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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:53 pm
by captveg
dustybooks wrote:It would be interesting if we saw Criterion jump at issuing Paradine since they seem to have passed on it back in the early 2000s. I don't know that its reputation has grown at all but it certainly seems like anything of Hitchcock's is a welcome addition. It's really a pity that all of the cut footage seems to be gone forever.
Hitchcock titles (and
Straw Dogs) aside, there are other significant titles in that ABC Pictures library I'd like to see Criterion license. But I wonder if the continued 3-year licensing cycles Disney allows for that library would be prohibitive. Maybe Disney would change their minds this time.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:57 pm
by captveg
domino harvey wrote:Interesting. Are any other tiles from that MGM/Fox box ABC?
Just those four.
Lifeboat is owned by Fox outright, and I believe
The Lodger,
Sabotage and
Young and Innocent are BFI owned (but I'm not 100% on that).
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:01 pm
by domino harvey
Those last three are all coming from Criterion anyways-- I forgot there weren't that many other titles in that recipe book-looking set!
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:45 am
by John Doe
Big news...The Big Sleep and Key Largo are also coming from WAC. Release date: TBA
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:21 am
by FrauBlucher
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:50 am
by captveg
As expected (based on the info from European release dates).
Sold on both!
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 4:47 am
by kekid
If I order these from Amazon.com, will they be DVD-R's?
How can I ensure I get pressed DVD's?
The items are not yet posted on Warner Archives own site, but they are up on Amazon.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 4:52 am
by domino harvey
Good news: All Warner Archive Blu-Ray releases are pressed regardless of where you buy 'em. It's only their DVDs you have to worry about
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 7:10 pm
by domino harvey
The Big Sleep has new extras not included on the original release-- is this a first for a WA Blu-Ray?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:52 pm
by Noiradelic
*Typical noiradelic righteous indignation in WAC thread here.*
Really thought they'd do a mainline Bogie-Bacall set a la the first Gangsters collection. If top-tier Bogie isn't mainline-worthy, then what not-yet upgraded B&W films are?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 4:51 am
by Ashirg
domino harvey wrote:The Big Sleep has new extras not included on the original release-- is this a first for a WA Blu-Ray?
Far from Madding Crowd blu from Warner Archive included an Original location featurette that was not on their DVD, but was also included on StudioCanal blu-ray among other extras.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:00 pm
by FrauBlucher
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf should also be announced soon.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:28 am
by Kauno
Beaver on Passage to Marseille
Tooze wrote:The Warner Blu-ray disc offers large (in all caps!) English subtitles in a gaudy yellow font...
Just stupid. I hope this will not be the case with
The Big Sleep and
Key Largo.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 4:38 pm
by Gregory
WARNER IS JUST FULL OF GREAT IDEAS
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:27 pm
by Werewolf by Night
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:47 pm
by captveg
Release dates for Bogart/Bacall titles:
Key Largo - 2/16
The Big Sleep - 2/23
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:31 am
by criterion10
domino harvey wrote:It would be nice if they'd include both ARs, but I wouldn't hold my breath
New
Blu-Ray is 1.77:1, should the alternate ratio be 1.33:1? (and more importantly, which did Hitchcock prefer?)
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:23 am
by captveg
A Hollywood studio release from the late 50s would not have been 1.37
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:00 pm
by criterion10
captveg wrote:A Hollywood studio release from the late 50s would not have been 1.37
Though 1.66:1 wasn't exactly common for Hollywood productions either, especially from a studio like Warner Bros.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:05 pm
by Drucker
criterion10 wrote:captveg wrote:A Hollywood studio release from the late 50s would not have been 1.37
Though 1.66:1 wasn't exactly common for Hollywood productions either, especially from a studio like Warner Bros.
Though Rear Window from 1954 is 1.66. To Catch A Thief from 1955 was VistaVision, as well, so Hitch was already making widescreen films by the time of The Wrong Man.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:22 am
by Ashirg
Looks like Warner fixed Key Largo cover to poster image -
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:57 am
by chatterjees
Ashirg wrote:Looks like Warner fixed Key Largo cover to poster image -
They have included two covers as per this video they posted on their FB page.
https://www.facebook.com/warnerarchive/videos Somebody needs to define "Reversible sleeve" to them
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:44 am
by captveg
I don't know if both covers will come with it. It may just be showing how they changed it to the red one.
If it does come with both it's probably because they changed it late in the printing.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:31 am
by criterion10
What's with the weird grunting noises that guy was making throughout the video?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:31 am
by captveg
It's a weird thing their video guys do. They have the "whaaa?..." and "a-haaa!" mumbly noises for some reason.
