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FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 4:06 pm Here they come….
We know OUT OF THE PAST 4K and
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
now…
WAG THE DOG
MONTANA (1950)
SARGEANT RUTLEDGE

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Vom

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 5:00 pmVom

Does that make you Vomino Harvey?

Forever: The Complete Series..

I'll go to bat for "All Through the Night..." at the very least, it's a really fun movie with a crowd. First saw it at a little college Bogart retrospective with a few dozen people in attendance, and it played like gangbusters. It just moves SO fast, and the cameraderie onscreen is infectious. And it held up on a home rewatch years later. It may not be a pinnacle of studio filmmaking, but it nevertheless feels like a quintessential studio film.

Torrid Zone. They’re working through the Cagney sets it looks like

Beloved Aunt wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 4:46 pm

andyli wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 1:21 am SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene-specific audio commentary by film critic Peter Rainer; 20th anniversary cast & crew reunion discussion; Original Theatrical Trailer

I've always loved the fact that Warners sees fit to include a commentary on the release by a critic (who I've never heard of before or since) who Steve Martin, in the other on-disc extra that isn't the trailer, openly mocks for being (according to Steve Martin) a weird, maladroit loser.

He’s still a film critic and seemingly one of the few around to still earn a living doing it

The Human Comedy! That’s the second title this month that I was just talking about on the forum

+ the Bad Seed in a new restoration (shocked this didn’t go to Arrow et al)

+ Auntie Mame UHD

Wow, just realized Wag the Dog had never received a Blu-ray prior to this. It was one of the earliest DVDs I bought.

I know there’s a following for Auntie Mame (doesn’t it air every Christmas on TCM?) but I’m amazed that someone who gets paid much more than me thought that would sell better than, say, a UHD for the Bad Seed (which I don’t even like, just saying from a business perspective)

Here are the specs for AUNTIE MAME

COMING TO 4K UHD BLU-RAY FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION ON AUGUST 25th
NEW 2026 4K UHD HDR MASTER FROM 12K SCAN OF THE ORIGINAL TECHNIRAMA CAMERA NEGATIVE
AUNTIE MAME (1958)
MSRP$29.98
BD100/BD50-Two disc 4K/Blu-ray combo pack
COLOR
NOT RATED
DOLBY VISION
ASPECT RATIO: 16x9 2.35:1 LETTERBOX
Audio Specs: DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround NEW AUDIO TRACK, DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono Original Theatrical Track, DTS-HD MA 2.0 Music-only track
Disc authoring and compression by Fidelity in Motion

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:33 pm I know there’s a following for Auntie Mame (doesn’t it air every Christmas on TCM?) but I’m amazed that someone who gets paid much more than me thought that would sell better than, say, a UHD for the Bad Seed (which I don’t even like, just saying from a business perspective)

It's airs pretty frequently. It was just on last week or so. It' seems to be a TCM staple

FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:40 pm

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:33 pm I know there’s a following for Auntie Mame (doesn’t it air every Christmas on TCM?) but I’m amazed that someone who gets paid much more than me thought that would sell better than, say, a UHD for the Bad Seed (which I don’t even like, just saying from a business perspective)

It's airs pretty frequently. It was just on last week or so. It' seems to be a TCM staple

It’s screened multiple times every holiday season at the American Cinematheque and typically sells out. I get the camp appeal, but it’s not something I would ever feel a compulsion to own or watch again

Wtf they’re not done. Another Ford: Wings of Eagles!

It’s a shame that Herbert Ross’ original cut of Pennies From Heaven has never surfaced. It is a brilliant film, but the miniseries is in another class

So this is what’s remaining for Ford from WB:

Former pressed discs:
Cheyenne Autumn
the Informer
the Lost Patrol
Mary of Scotland
(Long Voyage Home is assumed no longer held by WB and already has a Blu via Imprint)

MOD DVD-R titles:
Flesh
the Fugitive
the Rising of the Moon

Unreleased but should be held:
Young Cassidy

Did I miss any?

+ Broadway Melody of 1938

I think Auntie Mane is a definite TCM classic which is the same audience WAC caters to, but also imagine that the virtue of it being a 12k Technicolor restoration really is what put the thumb on the scale of this is the kind of thing the format should be used for.

domino harvey wrote:I know there’s a following for Auntie Mame (doesn’t it air every Christmas on TCM?) but I’m amazed that someone who gets paid much more than me thought that would sell better than, say, a UHD for the Bad Seed (which I don’t even like, just saying from a business perspective)

As someone who has owned Auntie Mame on every format (including VHS and laserdisc), even I’m not really sure I need to own this. It’s one of the movies that got me into classic movies thanks to it being aired regularly on AMC (panned and scanned, naturally). But it is on TCM all the time now, too.

It does have some gorgeous color and should look fantastic in 4K, but The Bad Seed would probably definitely outsell it.

Slight correction to Ribs’ comment: this is not a Technicolor film. It’s just standard Warnercolor monopack (albeit with color processing and prints done by Technicolor). Technirama was Technicolor’s proprietary widescreen process which has the film running horizontally, like VistaVision, and uses anamorphic lenses, like CinemaScope. Spartacus was shot in the same process. But the point stands that this film will benefit from the increased resolution in scanning and presentation.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:57 pm So this is what’s remaining for Ford from WB:

Former pressed discs:
Cheyenne Autumn 1964
the Informer 1935
the Lost Patrol 1934
Mary of Scotland 1936
(Long Voyage Home is assumed no longer held by WB and already has a Blu via Imprint) 1940

MOD DVD-R titles:
Flesh 1932
the Fugitive 1947
the Rising of the Moon 1957

Unreleased but should be held:
Young Cassidy 1965

Did I miss any?

By what was announced today it seems like WAC are tackling the later Fords as the elements are most likely in better shape. But hopefully we''ll get the 30s Fords at some point. I do think The Informer has a shot to get released by Criterion. As for Long Voyage Home Janus has the rights but as per an email answer I got from CC they don't have plans to release it

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:33 pm I know there’s a following for Auntie Mame (doesn’t it air every Christmas on TCM?) but I’m amazed that someone who gets paid much more than me thought that would sell better than, say, a UHD for the Bad Seed (which I don’t even like, just saying from a business perspective)

I saw The Bad Seed (and Village Of The Damned) as a kid and loved them but upon revisiting in college found them a bit contrived and annoying despite a clever idea underlying them and have always felt they would have worked better as Twilight Episodes rather than feature length films and have never bought them on disc. On the other hand, I didn't discover Auntie Mame until after college and found it immensibly enjoyable. It's one of 2 films where I found Rosalind Russell's spitfire delivery of her lines to work for the benefit of the character and film's plot (the other being The Women), whereas in the others (including His Girl Friday) I've just found it annoying. Auntie Mame is a gay/camp classic which (along with The Women) would fill up The Castro theater if announced (where I've first seen both) with an audience that laughs so much you often miss some of the dialogue (and hence need a copy for home viewing). I've bought both in every format and will upgrade as soon as they're available in UHD.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:57 pm So this is what’s remaining for Ford from WB:

Former pressed discs:
Cheyenne Autumn
the Informer
the Lost Patrol
Mary of Scotland
(Long Voyage Home is assumed no longer held by WB and already has a Blu via Imprint)

MOD DVD-R titles:
Flesh
the Fugitive
the Rising of the Moon

Unreleased but should be held:
Young Cassidy

Did I miss any?

I’m always confused as to the RKO catalogue - isn’t The Plough & The Stars a possibility?

Peacock wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:39 pm I’m always confused as to the RKO catalogue - isn’t The Plough & The Stars a possibility?

This is on the Criterion Channel with a Janus Films logo. No idea what the rights situation is. It was shot on the RKO sets with RKO producers and RKO contract crew (like Van Nest Polglase as art director and Hugh McDowell Jr. on sound). And it doesn't appear to be public domain.

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:51 pm It’s a shame that Herbert Ross’ original cut of Pennies From Heaven has never surfaced. It is a brilliant film, but the miniseries is in another class

Could you point us to any information on Ross’ “original cut”? So far I haven’t been able to find anything about it other than your mention.

Dennis Potter’s original mini-series Pennies from Heaven is certainly astounding, as is his The Singing Detective. I only recently tracked down his 1950s-set mini-series Lipstick on Your Collar that followed his similar 1930s- and 1940s-set productions.

I hope someone releases Long Voyage Home soon, that's easily my favorite outstanding WB Ford film that's not on Blu-ray, much less UHD, and the ending alone is one of my favorites from Ford.

There was a pretty comprehensive poll of favorite Ford films among film critics - I think in the '70s or possibly the '80s, but I'm pretty sure it was after Ford died - and to my surprise The Wings of Eagles was solidly in the top ten. I want to say it's now more overlooked than praised, but that's just a guess based on how rarely I hear it mentioned. I think Dave Kehr has championed it and Jonathan Rosenbaum hates it, but I'm more in agreement with Joseph McBride - John Wayne's performance is arguably one of his greatest, but overall the film feels pretty spotty to me.

As for Sergeant Rutledge, I don't know what Kehr thinks of it but the other two generally like it. I saw it before I grew to not just appreciate Ford but consider him one of my very favorite filmmakers so I'm due to revisit it myself.