PTA director's cuts would be sweet.

I need Hard Eight on Blu... NOW!

So disappointing. Seems like every release that I was excited about this year has just vanished. Still waiting for word on Pulp Fiction/Jackie Brown... Alien Quadrilogy no longer scheduled.... I've stopped even hoping for Boogie Nights for at least a year. Someone at bluray.com says they heard of a Nov. release for PDL.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=114024

Funny, that guy at bluray.com has the same screen name as the guy who said the same thing here!

I want PDL day 1, but I be grateful if it slipped into December if the rumor is 11/17 anyway.

No month has ever been as expensive for me as November will be. December seems pretty open and even as it fills up, I don't expect it to be nearly as "bad" as November.

Maybe it deserves it's own thread, but considering there are PTA fans in this one - I'll post it here...

Press Release for Magnolia (hope noone minds a link to the HTF):

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/foru...gnolia-blu-ray

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But no new stuff

Didn't they film 'The worms' scenes and cut them from the final film? I have the script and remember reading about him.

PTA had final cut on the film, so this is the final version. I guess it could be added as deleted scenes, but PTA doesn't seem to be much for extras the last couple films - so just including extras from the last release is good enough for me. The film's the most important thing for me, however the Magnolia Diary is great and I can watch that from time to time.

They did film at least some of them. Orlando Jones played The Worm. There is some footage of a scene in a diner with The Worm & Dixon either in the documentary or the hidden "Color Bar" footage.

I love PTA's first 3 films, with BOOGIE NIGHTS as the standout. That's one of the BDs I'm most looking forward to. PDL is okay, but I can't watch it anymore. Sandler just bothers me now.

Mods,

Should we just change the title to "PT Anderson films on Blu", or something like that? Obviously, PDL isn't coming anytime soon it would appear.

Yeah. it's in the That Moment documentary..Paul was never happy with the Worm footage...He's been real tight with his deleted scenes too..there's still tons of deleted Boogie Nights footage that has never seen the light of the day (I have a copy of the workprint )

oh yeah..I also heard that Punch Drunk Love was pushed back to March 2010..probably to be more in line with Magnolia and Boogie Nights...now Sony just needs to get on the ball and release Hard Eight!

Loved this movie ... Sandler's finest! I hope they release it soon!

Recently re-watched Punch Drunk Love. Amazing film, and easily Adam Sandler's best. Quite quirky & bizarre. Barry Egan (Sandler) obviously had serious psychological & anger issues, but it wasn't clear exactly what they were. I guess growing up with 7 sisters will do that to you.

A while back, it was interesting to find out that the Egan character was actually based on a real person, who did buy up a lot of food/pudding in order to get free air miles:

http://gizmodo.com/how-an-engineer-e...ing-1339646546

Here's hoping we see this excellent, somewhat underrated film on Blu at some point soon. The colors would look especially vivid in HD....

Bah. You made me think something was happening on the BD front. I recently did Vudu D2D for this because I got tired of waiting.

I'm hoping this event indicates something is in the works: http://www.bam.org/film/2016/punch-drunk-love

I think someone's been on a PTA kick recently - reviving 3 PTA threads today.

Odd that it's taken this long and still no BD for this. PDL and Hard Eight are the remaining two.

Back in 2012 after a film screening, PTA said the Blu-Ray was being worked on back then. Who knows why it's taking this long to be released.

Mark Kermode did a 35mm screening in the UK a while ago. It might just be popular to screen because there are a few prints around.

Yeah, I ended up re-watching almost all of PTA's films late last year. It was cool to see them all back to back, since for the first time I noticed similar themes throughout all of the films. PTA is an amazing film-maker - his filmography is small but mighty.

Now, I want to re-watch Inherent Vice...

I would really love a complete Paul Thomas Anderson collection on Blu-Ray, even if it means I have to own Inherent Vice...

It's finally happening folks! Punch Drunk Love is being released by Criterion in November!



DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

4K digital transfer, supervised by director Paul Thomas Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Blossoms & Blood, a twelve-minute 2002 piece by Anderson featuring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, along with music by Jon Brion
New interview with Brion
New piece featuring behind-the-scenes footage of a recording session for the film’s soundtrack
New conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake
Additional artwork by Blake
Cannes press conference from 2002
NBC News interview from 2000 with David Phillips, “The Pudding Guy”
Twelve Scopitones
Deleted scenes
Mattress Man commercial
Trailers

Very underrated movie; Sandler's best IMHO.