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Just Badlands. Warner didn't renew the license for the Caidin Trust films, which included Foreign Correspondent and Stagecoach.

captveg wrote:Just Badlands. Warner didn't renew the license for the Caidin Trust films, which included Foreign Correspondent and Stagecoach.

... and I Married a Witch, To Be or Not To Be, and The Long Voyage Home. Of those The Long Voyage Home is the only one yet to be released. It'll come eventually, but I'm in no hurry since it's one of the few Ford films that I would call outright boring.

Strongly disagree, The Long Voyage Home is still a film of considerable merit. Gregg Toland's work hits his usual high standard, John Wayne actually does well in a role where he has to speak with an accent - a rarity for him - and the final scene is fantastic.

The previous ten minutes, just in case you need context, and the ending proper.

They usually port over the extras from the DVD, so expect shorts The Fall Guy (Pete Smith Specialty) and Tex Avery's Field and Scream, audio-only outtake and theatrical trailer.

Warner Archive replied and the only extra on blu-ray is a theatrical trailer.

Warner is usually pretty good about that, even in the WA. Were those extras specifically related to the film, or just bonus films from the same era?

Warner Archive has released a new Buster Keaton double feature: Free and Easy (which was previously issued by TCM and Warner as a pressed DVD with two other films) and its rarely seen, simultaneously shot Spanish language alternate Estrellados. Not on Amazon at the moment, but available from the Warner Shop.

hearthesilence wrote:Strongly disagree, The Long Voyage Home is still a film of considerable merit. Gregg Toland's work hits his usual high standard, John Wayne actually does well in a role where he has to speak with an accent - a rarity for him - and the final scene is fantastic.

We'll just have to agree to disagree about every claim you made there.

We've had this (non-)debate on the board before and I am as mystified as ever that people willingly defend the Long Voyage Home, though this is the first time I've ever seen someone defend John Wayne's accent in the process-- I need a "yinyer beer" to deal with this!

Hah, well if you ever need a reason to start on heroin, try Armond White's site.

captveg wrote:Warner is usually pretty good about that, even in the WA. Were those extras specifically related to the film, or just bonus films from the same era?

The 2 shorts are from the era.

The extras related to the film are the trailer (which is being ported over), an audio outtake of the song 'Sometimes I'm Happy' & a Music-Only track for the film

I was looking forward to getting this because I totally adore Ann Miller, but don't think it's worth upgrading now, seeing as the DVD has more on it.

domino harvey wrote:We've had this (non-)debate on the board before and I am as mystified as ever that people willingly defend the Long Voyage Home, though this is the first time I've ever seen someone defend John Wayne's accent in the process-- I need a "yinyer beer" to deal with this!

While I admit I dislike the middle story (which I feel I've seen dozens of times in sitcoms and cartoons growing up) I'm mystified that people don't like it. It's a sumptuous film with such a wonderfully poetic atmosphere of sea and fog. The opening scene, of the men on board aching for women, and the finale, with the wind sweeping the port, are what moviemaking is all about. Ford may never have been more stylish than here.

Yeah, I don't think it's a great film (though it's my favorite Ford in that style), but it has so many positives going for it I really don't understand the strong dismissal that comes up every time.

Though I love Ford so much, I'd been primed to dismiss Voyage when I finally got around to it for a multitude of reasons, but I was really surprised at what a beautiful, somber, haunting film it was. And so incredibly Fordian, in a way that something like Grapes is not at all. I saw it again not too long ago and thought even better of it. Masterpiece, imo.

Wayne's accent may be a joke, but physically he is able to sustain this very subtly expressive melancholy throughout, I think it is actually a very good performance.

I'd but a Blu-ray of it in a heartbeat, really would love for it to get a release.

The Warner Archive Collection re-releases Cronenberg's Crash.

1.37:1? It was shot full frame but I thought Cronenberg approved the 1.66 LD Criterion put out? The New Line DVD was 1.78.

Having long been fascinated with Cronenberg's work, I have to say the one thing I've really been pining for was for one of his most powerful films to be released as a full frame DVD-R.
Thanks so much Warner Archive. You guys rock.

BillWatkins wrote:The Warner Archive Collection re-releases Cronenberg's Crash.

Those bastards. After Videodrome, Crash might be my favorite Cronenberg film, so this is rather disappointing. ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)

mistakaninja wrote:1.37:1? It was shot full frame but I thought Cronenberg approved the 1.66 LD Criterion put out? The New Line DVD was 1.78.

The Warner Bros. website is infamous for a variety of errors like such. My guess is that the DVD is in its proper 1.78:1 aspect ratio, unless WB just managed to fuck it up and include only the full frame version.

A WAC DVD release doesn't necessarily preclude a Blu-ray coming from an indie label, assuming WB are willing to licence. Two Rode Together got a TCM DVD release only a few months before Twilight Time announced the Blu-ray.

Still, it's not encouraging.

Are there any examples of a title coming to burned MOD from Warners and then coming out from another R1 label?

The only example I can think of isn't an example, because we still don't know if Whit Stillman convinced Warner Bros. to let Criterion have Barcelona.

For the record, I'd love to be proved wrong by either of the above examples coming from Criterion. But I wouldn't bet on it

Annoyingly, it's Sony of all people who own the film in the U.K. (in other words, it'll never get a BD release over here!)

domino harvey wrote:I'd love to be proved wrong by either of the above examples coming from Criterion.

Along with Show Boat

domino harvey wrote:Are there any examples of a title coming to burned MOD from Warners and then coming out from another R1 label?

Not exactly another label, but Get Carter was re-released on dvd by WAC just before WHV announced the blu-ray.

A little off-topic for a second, but my nearly 100-year-old grandmother watched some movies with me a couple of weekends ago. She hates both violence and fantasy in most movies, and Some Like it Hot is probably her favorite picture. We watched two pictures whose aims I would describe as nearly diametrically opposite one another. She was nonplussed by The Tarnished Angels, but she was surprisingly enraptured by every minute of the Get Carter bluray. I did not see that coming.