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Harvey?

Brian C wrote:Harvey?

Yes!

Don't me wrong, I'm happy to see any classic studio movies on Blu (and catalog releases in general) ... just seems like an especially arbitrary choice by Uni.

Brian C wrote:Don't me wrong, I'm happy to see any classic studio movies on Blu (and catalog releases in general) ... just seems like an especially arbitrary choice by Uni.

100th anniversary, one person's arbitrary is another person's classic, etc. (Me, I could think of a lot of would rather sees.)

In my experience, Harvey is a movie often beloved by people who don't watch a lot of older movies. I'll happily buy it, too, it's a charming movie.

In my experience it's a film everyone seems to know but no one seems to have actually seen

Has anybody bought the UK release of Psycho recently? I've heard that the regular edition now includes the booklet, which initially was exclusive to steelbook edition. Can anybody confirm that? Also, it's less than five pounds in The Hut Group stores.

domino harvey wrote:In my experience it's a film everyone seems to know but no one seems to have actually seen

I know it due to the prominent and witty reference to it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. But I haven't seen it.

domino harvey wrote:In my experience it's a film everyone seems to know but no one seems to have actually seen

I've been meaning to watch it... for the last 25 years.

Well, I own the R1 DVD of Harvey and I watch a lot of older movies. First time I saw it I was a boy in the '50s at a Saturday matinee. I was, of course, mesmerized by the idea one could have a 6ft tall invisible white rabbit as a friend. It's also the film that caused me to fall in love with Jimmy Stewart the actor. Second time I saw the film was on one of those ubiquitous [fill in the blank] Night at the Movies that followed the success of Saturday Night at the Movies on TV in the early '60s.

It's not great art, but the gentleness of Elwood and Josephine Hull's Veta (everybody has a Veta somewhere in their family if you look hard enough) make it a pleasant (and I mean that in all the positive ways the word can be employed) evening's entertainment. There are worse things than spending nearly two hours smiling. I'd snap up a Blu in a New York minute.

Harvey was a childhood staple. My dad had a version he'd taped off tv, and we would all regularly sit down as a family to watch it. Took me a few years to realize that Harvey probably wasn't real.

Mr Sausage wrote:Took me a few years to realize that Harvey probably wasn't real.

He's not???!!!

triodelover wrote:

Mr Sausage wrote:Took me a few years to realize that Harvey probably wasn't real.

He's not?

I actually think he is, within the world of the movie- iirc there are some supernatural things that are either spectacular coincidences or meant to imply that there really is a six foot invisible rabbit púca hopping around.

I've always wondered if Donnie's imaginary friend in Donnie Darko was meant to be a reference.

eerik wrote:Has anybody bought the UK release of Psycho recently? I've heard that the regular edition now includes the booklet, which initially was exclusive to steelbook edition. Can anybody confirm that? Also, it's less than five pounds in The Hut Group stores.

I ordered the regular Blu-ray edition of Psycho on 26th December 2011 from Amazon UK and it does not include the booklet.

Mr Sausage wrote:Harvey was a childhood staple. My dad had a version he'd taped off tv, and we would all regularly sit down as a family to watch it. Took me a few years to realize that Harvey probably wasn't real.

Not only that, but watching the film again recently after about twenty years I recognized how dark the story's main theme is. Essentially, Stewart's character is a sensitive man who has been crushed by the real world. Any ambition or hope for love has been squeezed out of him, but instead of sliding further into depression he finds solace by floating through his life in an alcoholic state as if he was a Zen master. The creaky attempts to make HARVEY a rollicking comedy aren't very successful and they're completely undermined by the astonishingly good performance given by Stewart who creates one of the most melancholic characters I've seen in mainstream cinema.

Roger Ryan wrote:Not only that, but watching the film again recently after about twenty years I recognized how dark the story's main theme is. Essentially, Stewart's character is a sensitive man who has been crushed by the real world. Any ambition or hope for love has been squeezed out of him, but instead of sliding further into depression he finds solace by floating through his life in an alcoholic state as if he was a Zen master. The creaky attempts to make HARVEY a rollicking comedy aren't very successful and they're completely undermined by the astonishingly good performance given by Stewart who creates one of the most melancholic characters I've seen in mainstream cinema.

'"In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.' - that's a deeply cynical line, and I think Harvey is as much a dark movie with a sweet heart as much as It's a Wonderful Life is.

jmp wrote:

eerik wrote:Has anybody bought the UK release of Psycho recently? I've heard that the regular edition now includes the booklet, which initially was exclusive to steelbook edition. Can anybody confirm that? Also, it's less than five pounds in The Hut Group stores.

I ordered the regular Blu-ray edition of Psycho on 26th December 2011 from Amazon UK and it does not include the booklet.

Turns out it was a Swedish release. Australian release also has the booklet...

Ooh, Bride of Frankenstein is unexpected and welcome.

How is Buck Privates Universal's default A&C movie? At least this might bode well for actual supplements this time around...

The Touch of Evil Facebook page just saw this posted:

Touch of Evil is available today on Blu-ray Combo Pack as part of Universal's Centennial Celebration. It's loaded with tons of bonus features including:
• Digital Copy of Touch of Evil
• Welle's Memo
• Theatrical Trailer
• Production Notes
• Cast and Filmmakers
Order your copy today for $12.99

Did they not get their own memo that it's not blu-ray?

Minkin wrote:How is Buck Privates Universal's default A&C movie? At least this might bode well for actual supplements this time around...

According to the earlier leak, A&C Meet Frankenstein is due on Blu this year too.

But still no Sternberg on blu? ](*,)

So much for this video, where they specifically say that they leave film grain in.