Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays

[domino harvey]

All three That’s Entertainments are already on Blu-ray… what is this month?!

[CSM126]

…must love dogs? Really? Is there some executive at Warner who just gets a laugh out of fucking with the Archive by sending them random crap?

[yoloswegmaster]

More titles: WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME (1972-74)
HUMORESQUE (1946)

[domino harvey]

What the shit … Wait till Your Father Gets Home? This is embarrassing

[therewillbeblus]

Who in charge thinks these are better options than Air Force or Stage Door

[domino harvey]

At least we got Humoresque — does that complete the first Crawford box?

[Matt]

Well I’ll be damned, the sons-of-bitches finally did it. Yes, the first Joan Crawford collection box is finally complete.

[cdnchris]

What the shit … Wait till Your Father Gets Home? This is embarrassing

I recall catching this on TV every once in a while back in the day. Still have the theme song stuck in my head. I'd be curious to revisit it if only to see how horribly it's held up.

[andyli]

That’s Entertainment is advertised as from a 2024 remaster, at least.

[domino harvey]

If they’re going to remaster one of those, though, at least do the third one with all the exclusive footage (or That’s Dancing, which isn’t on Blu)

[Stefan Andersson]

On the alternate cut of Journey into Fear:
Description and discussion of the longer cut:

https://wellesnet.com/phpbb2/viewtopic. ... 8882#p8261



Also:

https://www.wellesnet.com/journey-fear-blu-ray-us/

https://www.wellesnet.com/journey-into- ... francisco/

https://www.filmlegacy.net/blog/2015/11 ... s-at-moma/

[domino harvey]

Starting with October’s releases, WA discs have a new MSRP of ~$26.99. Previously 24.99 (and 21.99 before that). So better hope your favorite sells really poorly so Amazon’s algorithm lowers it enough!

[Drucker]

Bidenflation is finally hitting me where it hurts. Gotta vote for Trump.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

I noticed that too when I was checking Amazon for a copy of Lewton's Isle of the Dead (which strangely is out of stock unlike Bedlam/Ghost Ship so I hope it's getting a reprint). The Welles comes up in my site recommendations a lot so I just figured the price was fluke until it gets discounted a little before release date.

[black&huge]

I keep hearing that the encodes are current releases aren't as consistent as before but can anyone give their word on the encode for Act of Violence? shoddy, decent or great?

[domino harvey]

There was only one month where they used less space than usual on some of the discs for their encode, and the affected films were Nun’s Story and Friendly Persuasion (and maybe one more, but it wasn’t Act of Violence)

[black&huge]

Thank you Domino!

[fdm]

The other one I wrote down was Rain People.

[domino harvey]

I was checking Amazon for a copy of Lewton's Isle of the Dead (which strangely is out of stock unlike Bedlam/Ghost Ship so I hope it's getting a reprint).

Amazon has a lot of WA titles they have not restocked since Prime Day this summer, it might just be one of those. I believe, with rare exceptions, no WA titles go OOP, so you likely should be able to find it at other retailers at any rate if you’re trying to acquire before Halloween

[Stefan Andersson]

German label Plaion has released The Fearless Vampire Killers with corrected day for night filter, plus a Polanski interview from a French Blu and more extras:
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=730974

[Matt]

Humoresque is released in 4 weeks and is still not listed for sale anywhere?

[domino harvey]

Amazon tends to get it up a few weeks before release date, but it’s not too uncommon to wait this long

[Caligula]

On 26 November Warner is releasing Looney Tunes Collector's Choice vols 1-4 in a box, I'm guessing similar to the slimline box they used for the Bogart/Bacall films

[JakeStewart]

December announcements:

Night Full of Rain
The Spanish Main
Nora Prentiss
The Tall Target
Mr. Lucky
Black Eye

[domino harvey]

The Tall Target was one of my ten most wanted upgrades, what a lovely choice! One of Mann’s best films, and such breathless, nonstop forward momentum

Here’s my write up of Nora Prentiss

Vincent Sherman's Nora Prentiss is a film that doesn't know what it wants to be and transversely I don't know or care what it is. The first half wavers between a cautionary woman's picture about the dangers of infidelity and pathetic wish fulfillment for mild-mannered men who'd love to be picked up by Ann Sheridan. But then it switches into noir in the second half and spirals down into a bizarre and infuriatingly dumb solution to infidelity that results in a character being convicted of their own murder-- that's a silly idea, but one that could possibly work in a brutish 70 minute b-picture. It cannot work in a bloated two hour weepfest like this though. A lot of the blame rests square on the leads. Kent Smith, so much fun in his not dissimilar role in Sherman's the Damned Don't Cry, confuses playing "good" with playing "wood," and his stiffness is met mark for missed mark by the normally punchy and lithe Sheridan. The only point of interest here, from a noir standpoint at least, is that the sleazy nightclub owner turns out to be the gender-reversed "good girl" of the pic-- again, the idea sounds intriguing until you see it play out here. Even Howe's cinematography proves unremarkable, and that surely can serve as the final nail in this coffin.