Displaying items by tag: Frank Capra
Criterion sets Lost Highway & Night of the Living Dead for 4K in October, plus Scream 2 & new Paramount UHD, Blu-ray & Steelbook titles
Boy, we’ve got a LOT of new announcement and catalog release news to report on today, so let’s get right into it…
First up, the big news: Criterion has just announced their October title slate, and as expected it includes a couple of great 4K Ultra HD titles, along with some Blu-ray gems.
It all starts with a title we revealed last week: George A. Romero’s classic zombie film Night of the Living Dead (1968 – Spine #909 – 4K Ultra HD) on 10/4. Following on 10/11 is another title we revealed a couple months ago here at The Bits, David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997 – Spine #1152 – Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD), as well as Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace (1944 – Spine #1153 – Blu-ray and DVD). On 10/18, look for Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (2019 – Spine #1156 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure (1997 – Spine #1155 – Blu-ray and DVD). And finally, Kasi Lemmon’s Eve’s Bayou (1997 – Spine #1154 – Blu-ray) round the month out. Lost Highway will include Dolby Vision HDR.
You can read more about these titles here at the Criterion website, and we’ve updated our Criterion Spines Project and 4K Ultra HD Release List pages here at The Bits accordingly. You can also see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- Scream 2 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Criterion Collection October 2022 slate
- Night of the Living Dead 4K
- Lost Highway 4K
- George A Romero
- David Lynch
- Arsenic and Old Lace BD
- La Llorona BD
- Cure BD
- Eve's Bayou BD
- Frank Capra
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- The Criterion Spines Project
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- The Mayor of Kingstown: Season One BD
- Catch Me If You Can BD
- Dexter: The Complete Series + Dexter: New Blood BD
- The Godfather Trilogy 4K Steelbooks
- Paranormal Activity: The Ultimate Chills Collection BD
- Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White BD
- Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story BD
- Nobody's Fool 4K
- Hudson Hawk BD
- Ace High BD
- Warning Shot BD
- Battle of the Worlds BD
- The Film Detective
- Crawl 4K
- Quiet Days in Clichy 4K
Return to Bedford Falls: Remembering “It’s a Wonderful Life” on its 75th Anniversary
“It's a Wonderful Life is truly the platinum standard in Christmas movies; the benchmark by which all other entries in the genre are judged.” — Thomas A. Christie, author of The Christmas Movie Book
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 75th anniversary of the release of It’s a Wonderful Life, the Christmas classic directed by Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and starring James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story, Vertigo) and Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity, The Donna Reed Show).
In 1990 the Library of Congress selected It’s a Wonderful Life for preservation in the National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” and in 1998 the American Film Institute (AFI) recognized the film as the 11th greatest movie ever made. The film has been released countless times on home media formats with its most recent release (on 4K UHD) in 2019 (and reviewed here). [Read on here...]
Ghost in the Shell hits BD, 3D & 4K on 7/25, plus 4 BD reviews & 40 years of Smokey and the Bandit
All right, I hope you all had a great long holiday weekend – those of you in the States at least. And for the rest of you, I hope you had a great weekend plus Monday.
Here at The Bits today, we’ve got a few things for you to enjoy. First, reviews: We have four new Blu-ray reviews for you to check out, including Tim’s take on Universal’s Split and Smokey and the Bandit: 40th Anniversary Edition, as well as Paramount’s Saturday Night Fever: Director’s Cut. And I’ve taken a look at Madman Entertainment’s Region Free import Blu-ray of Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon – well worth checking out if you’re a fan of the film. [Read on here…]
- Ghost in the Shell 4K
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Michael Coate
- Paramount
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Frank Capra
- Lost Horizon BD review
- Tim Salmons
- Split BD review
- Saturday Night Fever: Director's Cut BD review
- Smokey and the Bandit: 40th Anniversary Edition BD review
Blu-ray/DVD News – My Favorite Martian: Complete DVD, You Can’t Take It With You & Doctor Who BD3D & more!
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All right, we’re back as promised with a couple more bits of release news...
First, MPI Home Video has announced the first-ever DVD release of My Favorite Martian: The Complete Collection on 10/20 (SRP $99.98). The set will include all 107 uncut episodes with “hours of special features.” You can see the cover artwork below. [Read on here…]
Snowpiercer, great November catalog BDs from Kino, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Fox Searchlight: 20th & more!
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Anchor Bay and Starz have finally officially announced the Blu-ray and DVD release of Bong Joon Ho’s science fiction/actioner Snowpiercer on 10/21 (SRP $29.99 and $24.98). The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, John Hurt, and Ed Harris. We’ve seen it here at The Bits; it’s pretty terrific. Both versions will include the director’s proper 126-minute cut, a critics commentary, and a bonus disc that adds 5 featurettes (The Birth of Snowpiercer, The Characters, Chris Evans & Tilda Swinton on Snowpiercer, The Train Brought to Life: Behind the Scenes of a Special Screening, and Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen), an animated prologue, and concept art galleries. [Read on here…]
- Bluray
- BD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Snowpiercer
- Los Angeles Plays Itself
- Fox Searchlight: 20th Anniversary Film Collection
- Masterpiece: Downton Abbey Season Five
- A Most Wanted Man
- Boyhood
- Begin Again
- The Way He Looks
- Man of the West
- Via Maria
- Gator
- White Lightning
- More Dead Than Alive
- Drum
- Sam Whiskey
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Coming Home
- The Long Goodbye
- Thieves Like Us
- Robert Altman
- Burt Reynolds
- Frank Capra