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KJones77 wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 3:06 am Second announcement is Jack Smight's No Way to Treat a Lady

A completely forgettable movie despite Rod Steiger’s feverish overacting. I’m not sure I’ve even thought of it once in the decade since I saw it

In much better news, A Place in the Sun is the third announcement!

Excellent! Long in speculation as forthcoming from Criterion, but then they put their big George Stevens extras on Woman of the Year so who knows

#4: The Carpetbaggers

The second-worst movie Hollywood ever made about Hollywood (though it held the top title until only quite recently with Trumbo’s usurpation)

Wonder if they’ll announce the spin-off (of sorts), Nevada Smith, which is also Paramount

#5: Night Falls on Manhattan

domino harvey wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 5:11 am The second-worst movie Hollywood ever made about Hollywood (though it held the top title until only quite recently with Trumbo’s usurpation)

Where does The Oscar rank for you?

swo17 wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 6:01 am #5: Night Falls on Manhattan

Audio commentary from Sidney Lumet ... I wonder why Paramount never put this on their original DVD.

Grand Wazoo wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 11:57 am

domino harvey wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 5:11 am The second-worst movie Hollywood ever made about Hollywood (though it held the top title until only quite recently with Trumbo’s usurpation)

Where does The Oscar rank for you?

Oh, it’s up (down) there. But this is worse, if you can believe it!

domino harvey wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 4:05 am Excellent! Long in speculation as forthcoming from Criterion, but then they put their big George Stevens extras on Woman of the Year so who knows

Criterion is saving it for Shelley Winters' beaucoup extras

willoneill wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 12:26 pm

swo17 wrote: Fri May 22, 2020 6:01 am #5: Night Falls on Manhattan

Audio commentary from Sidney Lumet ... I wonder why Paramount never put this on their original DVD.

They did, at least if you're referring to the US DVD release.

Reports are coming in that Sorry,Wrong Number is a DNR'd mess.Shame,this was the title of the first wave that I was looking for.

Sorry, Wrong Number@DVDBeaver... oof!

Hopefully another label can source a better print or invest in a restoration.

I understand if this is somewhat out of their hands, but have there been any reports yet of a good transfer from this label?

david hare praised their War of the Worlds transfer elsewhere

Waterloo too I believe.

I'm wondering who in the UK will have The War of the Worlds, as it looks like an incredible restoration and it's likely we can narrow it down to labels currently licensing from Paramount (Eureka, Indicator, Arrow). I also hope we see The Duellists too, and if the master is any good, A Place in the Sun too.

Imprint are doing some good work, it seems, but presumably some of these transfers would have been skipped by other labels due to the quality of the available master (e.g. Sorry Wrong Number). If I were importing, I'd be waiting for a review each time one of these Paramount titles was released.

PS: I know they're not released by Via Vision, but I'd also mention The Tenant and Invasion of the Body Snatchers as two more recent examples of decent Paramount transfers recently released in Australia that have yet to make it over here...I suppose it's only a matter of time, and I look forward to them!

Apperson wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2020 12:36 pm Sorry, Wrong Number@DVDBeaver... oof!

The screenshots aren't great, but I imagine this might look reasonable in motion. Anyone actually watched it first hand?

Fair enough!

From what I saw, it reminds me of Criterion's Madame de. It's so smooth it's smeary, and with a crappy encode that can't handle this properly, you get banding everywhere on top of it. it's so bad at times you'd be excused thinking it's not even sourced from a HD master.

Looks like I Married a Monster from Outer Space (and consequently the May bundle that includes it) has sold out

War footage?