dx23

Davisdvd.com has news of several titles that are going to be released by Anchor Bay on April. They are releasing:
April 4th
The Anniversary
The Long Good Friday
Tripping The Rift Season 2

April 11th
The Scorned

April 18th
Bad Dreams
Doogie Howser, MD Season 4
The Killing Time

April 25th
Karas: The Prophecy

http://www.davisdvd.com/news/news.html

The most interesting title is the Long Good Friday, whcih has already been released by Criterion. Its a wonderful film. does anybody knows if the Criterion release is going out of print?

Spiral Staircase

It is unlikely that Criterion's Long Good Friday will go out of print. It is a HandMade Films Ltd. film like Time Bandits and Life of Brian. Criterion seems to a have a great relationship with Anchor Bay. This will probably just be a concurrent release like Time Bandits, Life of Brian, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Kind Hearts and Coronets.

David Lambert

He's missing some, then. This one, for example. Also Mona Lisa and Six Pack.

Trout

Are they still going to release Meet the feebles or Cemetary man?

Disc-Flipper

Six Pack! I'm there on April 4th.

Josh-da-man

I'll second "Cemetery Man."

They announced this a long time ago, but it still hasn't shown up on a schedule.

dilligaf

anyone have a link regarding six pack on april 4th?

i couldnt find it on anchor bays website and so want this release to be true.

dsa_shea

I too want a Six Pack release. This should be on dvd already dammit!!!

naitram

Oh man, if Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa are upgraded anamorphic releases, I will gladly hawk my Criterion versions.

salamander2

yeah, but will it still havethe extras from Criterion?

Giles

hmmm, I wonder if the Bad Dreams will be the cut theatrical R-rated version, or if an uncut version will be release??

Sondheim

I've been interested in seeing "The Long Good Friday" for quite some time, but I've heard the Criterion version isn't quite up to par with most of the collection. I'll most likely pick this version up, eventually.

Mountain Biker

Bad Dreams Hope it's the uncut version too

lordhidetora

On Sept. 10th a poster from criterionforum.org emailed Anchor Bay about Cemetery Man and received this response:

Disc-Flipper

I couldn't find it on their site either, so sent them an e-mail asking for the truth. (Imagine if Davis DVD got confused with "Kenny and Company" ---- nooooooo!)

illennium

More than likely the Anchor Bay versions of The Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa will be identical to the UK discs that have been out for a while (and available for $6.95 and $9.95 shipped respectively from CDWow). I own both and find them superior to the Criterion versions (which I also owned at one point). Here are the UK features from DVDCompare:

The Long Good Friday

R0 United Kingdom - (Anchor Bay (UK))
Commentary by Director John Mackenzie
Interview with Director John Mackenzie and Actor Bob Hoskins
Cast & Crew Bios
Film Notes
Photo Gallery
Essential Slang Notes
Booklet
1.78:1 Anamorphic PAL
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0

This version is clearly preferable to the Criterion as it is anamorphic and includes two pretty good extras.

Mona Lisa

R0 United Kingdom - (Anchor Bay)
Audio commentary by director Neil Jordan and actor Bob Hoskins
Location Report (from BBC TV's "Film 86") (5:25)
Interview with Neil Jordan in Cannes (14:11)
Nat King Cole "Mona Lisa" music video (2:11)
Cast and crew biographies
Picture gallery
Theatrical trailer
1.75:1 Anamorphic PAL
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0

This version includes the same commentary track as the Criterion, though obviously not the booklet (if that's important to you). Also, DVDCompare points out:

Note also that DVD Beaver rates the non-anamorphic Criterion transfer as better than the anamorphic Anchor Bay.

Visit DVDBeaver for a full image comparison.

dilligaf

hope they respond with a confirmation they were not confused

dsa_shea

If not we might all be going to the store for a six pack instead.

David Lambert

DavisDVD probably got his info from DVDPlanet, which listed all the Anchor Bay slate for April this past Friday. That is where I took my additional info from. Here's the link to Six Pack there:

http://www.dvdplanet.com/product_lis...103&format=DVD

asianxcore

as other posters have mentioned, I was hoping Cemetary Man was on that list. I've been holding out getting the R2 version in hopes this one will be better.

dx23

According to dvdbeaver, the image of the Criterion DVD, although it is not anamorphic, is better than the Anchor Bay UK release. Here is the link, with screencaps comparisons.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/mona-lisa.htm

dx23

Explosive? What the fuck!!!! :roll:

chente

Thanks for the heads up on these. I had no idea they were so cheap at CDWOW. I'll pick them up the next time I order. Now you've repaid me the favor of letting you know that Repulsion R2 was available.

BTW, did you ever get the Lewton set?

dx23

May and June releases thanks to davisdvd.com:

May 23rd -
Warning Sign
It Waits

June 13th

Folks!
Fatso
The Quiet Earth

http://www.davisdvd.com/news/news.html

Disc-Flipper