As for Warner Bros. releases on DVD, I did pick up their 6 disk comedy series the other day which had 2 disk sets of The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby along with Libeled Lady, Dinner At Eight, Stage Door and To Be or Not to Be. I have not had a chance to watch them yet. At the same time, there was also another set of Warner Bros musicals but I cannot remember the titles. Ralph
On Mar 21, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bruce Carteron wrote:
Hi Joe and all: I thought the picture was great on "LAURA" although the sound seemed a little muffled - the restored scene wasn't that great of quality - probably because it had been cut before release. Yes, I was really impressed with "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN" too - but where are their other Technicolor greats - like the Betty Grable 40's musicals, "JESSE JAMES" "THE BLACK SWAN"? As far as Warners' goes - where are their musicals? They have the MGM library and have put those out - but only "42ND STREET" on the Busby Berkeleys? - and they own RKO - where's "KING KONG" and the Astaire-Rogers musicals? I also hope they re-release the "Forbidden Hollywood" series on DVD. - Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bonelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Release of movie Laura on DVD
Hi from Joe B.
I got the Laura as well from Best Buy (wish I'd had the coupon). I haven't looked at the entire disc but I think the restoration is pretty good but not super. This is the finally-released disc that was postponed last year. Could it have been because they were trying to find better source material? It's great to have the title and I'll reserve judgement on restoration quality until I've watched the whole thing at night. But it doesn't look nearly as good as the new Warner Classics releases of, say, the Gangster films. However Fox did a superb job with many others, especially the recenty release of Leave Her to Heaven which looks splendid in Technicolor and in many of the other black & white releases as well. So......
Joe B.
PS-- I am glad to hear someone else comment about the lesser quality of picture, etc. eminating from the Fox Movie Channel. Since I've moved I don't have sattelite or cable but I noticed for the past few years that Fox Movie Channel's picture quality has always been substandard-- compared to anything else! Joe
From: Kirby McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005/03/21 Mon PM 02:08:27 EST To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Release of movie Laura on DVD
Hope it's better than Fox Movie Channel. They run LAURA frequently with a print they salvaged from the drive-in. I get that from DirecTV. Ever wonder why their Fox's movie channel looks cheap? Channel 258 on DirecTV. Look like mpeg2 sometimes.
Kirby
On Mar 21, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Ralph Plumb wrote:
> For your noir buffs, I just got my copy of the new DVD release of > Laura. Now if I can just get the poster. This release is > inexpensive--$13 including shipping. I am going to watch it tonight > before 24. It looks interesting with an alternate opening and deleted > scene as well as 2 commentaries and biographies of Gene Tierney and > Vincent Price. I hope they had a good print to work from. > Ralph Plumb > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. >
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