Visually Stunning Movies That Haven't Received Blu-Ray Treatment

[mooncat]

DONT FORGET SCARFACE AND BRAIN DEAD, AND ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST AND ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA ETC.THE CLASSICS ARE THE BEST

[beebs]

Just a few gorgeous or visual movies I'd love to see on BR.

Sunset Blvd.
War of the Worlds (1950s)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
To Catch a Thief
Bridge on the River Kwai
The King and I
Seven Year Itch
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
The Hustler
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
El Cid
The Court Jester
Lawrence of Arabia
Network
The Sting
Once Upon A Time in the West
Last Picture Show
Apocalypse Now
Brainstorm
Young Sherlock Holmes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dragonslayer
The Right Stuff
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Zelig
The Mission
Platoon
Blue Velvet
The Natural
Brazil
Dances with Wolves
True Lies
Hamlet (1996)
Avalon
Schindler's List
Babe
The Piano
Hudsucker Proxy
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Sense and Sensibility
Delicatessan
American Beauty
Underground
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pleasantville
Amelie

[Lutz]

I hear the reason why Lucas won't release Star Wars on a new format is because he believes that companies would use it just to sell the format.

[OscarBluth]

Originally Posted by HE Pennypacker

M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE. I still think it's his best film. Of course, it'd look beautiful given the BD treatment.

+1, I love that movie.

I'd be happy with Fight Club, Panic Room, Brick, Garden State, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Jacket, Thomas Crown Affair, Rounders and The Talented Mr. Ripley. It has to be rentals that are driving the releases. I can't believe that more people would buy Miss March than Fight Club.

I was ecstatic that Grumpy Old Men & Sideways came out on Blu. If you haven't heard the commentary with Giamatti & THC, it's great. It's on the regular DVD, too. And I'm getting Leon: The Professional on release day.

[Daytripper]

Originally Posted by OscarBluth

+1, I love that movie.

I'd be happy with Fight Club, Panic Room, Brick, Garden State, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Jacket, Thomas Crown Affair, Rounders and The Talented Mr. Ripley. It has to be rentals that are driving the releases. I can't believe that more people would buy Miss March than Fight Club.

I was ecstatic that Grumpy Old Men & Sideways came out on Blu. If you haven't heard the commentary with Giamatti & THC, it's great. It's on the regular DVD, too. And I'm getting Leon: The Professional on release day.

You think some of those films are visually stunning? "Grumpy Old Men" and "Sideways".....really!?

[rkwagner444]

Any movie made in VistaVision.

[Iron_Giant]

Originally Posted by rkwagner444

Any movie made in VistaVision.

Amen, VistaVision was the IMAX of it's time.



Films shot entirely in VistaVision
White Christmas (1954)
3 Ring Circus (1954)
Richard III (1955)
Artists and Models (1955)
The Desperate Hours (1955) (first b&w film shot in VistaVision)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
We're No Angels (1955)
You're Never Too Young (1955)
Hell's Island (1955)
The Battle of the River Plate (Rank Organization,1956)
War and Peace (1956)
High Society (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1956)
The Court Jester (1956)
Away All Boats (Universal Pictures, 1956)
The Searchers (Warner Bros., 1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Funny Face (1957)
Ill Met by Moonlight (The Archers, 1957)
Loving You (1957)
The Delicate Delinquent' (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Hell Drivers (1957)
The Pride and the Passion (United Artists, 1957)
The Sad Sack (1958)
Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot (1957) (first documentary shot in VistaVision)
Vertigo (1958)
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
The Geisha Boy (1958)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
North by Northwest (MGM, 1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
One-Eyed Jacks (1960)
Death by Hanging (Japan, 1968)
In the Realm of the Senses (Japan, 1976)
In the Realm of Passion (Japan, 1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (Japan, 1979)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Universal, 1983)
Venus Wars (Japan, 1989)



Films using VistaVision for special effects process work only

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Tron (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
RoboCop (1987)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
The Abyss (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Jumanji (1995)
Twister (1996)
Contact (1997)
Men in Black (1997)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
The Mummy (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Men in Black II (2002)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Flightplan (2005)
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Blindness (2008)

[mrbmarco]

Ryan's Daughter
Star!
Hello Dolly!
Kagemusha
Daddy Long Legs
Funny Face
Oliver
Dead Man
Auntie Mame
Song of Norway
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Pirate
Meet Me in St Louis
The Boyfriend

[beebs]

Originally Posted by rkwagner444

Any movie made in VistaVision.

Just VistaVision... not CinemaScope or Super Panavision or any of those other wide formats? Any every single VV film, too? No selection of particular favorites?

[beebs]

Originally Posted by Daytripper

You think some of those films are visually stunning? "Grumpy Old Men" and "Sideways".....really!?

I was stunned by the big naked guy running after PG in Sideways. This one looks incredibly film-like on Blu-ray. I've watched in a number of times now.

[L Chabert Lover]

Showgirls...yeah, it wouldn't suck (on Blu)

boobies

[davidlynchfan]

"Tommy" would be a visual feast.

[cinemaphile]

Moulin rouge!!

[trespoochies]

I had no idea people liked The Village at all.....

[PopcornTreeCt]

Originally Posted by trespoochies

I had no idea people liked The Village at all.....

It's blu-ray. It's all about PQ!

[andicus]

Originally Posted by trespoochies

I had no idea people liked The Village at all.....

I had no idea who M. Night was. I didn't know there was "a twist," and I just enjoyed it for what it was. Loved the soundtrack, too.

I could name loads of movies that I'm surprised anyone would like, but to each his/her own.

[hawk]

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

[Ignohippo]

Citizen Kane

[HE Pennypacker]

Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt

It's blu-ray. It's all about PQ!

No. I love The Village. I believe it's a great film. The PQ would just be icing.

[HE Pennypacker]

Originally Posted by hawk

It's A Mad Mad Mad World

Good choice. That and The Russians are Coming!

[Dick]

Originally Posted by Drexl

He allowed a fairly big catalog title (Close Encounters) to be released back in 2007, and then nothing except the day and date Indiana Jones 4. I think that tells us something. Yes, I know sales are gradually increasing, but he still may not be happy with the level they're at yet.

I'd really like to see Sam Mendes' collaborations with Conrad Hall: American Beauty and Road to Perdition.

BTW, Dances with Wolves has been available to download in magnificent 720p on PSN for some time. What a tease!

I do not think Spielberg had any influence over the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS release. If he had, I don't we'd have seen it yet. Columbia (Sony) pretty much has the right to do what they want with this title, one of the few (along with POLTERGEIST) that Speilberg cannot control. Spielberg, as much as I admire his work, is being a narcissistic jerk by not allowing more of his catalog to be available on Blu. He did this with DVD, too. He wants to wait until there is a certain "market saturation" of Blu-ray players. My take on this: market penetration would increase significantly if suddenly JAWS and E.T. and SCHINDLER'S LIST and JURASSIC PARK were to come out on Blu.

But apparently Speilberg believes his films are much too important to be thrown into the mix at this point. His films are important, and that is why they should be available right now, to add a kick to this new format which is really desperately needs.

[K&AJones]

Originally Posted by Timsterino

For visually stunning movies that have not been on Blu-Ray yet, three immediately come to my mind:

What Dreams May Come
Pleasantville
Sound of Music

Couldn't agree more with all three but What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams would look just stunning. I know of no film that pretty much covers the entire color spectrum from colorful pastels to dark and gloomy.

Add....

Ben Hur
Cleopatra

[PhantomStranger]

Originally Posted by Dick

I do not think Spielberg had any influence over the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS release. If he had, I don't we'd have seen it yet. Columbia (Sony) pretty much has the right to do what they want with this title, one of the few (along with POLTERGEIST) that Speilberg cannot control. Spielberg, as much as I admire his work, is being a narcissistic jerk by not allowing more of his catalog to be available on Blu. He did this with DVD, too. He wants to wait until there is a certain "market saturation" of Blu-ray players. My take on this: market penetration would increase significantly if suddenly JAWS and E.T. and SCHINDLER'S LIST and JURASSIC PARK were to come out on Blu.

But apparently Speilberg believes his films are much too important to be thrown into the mix at this point. His films are important, and that is why they should be available right now, to add a kick to this new format which is really desperately needs.

The Blu-ray release of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" by Sony had Spielberg's personal blessing. At one point it became a talking point in the format war that Spielberg had allowed one of his movies on Blu-ray but would supposedly not allow Universal to release any of his movies on HD DVD.

[biglou114]

Originally Posted by Dick

I admire his work, is being a narcissistic jerk by not allowing more of his catalog to be available on Blu. He did this with DVD, too. He wants to wait until there is a certain "market saturation" of Blu-ray players. My take on this: market penetration would increase significantly if suddenly JAWS and E.T. and SCHINDLER'S LIST and JURASSIC PARK were to come out on Blu.

I don't take it that way. I feel that Spielberg is waiting to see of the format will survive. IMO I think that he doesn't want to force the fans of his movies to buy them on a format that won't survive. Thus he's waiting until blu is being used by a majority of the population.

[stanl2]

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet from 1996. It was shot with 65mm film, and would look spectacular on blu-ray.