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TVC15 wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 8:58 pm What's the consensus on Rancho Notorious? Mid or upper-tier Lang?

Well, as Lang himself said in Le mepris when Piccoli and BB praise it, “I prefer M”

I don't like it either, but some people love it

Of the 36 I've seen, it's a top-ten Lang for me. It's a very weird and wonderful movie.

I just need a fourth. I'm probably going to grab Summer Stock, which I saw recently and enjoyed quite a bit, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue, which I really don't love but is the missing Peckinpah from my collection, and I somehow didn't already own Party Girl... I'll just be honest, I want to justify a purchase of four movies to get the Ray cheap

I guess you could really plug up that auteurist hole with the Flying Leathernecks too!

Oof

So my takeaway here was go all in on I Love Melvin, Rancho Notorious and Flying Leathernecks. Tossed in Safe in Hell too. lol, we’ll see.

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 9:16 pm I just need a fourth. I'm probably going to grab Summer Stock, which I saw recently and enjoyed quite a bit, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue, which I really don't love but is the missing Peckinpah from my collection, and I somehow didn't already own Party Girl... I'll just be honest, I want to justify a purchase of four movies to get the Ray cheap

The first time I watched Cable Hogue I really did not care for it. But it stuck with me and I revisited it and it's probably my favorite Peckinpah at this point. It's a remarkable film and it's insanity and unique tone completely work for me. And the final scene is brilliant.

Drucker wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:45 pm I honestly am not sure why I picked up The Santa Fe Trail. Either the appeal of a story about John Brown or I may have mistakenly thought it to be a Raoul Walsh film. Regardless, as beautiful as the film and transfer is, this particular story about how John Brown's desire for bloodshed was the key driver that led America into the Civil War, and if we had just given the south a little more personal space, the whole slavery thing would have sorted itself out, is particularly difficult to watch. I have a stomach for films which don't accurately depict history and have other problematic elements wen evaluated through a contemporary lens, but the whole story here is fantastical and it's pretty hard to sit through.

Sorry to post like this is social media, but:

Michael Curtiz telling a story which includes English people enslaved by Spain: this is an intolerable affront to liberty and the barbarism of these sub-human Spaniards has no place in a civilized society. Free the slaves at once.

Michael Curtiz telling a story which concerns slaves in the Antebellum south, released 6 months later: listen guys, they'll get to the whole freeing the Slaves thing but let's let them do it on its own terms.

In all seriousness I loved The Sea Hawk and watched it last night. Every Curtiz film I see I enjoy more than the last. The swashbuckling scenes are superb and the lighting and camera movement throughout is incredible. Excited to dig into more after the latest sale. But I must admit it's maddening to me that Curtiz literally made these films back to back and treated the subject of slavery so differently!

Curtiz barely spoke English, but he had a knack for innately knowing how to lay out the action and rely on his crew to do their jobs. In a world of Henry Hathaways and Henry Kings, he’s probably got the best ratio of hits to misses of the major workhorse in house directors

As far as movies WA put out on Blu, these should be on your radar:

Romance on the High Seas
the Sea Wolf
the Walking Dead
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Young Man with a Horn

Also his pre/code horror pair, Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum.

I’ve seen but can’t remember anything about Mystery of the Wax Museum but Doctor X certainly has one truly impossible to forget moment to compensate

Wise-cracking journo Glenda Farrell asking her editor “How’s yer sex life?” Arthur Edmund Carewe as a junkie henchman? Pinky Atwill fondling the bosoms of his wax ladies? It’s a blast, and in gorgeous two-strip technicolor.

I actually like The Walking Dead better than the original Frankenstein. But Bride is better than both.

domino harvey wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 3:48 pm Curtiz barely spoke English, but he had a knack for innately knowing how to lay out the action and rely on his crew to do their jobs. In a world of Henry Hathaways and Henry Kings, he’s probably got the best ratio of hits to misses of the major workhorse in house directors

As far as movies WA put out on Blu, these should be on your radar:

Romance on the High Seas
the Sea Wolf
the Walking Dead
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Young Man with a Horn

Agreed. Again, Santa Fe Trail has some absolutely gorgeous lighting especially in the final showdown scene. White Christmas is a favorite of my wife and we watch it annually. I just picked up a few more during the most recent sale. His not speaking English seems like a fair defense of his politics at least! Though that final scene in The Sea Hawk is clearly aimed at the war in Europe.

domino harvey wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 4:18 pm I’ve seen but can’t remember anything about Mystery of the Wax Museum but Doctor X certainly has one truly impossible to forget moment to compensate

Spoiler

Which is the one that ends with cannibalism?

Review… another stunner
The Man Who Came to Dinner

MovieZyng updated many of the titles that weren’t being shown as eligible for the sale (which runs through the 31st)

Review… who’s better than them
The Gay Divorcee

Looney Tunes Cartoons: the Complete Series coming in May

As in all 800+ shorts including Merrie Melodies, banned cartoons, and post theatrical stuff?

knives wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2026 4:32 pm As in all 800+ shorts including Merrie Melodies, banned cartoons, and post theatrical stuff?

I think it's the Saturday morning reboot..

Update: Online posters are saying it's the HBO Max series 2020-2024.

Yeah the MSRP is way too low for it to be anything substantial

The series' complete running time would be somewhere in the area of 20 hours, right? I'd hardly say this release looks insubstantial! The MSRP of $35 seems like a sale price - the complete Tom and Jerry set is only 13 1/2 hours of material.

but it's about quality over quantity... I'm a bit skeptical of the reboots, but IMDB is giving the series 8.0 average.