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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#126 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:23 pm

Add Nora Prentiss and Walsh's the Man I Love #-o

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#127 Post by HypnoHelioStaticStasis » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:49 pm

And Branagh's Midwinter's Tale, a surprising choice. That probably would have done decently in the normal market...

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#128 Post by Dylan » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:55 pm

I'm still waiting for Agatha and Last Summer.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#129 Post by Ashirg » Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:08 am

Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
Beau Brummell (1954)
Conspirator (1949)
Cynthia (1947)
Deep Valley (1947)
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Girl Who Had Everything, The (1953)
Green Mansions (1959)
Hard Way, The (1943)
It's a Big Country (1951)
Juke Girl (1942)
Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
Moon Is Blue, The (1953)
Story of Mankind, The (1957)
Story of Three Loves, The (1953)
Fox, The (1967)
Unfaithful, The (1947)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#130 Post by souvenir » Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:38 am

Ashirg wrote:Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
Moon Is Blue, The (1953)
Warner Bros. owns this? Oh come on. Years of goodwill has evaporated entirely for me when a film like this gets relegated to the unrestored, extras-less DVD-R treatment.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#131 Post by Person » Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:57 am

Ashirg wrote:Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
The Fox (1967)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Sweet!

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#132 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:34 am

souvenir wrote:
Ashirg wrote:Here's a sneak peek of what's coming after this:
Moon Is Blue, The (1953)
Warner Bros. owns this? Oh come on. Years of goodwill has evaporated entirely for me when a film like this gets relegated to the unrestored, extras-less DVD-R treatment.
The biggest fucking injustice yet. Unbelievable

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#133 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:57 pm

Well, if you must, there are some good bundle deals at WBShop right now, with titles grouped together and then discounted half off!

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#134 Post by Gregory » Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:04 pm

I'm finding it completely impossible to log in to WBShop.com. I placed an order there a couple of months ago with no problems, but now it rejects my login, and when I do "forgot your password," it says the email address cannot be found. Fine, so I tried creating a new account with a new secondary email address. At the create account stage, it took several tries to get the page to load. Finally it told me the username of my new email account is already taken. And yet it says that email address cannot be found, either. I can easily do without these DVD-Rs, so I'm inclined to simply give up, at least for now.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#135 Post by Perkins Cobb » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:41 pm

Gregory wrote:I'm inclined to simply give up, at least for now.
That's pretty much been my experience every time I've been tempted. The WBShop site's near-complete non-functionality is the next best thing to a time-lock on my wallet.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#136 Post by dadaistnun » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:14 pm

Saw this posted at alt.movies.silent:
I have one slight caveat about "Love", the Garbo-Gilbert picture from 1927: the score was recorded at a live presentation, and the music is tastefully arranged--but the audience laughs at inappropriate moments, which may jar some people's enjoyment of the film. Otherwise there's nothing wrong with the transfer as far as I can tell.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#137 Post by Eclisse » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:50 pm

dadaistnun wrote:Saw this posted at alt.movies.silent:
I have one slight caveat about "Love", the Garbo-Gilbert picture from 1927: the score was recorded at a live presentation, and the music is tastefully arranged--but the audience laughs at inappropriate moments, which may jar some people's enjoyment of the film. Otherwise there's nothing wrong with the transfer as far as I can tell.
It is true. And it is kind of annoying . People laugh at Gilbert's face when he looks at Garbo for the first time...that kind of stuff. I don't think much of LOVE so it was not a big deal to me. But still, it is lame to have this "soundtrack" as your only option.

I'm just glad there is just music in THE KISS and WILD ORCHIDS (the best ones).

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#138 Post by HypnoHelioStaticStasis » Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:20 pm

A Midwinter's Tale is out for some reason, Michael Curtiz's Mammy is in.

Does this mean we'll get Wonder Bar soon?

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#139 Post by Matt » Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:42 pm

HypnoHelioStaticStasis wrote:Does this mean we'll get Wonder Bar soon?
And there it is, available for pre-order.

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#140 Post by htdm » Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:40 pm

If there's a Jolson bundle in the making - which I'm certain there is - I'll buy it.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#141 Post by HarryLong » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:45 am

ACK! They're offering THE STORY OF MANKIND ... with a cover guaranteed to mislead the gullible.

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#142 Post by Perkins Cobb » Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:26 pm

Is anyone having success renting these from Classicflix? I don't want to join if the Warner Archive titles are all perpetually checked out.

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#143 Post by buskeat » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:59 am

Perkins Cobb wrote:Is anyone having success renting these from Classicflix? I don't want to join if the Warner Archive titles are all perpetually checked out.
So far so good. I just joined Classicflix on a one-at-a-time plan and filled the queue with Warner Archive titles. The vast majority say "Short Wait," but all three titles that have shipped so far had that designation and two of them were at the top of the queue.

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#144 Post by Perkins Cobb » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:18 pm

Cool, thanks for the report. Now, nobody else sign up till my month is over, 'kay?

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#145 Post by Erikht » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:35 am

I just want them to get The Mask of Dimitrios out. It's Warner that owns that film, isn't it?

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#146 Post by Matt » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:39 pm

10 Warner Archive DVDs for $99.95 (out of 150 selected titles only, ends 7/19/09 11:59 PDT)

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#147 Post by Arthur Bannister » Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:48 pm

Erikht wrote:I just want them to get The Mask of Dimitrios out. It's Warner that owns that film, isn't it?
Yes, it's a Warner title and I'd also love to have it available, but please God let it not be a Warner Archive release. [-o<

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#148 Post by Gregory » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:11 pm

David, I've only ordered six titles so far, so I wanted to ask what your favorites are (film + transfer). I'm totally unfamiliar with a certain portion of what they've "released" here. Being without access to TCM for several years now is probably the major reason why.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#149 Post by Gregory » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:11 pm

I've only watched three so far, and all were acceptable. The Big House had the odd blacked-out area that I noted earlier in the thread, which looked digital to me, but it wouldn't make any sense that they'd add this now. Christopher Strong looked fine, though a bit soft. The Mad Miss Manton looked perfectly fine, although I was not quite sober at the time. No combing was evident in any of these.

Thanks for the comments on yours. I hope to order again at some point if the site will ever let me log in or create a new account.

I do agree that these are too expensive, and the pricing is possibly short-sighted. The number of discs they would sell for $10 each might be vastly more than the number they're selling at $20.

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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection

#150 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:37 pm

An odd grab bag of new pre-orders:

All the Marbles
Boulevard Nights
Carny
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark [their first made-for-TV release]
Mike's Murder
The Terminal Man
Urgh! A Music War

I still can't make up my mind if I'm more pro or con on the WB Archive. I guess if it has to be this way, I'm glad they're cranking out some newer films, since they'll have new transfers (and fix the aspect ratio of the VHS release, if any). Unless of course WB renegs on that promise too, like they lied about continuing to release actual catalog DVDs.

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