Thank you so much, Jeff! And if that isn't already the boxset of the year, it comes pretty close. Absolutely fantastic extras - I really couldn't ask for anything more. It's close to perfection!

Technically, Walt Disney is also dead but that didn't prevent him from doing an audio-commentary on the Fantasia DVD...

This is not on the level of the Peckinpah box set for me but it is not that far off. Looks to be great.

New release date is now May 2, 2006.....here's the press release:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
FILM COLLECTION DEBUTS MAY 2
A Streetcar Named Desire New 2-Disc Special Edition
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Deluxe Edition
- Both Digitally Remastered -
Sweet Bird of Youth
Baby Doll
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Night of the Iguana
- Remastered and New to DVD -
Tennessee Williams' South
Revealing Rarely-Seen Feature Documentary Available
as Part of Boxed-Set Collection

Stars include young Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Geraldine Page and Warren Beatty

Extras Include Insightful New Making-Of Documentaries for Each Film, Expert Commentaries, Rare Screen Tests, Film/Audio Outtakes, Spotlight on Marlon Brando and More

Burbank, Calif. – The Tennessee Williams Film Collection -- an eight-disc DVD set containing the acclaimed film adaptations of one of America's greatest playwrights – debuts May 2 from Warner Home Video. The collection, priced at $79.92 SRP, features the long-awaited DVD debuts of Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone along with a newly remastered two-disc Special Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire and single disc Deluxe Edition of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Also included is a bonus disc, the rarely seen feature-length documentary, Tennessee Williams' South. A Streetcar Named Desire is available for $26.99 SRP. All other individual titles are available for $19.97 SRP each.

One more month...

they should do a digipak or thinpaks.

go-on warner you can do it!

Digipaks would be kind of unpractical (I would need a whole corridor floor to lay it down...) but thinpaks would be great (thought I don't see Warner doing it as yet or even ever).

Our DVD shelves are sure looking cluttered, aren't they just?

The official artwork is taking awful long...I wonder why. It's now been almost over a month that the press release has been out...It shouldn't take this long to copy and paste those original posters onto the DVD covers...

Here's the artwork!

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

Seems I was right on the money again about the covers. But what I really love about the new artwork is the boxset design: be-au-ti-ful! Finally, they're starting to get things right!

Hmmmm...? Taste is a very subjective beast. (lol)

Does anyone know if Cat will have a remastered transfer? I see no mention of that anywhere and although the current version is pretty good, there's always room for improvement what with all the new technologies being made today. Fingers crossed that it is.

the price for the Tennessee Williams Collection has been changed to $68.92.

An $11 drop? That is good news. And maybe this is further evidence that it will be packaged in slim cases as mentioned in another thread. We'll see.

... and with a 30% off ($47.99), comes to $8 a piece. Not to shabby.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was on TCM last night. Watched it for the first time and loved it.. mainly for the way the luminous Liz prances about inside that big house. Very sexy. Not being familiar with the play, I kept wondering why Brick kept his distance from Maggie especially when she was so hot and right in her prime....

But after considering about Williams' tendency to deal with "the Other" in most of his plays, didn't the film (like Kazan's Streetcar Named Desire) bypass or skip over Brick's love for that dead best friend?

The gay theme was toned down for the movie. It was explicit in the play or at least more explicit than in the movie (haven't read it). As most of Tennesse Williams film adaptations were.

I'm not sure if the film really toned down the gay theme..bleaching itself of the gay theme is more like it. I'm going to look for the play today.

Michael the dialogue is siginificantly cut and toned down for 58 (Code didn't permit mention of homosexuality - called "sex perversion" by them- until 1960.)

It gets even more ludicrous in Suddenly last Summer (another sterling job by Vidal and Mank etc) in which the "other" can never be mentioned, even to the point of never showing Sebastian Venables' face - presumably too corrupting in and of itself. I mean Auntie Mabel from des Moines could not have known what they all were shouting about. Hilarious!!

Gary over at the Beaver has started to review the set (by far my most eagerly awaited this year) and the results are stellar:

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

Warner, you're tops!

Just got it today and looked through it quickly.....looks like another topnotch Warner set!

DVDTalk reviews Sweet Bird of Youth:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=21283

and A Streetcar Named Desire:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=21282

Finally watched Baby Doll for the first time tonight....three words: I loooooooved it!!

Carroll Baker will blow you away .. so far away that you will never be able to find your way back. That long shot of Mr. Vaccaro and Baby on the swing.. BRILLIANT! Don't you love the black guys loitering about the house? So funny. What about Aunt Rose?!

Now I need to find Boom!.. the only Tennesee Williams remaining for me to watch.

My set is on the way and I'm itching for it to arrive! Haven't yet seen Baby Doll but I had a feeling it was going to be good - glad you liked it, Michael! Am sure I will too.

Also need to catch up on Boom! - I constantly dream it being announced with a John Waters commentary track on it. Fingers crossed for that one! Waters is the world's biggest fan of that movie.

David, can you convince me to blind buy Rose Tattoo, the other Tennessee Williams not on the Warners set? It stars Anna Magnani and I keep reading nothing but great stuff about it...

Annie it's so long since I've seen either Rose Tatoo or Wild is the Wind, but I think for Magnani completists we shouod get them out at least.