Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
- HJackson
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Thanks for the intel. Got it from WowHD. Think I’ll buy it from Amazon next time I do a big US order, just to be safe!
- hearthesilence
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
I've been looking for better Bette Davis films - she may be my favorite Hollywood actress, and yet it's unfortunate that too much of the time she's carrying too much of the load, elevating a mediocre production into something worth seeing if not a masterpiece. Marked Woman was available on DVD before, individually and also as one part of a few box sets, but it's now a WAC title.
Right out of the gate, Davis delivers a powerhouse performance, but I wasn't sure if the rest of Marked Woman would amount to anything. It takes a while, but the momentum does indeed build, and it finally takes off with the first court room scenes. Robert Rossen is credited with the script, and there are moments that recall some of his later films, particular his best film The Hustler which has a similarly harrowing moment...
And Bogart is just terrific as the assistant D.A. High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon were four years away, but the legendary persona established in those films is actually already here - it's the perfect complement for Davis. (FWIW, Bogart actually met one of his wives in this film, though it wasn't a happy marriage - the press called them "the Battling Bogarts.")
More than any film I've seen so far, you really see why Davis has been called a "force of nature" - physically small in stature and playing the role of a marginalized woman, she nevertheless commands every bit of the screen with the type of focused intensity Cagney employed to push his early vehicles forward. Just marvelous.
Right out of the gate, Davis delivers a powerhouse performance, but I wasn't sure if the rest of Marked Woman would amount to anything. It takes a while, but the momentum does indeed build, and it finally takes off with the first court room scenes. Robert Rossen is credited with the script, and there are moments that recall some of his later films, particular his best film The Hustler which has a similarly harrowing moment...
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...where the lead character is brutally beaten.
More than any film I've seen so far, you really see why Davis has been called a "force of nature" - physically small in stature and playing the role of a marginalized woman, she nevertheless commands every bit of the screen with the type of focused intensity Cagney employed to push his early vehicles forward. Just marvelous.
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- domino harvey
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
What thread did you mean to post this in, because that is not a title WA has released on Blu-ray
- hearthesilence
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Whoops, I missed the BD part - I thought this was a Warner Archive thread.
- domino harvey
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
And with a wave of my wand...
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
What reason would there be for a MOD DVD to go out of print? I'm just noticing this appears to be the case for Preminger's The Moon Is Blue and Saint Joan
- dwk
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Some went OOP when they were licensed to Criterion (thinking of The Breaking Point, Barcelona, Blow Up and Kurosawa's Dreams.)
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Some also just went OOP for unknown reasons, like Ice Palace. Don't bet on anything based solely on this
- Gregory
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
The Lusty Men went OOP over three years ago. I'd hoped that meant it was coming to Criterion or WAC Blu.
- swo17
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Side question: This is a DVD-R, right?
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
OK, thanks for confirming
- hearthesilence
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Has anyone ever seen a DVD-R that wasn't purple? I don't think there's ever been another dye used for it, correct?
WAC is actually great about their lifetime guarantee for DVD-R's - they will replace them if they start to fail - but I can see many scenarios (most understandable to be fair) where they're no longer able to do that, so just in case I always rip an iso back-up copy of my burned DVDs. I can even put them on a flash drive, plug them straight into my player and play them that way.
(Also media quality has really gone downhill in the last few years, so much that a good iso backup may be preferable as a more reliable format.)
WAC is actually great about their lifetime guarantee for DVD-R's - they will replace them if they start to fail - but I can see many scenarios (most understandable to be fair) where they're no longer able to do that, so just in case I always rip an iso back-up copy of my burned DVDs. I can even put them on a flash drive, plug them straight into my player and play them that way.
(Also media quality has really gone downhill in the last few years, so much that a good iso backup may be preferable as a more reliable format.)
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Here’s what the pressed version looks like, swo
Note no barcode on disc art for the pressed edition, and apparently different interior packaging as well?
Note no barcode on disc art for the pressed edition, and apparently different interior packaging as well?
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Cool, got it. The dead giveaway to me, which I feel silly I didn't notice before, is the ring that shows where data stopped being burned to the disc (note: the photo I shared was taken by a potential seller, not me)
Present me kicking me from 5-10 years ago for not just buying these all up when they first came out
Present me kicking me from 5-10 years ago for not just buying these all up when they first came out
- domino harvey
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
I haven’t watched my set yet, but if I decide not to keep it I’ll hit you up
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Forgive me as I have a feeling I've asked this before, but is it only WA DVDs that are (likely to be) not pressed? Are the WA Blu-rays pressed when purchased through Amazon?
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Warner Archive Blu-Rays are pressed everywhere, including Amazon
- Mr. Deltoid
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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (DVDs only)
Put on my original (pressed) dvd of Lester's Petulia yesterday after having brought it years ago. The menu popped up, score playing over the various options, all fine. Started the film only to find no sound whatsoever. Image plays fine, but . . . silence. Switched audio options, still nothing. Anyone else had this problem on Warner discs?