But Strangers is a movie about sexual harrassment. Walker harrassing Farley. (The tables being turned and all.)

I always thought Dial M was an anaglyph 3D film, which would be viewable on any display. This looks like I'd need a 3D tv to watch it, which would be really disappointing.

3? Dial M, House of Wax, and what's the third one?

The other titles talked about were The Bounty Hunter or/and Charge at Feather River.

Elements for Kate were a problem alas.

Does this mean Kate isn't coming anytime soon or just that it's going to take a little longer?

Sounds generally unlikely. I didn't follow it but this was all talked about in an HTF Warner forum with the usual suspects. I think they are just dipping toes in the water with deep catalogue 3D, and Kate would probably need a large budget to restore - I thinkg (not sure) their 3D titles were made for dual projection, so it's an expensive restoration process.

What was totally inexplicable was the Wayne family's refusal to let Olive put out the Hondo Blu Ray in 3D - it was compeltely ready for 3D presentation and encoding. Totally stupid and bloody minded decision.

according to the endless wayne interview on HTF, the studio balked at putting Hondo out in 3D. It looks fucking fantastic in 3D (digital 2k, iirc), USC has screened it a couple times.

All of the 1950s studio 3D films were polarized.

As for Blu-ray 3D, there's simply no reason for the studios to do anaglyph anymore.

Maybe you're thinking of the atrocious Japanese anaglyph Dial M bootleg doing the rounds. It's basically not watchable.

Yeah, the Japanese bootleg is the one I've seen. I never even considered that polarized 3D is possible with analog projection. Wish I could see it that way.

This is absolutely fine with me. I love everything about Warner Archive except that they release films on DVD-R, so if the move to Blu-ray naturally means pressed discs, then I'll be happy to stock up during an Archive sale.

The wait is over! Both Dan Curtis movies based on the popular daytime soap opera will be making their DVD and Blu-ray debut on October 30th! Here's the details.

I am actually happy for this news. TCM showed both recently and they're surprisingly good.

I can't remember if there was any kind of announcement or not, but was there anything about Warner doing a 70th Anniversary (or Memorial, if you'd like to see it that way) edition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy"?

I'm surprised they haven't announced Cabaret yet. There was a big 40th Anniversary celebration at the TCM festival earlier this year and no dvd/blu seems to be on the horizon.

Of Film Restoration and Blu-Ray Conversion

An interesting Q&A with Jeff Baker, Executive Vice President and General Manager Warner Bros. theatrical catalog, Ned Price, Vice President of Mastering at Warner Bros. and Andy Parsons, chair of the Blu-ray Association of America. They reveal that Warner will be announcing plans to celebrate their 90th anniversary in October, including releasing 5 Best Picture winners that haven't been on Blu-Ray yet. They're not yet ready to convert Archive titles to BD.

Good news. I might have missed some titles but I narrowed it down to:
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Warner don't control The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

Isn't it part of the Samuel Goldwyn library they acquired recently?

Yes.

The box set should be marketed as "Blu-rays for your dead grandparents." (Okay, okay, I know The Best Years of Our Lives is a good and important film.... But Cimarron? Even the Anthony Mann remake sucks. Do we really need Miss Daisy in hi-def?

I'm with Dom on the Mann film. It's legitimately great and goes beyond its source material.

Hopefully some HD James Cagney will come out of the anniversary celebrations.

I'm not saying that Mann doesn't do his best with a very weak story. But after that opening land rush sequence, I'm bored out of my mind and it's not really the director's fault. I say this as a huge Mann fan who has copies of all his other Westerns and just about everything else he's done that's available on DVD.

Perhaps MY FAIR LADY will get a blu-ray release.

That abomination released by CBS/Paramount doesn't count.