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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 4:46:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 4:48:33 GMT
The Man Who Laughs (1928), starring Conrad Veidt. This is a truly great film, in the public domain, but it had only a limited DVD release and partial restoration.
Current viewing options are limited to used copies of the DVD for sale on eBay at extortion-level prices, or resign yourself to watching a grainy version on YouTube. That was the case but last summer Flicker Alley put it out on a 4K remaster. www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Laughs-Blu-ray/dp/B07PK6K31Q?tag=bluray-028-20&linkCode=xm2&m=
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 19:36:00 GMT
I'll second True Lies and add: Freaks (1932) After Hours (1985) Death to Smoochy (2002) And on a related note, can we please get Dawn of the Dead back in print in Region A? You need to take out a second mortgage to buy Anchor Bay's decade-plus old release on eBay. Even Arrow's version is OOP now. The guy who owns both Dawn and Martin is quite infamous in demanding insane money to licence it. It's not been feasible for anyone to pay it BUT Second Sight in the UK have a deal for both titles to come out next year and not just that, Dawn at least will also been on UHD (which of course also means it'll be region free) - I'd imagine some US distributor must have gone in on that deal with them just as Severin and Second Sight did on The Changeling so keep your eyes open on news about a very, very big deluxe Dawn set in the new year. Well, 4 months on, we now know just how deluxe that Dawn Of The Dead set will be. SEVEN DISCS. Four blus, three CDs. 150 page book, the novelisation.. stacked doesn't even begin to cover it!
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Post by agentten on Mar 29, 2020 5:05:23 GMT
The Dawn of The Dead blu ray has been a major hole in my collection for too long. I'm glad someone is finally making a AAA release of it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2020 5:23:32 GMT
The Dawn of The Dead blu ray has been a major hole in my collection for too long. I'm glad someone is finally making a AAA release of it. They're going to be doing Martin as well, a hole in all our Romero bluray collections and I think one of his top 3 films. The guy that owns the rights has for about a decade (since the Arrow bluray of Dawn went OOP) had a massively unrealistic asking price for the rights to Dawn and Martin. These could have been out anytime but he was asking for so much money it would have needed a label to make an almost guaranteed loss. Thankfully the guy's lawyers talked him round and a deal was struck. Second Sight are a terrific company who take their time with releases and are massively underrated. Their releases of The Changeling and The Amazing Mr Blunden are stunning. Though Dawn will be EASILY their biggest release ever. They know it and that's why they're putting everything into it. This is the kind of care even labels like Criterion have never given one film. To speak generally about the thread, I heard a podcast not long ago where they discussed the most wanted movies not on bluray and the reason was almost always either that there wasn't any money in releasing it after restoration costs, the rightsholders wanted too much, the rightsholder wants to wait and do it themselves but they're massively busy (see Cameron with The Abyss and True Lies or Peter Jackson with his early films) or that the film elements just weren't good enough. The message was basically "if you think of a movie that isn't on blu, there's also about 20 boutique labels that thought of it first and looked into it already".
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Post by Digi on Apr 15, 2020 13:01:01 GMT
I don't suppose anybody's seen any retailers where the 4K of The Elephant Man is still in stock and ships internationally? I forgot that it released last week, and now Amazon.co.uk lists it as both 'Currently unavailable/We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock' and notes that it's "currently unavailable for delivery to your region due to high demand" (NO KIDDING).
Blah. My own fault for forgetting about it, but still. Must have...
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Post by Timelord007 on Apr 16, 2020 5:40:53 GMT
Fright Night 2 (1988), Undisputed 3 (A Official UK release) Avenging Force (UK Blu Ray) & Midnight Ride.
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Post by agentten on Apr 16, 2020 22:27:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 12:44:18 GMT
Cool Network announcement - they're doing Invasion on bluray, the 60s film from Robert Holmes idea (it's a proto-Spearhead). networkonair.com/coming-soon/3200-invasion-blu-ray-So many cool things coming out - Arrow's Gamera, the 5-disc Flash Gordon boxset, the 8 disc Dawn Of THe Dead from Second Sight, I Monster from Indicator, Arrow's A Trip To The Moon,
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Post by polly on Jun 23, 2020 21:22:46 GMT
Could do with a new release of Chungking Express. Criterion's disc from like 10 years ago is stupid expensive now.
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Post by kurumais on Jun 26, 2020 18:05:02 GMT
i think my ps3 is on its last legs. i use it to watch dvds and blu rays. so looking for a new player everyone seems to be talking about both formats
going the way of the dinosaur. and sooner rather then later.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 2:48:03 GMT
The new Imprint label from Australia are really doing some amazing things with blurays that have never seen release before - they've announced four for the next few months that are very, very high on my HD wants lists:
Hard Eight - Paul Thomas Anderson's first film. This has been a biggie for YEARS with Criterion long rumoured to have it. No Way To Treat A Lady - Fantastic blackly comic serial killer film with Rod Steiger and George Segal A Place In The Sun - Liz Taylor and Monty Clift at their smouldering, sexiest best. The Day Of The Locust - Underrated film about early Hollywood with Donald Sutherland and William Atherton. Sutherland's character name? Homer Simpson.
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Post by Digi on Aug 1, 2020 3:33:18 GMT
i think my ps3 is on its last legs. i use it to watch dvds and blu rays. so looking for a new player everyone seems to be talking about both formats going the way of the dinosaur. and sooner rather then later. The Xbox One S plays Blu-ray and 4K, so it’ll have some mileage for a number of years to come.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 17:46:58 GMT
The BBC continue their upscaling of their back catalogue with Gomenghast, which was a pretty cult success in 2000. Christopher Lee thought it one of the best roles he had in his later years and it made Jonathan Rhys Meyers (and his cheekbones..) quite the star for a while. And who's that Neve McIntosh? Whatever happened to her? This was one of the "The BBC are making big budget fantasy...do you think they might be looking at sci-fi?" shows that gave us hope about Who maybe coming back during the Wilderness Years. I remember Celia Imrie being great in it. It's got an insane cast, from Stephen Fry to Ian Richardson to Richard Griffiths - lots of UK luvvies pop up. I'd recommend it based on loose memories from 20 years ago (20!) So, worldwide bluray debut - out September 7th. I've pre-ordered mine.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 19:50:45 GMT
After Gormenghast, another BBC fave miniseries is getting the bluray treatment also due next month!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 20:29:59 GMT
After Gormenghast, another BBC fave miniseries is getting the bluray treatment also due next month! Do you mean this?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 13:06:05 GMT
Yes, did the pic not show up?
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Post by Whovitt on Aug 8, 2020 14:07:31 GMT
I'm surprised I have to say this, but I'd really like to be able to get Series 1-8 of New Who. They've all gone OOP in Australia and the import prices for the UK versions are... steep.
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Post by Whovitt on Feb 27, 2021 0:26:04 GMT
I'd like to Stargate: SG-1 on Blu-ray. Some of those early seasons could really benefit from the graphical improvement. Just learned that this has now become a reality! The only downside is that at least the first seven seasons have been upscaled rather than rescanned, but I've seen some comparison stuff online and even the upscale is a dramatic improvement over the DVD versions (see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyld4thGNtI). Despite being excited by this release, there are two reasons I won't be picking it up straight away: 1) I've got way too many new discs in the house that I haven't watched yet (including a recent purchase of the complete Stargate Atlantis Blu-ray set), so I'm prioritising them over the huge undertaking re-watching all of SG-1 would be; 2) Even though the release is region free, I've yet to find anywhere that'll ship to Australia, so it's pretty easy to put off the purchase until later
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Feb 27, 2021 0:47:32 GMT
I foolishly, a few years ago, had a physical copy of the complete "Dark Shadows" tv show in the coffin casing in my hands.. Was about $200AUS.. I didn't get it- big surprise it's unorderable here and now on eBay it's going for about $700+AUS...
I snoozed, and I lost!
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