talemyn

From this thread, THX-1138 is due out this year.

baracine

Well, blimey! My Fair Lady is also directional, down to the last bloomin' syllable! You've hopened my hears, you 'ave, guv'nor!

Ginwen

I usually always answer Decline of Western Civilization to this, but today I'll branch out:

Reds. 3 Academy Awards (including Best Director), 12 nominations, yet I never see any slight mention of a release of this. I haven't seen it for a long time (and that was on VHS) so I may not even still like it, but it deserves a release.

danko

Last I checked some time ago,
La Dolce Vita
Ugetsu Monogatari
Au Hasard, Balthazar
Conformist, The
Persona
Fanny and Alexander
Sansho the Bailiff/Sansho Dayu
Voyage in Italy/Viaggio in Italia/Journey to Italy
Magnificent Ambersons, The
L'Age d'Or
Pickpocket
Greed
Earrings of Madame de.../Madame de...
Viridiana
Leopard, The
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Los Olvidados/The Young and the Damned
Letter From an Unknown Woman

baracine

A whole slew of movies by Jean Renoir (from the silent Nana (1926) to Le Carrosse d'or (1952)) and René Clair (including I Married a Witch (1942), Belles de nuit (1952) and La Beauté du Diable (1950)), Marcel Carné's Juliette ou la clé des songes (1950), most of Julien Duvivier's output, including Golgotha (1935) and the legendary Le Golem (1936).

The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, 1934)
Marie-Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1937/8)
Marie-Antoinette (Jean Delannoy, 1954)
Les Trois Valses (Ludwig Berger, 1938)
On Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsh, George Cukor, 1932)

A definitive Nosferatu (1922) edition featuring the original orchestral film score by Hans Erdmann (which has been reconstructed to perfection, still packs a wallop and is on a very hard to find German BMG Classics/RCA VIctor Red Seal CD that I like to synchronize with the Image edition, but it ain't easy!).

The films of writer-director-actor Sacha Guitry, at least the historical ones:

Si Paris nous était conté (1955)
... aka If Paris Were Told to Us (1955) (International: English title)
Napoléon (1955)
Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)
... aka Affairs in Versailles (1957) (USA: reissue title)
... aka Fabulous Versailles (1954)
... aka Royal Affairs in Versailles (1957) (USA)
Deburau (1951) (The real life story of the mime who inspired "Children of Paradise")
Le Diable boiteux (1948) (about Talleyrand)
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (1942)
... aka Mlle. Desiree (1942) (USA) (Inspired the US "Désirée")
Remontons les Champs-Élysées (1938)
... aka Champs-Elysées (1939) (USA)
Les Perles de la couronne (1937)
... aka Pearls of the Crown (1937)

and I'm not even mentioning his comedies.

The whole series of Don Camillo Cold War Franco-Italian "village" comedies starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi (1952-1965). All the films of Marcel Pagnol that Fernandel starred in.

And finally, a decent restored edition of the Russian colour fantasy film classic Sadko (1953) in the original Russian language and not the God-awful adaptation/exploitation/travesty/emasculation/let's-stick-it-to-the Russkis rush rip-off English dubbing job called The Magic Voyage of Sinbad in the US, for which, if there is a God in heaven, that money-grabbing hack Francis Ford Coppola should burn in hell for all eternity and which has been justifiably ridiculed by Mystery Science Theatre 3000. God, that felt good! [But, of course, even that monumental artistic rape pales in comparison to DreamWorks doing a whole animation feature about Sinbad and leaving the Arabs out of it for political reasons. Plus ça change...]

Those are just some of the more egregious "holes" in the international catalogue. I think the Criterion Editions will never run out of valuable films to restore and propagate.

Concorde

Just thought of another one:

"Radio Flyer" would be a nice one to add to my limited DVD collection.

LasVegasMichael

I've got another one too (albeit obscure)

Zero Hour!

This was the serious base of the movie Airplane, made in 1957 starring Serling Haden and Dana Andrews. I cherish my VHS copy. Although a serious movie, it is absolutely hilarious after seeing Airplane.

--LVM

abintra

I never posted in this thread cause I thought it was going to be locked due to the prior ones.

Here are a few of mine in no particular order and some are available outside of R1 and a few have been mentioned but..

Ruby in Paradise
Jimmy Hollywood- yes, I'm the only one that can recall liking this
Big Man on Campus- I'm worried this won't see the light of day
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Kiss of the Spider Woman- coming this year!
Angel Baby- great performances
Coldblooded- spot on dark comedy
Niagara, Niagara- couple strong performances
Twelfth Night
'Night Mother
Trust
Rocket Man
Night on Earth
Until the End of the World
Safe Men
Inside Moves
The Competition
Jacknife
Normal Life
First Love, Last Rites
What Happened Was..
Commandments
Fatso
Brewster McLoud
Brain Donors
The Sugarland Express
The Baby of Macon
A Reason to Believe
Short Cuts
Paradise
Tollbooth
Modern Romance
Crazy People- for the "Hello Song" alone
Mindwalk
Delicatessen
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Eight Days a Week
Quick Change
The Music of Chance
Whale Music

Edit to add Whale Music

baracine

What does "locked" mean?

baracine

Three more Russian absolute classics, not by Eisenstein, in an ultra-naturalistic, sentimental but very subtly propagandistic mode (but only in the sense that Charles Dickens' novels can be considered communist propaganda), all based on stories by Maxim Gorky:

First is the monumental autobiographical Gorky Trilogy by director Mark Donskoy, which the US saw, praised and admired before and during WWII and which Canada has enjoyed ever since in repertory, but which has been shelved in the rest of the continent since the Cold War:

Moj universitety (1940)
... aka Gorky Trilogy III (1940)
... aka My Universities (1940)
... aka University of Life (1940)

V lyudyakh (1939)
... aka Gorky Trilogy II (1939)
... aka My Apprenticeship (1939)
... aka On His Own (1939) (USA)
... aka Out in the World (1939)

Only the first part has been available in region 1 DVD by Image since 2002. Although, it is arguably one of the best and most important movies of all time, this DVD has never been reviewed by any of the major DVD sites, not even DVDtalk.com or DVD Savant, which makes the release of Parts II and III in region 1 highly unlikely:

Detstvo Gorkogo (1938)
... aka The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) (USA)
... aka Gorky Trilogy I (1938) (International: English title: informal title)

Also, the ultimate Gorky populist tearjerker from the dephts of despair of WWII, itself a remake, and remade once again in 1955 by Mark Donskoy:

Mat (Mother) (1941) by director Leonid Lukov

This one, unless I'm wrong, has only been seen on Quebec television in the 50's and 60's. The preceding silent version is available on region 1 DVD, though.

LasVegasMichael

It is when a moderater seals the thread because of duplicates existing.

Some types of threads are locked more then others.

--LVM

The Lusty Nun

Three that I have already seen mentioned:

Short Cuts
Decline of Western Civilization 1
Quick Change

And in addition:

Decline of Western Civilization 2: The Metal Years
Dogs in Space
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Searching for Bobby Fisher
Kindergarten Cop

LasVegasMichael

This has been out since 1/20/98.

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=MCA020145

and

http://www.dvdplanet.com/product_lis...440&format=DVD

Go buy it!

--LVM

kenbuzz

Good choice. I'd also add:


Eating Raoul
The Quiet Earth
Kenneth Branaugh's Hamlet (1996)
The Name of the Rose

And of course, The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin

The Lusty Nun

Re: Kindergarten Cop


Yeah, but it's in PAN AND SCAN

Also, I'd love it if "they" would release Scenes from a Class Struggle in Beverly Hills.

talemyn

Yellowbeard!!

Keith123

And another one I would like to get on DVD someday:

The Man With One Red Shoe (Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman,
Carrie Fisher, Jim Belushi etc.)

Hendrik

...at the risk of being blamed for being an 'elitist snob', allow me to point out that EATING RAOUL is available on R2(PAL) and R4(PAL) DVD...

. . . . . .

talemyn

Elitist snob . . .

Scott Connors

First off, many of the films frequently requested here, including SONG OF THE SOUTH, lots of Marx Brothers, KING KONG, etc., are available from Taiwan from a place called www.eFilmic.com. I have several of the Marx Brothers disc, including A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, and while the quality is nothing spectacular it is at least highly viewable. I suspect that this place, which also offers many of its discs on eBay, is operating somewhat in the shadows.
Anyway, I figure that you all should at least know about them, whether or not you want to do business with them is up to you. Once R1 editions of the Marx Brothers films I have become available, I will purchase them.
In the meantime, my own list of films I'd like to see on R1 releases are as follows:

The Student of Prague (Conrad Veidt)
The Black Cat (Karloff and Lugosi--on an R4 disc with "The Raven" and "The Mummy") with the full treatment--AC, DOC, etc.
The Invisible Ray
Freaks
Island of Lost Souls
Mad Love (Peter Lorre)
Mask of Fu Manchu (Karloff)
The Undying Monster
The Innocents (dir. Jack Clayton)
Eye of the Devil (David Niven, Sharon Tate)
Farewell to the King (R2 "Pan and scan" available; Amazon taking requests so something is up)
King Kong restored and SE
Rough Riders (John Milius)
Die Bruecke (The Bridge--plain R2 version in German only. I speak German but subtitles still help)
Monster Squad
The Resurrected (great H. P. Lovecraft film adaptation)
Blood and Roses (Roger Vadim)
Blood on Satan's Claw (coming out in SE from Anchor Bay UK this year)
The Lighthorsemen (R4 version available)

If anyone knows of any non-R1 releases of these, please let me know

There is a Brazil release of "Fearless Vampire Killers" that is okay, but I'll still get the MGM release if there are added features.

Best,
Scott

Tony Dvdfan

I saw Eating Raoul on a couple posts....it was just announced recently for a April 13 release!
I'm waiting for alot more 80's movies...Disorderlies, Harry and the Hendersons, DARYL, Night of the Comet, Howard the Duck, Explorers....so many more to mention!

baracine

Also The Mad Genius by Michael Curtiz (1931), a companion piece to Svengali, also with John Barrymore, this time as a mad Russian impresario obsessed with his talented male star ballet dancer (Donald Cook). Sounds familiar? It's the story of Diaghilev and Nijinski, in horror mode, with Boris Karloff as the dancer's father, except, in this case, it's the Diaghilev character who goes mad... Conceived while Diaghilev was still warm in his grave - he died in 1929 - and Nijinski was still fighting for his sanity (he died in 1950). Lawsuits pending. Ugh, can you say "creepy closet cinema"?

bigE

These are the one I want most for R1:

African Queen
Asphalt Jungle
Battle of the Bulge
Criss Cross
Destination Tokyo
Dial M for Murder
Enemy Below
Hamlet (1996)
Judgement at Nuremberg
Julius Caesar (1953)
King Kong (1933)
Lifeboat
Magnificent Ambersons
Stray Dog
Suspicion

BiMonSciFiCon

NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
night of the comet
looker
after hours
blood beach
from beyond
without warning
the quiet earth
monster squad

Mikael79

I always have the same answer for each of these types of threads:

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)


Jimmy Stewart and Billy Wilder......What is the hold up?