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Murder is okay, but I draw the line at seeing war

Though it is good to know that this does not contain footage of the worst crime of all: smoking!

Australian classification warnings (?) do have some odd listings. Though I’ve noticed lately they’re not alone.

Shelly Winters died in the war? I thought she...

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drowned

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:40 pm Shelly Winters died in the war? I thought she...

Spoiler

drowned

Of course, it's George Stevens' WWII footage in the supplements, but for a minute there...

The war may be the only way Shelly Winters didn't die on her resume

Oh how quickly you forget Diary of Anne Frank

Later Winters is best Winters. Long live Bloody Mama.

Oh man. Hahaha. I forgot. I just had to google it. She was denied a death scene, though.

October announcements include world premiere Blu-Ray releases of Hard Eight and The Day of the Locust

That noir set...!

Hopefully that means Detective Story and Alias Nick Beal will be getting blu releases from other companies as well

The Winslow Boy def seems like an Indicator title. But their Noir box mixes Paramount, Universal, and Sony titles— I thought general wisdom was labels can’t do that?

Unless you're a little mad I guess. What's so wrong with these that you'd want another label to release them though?

knives wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:43 pm Unless you're a little mad I guess. What's so wrong with these that you'd want another label to release them though?

As far as I can tell, this label uses what the studios give them, so nothing other than the knowledge that no Indicator release has ever been bested by another label. I’ll be buying a lot of these titles come October, though the disparity between the two great and the two not great films in the noir set is certainly striking!

domino harvey wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:33 pm The Winslow Boy def seems like an Indicator title. But their Noir box mixes Paramount, Universal, and Sony titles— I thought general wisdom was labels can’t do that?

An Australian on another forum said that Universal/Sony/Paramount are all under the same distribution company there.

Interesting, thanks for that info

Looks like 3 of the 5 titles from the first batch of releases have already sold out

knives wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:43 pm What's so wrong with these that you'd want another label to release them though?

Nothing glaring, just that other labels seem to be releasing some their output concurrently so far, and the Sorry Wrong Number transfer made me skeptical so soon after the label started, but I haven't looked into how much of that was the label's fault vs. the source and in the early stages of the label it's difficult to gauge patterns based on small sample sizes.

I’m curious how (if) their Major Dundee release will differ from the 2013 Twilight Time release of the 2005 restoration and attempted reconstruction of the work. I’m not aware of any new restoration activity. Also, whether this portends any other labels releasing it in other regions.

DeprongMori wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:01 pm I’m curious how (if) their Major Dundee release will differ from the 2013 Twilight Time release of the 2005 restoration and attempted reconstruction of the work. I’m not aware of any new restoration activity. Also, whether this portends any other labels releasing it in other regions.

There was a German release last year that, to quote Glenn Erickson, was "the first time that the original uncut Preview-International version of Major Dundee has come to Blu-ray with its original soundtrack intact," but used the same master as the TT release.

swo17 wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 2:59 pm Looks like 3 of the 5 titles from the first batch of releases have already sold out

Is Waterloo still in print? That’s the one I’d be interested in

Yes, just that and Duellists, don't delay if you want either

Where do you order your copies, btw?