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domino harvey
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:59 pm 
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WarGames in August-- finally bought the DVD a couple months ago too, so y'all are welcome
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colinr0380
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:03 pm 
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By the way if anyone wants to get closer to the experience of playing Global Thermonuclear War, I highly recommend Defcon!
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zedz
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:47 pm 
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colinr0380 wrote:
By the way if anyone wants to get closer to the experience of playing Global Thermonuclear War, I highly recommend Defcon!

Why can't you just use the Lena Dunham thread like the rest of us?
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colinr0380
PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:35 pm 
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Why can't you just use the Lena Dunham thread like the rest of us?

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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ShellOilJunior
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:37 am 
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Blu-ray box with 20 Woody Allen films this fall?

Set would allegedly include (Take the Money and Run to be added?):

Alice
Annie Hall
Another Woman
Bananas
Broadway Danny Rose
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Everything You wanted to Know About Sex But Were Too Afraid To Ask
Hannah and Her Sisters
Interiors
Love and Death
Manhattan
Melinda and Melinda
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Radio Days
September
Shadows and Fog
Sleeper
Stardust Memories
Zelig


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eerik
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Surprisingly cheap, only 4 euros per film. Amazon lists it as a 20 disc set, but since most of his films are less than 90 minutes long, have only mono audio and no special features, MGM could fit 2 films per disc at perfectly normal bitrates.
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knives
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:03 pm 
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I'm assuming that other territories will follow soon.
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Der Spieler
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:59 pm 
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Melinda and Melinda sticks out like a sore thumb.
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domino harvey
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:06 pm 
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It's better than half the films in the set
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Roger Ryan
PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:21 am 
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domino harvey wrote:
It's better than half the films in the set

It's better than SEPTEMBER, I'll give you that...and only that.
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warren oates
PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:37 pm 
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Roger Ryan wrote:
domino harvey wrote:
It's better than half the films in the set

It's better than SEPTEMBER, I'll give you that...and only that.
Melinda and Melinda isn't a masterpiece, but I'd say that domino is on to something. It's underrated and unduly maligned.
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captveg
PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:44 pm 
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I love Melinda and Melinda, but then I like films that are exercises in craft.

As for the box set - it may be a a DVD set that was inadvertently listed as Blu-ray, so people shouldn't get their hopes up too high.
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JMULL222
PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 1:02 am 

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MGM has already released an equivalent box set in the US for DVD. I doubt they'd bother doing it again.
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ShellOilJunior
PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:12 am 
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I don't see how another DVD release of these films does any good. Frankly, most of these films were treated poorly on DVD. Crimes and Misdemeanors is a prime example - the scene around the fireplace looks like a 32 bit videogame.

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MikeyHitchFan from Blu-ray.com wrote:
Well, I'm investigating this...and so far...

Amazon Spain confirmed in an online chat that according to the catalog information that they have it is a blu-ray release. They are going to get more info and email me - likely by Monday to confirm.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment International has emailed me that they're looking into this as well as if they're will be a U.S. release of the DVD or blu-ray box set.


Fingers crossed...
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Drucker
PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:55 am 

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JMULL222 wrote:
MGM has already released an equivalent box set in the US for DVD. I doubt they'd bother doing it again.


Uh, like the Kubrick box set from Warner? Why wouldn't they re-release it?
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domino harvey
PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:54 am 
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Don't get your hopes up, an identical DVD-only box is coming out in the UK next week
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Calvin
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A tweet from Lou Lumenick says that "MGM will be issuing a 90th anniversary set in 2013, possibly in collaboration with the owner of its pre-'86 library, Warner Bros."
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manicsounds
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The recently released UK disc of "The Terminator" is newly remastered and looks pristine. It's an AVC encode on a BD50, rather than the old MPEG2 on a BD25 of the US disc. Unfortunately the mono track is not included, and the same extras from the US Blu-ray, meaning the most of the extras from the DVD is still missing. MGM still has no plans to release this in the US. We can all hope for a possible Criterion... why not?
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Jameson281
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manicsounds wrote:
The recently released UK disc of "The Terminator" is newly remastered and looks pristine. It's an AVC encode on a BD50, rather than the old MPEG2 on a BD25 of the US disc. Unfortunately the mono track is not included, and the same extras from the US Blu-ray, meaning the most of the extras from the DVD is still missing. MGM still has no plans to release this in the US. We can all hope for a possible Criterion... why not?


(1) Just because a U.S. release hasn't been announced doesn't mean that one isn't going to happen. (2) It's not likely that Fox/MGM would license out one of their top sellers.
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captveg
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Sleeper and Hannah and Her Sisters on 1/15/13
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warren oates
PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:15 pm 
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Sleeper and Hannah and Her Sisters on 1/15/13
Not my favorite Allen titles, but both wonderful films. Still, it would be nice to know if there's any indication that MGM will speed up its Allen upgrade schedule beyond the rate of two a year.
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domino harvey
PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:17 pm 
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Two of my least-favorite Allens, but due for a reevaluation so maybe on sale...

Warren Oates, most of not all of MGM's Allens pop up on MGMHD looking good, if sales are there so are the transfers ready to go
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hearthesilence
PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:01 pm 
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I actually love Hannah - I'm less of an Allen fan these days, but that's still one of my three or four favorites from him. One time in college, a friend re-counted the "rape" scene at lunch, just reciting the dialogue in the same way it was spoken in the film, and more than a few people sat down after she started the story, not realizing she was talking about a movie...absolutely riotous.
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felipe
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2 of my favorite Allens. Here's hoping Crimes and Misdemeanors is next.
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knives
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I wish Crimes and Misdemeanors was next. Sleeper will be good to wait with, but I wish they stuck to releasing my faves.
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