ClassicFlix

[domino harvey]

I think the wording is just confusing-- they're releasing these titles on DVD and their Blu-ray release is the first in the world

[FrauBlucher]

Bluray.com reviews Another Man's Poison.... It looks very good. But a "wait and see" is required for future releases, because they did receive a restored version from Cohen for this.

[pointless]

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)

Available late 2017

[dda1996a]

Can a mod move that post to the Worst Covers thread?
Thanks

[TMDaines]

I don't mind that myself. It's far from egregious.

[dda1996a]

It's supposed to be an early nor by Fritz Lang, not a quirky no budget rom-com.

[AfterTheRain]

Hey, at least they used the original artwork for the cover.

[Rayon Vert]

The announcement says "later this summer". I really hope it gets out on time for the Lang list project.

[L.A.]

Are these A-locked discs?

[mteller]

It's supposed to be an early nor by Fritz Lang, not a quirky no budget rom-com.

What about that cover says "rom-com" to you?

[dda1996a]

The color scheme, the cut outs, the white lines around them... It's just awful

[pointless]

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)
Available late 2017

The release will be available for purchase on July 11.

Special Features and Specs:

• NEW RESTORATION of the film
  Newly remastered original audio (presented as a lossless track)
  Feature length audio commentary by author and film historian Jeremy Arnold (author of TCM's The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter)
  Before and after restoration comparison
  Optional English subtitles

[pointless]

You Only Live Once restoration comparison

[Rayon Vert]

Doesn't look that great when you play it full screen (image doesn't look very sharp), but then it's hard to say if that's because of the YT video's low resolution.

[Brian C]

Is 200 hours a lot of time to spend on something like this? I'm asking seriously. It seems like an unremarkable number but I honestly have no idea.

[swo17]

Criterion made a big deal about how they spent 600+ hours restoring Seven Samurai for BD.

[pointless]

Crime of Passion (Gerd Oswald, 1957)

U.S. label ClassicFlix has confirmed that it is preparing a Blu-ray release of director Gerd Oswald's thriller Crime of Passion (1957),
starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, and Virginia Grey.
The release is expected to arrive on the market later this summer.

NEW RESTORATION

[domino harvey]

Interesting, that one seemed to be a shoo-in for KL

[pointless]

T-Men Special Edition (Anthony Mann, 1947) - Fall 2017

[Minkin]

Good thing the cover distinguishes this from all of those non-special editions of T-Men.

[domino harvey]

Am I imagining things or weren't the Mann titles going to be a box set?

[nitin]

Am I imagining things or weren't the Mann titles going to be a box set?

I believe this is planned after the individual releases.

[Ashirg]

Alan K. Rode tweeted that he recorded a commentary with Julie Kirgo for HE WALKED BY NIGHT for this studio

[nitin]

The Lang was previously released in Italy only on a local Studio Canal BD about four years ago from a good looking new HD transfer but the fucking disc authoring transferred the movie folder in a squeezed ratio of something like 1.32:1 It became unwatchable I commented on this here and there but nobody gave a shit, as usual. This new disc at least obiously returns the picture geometry to normal and looks otherwise like the same nice clean, sharp Canal restoration. Canal also initally released their spanking new resto of Fallen Idol in the UK with the same pinched ratio issue, They clearly have someone working on the desk who thinks Academy Ratio is 1.32. They fixed it after howls of complaints from the Lean lovers out there, unlike the limited response (me I guess alone) to the Lang years before. Does anyone know who's behind this label? I've got one of their titles, Ratoff's Another Man's Poison and despite a low-ish bitrate it looks fine.

Another Man's Poison has an average bitrate over 30, not really lowish.

[domino harvey]

Extras for T-Men:

NEW RESTORATION of the film
Audio Commentary by biographer & producer Alan K. Rode
Into the Darkness: Mann, Alton and T-Men - Featurette with cinematographer Richard Crudo, film critic & author Todd McCarthy, writer and film historian Julie Kirgo, film historian & director Courtney Joyner and biographer & producer Alan K. Rode
A Director's Daughter: Nina Mann Remembers - An Interview with Nina Mann
PLUS: A 24 page booklet with an essay by author Max Alvarez (The Crime Films of Anthony Mann) featuring stills, posters and other production material
The mono soundtrack has been restored is uncompressed on this release.
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature