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Got my Bill Douglas Trilogy cancelled. Damn.

You can order from BFI's website and they're actually pretty quick with delivery. I had to order the Jeff Keen dvds from them since I don't have an all region blu ray.

Micheal, do you know if other titles will be concerned by this Dual "upgrade" ?
I have other titles as Winstanley, some Flipside (Primitive London & Bed Sitting Room), Separation and Penny Points To Paradise / Let's Go Crazy that I was planning to order next month.

(same question asked on blu-ray.com, but I don't which one you read the most).

I got my Bill Douglas Trilogy cancelled too, it's a shame as I'm not sure I'd pay full price for it. I don't suppose there is any chance of Amazon honoring the sale price when the new editions come in?

Murdoch wrote:The Classic Comedies Collection which has the OOP Dinner at Eight, Libeled Lady, Stage Door and Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be is now also OOP. While the two Harlow films are available via a TCM rerelease, Stage Door and To Be or Not to Be aren't and are running expensive, especially the Lubitsch. If you don't own the films it's best to get this before the price goes up to the hundreds.

This has actually been OOP for a couple years now, which explains the higher prices. I still remember getting it in some crazy DD sale for under $15 years ago!

Just had my Man of Violence cancelled. Doubly frustrating because I ordered it a while ago along with some BFI pre-orders. I have a sneaky suspicion they would have shipped it if they hadn't been waiting for the rest of the order.

domino harvey wrote:

Murdoch wrote:The Classic Comedies Collection which has the OOP Dinner at Eight, Libeled Lady, Stage Door and Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be is now also OOP. While the two Harlow films are available via a TCM rerelease, Stage Door and To Be or Not to Be aren't and are running expensive, especially the Lubitsch. If you don't own the films it's best to get this before the price goes up to the hundreds.

This has actually been OOP for a couple years now, which explains the higher prices. I still remember getting it in some crazy DD sale for under $15 years ago!

Pretty sure it was $24.00... If you and I got it at the same sale. The Lubitsch is expensive because it is a Castle Rock title. Who's putting those out now?

Criterion, appropriately enough. And you're right, I just checked my email from five years ago-- because the cost of this set five years ago is important, haha

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Scored a copy of Danger:Diabolik for a buck at my local Hastings. It's a previously viewed rental but it looks like no one rented it. It's pristine!

Just noticed that Milestone's edition of the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera is OOP and already fetching ridiculous prices. (I'm pretty sure it was in print six months ago or so.) Milestone's website does say this though:

We are sorry to say, but PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is now out-of-print on DVD. We hope to have it out in some form later in 2011.

Hopefully that form is not DVD-R.

I fear that it's likely, like Flicker Alley did for their Garden of Eden when it went OOP.

Milestone's edition of It went out of print a while back as well. I tried ordering it through their website shortly after everybody else ran out of stock and received this email from them:

Thank you so much for ordering from us, but I'm dreadfully sorry to say that we will have to cancel your "IT" dvd order. We will be refunding your money tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, we recently found out that our supplier, Image Entertainment, has let this wonderful film go out of print and they have no current plans to bring it out again. We have taken back the rights and we're working towards coming up with a solution but it might take some time. Once again, my sincere apologies for this.

Phantom of the Opera could be in the same situation. Hopefully they'll get it all sorted out and get them back in print before long.

Amazon has a handful of New Yorker titles in stock. I scored After Life and Camp De Thiaroye. If you decide to buy Moolade save me a copy.

oldsheperd wrote:Amazon has a handful of New Yorker titles in stock. I scored After Life and Camp De Thiaroye. If you decide to buy Moolade save me a copy.

Moolade is available in the UK from Artificial Eye in a much cheaper copy.

swo17 wrote:Just noticed that Milestone's edition of the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera is OOP and already fetching ridiculous prices. (I'm pretty sure it was in print six months ago or so.) Milestone's website does say this though:

We are sorry to say, but PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is now out-of-print on DVD. We hope to have it out in some form later in 2011.

Hopefully that form is not DVD-R.

Personally, I prefer David Shepard's (Image/Eureka) DVD for the 1929 reissue version anyway. Imo the score isn't as good as the Photoplay/Milestone but the image quality overall is superior. Milestone's DVD suffered from such severe ghosting due to PAL-NTSC standards conversion (partly I believe because of Photoplay's method of frame-rate slowdown) that I found it unwatchable. My off-air PAL tape of the Photoplay version looks far better.

The original 1925 version on the Milestone is unaffected by standards conversion but that is (necessarily) from 16mm. Their set does also include some very nice extras of course. Detailed reviews can be found here including one of the even more extensive four-disc Reel Classic edition, though that one is on DVD-R.

swo17 wrote:Just noticed that Milestone's edition of the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera is OOP and already fetching ridiculous prices. (I'm pretty sure it was in print six months ago or so.) Milestone's website does say this though:

We are sorry to say, but PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is now out-of-print on DVD. We hope to have it out in some form later in 2011.

Hopefully that form is not DVD-R.

I wrote them a couple of weeks ago, and they actually hope to bring it out on Blu-ray. Nothing is certain at the moment, though, so it still might fall through.

A couple more Milestone titles, OOP according to MMM:

Mad Love: The Films Of Evgeni Bauer: Twilight Of A Woman's Soul / After Death / The Dying Swan
Night Tide

Both are still available from Milestone's website, which makes no mention of them being discontinued.

Is the BFI set equivalent or better?

swo17 wrote:Just noticed that Milestone's edition of the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera is OOP and already fetching ridiculous prices. (I'm pretty sure it was in print six months ago or so.) Milestone's website does say this though:

We are sorry to say, but PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is now out-of-print on DVD. We hope to have it out in some form later in 2011.

Hopefully that form is not DVD-R.

Wow, I think my copy may still be sealed...

knives wrote:Is the BFI set equivalent or better?

As far as I'm aware, both Mad Love releases are from the same source, but the BFI transfer is native PAL while the Milestone is a PAL-NTSC conversion.

From Nitrateville forum:

David Shepard wrote: Image Entertainment has worked out an MOD scheme with amazon along the lines of Warner Archive to bring back 46 (!) Film Preservation Associates titles which they allowed to go out of print.

This is the most depressing thread

Both DVD and Blu-ray versions of Rio Bravo are OOP, as are both Classic Holiday Collections from Warners (and the individual releases from these went OOP a few years back, so fetch these now while you can)

You can still get the blu of Rio Bravo at Warner Brothers' DVD2Blu site for $4.95 plus shipping