable, bordering on demented short featuring a slew of dogs doing people things like adultery, smoking, and murder!

[buskeat66]

It’s A Wise Child looks like a pre-code screwball that has very few LB logs.. anyone seen it?

Almost no one alive has seen it except for some lucky people at Cinecon several years ago. It has otherwise remained entirely unseen for about 90 years because the rights to the play on which it was based were tied up in a legal mess that has now, I guess, been resolved.

[domino harvey]

It’s a 1929 play, so it entered into the public domain last year

[FrauBlucher]

The best thing about this month is it’s 9 titles. Which hopefully stays the norm

[TMDaines]

Moviezyng arrived in just over a week to the UK. Fantastic.

[Drucker]

They put the zing in movie zyng.

I'll see myself out.

[Finch]

^ it made me smile, FWIW!

[Stefan Andersson]

Some new WB restorations; might new or upgraded home video releases follow?

Out of the Past, 1947, 4K

Letty Lynton, 1932, 4K
Info about the rights situation and how it was solved: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic. ... 94#p317094

Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 1939

[Marwood]

Some new WB restorations; might new or upgraded home video releases follow?

Out of the Past, 1947, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... -the-past/

Letty Lynton, 1932, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... ty-lynton/
Info about the rights situation and how it was solved:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic. ... 94#p317094

Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 1939:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... -nazi-spy/

All the TCM links you have posted seem to just go to the festival's page for Father of the Bride...

[domino harvey]

There's no world in which they release Nazi Spy on a UHD so I'm not sure why a new resto was even funded, esp since it was already restored for the Blu-ray release a while ago

[TVC15]

Some new WB restorations; might new or upgraded home video releases follow?

Out of the Past, 1947, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... -the-past/

Letty Lynton, 1932, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... ty-lynton/
Info about the rights situation and how it was solved:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic. ... 94#p317094

Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 1939:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... -nazi-spy/

The page for Confessions of a Nazi Spy doesn't say anything about it being a new restoration.

[Stefan Andersson]

Some new WB restorations; might new or upgraded home video releases follow?

Out of the Past, 1947, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... -the-past/

Letty Lynton, 1932, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... ty-lynton/
Info about the rights situation and how it was solved:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic. ... 94#p317094

Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 1939:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... -nazi-spy/

All the TCM links you have posted seem to just go to the festival's page for Father of the Bride...

Thanks for pointing this out!
I tried updating the links in my original post and got the same result as you did. Then I tried posting the link to the main program page and got the same result again.

[Matt]

Thanks for pointing this out!
I tried updating the links in my original post and got the same result as you did. Then I tried posting the link to the main program page and got the same result again.

I think we’ve got some URL shortener on the site causing this. I embedded the links in your original post and they should work now.

[Stefan Andersson]

Thanks for pointing this out!
I tried updating the links in my original post and got the same result as you did. Then I tried posting the link to the main program page and got the same result again.

I think we’ve got some URL shortener on the site causing this. I embedded the links in your original post and they should work now.

Thanks a lot, Matt!
I tried the links, they´re working.

[tolbs1010]

Another of his most memorable performances was in the little seen Fast-Walking (1982) directed by James B. Harris. He lets it all hang-out - literary!

Really wish Warners would up-grade this to Blu Ray.

I had been seeking this out in a free format after reading this post in the M. Emmet Walsh tribute thread, and I finally saw it thanks to my local library system. Very entertaining, well-crafted trash from James B. Harris. Of the three films of his that I've seen, it is by far the best (haven't seen The Bedford Incident or Boiling Point). Such a fun cast, and they all deliver. Seeing a full-frontal M. Emmet Walsh after humping Susan Tyrrell is something you can't unsee. Perhaps Harris felt the need to give us some funny medicine after showing so much gratuitous female nudity, including a super sexy Kay Lenz (who is also very good in her role).

I am posting about the movie mostly because it reminded me what a terrific actor Tim McIntire was. I really only knew him from American Hot Wax and Brubaker. What a commanding screen presence and voice. He kind of dominates the film, even with an excellent James Woods in his early-career lead sleazo prime. Gone too soon.

Added this to my WA blu upgrade wish list, which is getting long. Savage Messiah and Zandy's Bride are still at the top of that list.

[captveg]

Out of the Past is the only one of those I can see getting a 4K UHD release, and I could see it coming from WAC or Criterion.

[Lowry_Sam]

Out Of The Past is featured on the channel (along with Nightfall & Berlin Express) right now, so hopefully that bodes well for a Criterion release.