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In the UK Fox are releasing a series of 2-disc special editions under the title 'cinema reserve'. These "important" films (as designated by Fox) are being released with sequential numbering on the spines (all packaged in a metal box). However, this tends to highlight (rather than disguise) the arbitrary and random choices of the sequence (see below).

Cinema Reserve #1 The Day The Earth Stood Still
A Warning and an Ultimatum
The making of: featurette
Restoration comparison
Movietone news of the premiere and events of 1951
Audio commentary by Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer
Original theatrical trailer
Stills gallery
Cinema Reserve #2 My Darling Clementine
Theatrical version of the film
Commentary by Wyatt Earp III
Alternative pre-release version of the film
Documentary: "What Is The Pre-Release Version"
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Cinema Reserve #3 All About Eve
Audio commentary by Celeste Holm, Christopher Mankiewicz and Kenneth Geist
Audio commentary by Sam Staggs (author of the novel 'All About Eve')
4 Movietone news segments
3 featurettes
Original theatrical trailer
Cinema Reserve #4 Laura
Audio commentary by composer
David Raksin and Jeanine Basinger
Audio commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer
Extended scene
Documentary - The Obsession
Two biography episodes - 1. "Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait" / 2. "Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain"
Theatrical trailer
Cinema Reserve #5 Lifeboat
Audio commentary by Dr. Drew Casper
The making of Lifeboat: an engrossing 55 minute talk with Alfred Hitchcock
Stills gallery with an array of original promotional images and newspaper adverts
Cinema Reserve #6? Patton
Featurette - History Through The Lens: â€

Fancy packaging and arbitraty selection of titles aside, my impression (of the first releases at least) was that the Cinema Reserve titles did not include any material that was different from the same releases in the R1 Studio Classics line. Transfers, I am sure, are also identical to the American releases, or...?

I am sure the content is the same, the only difference is PAL over NTSC

Not always the same. As for Lifeboat, the US DVD doesnt have the 50 minute Hitchcock doc.

Butch Cassidy in the UK's documentary has been edited to remove a horsefall....

Day The Earth Stood Still has an extra featurette on the UK disc but doesnt have the shooting script of the R1

manicsounds wrote:Not always the same.

How about the transfers?

BTW the BBFC constantly amaze me! - horsefall edited out of documentary, why?? It certainly cannot be worse than the horsefall in Andrei Rublev?

Can't find the Cinema Reserve 2 Disc version of "The Hustler" on amazon uk or cdwow. Where are they? can someone link them if you can find it?

Looks like Cinema Reserve's "Kagemusha" is only the international 152 minute edit, made from the same old transfer as the old disc.

Criterion is still the winner.