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Here's an interesting one: "Sybil," the Emmy-winning TV-movie with Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, is getting a two-disc SE in May.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5032

-BJ

Specs:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/sybil.html

Damn, I recently bought a 2-DVDr copy of the 3-hour version. Quality was poor/adequete. I really never expected to see this film on DVD at all. It's a bold, disquieting experience; Sally Field gives an extraordinary perfomance(s), and Joanne Woodward's patient, compassionate psychiatrist is one her very best moments. But it is Martine Bartlett as Sybil's mother who makes the most impact, I feel; she has to be one of the most cruel and terrifying screen characters ever.

The extras sound very interesting.

A new TV movie is currently being produced, with Jessica Lange in the Joanne Woodward part and Tammy Blanchard (young Judy Garland in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) as Sybil: www.imdb.com/title/tt0499260

I can't see it being as hard-hitting and disturbing as the 1976 version, which wouldn't be shown on prime-time today, I reckon.

Kudos to Warner - the fans will be ecstatic.

I'd love to see Universal release Daniel Petrie's, Resurrection on DVD in 2.35:1 anamorphic, as the pan and scan VHS has been OOP for years.

This TV movie had a huge impact on me as a kid. I wonder if it holds up? Field and Woodward give extraordinary performances. For a long time those two roles represented two different paradigms of Great Acting for me.

No english subs for this, then:

Its over three hours????? I watched this is psychology back in high school and I don't remember it being three hours.

Previous video releases have used either the 132-minute edit (which I think was done for the European theatrical release) or a shorter 120-minute version. The original 1976 airing ran over three hours without commercials -- the IMDb says it was 198 minutes (this is also the stated running time of the bootleg offered by Super Happy Fun), so I'm not sure what happened to the other 11 minutes.

No english subs, huh? Some of the hysterical dialogue is hard to make out, so that's weird. Is this a first for Warner? I hope it isn't a new policy for non-prestige titles - not that this isn't, but it's strange for the Big W to stinge on the basics.

Review:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview ... review.htm

No English subs but it has closed captioning.

Warner's DVD of William Peter Blatty's, The Ninth Configuration lacks subtitles and is non-anamorphic. Seems to be a port of the R2 edition from the independent label, Blue Dolphin.