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"Every viewing of It Happened Here, I find, requires the same adjustment. You always prepare yourself to make allowances, to be indulgent because, after all, it is only an amateur film, made on half a shoestring - schoolboys' pocket-money virtually - with the barest of technical resources and...

I don't post much here now, but there's one new release that I had to write about. Flicker Alley's new Blu-Ray collection, Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film. This is one of the most important releases of the year. First off, this is not demo material in the same sense as...

Looking around on the HTF search engine, only two entries turned up: an empty press release thread by Ron Epstein and a thread in the Movies section with nine replies. If you have a BluRay system... and an imagination, you owe it to yourself to rent, buy, trade for, or borrow Tarsem's The...

After reading a lot on film restoration projects, it seems like the actual restoration work is easy compared to the research before a frame is touched. What are the steps usually taken to convince a studio to restore a film? Is there a way to request an inventory of archival materials for...

Having skipped directly from VHS to DVD, I never got into laserdisc. As a result, I'm pretty much dumb on the quality of players. I've found some rare films on LD that I'd like to transfer for personal DVD-Rs, but I'm not sure which models would be good. I know there's "professional" quality...

I received Othello from Netflix, thinking it would be the Image DVD (with the Restoring Othello documentary). Instead, it's from some company called Westlake. My DVD from Netflix of The Trial was also Westlake instead of Milestone (as shown on their page). Is Othello actually in the public...

Warner has yet to disappoint with their Looney Tunes set... the 5th volume was released today and it's excellent. All the cartoons look fantastic, especially the B&W cartoons. The extras are the usual interesting bunch, but the real stars are the preview cut of "Hare Ribbin'" (with the original...

Kino is releasing a new 2-disc SE of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin on Oct. 23. It'll have both the new restoration (with footage cut out before the official Russian release) and the regular familiar cut (that's on the old Image DVD). The restored version is remasterd in HD and will...

Back in 2005, Anthology Film Archives and Image Entertainment (along with a heck of a lot of other archives and studios, even WHV) teamed up to create the excellent 7-disc Unseen Cinema box set showcasing 155 avant-garde films. Much of it contained essential film school content like Man Ray's...

I've heard from someone that Optimum Releasing will be releasing Napoleon in the UK (R2) on May 28th. They don't seem to have anything on their website about it. I'm hoping this means rights issues have been resolved. To my knowledge, the film has never had a UK video release. They're also...

Amazingly, this was just released on the 27th! Totally without any fanfare, it looks like VCI Entertainment released a new edition of the 1954 follow-up to Disney's 1950 version of Treasure Island: Long John Silver. The wonderful Robert Newton reprises his role as the title character...

I've already returned one copy and now my second one won't play the 2nd layer with the "Stories" and the trailer. What gives? Is this a common problem?

If you have Windows, you can actually hide an mp3 within a GIF animation (or just one image) by using a simple command. All you need is Winamp and WinRAR First, put the GIF and the mp3 (preferably, you want the combined size to be under 1 MB, so keep that in mind) in the same folder. The...

I just bought a used 4-disc gift set of E.T. from Amazon.com (seller: inetvideo.com) and it's missing the 2002 special edition disc. Even worse, the first disc of the Pearl Harbor: Vista Series set is in its place. I'm emailed them about it, but if they can't give me a replacement, what...

That's right, in lieu of actually putting the movie on DVD again... "Music Video Distributors will release The Beatles: The Making of Help! on March 21st. The DVD will feature twenty minutes of "solid" 4 x 8 mm Kodak film footage (appearing on disc for the very first time) showing The Beatles...

I just picked up Columbia's 2-disc set of the complete 1943 Batman serial. I previously bought the 1949 serial, which has terrific a/v, especially for a 1949 serial. The 1943 serial seemed to have a much better story, from what I read. So, I'm looking forward to watching it. A few...

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...b4686e37586035 Looks like rumors are brewing that another 2-disc set is coming with... Tell It to the Marines West of Zanzibar He Who Gets Slapped The Unholy Three '25 The Unholy Three '30 These are ONLY rumors.

I noticed that both a 21-DVD set from Universal (R2, UK) and two 10-DVD sets from Kinowelt (R2, Germany) exist. Does the Universal set use the same Kinowelt masters? I'm hoping that's the case since I don't know a lick of German.

Looks like July is going to be a great month for Criterion... #292: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Licensed from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) Anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen New Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 mixes, as well as original Dolby Surround 2.0. Special Features...

Apparently, Rhino may be preparing a complete box set of the entire first season of MST3K for DVD. Please note... this is ONLY a rumor. See http://www.mstiegate.com/ for a few more details. This is a good season to do this for since "The Crawling Eye" is one of the most requested...

After checking several online stores, it looks like Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler will be a pan & scan release. The film was shot in Panavision (2.35:1). DeepDiscountDVD, CDUniverse, DVDSoon, and several others list it as full frame. The release date is March 8th and they want...

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents All three James Dean films in a box set, with Rebel Without a Cause being a new 2-disc SE. The existing Giant: 2-disc SE is also included.

In lieu of explaining who owns what movies in threads over and over again, why not have a sticky thread that people can use for reference? You can add information in replies and it'll be added to this main thread. How about it? ORIGINAL STUDIOS: 20th Century Fox - Almost entirely still in...

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-vide...27/golfgti.mov Here's the commercial which uses digitally manipulated bits of Singin' in the Rain. In other news, the U.S. has solved energy problems by harnessing the electrical power from Gene Kelly spinning in his grave.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...3795deda?tvc=2 According to Kevin Brownlow, Freemantle Media is currently working on putting the 13 pt. documentary on the American silent era, HOLLYWOOD, on DVD. UNKNOWN CHAPLIN is also being worked on. No idea if this is a R2-only release, though...

http://www.petitiononline.com/ltoffcn/petition.html Cartoon Network shows little to no classic Warner Bros. cartoons, so it's about time they move the "exclusive" rights to someone else.

http://www.davisdvd.com/archives/news/1104.html DavisDVD reports that it's coming... But it'll be the 1995 "raped" version of the film. It's basically the animated "Magnificent Ambersons" Richard Williams labored for decades on the film (production started in 1966!) but it was taken out of...

I read on the Animation Show Forums that King Features has actually admitted to holding back Warner and Turner from releasing an official DVD set of the classic Paramount Popeyes (KFS has an agreement with Turner that they have to approve anything)... ...so they wouldn't have competition...

I recently had the fortune of seeing El norte in one of my college Spanish classes... what a fantastic film. However, it seems that the VHS tape went out of print a long time ago and a horrible DVD is around in a few other regions. El norte is really a fantastic human drama... and it's really...

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbdvd_promo.html The Brothers Chaps are releasing a 3-disc set with the first 100 Strong Bad Emails. Tons of extras... commentaries, all the original easter eggs, behind-the-scenes material, puppet videos, music videos, karaoke, etc. It's all-region, too, so it's...