Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays

[FrauBlucher]

WOW!!!! Bluray.com....A Tale of Two Cities

[FrauBlucher]

According to posters on blurry.com this was in an email sent out by Warner Archive....

2021 is here, and with it comes change. So we and our friends at the Araca Group that manage WBShop wanted to say thank you for your support with a final 4 for 44 sale! Start your lists and get ready to save on the weekend of March 12th, 2021! See you then!

[therewillbeblus]

So this is the last 4 for 44 sale ever? What a 2020 move

[J Wilson]

People jumped to the conclusion on Twitter that Warner Archive was closing, but is it just a switch to a different online setup? That Araca Group seems to specialize in theater merchandising and sold part of their company to Sony a couple years ago.

[hearthesilence]

I'm glad I splurged the last time around, though that was mostly because of a rare coupon code that actually overlapped with the sale.

[Clarence]

It seems this is just due to Araca Group no longer handling retail for Warner Archive after Warner Bros. and Universal agreed to merge their physical operations in a joint venture announced early last year and planned to start in the first quarter of this year.

[therewillbeblus]

Going by their last sale, we should expect Dec releases and perhaps early January to be included (maybe through Jan though that would be liberally unprecedented) so today would be a good day to buy the others from DD before their coupon expires

[Fred Holywell]

Baby Doll... blu-ray.com review

[Fred Holywell]

Show Boat... blu-ray.com review

San Francisco... blu-ray.com review

[FrauBlucher]

They started to announce... So far, Josie and Pussycats in Outer Space (Series) and Green Dolphin Street (1947)

[Monterey Jack]

Where is my copy of Femme Fatale, goddammit...?!

[FrauBlucher]

coming....Broadway Melody of 1940

[soundchaser]

Hopefully the rest of the Eleanor Powell films will follow! (Although I suspect this one is because of Fred Astaire.)

[dwk]

Doctor X
Special Features:
Alternate B&W version of feature; DOCTOR X (HD)
UCLA Before & After Restoration featurette (HD)
New documentary: "Monsters and Mayhem: The Horror Films of Michael Curtiz (HD)
New feature commentary by author/film historian Alan K. Rode
Archival feature commentary by Scott MacQueen, head of preservation, UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Original B&W Theatrical Trailer (HD)

[domino harvey]

coming....Broadway Melody of 1940

Never would I have predicted that somehow High Society would be the last film from the Cole Porter box to be upgraded

[dwk]

Annie Get Your Gun Blu-ray was just announced.

[domino harvey]

It was the last title in the Broadway Musicals 4-pack left, but like Show Boat it looked real rough on DVD, so they must have done a new scan

[FrauBlucher]

Quick Change (1990) announced

[dwk]

Yes. The announcement says Annie Get Your Gun is from a "NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4K scan of original nitrate Technicolor negatives!"

[FrauBlucher]

Here's a good one.... Each Dawn I Die

NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4K scan of best surviving nitrate preservation elements! EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
Run Time 92:00
Subtitles English SDH
Audio Specs: DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 4x3 FULL FRAME
Product Color BLACK & WHITE
Disc Configuration BD 50
Special Features: Warner Night at the Movies including 1939 Short Subjects Gallery: Vintage Newsreel, WB Technicolor Short: "A Day at Santa Anita", WB Cartoon: "Detouring America"; Restrospective featurette: "Stool Pigeons and Pine Overcoats: The Language of Gangster Films" ; Feature Commentary by Film Historian Haden Guest; Breakdowns of 1939: Studio Blooper Reel; WB Cartoon: "Each Dawn I Crow"; Radio show w/George Raft & Franchot Tone; Trailer for "Wings of the Navy" and Original Theatrical Trailer for Each Dawn I Die (HD)

[FrauBlucher]

Another Thin Man... also. That should be it for this month

[Cash Flagg]

Where is my copy of Femme Fatale, goddammit...?!

It's like Candyman - you have to repeat yourself five times to summon it. You're almost there!

I guess we're never getting De Palma's Femme Fatale, huh?

...and still no Femme Fatale...

...and I'm still left waiting for Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale...

[Maltic]

I'm hearing the Lou Reed/Sterling Morrison chorus now.

[beamish14]

Quick Change (1990) announced

Fantastic. One of the greatest comedies of the 1990's.

[tolbs1010]

I'm hearing the Lou Reed/Sterling Morrison chorus now.

Don't forget Nico. She sang it and lived it.