Does anyone collect Fox Studio Classics?
 

Because if you do, you are insane to collec movies just because of spine numbers!!! J/K I have All About Eve and An Affair To Remember. Would like to get more soon.

Spine numbers make the world go round.

Spine numbers rule!!!!!

I'm having numbers surgically grafted to my spine so that people will want me too.

I'm seriously considering it since the collection is currently smallish and all the movies are good. They are very affordable too. I currenlty own

All About Eve
How Green Was My Valley
Sunrise
Gentleman's Agreement

and will be getting

An Affair to Remember
The Mark of Zorro
Ghost and Mrs Muir

I remember liking Anastasia but it has been so long since I've seen it I don't know about it. I'm so-so about The Day the Earth Stood Still and haven't seen the rest although they look interesting.

How are the extras?

They are decent. The ones I have include a commentary and an AMC backstory which I've found to be very interesting. The picture quality is also very good, especially All About Eve. I think they are great deals for the price.

Complete List?
 

Is there somewhere I could get a complete list of Fox Studio Classics titles? I would be interested in collecting this series as well.

I've bought several and they are very well produced editions.

Song of Bernadette - interesting story, very analytical commentary and good doc on Jennifer Jones. Top transfer. Overall 9/10

Ghost and Mrs Muir - loved this flick, one commentary is good, other complete tosh. Excellent transfer. Overall 9/10

Inn of Sixth Happiness - pretty good transfer (bit soft), but top film - superb commentary absolutely facinating when discussing the real person behind the story - excellent. Overall 9/10

Anastasia - entertaining film, so-so commentary, but excellent documentary on real anastasia. Transfer good. Overall 7/10

Titanic - disappointed with this one, film only ok, transfer good. Commentaries dull, boring documentary. Not a touch on 'a night to remember'. Overall 5/10

link

http://www2.foxhome.com/studioclassics/


Coming soon:

6 Jan - My darling Clementine
Feb - Diary of Anne Frank
2 March - Peyton Place
6 April - Grapes of Wrath

I collect them, but not for the spine numbers. I thought it'd be nice to collect a particular movie line and so far I've loved (or at least enjoyed) every single release so far. I have all of them so far and plain of collecting the future releases.

Favorites being All About Eve (which was an upgrade) Sunrise, Gentlemen's Agreement and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Here's a list for all the current and upcoming releases- http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.ht...tudio+classics

I've considered, as they are mostly good and reasonably priced (plus they look kind of cool if you put them all together in your collection) but there are a couple I don't care that much for: Titanic is ok, but not really worth owning (IMHO), and I've just never been able to buy Jennifer Jones as an Asian (ok, "Eurasian") in Love is a Many Splendored Thing, so I'm unable to suspend my disbelief.

I do have them all so far and it is for two simple reasons. They've all been good classic movies and they are cheap. Many I've gotten for $11.00. Hard to pass up IMHO. Some are even blind bought and they have yet to let me down.

I agree that these movies are very good values, in addition to being very good pictures in their own right. However, I've already sunk too much money collecting the spine numbers from another collection, so I've decided to pass on these.... ;)

Very nice collection so far. I don't have them all, but will collect most of them. It's nice to see a studio treat some of their older films with respect and at a great price. Older movies are still under-represented on DVD, but this is nice series to correct some of that.

I actually was collecting them, with the intention of keeping up and getting the entire set. To date I have nine of them, including the "Sunrise" mail-in, but I'm not sure if I'll continue the collection because there are some titles that I'm less than enthusiastic about owning. For the most part, however, they are a great value. The "All About Eve" disc is steal at that price.

I see that it is not listed on the website, and breaks from aesthetic form, but is the new Planet of the Apes part of the collection. I ask because it appears that there are 13 currently in the collection and then I saw this picture:

http://www.davisdvd.com/bin/covers10.html

If it is not, can anyone explain the significance of the 14?

Thanks,

Dan

Yes, but I wouldn't purchase "Love is a Splendored Thing" on a bet.

Love is a Splendored Thing is a brilliant film.

If anyone wants to know why the studios crashed and burned in the late-'50s/early 60s, watch this clunker.

I own 3 so far:

All About Eve
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Ox-Bow Incident

They're very well done good video/audio/xtras

Looking forward to their 2004 releases especially "My Darling Clementine" Jan 6th. One of the best westerns ever :up:

Just Day the Earth Stood Still so far. I need Sunrise though. After that, I can pretty much take or leave the rest of 'em.

Firstly, they crashed in the 60's after Cleopatra (with only Sound of Music to save them). In the late '50s they did phenomonal business (especially with all those other R&H musicals).

Henry King is a highly underated director. Love is a Many Splendored Thing has some of the finest cinemaScope photography ever. William Holden is excellent. The film is poetic, dramatic, and highly filmic
The score is beautiful, the scenery fun and exotic, and the film's mix of contemporary political turmoil and social displacement pared with the romantic entanglements of lovers, has been highly influential among Hong Kong filmmakers like Wong Kar-Wei(especially Happy Together and In the Mood For Love).

...what Pants said...

. . . :o . . .

I've been looking for "Ox-Bow Incident" (Fox Studio Classic DVD) ever since it was released last month, and no-one seems to have it. I've checked Best Buy, Borders, Circuit City, Fye, Newbury Comics, Tower Records, HMV, and B&N. Repeated times.

Anyone gotten this recently released classic yet? How come no bricks-and-mortar retailers are carrying it?

Yeah, these are sometimes hard to find. It is probably best to order it online.