The Blu-Ray Upcoming, News & Info Thread

[Khev]

Not me. double dipping here

Yep, it's the only way to fly.

Even if the EE is better watching The Hobbit:AUJ in the theater was an incredible experience and I always want the option of reliving it at home.

 

[The Josh]

I agree. After I have the EE its the one I'll watch far more often but having options is always a nice thing.

 

[Khev]

And honestly I simply don't mind adding more money to WB's coffers for productions as astoundingly good as these. I'll gladly cough up $20 in March to watch the TE for months on end until the EE arrives.

 

[The Josh]

And honestly I simply don't mind adding more money to WB's coffers for productions as astoundingly good as these. I'll gladly cough up $20 in March to watch the TE for months on end until the EE arrives.

 

[furystorm]

Get a room double dippers.

 

[Darth Waller]

Get a room double dippers.

Double dipping is fun. At least it looks fun in the movie's I've seen.

 

[user 1190]

Wow they have taken GLs money making idea to a whole new level.

 

[IronFingaz]

 

[batfan08]

It's criminal that there's no 20th anniversary Blu-Ray Edition of Mask of the Phantasm on that calendar (they better make up for it in spades with the TDKR UCE).

 

[kliqonmonks777]

I know, why no WB respect for the best animated Batman film ever!!!
The closet commentary track for this is Kevin Smith's Fat Man on Batman Podcast with Paul Dini, anyone who loves the movie needs to check it out..

It's criminal that there's no 20th anniversary Blu-Ray Edition of Mask of the Phantasm on that calendar (they better make up for it in spades with the TDKR UCE).

 

[batfan08]

Yeah, I listened to it. I love me some Fatman on Batman. It's great stuff, turkeys.

 

[furystorm]

Just ordered The Force Within Us, the follow up release to The Force Among Us. I recommend these if you love Star Wars, especially location information...


The Force Within Us (the highly anticipated sequel to The Force Among Us) Is
finally finished and is in the “Authoring Process” and then it will be sent
out for Manufacturing!

If you preorder the film in the month of February – you will get a FREE
trading Card Set, a Random Vial of earth from the filming locations (Endor
or Tatooine) and FREE world wide shipping! But this offer is for a limited
time and is ONLY available during the month of February! You can preorder
the dvd at www.theforceamongus.com

The DVD’s ship out the 1st part of March
There are only 1,000 dvds being pressed and it is already 50% SOLD OUT!
The Force Within Us, takes us deeper into the Star Wars experience than just
the obsession of collectibles and costuming. Exploring how and why this epic
saga has the ability to possess and alter lives, “The Force Within Us”
centers on Star Wars as a catalyst for spiritual rebirth… finding personal
meaning in life… and inspiring positive change.

Film maker Cris Macht takes you on a journey revealing that Star Wars is
more than just another sci-fi film to watch or convention to attend. It
exposes personal connections that are developed through the sagas good
versus evil storyline, and the hope that good ultimately triumphs in our
world as well as in a galaxy far, far away. Also featured are thought
provoking stories from Jimmy Mac, Dave Dorman, Steve Sansweet, Robert Watts,
Jeremy Bulloch, Paul Bateman, and Ashley Eckstein and how being a part of
the phenomenon has changed their lives. Familiar Star Wars locations, like
the Death Valley (Tatooine) and the Redwood Forest (Endor), add to the deep,
emotional journey that is “The Force Within Us.”

For more information – check out the films Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-FORCE-AMONG-US/171887794928?sk=info

 

[lcummins]

The pre-orders for The Hobbit have been removed from Amazon...

 

[IronFingaz]

The Criterion Collection has announced five titles for Blu-ray release in May. On May 7th, the studio will release Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders (1964). On My 14th, it will release Delmer Daves' Jubal (1956) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957). A week later, it will release Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (1969). And on May 28th, it will release Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet (1990).

Band of Outsiders -

Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders. In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard's most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakeably cool Madison dance sequence.

Special Features:
New digital master of Gaumont's recent high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Visual glossary of references and wordplay found in Band of Outsiders
Exclusive interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and actor Anna Karina
Excerpts from a 1964 interview with director Jean-Luc Godard, including rare behind-the-scenes footage from the film
Filmmaker Agnès Varda's 1961 silent comedy Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, starring Godard and Karina and featuring other members of the Band of Outsiders cast
Godard's original theatrical trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, Godard's character descriptions for the film's 1964 press book, and an interview with the director from the same year

Jubal -

A trio of exceptional performances from Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger form the center of Jubal, an overlooked Hollywood treasure from genre master Delmer Daves. In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, Ford is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by Borgnine's bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife (Valerie French) and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand, played by Steiger. The resulting emotional showdown imparts unparalleled psychology intensity to this western, a vivid melodrama featuring expressive location photography in Technicolor and CinemaScope.

Special Features:
New high-definition digital restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones

3:10 to Yuma -

In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man's particular brand of honor. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, humane action movie, directed by the supremely talented studio filmmaker Delmer Daves with intense feeling and precision.

Special Features:
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New interviews with author Elmore Leonard and Glenn Ford's son and biographer, Peter Ford
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones

Medium Cool -

It's 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. His debut feature, Medium Cool, plunges us into that moment. With its mix of scripted fiction and seat-of-the-pants documentary technique, this story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.

Special Features:
New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Haskell Wexler, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Two audio commentaries, one featuring Wexler, actor Marianna Hill, and editor Paul Golding, the other featuring historian Paul Cronin
New interview with Wexler
Look Out Haskell, It's Real!, a fifty-five-minute documentary about the making of Medium Cool, produced by Cronin and featuring interviews with Wexler, Golding, actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster, Chicago historian Studs Terkel, and others
Excerpts from Sooner or Later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship, who plays the adolescent Harold in the film
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard

Life is Sweet -

This moving film from Mike Leigh is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). In it, Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extra*ordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy, Life Is Sweet is captivating, and it was Leigh's first international sensation.

Special Features:
New high-definition digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London
More!
PLUS: A booket featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt

 

[batfan08]

3:10 to Yuma? **** yeah!

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Hi folks - a bit of a random question, but has there been any confirmation on the 1990 TMNT film getting a stand alone Blu-ray release??

Cheers in advance.

 

[IronFingaz]

Hi folks - a bit of a random question, but has there been any confirmation on the 1990 TMNT film getting a stand alone Blu-ray release??

Cheers in advance.

Nope, only part of a trilogy set. An expensive pizza box set and a standard set, which i think is pretty cheap on Amazon.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Thanks for the info there IronFingaz.

Shame.. it needs it's own release.

 

[The Ween]

Dang! Got an email from Screen Archives about John Carpenter's Christine and it's gone already! ****!

 

[IronFingaz]

Dang! Got an email from Screen Archives about John Carpenter's Christine and it's gone already! ****!

Sold out last night. Took a few hours.