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Which statement is most stupid? The Brothers Warner (Archive Edition) or the brothers Coen (Joel issue)?

WB Archive Newsletter:
ROMANCE (1930) REMASTERED One of Greta Garbo's earliest and most celebrated talkies, ROMANCE became the blueprint for screen romance for decades to come and was the first of seven pictures in which she collaborated with director Clarence Brown.

(As if the missed opportunity of publishing the two edits of TWO-FACED WOMAN wasn't offense enough!
Anyone else care to once again help me wish WB a big fat "fuck you"?)

Newsweek Interview with Joel and Ethan Coen:
Newsweek: Do you have a favorite Western?
Joel Coen: I didn’t grow up as a John Ford, John Wayne fan. But there are certain John Ford Westerns I really like. I like Rio Bravo, and I like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

(Can you imagine some idiot pop "star" referring to The Rolling Stones' White Album and not getting roundly trounced? Would never happen.)

Oh, for God's sake, the Beatles didn't make 146 movies. Between Rio Grande, Rio Bravo, and Rio Lobo, it's fairly easy to get things confused, especially in an off the cuff interview.

A professional press release gaffe is somewhat harder to excuse, I suppose.

matrixschmatrix wrote:Oh, for God's sake, the Beatles didn't make 146 movies.

Yes, point well taken - making such illiteracy even harder to excuse.

George Kaplan wrote:Joel Coen: I didn’t grow up as a John Ford, John Wayne fan. But there are certain John Ford Westerns I really like. I like Rio Bravo

I think the first question is:

Which mistake did he really make?

Did he really confuse Ford and Hawks as the director of Rio Bravo?

Or, having just said "John Wayne / John Ford" in the previous sentence, did he just make what amounts to a verbal "typo" by saying "Ford" when he meant "Wayne"?

Or did he mean "I didn’t grow up as a John Ford [or] John Wayne fan [but] I like Wayne's Rio Bravo, and I like Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

New titles tomorrow:

Remastered:

The Cobweb (1955)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
The Relcutant Debutante (1958)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

Collections:

Warren William Collection (The Woman From Monte Carlo / Don't Bet on Blondes / Times Square Playboy)
Robert Young Double Feature (Paradise for 3 / Mircales for Sale)
Walter Pidgeon Double Feature (Society Lawyer / Stronger Than Desire)

It'll be nice to ditch my TCM rips of the Minnelli quartet

Frankinho007 wrote:New titles tomorrow:

Remastered:

The Cobweb (1955)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
The Relcutant Debutante (1958)
Two Weeks in Another Town ...

"Two Weeks" is an amusing bookend to "The Bad And The Beautiful", but I haven't seen the other three. Minnelli experts out there, is there a must see, or two, out of those remaining? I really hate getting those DVD/R's, if I don't have to. One nick, and they're toast!

I recently came across a website that indicated that Mr George Feltenstein, senior vice president of theatrical marketing for Warner Bros. Home Video had recently found 200 prints of Monogram westerns. Does anyone here have any information about this find or how I could contact Warner Brothers Archive Collection representatives to find out the titles of these 200 prints and if they plan to release these on DVDs as part of their Archive Collection?

New titles 01/25 as per twitter

Remastered:

Home Before Dark (1958)
Libel (1959)
The Night Digger (1971)

Standard:

Bodyguard (1948)
Chicago Calling (1952)
The Hour Of 13 (1952)
Twenty Plus Two (1961)
Operation C.I.A (1965)

Cold Bishop wrote:Or did he mean "I didn’t grow up as a John Ford [or] John Wayne fan [but] I like Wayne's Rio Bravo, and I like Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

Neither. He made three distinct statements.

1. I didn't grow up a Ford or Wayne fan.

2. However, I do like some Ford westerns [now].

3. I also like Rio Bravo [which isn't a Ford Western, but an older "classic" western I also like] and TMWSLV.

It's an interview, people, not a fact-finding essay.

But! if I treat it as a fact-finding essay it means I'm more clever than Joel Coen cuz I found a mistake, hahaha!

New Titles today via Facebook and the Warner Archive site:

Intruder in the Dust (1949) - Remastered
The Learning Tree (1969)
Night Unto Night (1949)
Stallion Road (1947)

New titles to be added today:
Sunday in New York (1963) - Remastered!
Bachelor in Paradise (1961) - Remastered!
The Bachelor Father (1931)
My Love Came Back (1940)
Design for Scandal (1941)
Bride by Mistake (1944)
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

Buy two select Romance titles for $30 here

Any suggestions? I only have Susan Slept Here

Preminger's the Moon is Blue

Thanks, picked it up along with It's Love I'm After

Shoot! Came in too late to say Leo McCarey's Once Upon a Honeymoon. One of the strangest propaganda films from the era. Mixes intrigue and a scene in a concentration camp all without sacrificing it's romantic-comedy guise and without ever getting too sappy or without waving the flag.

I've seen three of them, looks like two of them got new covers in the meantime. Made In Heaven was dreadful, only if you're really really curious and have money to throw away (I was merely kind of curious, and did used to have money to throw away, and they did have a few good sales early on). The Moon Is Blue is pretty entertaining, and Idiot's Delight is pretty interesting too (and it does have Clark Gable singing Putting On The Ritz, so at least in this case my curiosity paid off well enough).

Also, I'll probably end up biting on Sunday In New York somewhere along the line, during an appropriately big enough sale... another film (there's so many now) that should have had a real disc release. Presumably an Archive dvd-r means no real disc ever, dvd or blu-ray; and you get to pay even more for the privilege.

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote:Shoot! Came in too late to say Leo McCarey's Once Upon a Honeymoon.

Then again, that's a movie that can be gotten in a real pressed DVD edition from France for 10 euros. It's part of the Montparnasse RKO collection under the title Lune de miel mouvementée.

New titles next Tuesday:

Chance at Heaven (1933)
Finishing School (1934)
Lucky Partners (1940)
Primrose Path (1940)
Suicide Fleet (1931)
Upperworld (1934)

TV/Animation:

Jabberjaw (1976)

New titles next Tuesday:

Ambush (1950)
Destination Murder (1950)
Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
The Outriders (1950) - Remastered
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Stars in My Crown (1950) - Remastered
The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Wild Rovers (1971)
Tim Holt Western Classics Vol. 1 (10 movies on 5 DVDs - no titles mentioned yet)

Stars in My Crown is one of the underrated masterpieces by Jacques Tourneur. It's must have been a pet project of his as the film is completely unmarketable. The poster for the film features Joel McCrea with two six-shooters and some cheesy line "Take your pick... Either I speak... or my pistols do" even though he pulls out his guns only once in a moment of comedy right in the beginning. In times where westerns were expected to have great action, tough men and blazing guns, here he comes with a film about love and compassion and the bringing of civilization into the old west with Joel McCrea and his bible. The film almost doesn't have a single ounce of hate in it. Absolutely beautiful and poetic and ranks among one of my favorite westerns (if you can really call it a western).

And of course you get Dean Stockwell.

I had my fingers crossed that Stars In My Crown would be one of the rare films that actually finds a real release (like Uncertain Glory), but it wasn't meant to be. Oh well. I know what film I'm renting from Classicflix next.

Here are some specs on the Tim Holt Vol 1 set via the Warner Archive site:

Tim Holt Western Classics Volume 1 (5 DVD Set)

Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Screen Aspect: 4 X 3 Full Frame
Run Time: 605 minutes
Packaging Type: Amray Case
Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime

Synopsis:
Between 1938 and 1952 famed A-list supporting player Tim Holt took the reins as leading player in more than 40 rip-snorting oaters, reigning as a king of the Western Bs. Get ready to slap leather alongside Holt as this wagon train sized collection brings 10 of them to you from the early years of Holt's long ride.

RENEGADE RANGER 1938 - Western star George O'Brien passes the torch to Tim Holt, also featuring Rita Hayworth.

LAW WEST OF TOMBSTONE 1938 - Tim Holt backs up Harry Carey,playing a con man become law man, in this unconventional Western.

ALONG THE RIO GRANDE 1941 - In order to avenge their boss, three cowhands pose as bank robbers. With Ray Whitley.

BANDIT TRAIL 1941 - A bank robber poses as a Town Marshal, only to find the law growing on him. With Roy Barcroft.

ROBBERS OF THE RANGE 1941 - Framed for murder, a rancher assumes a dead man's identity in his quest for justice. With Virginia Vale.

DUDE COWBOY 1941 - A federal agent investigates a counterfeiting ring at a dude ranch. With Marjorie Reynolds.

COME ON DANGER 1942 - Holt takes the lead in this new take on the Renegade Ranger tale. With Ray Whitley.

BANDIT RANGER 1942 - A young rancher is framed for the murder of a ranger. With Cliff Edwards.

PIRATES OF THE PRAIRIE 1942 - A Deputy U.S. Marshall investigates two towns ruled by vigilantes. With Nell O'Day.

FIGHTING FRONTIER 1943 - Special Investigator Kit Russell discovers that a gang of robbers has a secret master. With Ann Summers.