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After the success of their Buster Keaton shorts set last year, Kino Lorber and Lobster Films have joined forces to release Keaton's features on DVD and Blu-ray. I was thrilled to receive copies of the films and am eager to share some of the goodies included in these releases.The films are packaged as two-disc sets with one feature on each disc. The General comes with Three Ages, Keaton's very first feature, and Steamboat Bill, Jr. comes with College
Read moreFlicker Alley has announced May 23rd as the release date for their 6-disc Early Women Filmmakers: An Anthology combo set. Flicker's series collects over ten hours of newly restored material from fourteen female filmmakers working between 1902-1943 on both DVD and Blu-Ray. Both titles...
Read moreOscar-winning actress Susan Hayward was born in Brooklyn nearly a century ago, on June 30, 1917. Originally named Edythe Marrenner, Susan grew up in New York -- where, incidentally, she became lifelong friends with a boy named Ira Grossel, later known as Jeff Chandler.After graduating high school in 1935, Susan became a model and before long was off to Hollywood. She worked her way up the ladder from bit roles to supporting parts, with her career finally taking off to new heights in t...
Read moreClassicFlix is pleased to announce another slate of upcoming titles which include nine films and two television shows. All nine classic features will be released on both formats with five debuting on Blu-ray and the other four making their DVD and HD bow. They include Tomorrow is Forever (1946) starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles and He Walked by Night (1948) starring Richard Basehart (which is expected to be part of an Anthony Mann/John Alton ...
Read moreFive titles, all premiering on Blu, are scheduled for release in April from Kino including the arrival of a 4K restoration of 1957's A Farewell to Arms. The studio is also releasing a 2K version of the James Stewart Western, Broken Arr...
Read moreThree new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection, all on Blu-Ray, including the arrival of Fred Astaire's final musical, Finian's Rainbow (1968). Also included are two sci-fi adventures:
Read moreThree titles from Kino are scheduled for release on Blu-ray in April, with all three premiering on Blu. Arriving for the first time on DVD and Blu is Jerry Lewis' 1959 comedy Don't Give Up the Ship. The studio will also release two other f...
Read moreClassicFlix is pleased to announce a long-term licensing agreement with Shout! Factory to distribute eight films from their library on Blu-ray and DVD. Two were already made public last Tuesday (Another Man’s Poison, 1951 and Miss Annie Rooney, 1942). The other six are: The Crystal Ball (1943) – starring Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard Raw Deal (1948) – starring Dennis O&rs...
Read moreCriterion announced Orson Welles' Othello will be making its Blu-Ray premiere in May, as well as receiving an upgraded DVD. The second of three Shakespearean films Welles directed originally dropped on DVD in 1999 and is receiving its introduction into the Criterion Collection. ...
Read more'A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi-yo Silver'' - the Lone Ranger!Yup, horses were far more than the basic means of transport in the West and the Western. There is a whole myth attached to horses.In many movies, certain Western actors used the same horse again and again, and they became part of the mystique. Everyone knows Roy Rogers's horse was Trigger (who was so 'intelligent' that he could rescue Roy from scrapes), and The Lone R...
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