There's a couple of good threads here with TV shows we want on DVD and Recent DVD gits.

Anyone here interested in sharing what movies they want to see come on DVD? I am constantly updating a list on my computer with movies I want to watch for in hopes they eventually come out, but I can't remember every title I ever liked. Perhaps this thread can help some of us to remember what we once loved and want.

I'll start off the list.

1) PT 109
2) Re-release of This Island Earth

Off the top of my head, I'd like to see "Matinee" rereleased. The past 12 months have given me a lot of older films I had been waiting for.

Forbidden Planet - Special Edition

Huzz

REDS

Arguably the best movie made by a major studio during the 1980's, and it's not available on DVD :freak: :confused:

REDS

Arguably the best movie made by a major studio during the 1980's, and it's not available on DVD :freak: :confused:

Vanity Fair ran a very good article on the making of REDS recently.

Vanity Fair ran a very good article on the making of REDS recently.

Yeah, I caught that.

They don't make movies like REDS anymore, and I doubt they ever will again. A buddy at Paramount tells me the DVD version is pending, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Emperor of the North. ("Pole" optional)

For my Dad.

HARD CONTRACT - James Coburn assassin movie from the late 60s, at the height of Flint-dom, very odd bird, but compelling for me. Sterling Hayden as the 'retired' older version of Coburn, Burgess Meredith as the boss, Lee Remick and Lili Palmer and Patrick Magee ... would love to see this intact and widescreen.

COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT - in WIDESCREEN this time, damnit!

LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR - a much-maligned minor masterpiece (will try to contain the alliteration, it was an accident.) The moment when Keaton dreams she is staring at her dad in a coffin and he just opens his eyes and laughs at her is priceless, and the ending is what every good downer horror movie should aspire to in terms of gut-wrenching impact.

THE FINAL OPTION (who dares wins) ... I just love the quasi-disco score and Lewis Collins as a kind of helmet-haired SAS version of Bond. Another great example of British film craftsmanship with American screenwriting from the folks who delivered THE WILD GEESE.

TWIN PEAKS SEASON 2 -- Paramount screwed over Artisan's legitimate attempts to release this years ago, and they have been dragging and dragging on releasing this themselves ever since Artisan's rights lapsed. I hate Par for how they handle trek and other product, but they are carving out a new layer of Hell for themselves in my mind over this TP issue.

LOST HIGHWAY ... the laserdisc looked worse than the vhs, I really need a decent version of this. Robert Blake can freak out housepets who don't usually watch TV with his look in this one.

DEATHWATCH -- SF spin on NETWORK by Bernard Tavernier with Harvey Keitel and Max Von Sydow and some other European folks ... I have the VHS but would love to see if this actually looks better or if the film was really shot this cheaply. Fairly smart flick with no sf trappings, reality TV nearly 2 decades ahead of when we got it crammed down our throats for real.

REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER -- one of my favorite undercover crime flicks, the one with the best goodguy/badguy trapped in elevator scenes ever. Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto ("BEAU-re-garde ... Beau-RE-garde ... Beau-re-GARDE!"), Susan Blakely, Hector Elizondo, Bob Balaban as a legless weirdo ... Really solid Elmer Bernstein score, I always think of this together with TAKING OF PELHAM 123 as being an ideal mid-70s double feature, although I actually saw this on a double bill with WESTWORLD at the late and beloved Garden Theater in Willow Glen, a quaint old fashioned district of San Jose.

I'm really amazed at how many obscure things have crept out on dvd, so this list isn't anywhere near as long as I first thought it would be. These might be the only old titles I'm waiting for with desperate need.

LOST HIGHWAY ... the laserdisc looked worse than the vhs, I really need a decent version of this. Robert Blake can freak out housepets who don't usually watch TV with his look in this one.

It's available on DVD and looks horrible. Bad Full Screen transfer. Agreed it needs the proper technical treatment. Still my least favorite Lynch movie.

Another movie only available as a horrid cheapo transfer (there are about 10 to choose from) - Marlon Brando's ONE EYED JACKS. More than deserves a proper restoration.

This Island Earth
Forbidden Planet SE
Pretty much any other 50s sci-fi classic that hasn't received a decent release

THE AFRICAN QUEEN!!! (this one really, really annoys me)

Song of the South
The complete films of Laurel and Hardy
This Island Earth
Red Rovers

The Earthling with interviews with Ricky Schroeder.

Auntie Mame with LOTS of Extras.

Forbidden Planet - Special Edition

Huzz

Suppose to be coming out this summer. Two discs, and remastered with the deleated scenes.

David.

THE AFRICAN QUEEN!!! (this one really, really annoys me)

Me too, even the VHS "Collectors Version" had washed out color and was panned & scanned.

I'd add Snakes on a Plane! And that Blade Runner SE that's been "coming soon" now for about a decade.

I was wondering how long it woul take Snakes on a Plane! to make it to this board.

I was wondering how long it woul take Snakes on a Plane! to make it to this board.

It's been on my radar since I read an interview with Sam Jackson in Premiere awhile back, in the interview he was talking about how he was arguing with the producers, who wanted to release it under a alternate title like Terror in the Skies. Samuel was arguin' for Snakes on a Plane!.

As far as Sam was concerned, it was the perfect title, you know you're going to have snakes, and they're gonna be on a plane!

Me too, even the VHS "Collectors Version" had washed out color and was panned & scanned.
It isn't pan and scanned. THE AFRICAN QUEEN was filmed in 1951, several years before widescreen was introduced.

It isn't pan and scanned. THE AFRICAN QUEEN was filmed in 1951, several years before widescreen was introduced.

Wasn't WHITE CHRISTMAS one of the first ( if not the first ) widescreen movie(s)? It was filmed in what Paramount billed Vista-vision, and didn't come out until 1954.

- GJS

It isn't pan and scanned. THE AFRICAN QUEEN was filmed in 1951, several years before widescreen was introduced.

Doh! Well, it still looks pretty crappy on VHS.

Wasn't WHITE CHRISTMAS one of the first ( if not the first ) widescreen movie(s)? It was filmed in what Paramount billed Vista-vision, and didn't come out until 1954.

- GJS

Not the first. http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/intro.htm

In the Woods - Raimi. Which was supposed to be included in the Evil Dead latex edition.

Parasite. The one with the leech thing that comes out of the girls armpit! I saw this as a double feature along with Suspiria (Argento) when I was 11.

Zipadedodah period.

Parasite. The one with the leech thing that comes out of the girls armpit!

That could only be the Cronenberg film starring Marilyn Chambers. It's already available on DVD, but you're getting the titles confused. It's called Rabid.

Cronenberg also made a movie titled The Parasite Murders, more popularly known as Shivers.

Max Headroom....the TV series. Otherwise you have to go back two decades to journey "twenty minutes into the future".

Monster Squad
Saturday the 14th

Travis