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Universal’s 100th Anniversary Blu-ray releases include restored Dracula, Frankenstein, Jaws, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birds and more!
This has been a stunning week of Blu-ray news (most of which I’ll get to posting in due time), all released surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The news that walloped me the hardest is that 2012 will be the year that Universal will finally offer up select titles from it’s beloved collection of monster films in new, restored Blu-ray releases!! That’s right, the gods of monsters and the gods of HD have, at long last, seen fit to allow me to own the original 1930s Dracula and Frankenstein films in glorious 1080p! …Continued…
Bond 50 – Blu-ray Boxed set of all 22 James Bond films announced
This is the news that we James Bond fans have been waiting for – MGM and Fox are finally preparing to unleash the ultimate Blu-ray collection of all 22 Bond films at some point in 2012. That’s right, no firm date has been announced at this point, though retail rumours point to a late-September/early-October release …Continued…
Criterion March Blu-ray titles: David Lean directs Noël Coward, Last Temptation of Christ, Letter Never Sent, The War Room, A Night to Remember
It appears that March will prove to be a landmark month of Criterion Blu-ray releases for me for a couple of reasons – another stacked boxed set of classics making their Blu-ray debuts and one of my favourite films of all time finally receiving its high-def upgrade. …Continued…
A Streetcar Named Desire: 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray announced
Wow! I didn’t see this one coming. Warner has announced that it’ll be releasing a 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray book edition of the 1951 Elia Kazan classic A Streetcar Named Desire, adapted from Tennessee Williams’ masterwork. There’s no mention of any restoration or transfer particulars in the press release so I’m assuming the film won’t be receiving the Ben-Hur/Wizard of Oz 8K scan treatment but here’s hoping the studio manages an outstanding presentation nonetheless. …Continued…
Kung-Fu Panda 2 Blu-ray coming next week
When I first reported on Kung-Fu Panda 2 coming to Blu-ray way back in July, there were only a handful of pre-order hints about the disc lingering around the fringes of the internets. Well, now that we’re just over a week away from its official release on October 13th I thought I’d post the full feature list, found below and the nifty, detailed trailer above. I’ve got the disc in hand and will have a full review for you early next week. I’m really looking forward to diving into it. …Continued…
Casablanca: 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray receives new 4K transfer
When I first caught a glimpse of this Casablanca: 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray boxed set, due for release from Warner some time in the coming year, I was sure it was just another case of the studio repackaging and pushing the same old content, with a few added trinkets and goo-gahs. But from the looks of things, this box contains a brand-spanking new 4K transfer of the film and a bunch of new bonus content. …Continued…
Annie Hall, Midnight Cowboy, Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound and The Apartment coming to Blu-ray in January
Oh man, this is non-Criterion news that just happens to read like a Criterion Collection title announcement (in fact, a number of these films have actually had a Criterion DVD release in years past but have since fallen out of print.) Early pre-orders posted on Amazon.ca indicate that MGM plans to release 6 of their finest films on Blu-ray this coming January 24, 2012, including three early Hitchcock films (Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound), Billy Wilder‘s The Apartment, John Schlesinger‘s Midnight Cowboy and Woody Allen‘s signature film, Annie Hall. …Continued…
Criterion February Blu-ray titles: World on a Wire, Tiny Furniture, Anatomy of a Murder, Vanya on 42nd Street, Three Outlaw Samurai, La Jetée
Well, February looks like another month of killer Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection, with six titles hitting shops, only one of them an upgrade from DVD (a combo release of Chris Marker‘s exceptional La Jetée and Sans Soleil.) Strangely, there are no commentary tracks to be found on any of these discs – traditionally a signature feature of the Collection. But the titles are out of this world, headlined by a feature-packed Blu-ray edition of Otto Preminger‘s Anatomy of a Murder (wisely sporting original Saul Bass art on the package cover) and Fassbinder‘s long-lost made-for-German-TV sci-fi epic, World on a Wire. Hideo Gosha‘s debut film, the action-packed Three Outlaw Samurai receives a bare-bones release, while up-and-coming auteur Lena Dunham‘s love-it-or-hate-it Tiny Furniture is packaged along with her feature debut, Creative Nonfiction, and four short films. Rounding out the month, Criterion tackles Louis Malle‘s final film Vanya on 42nd Street. …Continued…
The Devil’s Double coming to Blu-ray
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you the Blu-ray release of a film where Iron Man‘s daddy plays the evil twins of Saddam Hussein. Well, okay, he doesn’t really play twins in the film, I just liked the way that sounded. Dominic Cooper stars in The Devil’s Double as both the late dictator’s son Uday “The Black Prince” Hussein and the man hired to double for him, Latif Yahia. It’s a true story and a film that received some critical acclaim. Looks pretty good to me. Lionsgate hasn’t released a final list of technical details on this Blu-ray yet though it’ll be available in a only a couple of weeks. Looking forward to it! …Continued…
Warrior Blu-ray announced and detailed
I’ve heard from my critic pals that Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior is something like the Footloose of fighting films – cheesy and melodramatic but oddly satisfying. I don’t know about you but I don’t need anyone telling me anything about the film beyond the fact that it’s got young Uncle Owen in the ring with the evil Romulan clone of Captain Jean Luc Picard (aka notorious Batman back-breaker Bane!) to sell me on this bad boy. I’m in! I’ll be grabbing it up on Blu-ray when it hits store shelves on December 20th. …Continued…
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