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Peacock wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 3:43 pm The other Hitchcock’s are:

The Ring
The Manxman
Champagne

So alas, nothing new to Blu.

Finch wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:55 am The Lion in Winter and a few Hitchcock films like Rich and Strange got rated by the BBFC. Lion is probably getting a 4K in the next few months and Optimum's old DVD set of early Hitchcock a BD upgrade.

A Tempted Christ wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 5:53 pm

Peacock wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 3:43 pm The other Hitchcock’s are:

The Ring
The Manxman
Champagne

So alas, nothing new to Blu.

Juno and the Paycock is new. I also have to assume the new restoration of the sound version of Blackmail that is premiering at Lumière festival will be included in the set. The Kino release was sourced from an ancient master and in the wrong aspect ratio.

Marwood wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2024 6:58 am Does anyone know what the complete content of this UK blu-ray box of Hitchcocks will be then?

For the first time on Blu-ray, featuring new restorations and scores, experience 10 of Alfred Hitchcock’s early works. From the silent film era to the first talkies, this 11-disc set also contains a newly commissioned, full-length documentary, Becoming Hitchcock, exploring the director’s first sound picture, Blackmail. In 1929, Hitchcock directed Blackmail, the first British sound feature, hailed as a film which “used sound and dialogue with more flair and imagination than any Hollywood or European film of the time.” Hitchcock’s inventive and expressionist use of sound demonstrated that the new technology opened a new realm of possibilities.



The Ring (1927)

The Farmer's Wife (1928)

Champagne (1928)

The Manxman (1929) (NEW SCORE)

Blackmail (1929) - SILENT VERSION (new 4K restoration and NEW SCORE )

Blackmail (1929) - TALKIE VERSION (new 4K restoration)

Juno and the Paycock (1930)

Murder! (1930)

The Skin Game 1931) - REMASTERED FOR 2024

Rich and Strange (1931)

Number Seventeen (1932) (new 4K restoration)

BRAND-NEW DOCUMENTARY - BECOMING HITCHCOCK THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL (2024) Directed by Laurent Bouzereau, Narrated by Elvis Mitchell, Produced by Studiocanal in association with Nedland Films, 72min.BECOMING HITCHCOCK – THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL, a brand new 72-minute documentary from award-winning filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau (Faye, Music by John Williams, Five Came Back) and narrated by historian, critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, reflects the development of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films, Blackmail (1929). The documentary highlights the birth of the “Hitchcock Touch” at a period when talking pictures first emerged and explores his trademark themes, such as murder, suspense and cool blondes. While focusing on Blackmail, the documentary reveals how this film also foreshadows the director’s later masterpieces, from Psycho to North by Northwest and from The Birds to Frenzy.