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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:45 pm
by movielocke
FrauBlucher wrote:It’ll be curious to see how this looks. Isn’t this one of those titles where the source material is not the best. Warner may have spent a fortune on the restoration which might explain this getting a release only in the series.
The 35 mm prints I’ve seen look much better than the dvd or the filmstruck transfer. It looked quite bad on filmstruck, I’m guessing it was a pre dvd tcm element that was directly ported from the tcm server to filmstruck.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:41 pm
by KJones77
Two new announcements so far:
Merrill's Marauders
Bronco Billy
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:23 pm
by Rayon Vert
Really looking forward to Marauders. Not much significant Fuller left to release on blu (?).
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:23 pm
by senseabove
After Summer Stock, Gaslight, and now this, I'm starting to get my hopes up that WAC is turning a corner...
NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER!
FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933)
Run Time 103:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3
Product Color BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: Featurette "Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades"; 2 Vintage Warner Bros. Shorts "Rambling 'Round Radio Row #8" and "Vaudeville Reel #1"; 4 Vintage Warner Bros. Cartoons: Honeymoon Hotel, Young and Healthy, One Step Ahead of My Shadow and Sittin' on a Backyard Fence; Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Footlight Parade is sheer cinematic joy. In this Depression-era romp, a timid stenographer (Ruby Keeler) removes her glasses and — wow! — she’s a star. A gee-whiz tenor (Dick Powell) asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances, and an indefatigable producer/dancer (James Cagney) and his Girl Friday (Joan Blondell) work showbiz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times. Honeymoon Hotel, By a Waterfall and Shanghai Lil are the shows, directed by Busby Berkeley and filled with imagination-bending sets, startling camera angles, kaleidoscopic pageantry and a 20,000-gallon-per-minute waterfall. Curtain up!
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:35 pm
by domino harvey
Would have preferred Dames but I’ll take it. Marauders is minor Fuller, but I also didn’t think it’d ever make it to Blu, so better it than some grade Z schlock from the vaults
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:14 pm
by FrauBlucher
They are acknowledging it's an MGM film on the cover. Don't recall that happening before.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:33 pm
by Lowry_Sam
Oh well, I guess another individual title is a small consolation for not getting a Criterion BB box.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:40 pm
by FrauBlucher
Robert Harris over at HTF dropped this little blurb a few days back....
As to classics, and in line with my few words a year or so ago, I believe this will be a big summer for Warner Archive, with The Thin Man being the tip of the iceberg...
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:41 pm
by domino harvey
Good, let’s hope
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:53 pm
by FrauBlucher
Details for
The Thin Man:
NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER RESTORED FROM NEW 4K SCAN OF BEST ARCHIVAL ELEMENTS!
THE THIN MAN (1934)
Run Time 91:00
Subtitles English SDH
Audio DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3
Product Color BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: 1936 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast Starring Powell and Loy (Audio Only); 1957 Episode of “The Thin Man” television series - "Scene of the Crime"; Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:08 am
by senseabove
FrauBlucher wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:40 pm
Robert Harris over at HTF dropped this little blurb a few days back....
As to classics, and in line with my few words a year or so ago, I believe this will be a big summer for Warner Archive, with The Thin Man being the tip of the iceberg...
I don't really follow much over there. I know he's got inside info from some labels, but does he have any history of it with WAC?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:57 am
by FrauBlucher
I believe he has communication with Feltenstein from Warner Brothers and then there's
this
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 1:35 pm
by captveg
EddieLarkin wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:53 pm
captveg wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:52 pm
I imagine they'll do additional films if it sells well, kinda like the Popeye shorts situation.
Any idea how 42nd Street sold?
I don't know, but my guess would be it didn't sell nearly as well as their 50s color musicals, just based on them going back to that latter well far more often.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 3:34 pm
by FrauBlucher
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:42 pm
by Jack Kubrick
So much of the popular Warner Brothers classics are now part of the niche label that was designed for lesser known films?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:48 pm
by domino harvey
I think they’re just using it to soft rerelease their Digibook titles in lieu of repressing the packaging
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:31 pm
by Gregory
The best bet for Streetcar (for the Region B compatible) seems to be the French Brando Collection, which in addition to Mutiny on the Bounty also includes Reflections in a Golden Eye, which the WAC people haven't seen fit to release at any point in the approximately seven years since the Blu-ray label was launched. I wonder if Reflections might go to Criterion, since they have a track record of releasing other Huston films, other 1960s Brando, and Wise Blood.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:23 am
by Altair
I should warn that the French release of Reflections in a Golden Eye is very bad - forced French subs, which could be stomached if the image wasn't awful, barely HD quality, and with extremely washed out colour.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:15 pm
by captveg
Facebook post from WB about their SDCC plans lists V: The Original Mini-Series (1983) as forthcoming:
Warner Archive Collection covers the past, present and future at 2019 Comic-Con International with a trio of entertaining panels slated for the weekend – a Thursday celebration of Popeye’s 90th Birthday; a Friday revisit to the landmark V: The Original Mini-Series, currently being remastered for Blu-ray; and a spotlight on The Jetsons (for its upcoming newly-remastered-for-Blu-ray release) and the terrific primetime history of Hanna-Barbera.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 12:22 pm
by Adam X
Hooray! And none too soon, just when I was finally coming back round to considering buying the DVDs. Hopefully The Final Battle will follow soon after. Still not entirely sure I need the series, but I'm sure a Blu-Ray set would convince me Warner.
I just hope they honor their gem of a DVD release and make the disc/s flippers.
Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 2:08 pm
by FrauBlucher
bluray.com....Gaslight....Another beauty from WAC
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 3:13 pm
by dustybooks
Yes, I was very impressed with the level of detail on Gaslight, a more sumptuous-looking film than I remembered, which really threw the unrestored SD transfer of the 1940 version into sharp relief. (I'm still glad they included it, even though I know it's in stronger quality elsewhere.)
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 5:44 pm
by Glowingwabbit
John Ford's Wagon Master is getting a blu upgrade per their Facebook page. It's nice to see Warner Archives finally releasing/announcing actual classics again this summer.
Edit:
NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER!
WAGONMASTER (1950)
Run Time 86:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio 1.37; 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
Product Color BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Feature: Commentary by Harry Carey, Jr. and Peter Bogdanovich with archival contributions by John Ford
The rivers are wide and rapid. The desert is vast and unforgiving. And when the trail turns craggy, men use pickaxes to dig grooves for the wagon wheels. Mother Nature can be overcome, but human nature remains deadly and unpredictable: Outlaws are using the Mormon wagon train as a hideout from a pursuing posse.
John Ford’s Wagon Master is one of the legendary filmmaker’s personal favorites, a visually stirring celebration of Western will and cooperation set to the soundtrack crooning of the Sons of the Pioneers. Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond (who would later lead TV’s Wagon Train) and other familiar Ford stock company players take the reins in this glorious paean to the pioneer spirit. “Wagons west!”
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:04 pm
by Glowingwabbit
Another exciting upgrade (Warner Archive has been on a roll):
NEW 2019 1080p HD MASTER!
MOONFLEET (1955)
Run Time 87:00
Subtitles English SDH
Sound Quality DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English
Aspect Ratio 2.55:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
Product Color COLOR
Disc Configuration BD 50
Includes Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Adventure and intrigue await all ye who venture into the small and sinister village of Moonfleet on the windswept moors of Dorsetshire. Particularly as directed by master-of-menace Fritz Lang, this colorful tale of a young boy’s experiences among some really bad companions enthralls in the tradition of Kidnapped and Treasure Island.
Here, young John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at his ancestral estate, now owned by the dashing, and mysterious Jeremy Fox (Stewart Granger). Out of love for the boy’s mother, but against his better judgment, Fox grudgingly allows John to stay. He soon becomes attached to the boy, but his devotion is tested when John discovers a hidden smugglers’ lair beneath the village graveyard and learns a shocking secret that could cost both him and Fox their lives.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:09 pm
by senseabove
Oh, fantastic! After two recent series on Lang near me, I'm trying to work my way through the rest, and this is one of the ones that wasn't in the local run. I was dreaming WAC would oblige...