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tenia
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Re: Olive Films

#1701 Post by tenia » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:57 am

Same 4K restoration but now with a proper encode, so I suppose that it now basically looks like the MoC disc.

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Re: Olive Films

#1702 Post by domino harvey » Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:41 am

Plus the same on disc extra and new additional extras

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Re: Olive Films

#1703 Post by domino harvey » Wed Oct 26, 2016 4:51 pm

Just got my copy in, it's so slim! Even with the slipcover it's thinner than a regular Blu-ray, much less a regular thick Olive case

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Re: Olive Films

#1704 Post by domino harvey » Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:56 pm

Villa Rides has the worst Blu-ray transfer I've ever seen (replacing Christmas Eve, also from Olive). The whole movie is heavily pixelated, like streaming a YouTube video. It looks like viewing the film through a camcorder recording a tube TV screen

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Re: Olive Films

#1705 Post by TMDaines » Fri Nov 11, 2016 5:10 am

Never heard of this Christmas Eve and I thought I was running out of Christmas films to watch.

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Re: Olive Films

#1706 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Nov 12, 2016 6:03 pm


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Re: Olive Films

#1707 Post by captveg » Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:48 pm

1/24/17

BD & DVD:

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
The Men's Club (1986)
Sabotage (1939)
Wagon Tracks (1919)

DVD Only:

Hooperman Season 1 (1987-88)
Hooperman Season 2 (1988-89)

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Re: Olive Films

#1708 Post by domino harvey » Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:55 pm

Congrats to Olive for finding the actual bottom of the Blu-ray release market

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Re: Olive Films

#1709 Post by jazzo » Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:38 am

I don't know what's worse - the fact that Olive are releasing both seasons of Hoooperman, or the fact that I can still hum the sax-heavy theme song from 28 year memory.

Or maybe it's the fact that I'm slightly tempted to purchase these season sets.

Yeah, that last one's the worst.

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Re: Olive Films

#1710 Post by ianthemovie » Thu Nov 17, 2016 5:15 pm

Or the fact that they have apparently given up on putting out films like Outrage (?)

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Re: Olive Films

#1711 Post by Gregory » Thu Nov 17, 2016 8:20 pm

I've never seen Hooperman but wonder if the creators of Frasier were fans of it. The shows share the premise of a guy thrust into a situation of having to get along with a sometimes-annoying Jack Russell Terrier; Jane Leeves, who appeared in one of the episodes, was later cast as one of the five main cast members on Frasier; and both shows even used the same Korinna font for the credits:
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Re: Olive Films

#1712 Post by jazzo » Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:48 pm

That font was great company while not dating in high school.

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Re: Olive Films

#1713 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Tue Nov 22, 2016 6:04 pm

I didn't see any information on it from DVD Beaver or Olive's site, but did they ever mention their source for the new release of One of Our Aircraft Is Missing?

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Re: Olive Films

#1714 Post by L.A. » Fri Dec 02, 2016 9:57 am

Is DeMille's The Captive Blu-ray OOP? Only available from Marketplace sellers at Amazon.

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Re: Olive Films

#1715 Post by htdm » Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:41 am

It appears to be in-stock at DeepDiscount and several other outlets for 14 + change.

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Re: Olive Films

#1716 Post by captveg » Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:17 pm

2/21/17

Evelyn (2002) - licensed via MGM
King Solomon's Mines (1985) - licensed via MGM
The Klansman (1974)
Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955) - licensed via Paramount (Republic)
Police (1985)

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Re: Olive Films

#1717 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:28 pm

I'm sure that most here will be excited (and rightfully so) for Pialat's Police coming to Blu in the states, but I'm particularly excited for J. Lee Thompson's King Soloman's Mines. It's a low-budget, well-intentioned Indiana Jones rip-off from Cannon films that's by a solid director. I found it to be incredibly enjoyable and fun 80s style adventure that harkens back to the old swashbuckling cinema of the 40s. Though I am probably the minority on this opinion.
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Re: Olive Films

#1718 Post by domino harvey » Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:39 pm

Can't believe Olive just one-upped MOC with the Pialat upgrade

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Re: Olive Films

#1719 Post by Cinephrenic » Thu Dec 08, 2016 6:06 pm

King Solomon's Mine was a childhood favorite of mine. Not a great film, but very entertaining. Early hot Sharon Stone too!

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Re: Olive Films

#1720 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:03 am

domino harvey wrote:Can't believe Olive just one-upped MOC with the Pialat upgrade
They ported the extras and booklet too?

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Re: Olive Films

#1721 Post by barryconvex » Sun Dec 11, 2016 5:11 pm

Cinephrenic wrote:King Solomon's Mine was a childhood favorite of mine. Not a great film, but very entertaining. Early hot Sharon Stone too!
I remember reading an interview with Stone from 20+ years ago where she really denounced the movie. I can recall her saying the entire cast and crew was drunk from 10am on...

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Re: Olive Films

#1722 Post by Ovader » Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:33 am

In mid 2011 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde/The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers was announced as forthcoming but from my search nothing of the sort was ever released. Anybody have more information about this delay?

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Re: Olive Films

#1723 Post by Feego » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:56 am

March Blu-ray titles:

Phaedra (Jules Dassin)
The Delinquents (Robert Altman)
Blast-Off a.k.a. Those Fantastic Flying Fools
The Cardinal (1936)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

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Re: Olive Films

#1724 Post by FrauBlucher » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:46 am


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Re: Olive Films

#1725 Post by NABOB OF NOWHERE » Fri Feb 17, 2017 3:55 pm

I skimmed through this until I came across this inane comment-"Maurice Pialat's films do not have elaborate music scores. In Police, only at the end there is beautiful ambient music theme that comes up for a couple of minutes."
It is Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, 7 years before its 'breakthrough' and best seller status.
Maybe the prick who wrote this should give 'A nos Amours' a spin to sample Pialat's use of Klaus Naomi's interpretation of Purcell ... for starters.

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