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Posted: **Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:30 pm**

JPJ wrote:Whatever happened to Aldrich’s Twilight’s Last Gleaming?Warners already sat on it forever.

Aldrich's TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING could very well happen soon -- this is from Fiction Factory, posted in December:

Currently in production at Fiction Factory is ALDRICH OVER MUNICH: THE MAKING OF TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING. Extensive interviews have already been filmed with assistant director Wolfgang Glattes, actor Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Robert Aldrich’s daughter Adell and Aldrich expert Alain Silver in Los Angeles, Studio City and Santa Monica, as well as with camera operators Dieter Matzka and Gerhard Fromm in Munich. Pictured are director/producer Robert Aldrich (right) and Glattes and O’Loughlin (left) in 1976 on the set of TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING near Munich. Starring Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Cotten and Gerald S. O’Loughlin, TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING has just been restored by Bavaria Media and will come out on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012 in different territories.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:10 am**

knives wrote:Insulting Lewis?

No, I'm just not French. I never understood the appeal of Jerry Lewis. Even as a kid I found him extremely annoying, but then again I don't like Jim Carey either.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:23 am**

You don't have to be French to appreciate genius when it slaps you in the face. Especially when it is two geniuses as in the Tashlin films.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:39 pm**

The cover for Too Late Blues is pretty horrid, in fact most of Olive's are except for 1900 (which I have on pre-order, shame it's been delayed).

Looking forward to seeing J'Accuse on Blu if they do indeed release it. I hope they can licence Beggars of Life from Paramount, that's dying for a release.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:55 am**

Calvin wrote:I hope they can licence Beggars of Life from Paramount, that's dying for a release.

According to the Silent Era's Progressive Silent Film List regarding Beggars of Life's survival status, "Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [16mm preservation positive, 35mm preservation positive (optically enlarged from the 16mm print)]; sound sequences soundtracks are presumed lost." Not sure if Olive would release a home vid version if that's all there is to work from (although I can't vouch for the thoroughness of Silent Era's list, so who knows). If so, that's too bad because it's a wonderful film, perhaps Louise Brooks' best Hollywood work.

See here.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:02 am**

That's a shame but, even from 16mm elements, Beggars of Life is worthy of a DVD/Blu-Ray release.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:06 am**

According to first-hand reports of a recent 35mm screening of the Eastman House restoration of Beggars of Life on this Nitrateville thread, it now "looks great" and on a par with prints of Underworld.

There is a Grapevine DVD-R release but I recall it being from a murky 16mm.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:24 pm**

In that case, it's a great candidate for release. I sent an e-mail off to Olive anyway.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:03 pm**

Calvin wrote:In that case, it's a great candidate for release. I sent an e-mail off to Olive anyway.

Do they ever respond? I enquired about them making subtitles optional and never got a response.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:25 pm**

Jonathan S wrote:According to first-hand reports of a recent 35mm screening of the Eastman House restoration of Beggars of Life on this Nitrateville thread, it now "looks great" and on a par with prints of Underworld.

Please let it be true. I'd love to have this available in a decent-looking release.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:43 pm**

Just looked on their website about 1900 and it says there will be English, French and Italian languages tracks and optional English subtitles! Great news! Hopefully this isn't just because of the multiple language tracks but it is actually because they've taken the previous criticism on board. Pity the only track listed being in Dolby Digital is English, with both the others being mono. The only extra listed at the moment is the documentary that was on Arrow's very recent Il conformista Blu-ray.

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:43 am**

The Colossus of New York gets a Blu-ray release along with Jack Arnold's The Space Children in June.

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:08 pm**

Has anyone received their Who's Minding the Store Blu yet? So far, one reviewer at Amazon has terrible things to say about it, while the reviewer at DVD Talk had this to say about the DVD edition:

The anamorphically-enhanced, 1.85:1 transfer for Who's Minding the Store? looked a little faded, a little pink to me, with some print damage that didn't help, either. No compression issues, and the image was fairly sharp.

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2012 4:00 pm**

Amazon's delayed mine, was curious as to whether the Blu was canceled all together

Posted: **Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:03 pm**

Mine's shipped. It's odd that I always seem to be the first on this site to get a notice on the Olives.

Posted: **Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:36 pm**

TMDaines wrote: Do they ever respond? I enquired about them making subtitles optional and never got a response.

I emailed them to see if they had any news on plans to release Chabrol's Ophélia (the only Chabrol feature I'd failed to track down) and they didn't reply...

Posted: **Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:31 pm**

William Castle's Project X has just been listed for pre-order on Amazon for both DVD and Blu-ray. Release date is June 19th.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:34 pm**

June 19th:

Project X (1968) DVD & Blu-ray
The Space Children (1958) DVD & Blu-ray
The Colossus of New York (1958) Blu-ray

June 26th:

Ici et ailleurs (1976) DVD
Numéro deux (1975) DVD
Casablanca (1983, TV-Series) DVD
Tales That Witness Madness (1973) DVD & Blu-ray
The Spirit Is Willing (1967) DVD & Blu-ray
The Night of the Grizzly (1966) DVD & Blu-ray <-> NIGHT OF THE GRIZZLY will include the special feature "THE LEGEND OF BIG JIM COLE" - A 2012 Interview with Clint Walker
The Hangman (1959) DVD & Blu-ray

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:43 pm**

They are going to sell about eight copies of Ici et ailleurs

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:49 pm**

Dazza wrote: I emailed them to see if they had any news on plans to release Chabrol's Ophélia (the only Chabrol feature I'd failed to track down) and they didn't reply...

It's coming from Gaumont this winter

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:11 pm**

domino harvey wrote:They are going to sell about eight copies of Ici et ailleurs

It's not so different than Godard's other "difficult" work, and he's still a marquee name. Plus some people love politics.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:27 pm**

I think what domino means is that he is so excited he has eight copies on order (I presume he meant to say that "they are about to sell eight copies"!)

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:33 pm**

Well, it will probably sell more than Comment ça va?, I'll give it that

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:21 pm**

domino harvey wrote:They are going to sell about eight copies of Ici et ailleurs

Hey I was waiting for these 2. I guess I'm one of the 8.

Posted: **Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:39 pm**

I'm sure just on this board eight will be done easy.

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