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Barefoot Contessa was confirmed by TT on their Facebook a while ago

The Barefoot Contessa, The Quiller Memorandum and The Chairman starring Gregory Peck was confirmed by Nick as forthcoming in 2016 in a reply I received to my message.

Also forthcoming:

Eureka
Whirlpool
Drunken Master
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Uh...that's probably the Nic Roeg Eureka, right? Not the Shinji Aoyama Eureka I'm eagerly waiting for?

Yes, it is Nic Roeg's Eureka.

Aw, well. Thank you!

Just posted on HTF:

THE LAST DETAIL (1973) BLU-RAY - January 19th



BOUND FOR GLORY (1976) BLU-RAY - January 19th

HAWAII (1966) BLU-RAY - January 19th

FROM THE TERRACE (1960) BLU-RAY - January 19th

THE HAPPY ENDING (1969) BLU-RAY - January 19th

THE HAWAIIANS (1970) BLU-RAY - February 9th

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF (1969) / SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER (1971)
BLU-RAY - February 9th

COWBOY (1958) BLU-RAY - February 9th

THE BIG HEAT (1953) BLU-RAY - February 9th

WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1950) BLU-RAY - February 9th

LA BAMBOLA DI SATANA (1969) BLU-RAY - February 9th

What the fuck, the Last Detail? I assumed Criterion would be coming out with it eventually, especially given we've now had Shampoo confirmed. I'm on board with both Ashby's, begrudgingly.

John Doe wrote:Just posted on HTF:

THE LAST DETAIL (1973) BLU-RAY - January 19th

BOUND FOR GLORY (1976) BLU-RAY - January 19th

HAWAII (1966) BLU-RAY - January 19th

FROM THE TERRACE (1960) BLU-RAY - January 19th

THE HAPPY ENDING (1969) BLU-RAY - January 19th

THE HAWAIIANS (1970) BLU-RAY - February 9th

Nice, now this is an update! All the above are worth a look, and I hope TT will be able to access the Roadshow version of Hawaii from the Laserdisc

I think they implied that the re-issue of the Big Heat will be sourced from a 4K restoration, or am I mistaken? Nevertheless, I hope a UK label releases it because both TT and the French edition are quite expensive.

I guess I'll be getting the Hal Ashby's and The Big Heat. First TTs I'll have bought in over a year.

perkizitore wrote:I think they implied that the re-issue of the Big Heat will be sourced from a 4K restoration, or am I mistaken? Nevertheless, I hope a UK label releases it because both TT and the French edition are quite expensive.

Not a chance The Big Heat will see a release over here in the UK, it unfortunately being a Sony title.

It would be nice if they could get some actual film historians to talk about the Big Heat for a commentary track, like say any of the Noir experts Fox used for their line

I thought for sure Criterion was going to release The Last Detail. Too bad.

Surely they had the oppurtunity for Last Detail and passed? Why would they take Shampoo first? I can understand skipping over Bound for Glory as it's mostly only notable for its technical achievement and for being the duff note in the second-best year ever for Best Picture nominees but Last Detail is a bona fide classic of the era that I feel is starting to be a bit forgotten.

Way back in the first pages of the Arrow Boro thread when it was just a mystery box from a major underappreciated talent somebody mentioned the idea of a big & fancy Arrow boxset of Ashby's first several films (probably up to Being There, given the Warner thing). This will probably never happen (I even tweeted at Arrow a few months back to ask if there was any chance of any Ashby at all to a disappointing negative response) but I shall hold onto this dream.

I'm mostly upset that TT actually has a great set of releases for once which will cost me a ton come when pre-orders launch. There's no winning whenever they announce their releases.

Didn't they already release 'The Big Heat'?

Also nice to see 'Where The Sidewalk Ends', a great Preminger noir..

onedimension wrote:Didn't they already release 'The Big Heat'?

In 2012, so I guess that's one of their 3 years re-release.

Scorpio (Michael Winner, 1973)

Release Date: November 10th, 2015.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, October 28th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Inside booklet art:

Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen, 1991)

Release Date: November 10th, 2015.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, October 28th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Inside booklet art:

Broken Lance (Edward Dmytryk, 1954)

Release Date: November 10th, 2015.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, October 28th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Audio Commentary with Actor Earl Holliman and Film Historian Nick Redman
  Fox Movietone Newsreel
  Original Theatrical Trailers

Booklet image:

Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)

Release Date: November 10th, 2015.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, October 28th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Audio Commentary with Actress Emma Thompson and Producer Lindsay Doran
  Audio Commentary with Director Ang Lee and Co-Producer James Schamus
  Adapting Austen
  Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense and Sensibility
  Locating the World of Sense and Sensibility
  A Sense of Character
  A Very Quiet Man
  Deleted Scenes
  Emma Thompson’s Golden Globe Acceptance Speech
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Inside booklet artwork:

Fatherland aka Singing the Blues in Red (Ken Loach, 1986)

Release Date: November 10th, 2015.
Pre-order date: Wednesday, October 28th at 4 pm EST.

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track

Inside booklet art:

John Carpenter's Vampires pre-order is live on screenarchives.com along with this month's promotion:

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Devil in a Blue Dress looks pretty good. The picture is sharp. It has a certain amount of depth of field. Color separation is very good. But it's not a spectacular disc. I think that's partly because there is a lot of soft focus photography in the film. I don't remember the specifics of the cinematography from the time I saw it in the theater, so I'm having a hard time discerning what's a deliberate photographic effect in the film and what might be signs of age in the source material. There are some sunset scenes where the black shadow tones lighten to an orangish-brown. The sky often appears lightly blown-out in some scenes. There's a lot of of scenes that appear to be heavily backlit, or scenes that use very soft, naturalistic lighting. It makes it hard to discern if there are failings in the disc, or just subtelties of the cinematography. There are some unnatural–looking little halo effects around foreground figures from time to time. There are also intermittent pops and scratches in the picture.

Still, I'd put the quality of the disc on the higher end for Twilight time, somewhere between Mississippi Mermaid on the low end and House of Bamboo on the high end. It's probably a smidgen closer to Mississippi Mermaid than it is to House of Bamboo.