Franklin J. Schaffner's Lionheart is now available. Be interested to see if this has any fans here, considering how obscure it is.

Some more added to the mix:

Airborne (1993)
Angus (1995)
Crossroads (1942)
Complete Dogville Shorts (1930-31)
Experiment Perilous (1944)
The Heavenly Body (1942)
Ice Palace (1960)
Killer McCoy (1947)
Men Don't Leave (1990)
Penn and Teller Get Killed (1989) Finally!
The Search (1948)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)

Now that I have to get.

NB: Why does Amazon list it for $39.95!?!?!?!?

Amen.

-BJ

Those Dogville shorts really are hilarious, but I'm not sure they needed a DVD release. Personally, I'll never buy them (unless they're dirt cheap) because they seem more suitable for YouTube viewings than regular movies.

Pretty shocking to note that five of these last titles are less than 20 years old. And if they can't generate revenue from a bare bones release of a recent title like WRESTLING ERNEST HEMINGWAY via a budget-line standee display at Wal-Mart then they sure as fuck ain't gonna make it at 19.95 via special on-line order. WB is pathetic! At this point I expect to see a "For Sale" sign on the billboards at Burbank!

Angus would have sold okay on nostalgia alone

"Angus" deserves much more than the Archives. It's a major cult classic and a genuinely great coming-of-age film, with excellent performances all-around and a soundtrack that is every bit as epochal as the one that bestowed "Empire Records". What's infuriating is that WB always insinuated that the film had music rights issues that were preventing it from coming out on DVD (even booking it for a theatrical screening in L.A. recently was an arduous task). But also, it's very well-known that "Angus" had an entire subplot that was excised from the final cut, and it seems that its appearance on the Archive label will ensure that we'll never see it, sadly.

Anyone know anything about The Search. Never was one to get into movie stars, but Monty is in a whole other realm (dreamboat, tortured, and has a Clash song written just for him). I have seen most, including some that aren't on dvd like Lonelyhearts and Freud and he just never seems to disappoint. Is this worth another disappointing adventure in WB's new world of skipping and tripping burn-on-demand discs, just so I can ogle over Liz Taylor's one time (pre-Michael) best friend?

Two more:

Term of Trial (1962)
Return of the Frontiersman (1950)

There's some good stuff here but they're still a bit pricey and it isn't always easy to locate them outside of the US. I'm surprised that Wrestling Ernest Hemingway hasn't been given a full DVD release but I suppose it is good to see in some format.

The Search incidentally isn't a bad film, with an adorable moppet co-starring with Monty. And Monty also looks pretty good, as he almost always did.

DVD Times on Otto Preminger's The Moon is Blue.

Gabriel Over the White House, They Won't Forget, and Lang's Rancho Notorious all to be dumped into the Archive.

...and The Mortal Storm and The Bribe. Disappointing, to say the least.

And Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Are you kidding me? That TCM documentary on 1939 spent, like, 20 minutes talking about how important this film was.

Gabriel over the White House, The Mortal Storm, Rancho Notorious and They won't forget. Are they crazy? They release Esther Williams box sets and run of the mill fare like San Quentin on DVD and sink major classics in their dumping ground.
I was unsure yet, but now I wow never to buy one disc from their god damned trash can. I'll get myself a few nice TV recordings of the films and that's it. Warner is really the scum of DVD producers by now and everybody who supports this travesty should be ashamed.

Yes, you might have guessed it, I'm really angry.

There are lots of these films I would like to have, but I have not bought a single one from the Archive Collection, and probably never will.

With the October releases of truly important films into the Archive Collection, I think we can safely say Warner Bros. has thrown in the towel. I have no problem with buying those films I know would never get a normal release, mind you. It's hard to get self-righteous about the release of "Exit Smiling" or "Across to Singapore" or "The Barbarian" when they definitely appeal to a tiny group of people, were never released on VHS and would ordinarily never see the light of day even in the best of economic times. I thought the Archive Collection was for those kinds of films.

Even though people who knew these films existed can purchase them, the price point is still completely absurd and they're still NOT getting any actual exposure beyond a tiny group of people. Bottom line, Netflix doesn't carry these, the Chicago Public Library doesn't purchase them, no video store will carry them, and the film department of the college where I teach doesn't order them for their library. We've shown Gabriel Over the White House and Rancho Notorious in film school, for Pete's sake! Warners would make plenty of cash from university and library purchases ALONE on these kinds of films, and they won't see it. Maybe the execs at Warner just love their coke and hookers above everything else, but releasing genuine classics, important cultural touchstones, through the collection this way is simply foolhardy.

Reading this thread always makes me a bit depressed.

Since Warner Bros. owns the RKO films i wonder what they will do with Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons...they better not put it in the Archives

Shouldn't this thread be merged with the Passages thread?

The shortest cut will be released on Itunes for three bucks next decade.

For an extra $2 you get the even shorter version of Journey Into Fear.....

I think the only hope now is that labels in other regions buy the rights to some of these movies and release them on real discs. It's been done before and quite recently-- Green Mansions, for instance

I asked Nick if MoC would consider doing exactly that but Warners won't licence to other labels. Guess our best hope is for Warners France to step in, or any French label.