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You know, there are some Woody Allen dvds or blurays that have seemingly significant extra features on them. A foreign dvd of Small Time Crooks has an Allen interview, and a dvd or bluray which I think is for an English-speaking country of Blue Jasmine has a Q&A on it. I wonder why Mister Woody let that slip?

Peyton Place (Mark Robson, 1957)

Release Date: March 14th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 1st at 4 pm EST.

Special Features: TBD.



Booklet artwork:

Our Man in Havanna (Carol Reed, 1959)

Release Date: March 14th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 1st at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

Baby Boom (Charles Shyer, 1987)

Release Date: March 14th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 1st at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (David Swift, 1967)

Release Date: March 14th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 1st at 4 pm EST.

Special Features: TBD.



Booklet artwork:

pointless wrote:

What the fuck is this

It's Peyton Place.

Once again, I am convinced their graphic design guy has gradually gone mad

Domino, what did you expect?

pointless wrote:Baby Boom (Charles Shyer, 1987)

Release Date: March 14th, 2017.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, March 1st at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
  Original Theatrical Trailer

My parents took me to see this for my 9th birthday. I'm not sure why. I (oddly) liked Woody Allen movies so maybe they thought I liked Diane Keaton...? I got to then pick a present. I got one of those Mask toys, the one where the car turned into the plane. True story.

FrauBlucher wrote:Domino, what did you expect?

Fair question, but I guess I thought the cover for a film filled with stars that garnered a historic amount of acting Oscar nominees might feature more than a puke-filter screencap of a building on the cover. TT is incredible at finding new design lows

In my head the plots to Mr Mom and Baby Boom are jumbled together, is this the one where the main character develops some brilliant ad campaign because of their kid, or is that the Male Keaton movie?

domino harvey wrote:

FrauBlucher wrote:Domino, what did you expect?

Fair question, but I guess I thought the cover for a film filled with stars that garnered a historic amount of acting Oscar nominees might feature more than a puke-filter screencap of a building on the cover. TT is incredible at finding new design lows

You know how we sometimes say about questionable cover art that it may look better in person, this actually will look worse in person.

Ha! To be fair, all of the original poster designs for the film were a mess, but even the worst original art produced for the film would be better than what they gave us. Hell, even the best art produced for a Troma DVD would be better than this!

domino harvey wrote:In my head the plots to Mr Mom and Baby Boom are jumbled together, is this the one where the main character develops some brilliant ad campaign because of their kid, or is that the Male Keaton movie?

Keep in mind I haven't actually seen this since that day, but I remember her marketing an applesauce she made for the kid. Not sure if that's what you're thinking of. I don't think I've seen all of Mr. Mom.

That's probably what I'm thinking of. No interest in revisiting either, however-- I'm slowly learning my lesson!

pointless wrote:

Thrilled that this is finally coming to Blu, TT or no, but the color scheme here is godawful to the point of physical pain. I'll probably flip it over and crudely draw my own cover

Please note the the following 3 titles by Fancois Truffaut are especially sale - priced at SAE as they will be shortly going out of print:

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK - $9.95
THE STORY OF ADELE H - $9.95
MISSISSIPPI MERMAID - $9.95

I believe Criterion already has the other MGM Truffaut titles (Small Change/Pocket Money, The Wild Child, The Man Who Loved Women, and The Green Room). I remember seeing them all on their Hulu channel. Maybe they'll pick-up the 3 going OOP from TT and do a boxset like MGM did over in France.

It is suspect that TT either didn't bother or weren't allowed to renew their license, they may very well be promised elsewhere

domino harvey wrote:That's probably what I'm thinking of. No interest in revisiting either, however-- I'm slowly learning my lesson!

The sad thing is I'm actually tempted to buy it for that nostalgic reason, but I'm sure it's terrible.

Just to add to Domino's confusion:



I actually think Baby Boom is a cute movie and will probably buy it, but I do chalk that up largely to childhood nostalgia. It's one of those films my mom had on heavy VCR rotation back in the day, along with Mannequin and Desperately Seeking Susan.

Twilight Time confirmed that MGM lost the rights to those three Truffaut films. It wouldn't surprise me if vidussoni is correct and Criterion picked them up (a boxset would be surprise, though, as Criterion doesn't really do those anymore.)

Of course I bought those three for $20 each during one of their Christmas sales and they've sat on my shelf, unwatched, since December 2015. So I really got my money's worth #-o

vidussoni wrote:

Please note the the following 3 titles by Fancois Truffaut are especially sale - priced at SAE as they will be shortly going out of print:

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK - $9.95
THE STORY OF ADELE H - $9.95
MISSISSIPPI MERMAID - $9.95

I believe Criterion already has the other MGM Truffaut titles (Small Change/Pocket Money, The Wild Child, The Man Who Loved Women, and The Green Room). I remember seeing them all on their Hulu channel. Maybe they'll pick-up the 3 going OOP from TT and do a boxset like MGM did over in France.

Subtitles are burnt into the video on these don't forget. They are not even forced, so there's nothing to turn off with a special player or on your PC.

vidussoni wrote:

Please note the the following 3 titles by Fancois Truffaut are especially sale - priced at SAE as they will be shortly going out of print:
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK - $9.95
THE STORY OF ADELE H - $9.95
MISSISSIPPI MERMAID - $9.95

I believe Criterion already has the other MGM Truffaut titles (Small Change/Pocket Money, The Wild Child, The Man Who Loved Women, and The Green Room). I remember seeing them all on their Hulu channel. Maybe they'll pick-up the 3 going OOP from TT and do a boxset like MGM did over in France.

Six of these seven Truffaut titles were available on FilmStruck last year. I think all three not released by Twilight Time were matted 4x3 presentations. 'Small Change' was missing at that time.

The FilmStruck Roger Corman conversation includes discussion of New World's distribution of foreign language movies. Corman specifically mentions Bergman and 'Cries & Whispers' (and recorded separate Spotlight introductions for 'Amarcord', 'Dersu Uzala', and 'The Tin Drum.') None of these Truffaut titles are currently streaming and at least some of them were distributed in the US by New World. Presumably Corman was not interested in discussing them if FilmStruck/Criterion's streaming rights are still active.

Honestly, I hope these remain available separately if they get an upgrade by Criterion. "Green Room" and "Wild Child" I would probably get, but not if I have to get the other five on top of them.