Like Warner and Universal before them,
MGM has jumped onto the DVD-R bandwagon, with over thirty titles to be available by the end of the month. They started rolling out films in December, with titles such as Carol Reed's
Trapeze (which received a proper DVD release from MGM in the UK), Bruce Beresford's
Rich in Love with Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kyle Maclachlan, Piper Laurie and Alfre Woodard, Robert Wise's
Two for the Seesaw with Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine and Sidney Lumet's
The Group with Candice Bergen. Since then, Gavin Millar's
Dreamchild with Ian Holm, Lumt's
Garbo Talks with Anne Bancroft, Morgan J. Freeman's
Hurricane Streets, Hal Ashby's
The Landlord with Beau Bridges and Lee Grant, Lumet's
The Offence with Sean Connery and Ken Russell's
Valentino with Rudolf Nureyev as Rudolf Valentino have been added. Andrzej Wajda's
Man of Iron [
Człowiek z żelaza], the sequel to his
Man of Marble [
Człowiek z marmuru] which both star Jerzy Radziwiłowicz and Kystyna Janda, will be available on the 20th. Other titles available for pre-order, though without a date, include François Truffaut's
La chambre verte, re-titled
The Vanishing Fiancée, which like
Man of Iron (which won the Palme d'Or in 1981) and
Valentino (mid-range Russell), is more deserving of a proper DVD release.
After a
big month in March, the Warner Archive hasn't added anything terribly noteworthy to their collection. However, browsing through Netflix's Instant Watching titles, I noticed a handful of films still unavailable on DVD in the US: Raoul Walsh's
Saskatchewan, Richard Brooks'
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Joseph Losey's
The Go-Between, Bigas Luna's
Chambermaid on the Titanic [
La femme de chambre du Titanic] and Margarethe von Trotta's
The Promise [
Versprechen].
Like Warner and Universal before them, MGM has jumped onto the DVD-R bandwagon, with over thirty titles to be available by the end of the month. They started rolling out films in December, with titles such as Carol Reed's Trapeze (which received a proper DVD release from MGM in the UK), Bruce Beresford's Rich in Love with Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kyle Maclachlan, Piper Laurie and Alfre Woodard, Robert Wise's Two for the Seesaw with Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine and Sidney Lumet's The Group with Candice Bergen. Since then, Gavin Millar's Dreamchild with Ian Holm, Lumt's Garbo Talks with Anne Bancroft, Morgan J. Freeman's Hurricane Streets, Hal Ashby's The Landlord with Beau Bridges and Lee Grant, Lumet's The Offence with Sean Connery and Ken Russell's Valentino with Rudolf Nureyev as Rudolf Valentino have been added. Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron [Człowiek z żelaza], the sequel to his Man of Marble [Człowiek z marmuru] which both star Jerzy Radziwiłowicz and Kystyna Janda, will be available on the 20th. Other titles available for pre-order, though without a date, include François Truffaut's La chambre verte, re-titled The Vanishing Fiancée, which like Man of Iron (which won the Palme d'Or in 1981) and Valentino (mid-range Russell), is more deserving of a proper DVD release.
After a big month in March, the Warner Archive hasn't added anything terribly noteworthy to their collection. However, browsing through Netflix's Instant Watching titles, I noticed a handful of films still unavailable on DVD in the US: Raoul Walsh's Saskatchewan, Richard Brooks' Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Joseph Losey's The Go-Between, Bigas Luna's Chambermaid on the Titanic [La femme de chambre du Titanic] and Margarethe von Trotta's The Promise [Versprechen].
