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dda1996a wrote:It's supposed to be an early nor by Fritz Lang, not a quirky no budget rom-com.

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

• 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

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.

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

david hare wrote: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.