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Add Nora Prentiss and Walsh's the Man I Love #-o

And Branagh's Midwinter's Tale, a surprising choice. That probably would have done decently in the normal market...

I'm still waiting for Agatha and Last Summer.

Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
Beau Brummell (1954)
Conspirator (1949)
Cynthia (1947)
Deep Valley (1947)
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Girl Who Had Everything, The (1953)
Green Mansions (1959)
Hard Way, The (1943)
It's a Big Country (1951)
Juke Girl (1942)
Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
Moon Is Blue, The (1953)
Story of Mankind, The (1957)
Story of Three Loves, The (1953)
Fox, The (1967)
Unfaithful, The (1947)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

Ashirg wrote:Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
Moon Is Blue, The (1953)

Warner Bros. owns this? Oh come on. Years of goodwill has evaporated entirely for me when a film like this gets relegated to the unrestored, extras-less DVD-R treatment.

Ashirg wrote:Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
The Fox (1967)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

Sweet!

souvenir wrote:

Ashirg wrote:Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
Moon Is Blue, The (1953)

Warner Bros. owns this? Oh come on. Years of goodwill has evaporated entirely for me when a film like this gets relegated to the unrestored, extras-less DVD-R treatment.

The biggest fucking injustice yet. Unbelievable

Well, if you must, there are some good bundle deals at WBShop right now, with titles grouped together and then discounted half off!

I'm finding it completely impossible to log in to WBShop.com. I placed an order there a couple of months ago with no problems, but now it rejects my login, and when I do "forgot your password," it says the email address cannot be found. Fine, so I tried creating a new account with a new secondary email address. At the create account stage, it took several tries to get the page to load. Finally it told me the username of my new email account is already taken. And yet it says that email address cannot be found, either. I can easily do without these DVD-Rs, so I'm inclined to simply give up, at least for now.

Gregory wrote:I'm inclined to simply give up, at least for now.

That's pretty much been my experience every time I've been tempted. The WBShop site's near-complete non-functionality is the next best thing to a time-lock on my wallet.

Saw this posted at alt.movies.silent:

I have one slight caveat about "Love", the Garbo-Gilbert picture from 1927: the score was recorded at a live presentation, and the music is tastefully arranged--but the audience laughs at inappropriate moments, which may jar some people's enjoyment of the film. Otherwise there's nothing wrong with the transfer as far as I can tell.

dadaistnun wrote:Saw this posted at alt.movies.silent:

I have one slight caveat about "Love", the Garbo-Gilbert picture from 1927: the score was recorded at a live presentation, and the music is tastefully arranged--but the audience laughs at inappropriate moments, which may jar some people's enjoyment of the film. Otherwise there's nothing wrong with the transfer as far as I can tell.

It is true. And it is kind of annoying . People laugh at Gilbert's face when he looks at Garbo for the first time...that kind of stuff. I don't think much of LOVE so it was not a big deal to me. But still, it is lame to have this "soundtrack" as your only option.

I'm just glad there is just music in THE KISS and WILD ORCHIDS (the best ones).

A Midwinter's Tale is out for some reason, Michael Curtiz's Mammy is in.

Does this mean we'll get Wonder Bar soon?

HypnoHelioStaticStasis wrote:Does this mean we'll get Wonder Bar soon?

And there it is, available for pre-order.

If there's a Jolson bundle in the making - which I'm certain there is - I'll buy it.

ACK! They're offering THE STORY OF MANKIND ... with a cover guaranteed to mislead the gullible.

Is anyone having success renting these from Classicflix? I don't want to join if the Warner Archive titles are all perpetually checked out.

Perkins Cobb wrote:Is anyone having success renting these from Classicflix? I don't want to join if the Warner Archive titles are all perpetually checked out.

So far so good. I just joined Classicflix on a one-at-a-time plan and filled the queue with Warner Archive titles. The vast majority say "Short Wait," but all three titles that have shipped so far had that designation and two of them were at the top of the queue.

Cool, thanks for the report. Now, nobody else sign up till my month is over, 'kay?

I just want them to get The Mask of Dimitrios out. It's Warner that owns that film, isn't it?

10 Warner Archive DVDs for $99.95 (out of 150 selected titles only, ends 7/19/09 11:59 PDT)

Erikht wrote:I just want them to get The Mask of Dimitrios out. It's Warner that owns that film, isn't it?

Yes, it's a Warner title and I'd also love to have it available, but please God let it not be a Warner Archive release. [-o<

David, I've only ordered six titles so far, so I wanted to ask what your favorites are (film + transfer). I'm totally unfamiliar with a certain portion of what they've "released" here. Being without access to TCM for several years now is probably the major reason why.

I've only watched three so far, and all were acceptable. The Big House had the odd blacked-out area that I noted earlier in the thread, which looked digital to me, but it wouldn't make any sense that they'd add this now. Christopher Strong looked fine, though a bit soft. The Mad Miss Manton looked perfectly fine, although I was not quite sober at the time. No combing was evident in any of these.

Thanks for the comments on yours. I hope to order again at some point if the site will ever let me log in or create a new account.

I do agree that these are too expensive, and the pricing is possibly short-sighted. The number of discs they would sell for $10 each might be vastly more than the number they're selling at $20.

An odd grab bag of new pre-orders:

All the Marbles
Boulevard Nights
Carny
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark [their first made-for-TV release]
Mike's Murder
The Terminal Man
Urgh! A Music War

I still can't make up my mind if I'm more pro or con on the WB Archive. I guess if it has to be this way, I'm glad they're cranking out some newer films, since they'll have new transfers (and fix the aspect ratio of the VHS release, if any). Unless of course WB renegs on that promise too, like they lied about continuing to release actual catalog DVDs.