THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (1968) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th BREAKING AWAY (1979) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th FRIGHT NIGHT: 30th Anniversary Edition (1985) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th (Limited Edition of 5,000 units.) BANDIT QUEEN (1994) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th LENNY (1974) BLU-RAY - Feb 10th LOVE AND DEATH (1975) BLU-RAY - Feb 10th THE ST VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE (1967) BLU-RAY - Feb 10th STORMY WEATHER (1943) BLU-RAY - Feb 10th TO SIR, WITH LOVE (1967) BLU-RAY - Feb 10th ZARDOZ (1974) BLU-RAY - Feb 24th THE BOUNTY (1984) BLU-RAY - March 10th SOLOMON AND SHEBA (1959) BLU-RAY - March 10th THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964) BLU-RAY - March 10th JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959) BLU-RAY - March 10th (New 4k Restoration) U TURN (1997) BLU-RAY - March 10th THE STORY OF ADELE H (1975) BLU-RAY - April 14th THE FANTASTICKS (1995) BLU-RAY - April 14th APRIL LOVE (1957) BLU-RAY - April 14th THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993) BLU-RAY - April 14th RICHARD III (1995) BLU-RAY - April 14th
I'm getting the remastered JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH and FIRST MEN IN THE MOON and maybe ZARDOZ.
Yeah, I'll probably get the remastered Journey To The Centre Of the Earth. It's been a huge favourite ever since I first saw it in (I think) the Christmas holidays of 1961. I hope it's a big upgrade over the last Blu-ray , which I didn't think looked so hot.
The Twilight Time APRIL LOVE will replace the pan-and-scanned abomination released on MOD DVD by the Fox Cinema Archives last year. I hope this marks the beginning of other Fox CinemaScope reissues that replace those Archive horrors.
FRIGHT NIGHT: 30th Anniversary Edition (1985) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th (Limited Edition of 5,000 units.)
Does this mark the first re-issue of a previous Twilight Time release? The original TT disc came out in December 2011, with a quantity of 3,000. There must be a huge demand for this to cause TT to press an additional 5,000 discs so soon. But perhaps the 30th Anniversary Edition will have new features that will cause previous buyers to upgrade. (The first disc had an isolated music score and two trailers.)
FRIGHT NIGHT: 30th Anniversary Edition (1985) BLU-RAY - Jan 20th (Limited Edition of 5,000 units.)
Does this mark the first re-issue of a previous Twilight Time release? The original TT disc came out in December 2011, with a quantity of 3,000. There must be a huge demand for this to cause TT to press an additional 5,000 discs so soon. But perhaps the 30th Anniversary Edition will have new features that will cause previous buyers to upgrade. (The first disc had an isolated music score and two trailers.)
They're also re-releasing "Journey to the center of the Earth" although I suppose a new remastering isnt exactly a re-issue.
The remastered JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH should look much improved over the previous transfer, which was from an interpositive made from YCM black and white protection negatives, which means greater grain and less sharpness. I assume the 4K remaster is from a scan of the original camera negatives, which I know are too faded to produce a good photo-chemical interpositive but can generate a good digital copy, which can be tweaked to near perfection depending on how much Fox spends on the effort. Assuming the work is adequate, the 4K JOURNEY should be close to the level of what was achieved with the restoration of Fox's THE ROBE.
The first Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Blu-ray was obviously from an old HD master, the same one they used to make the DVD, as you can see from the frames at caps-a-holic. The picture is exactly the same, just the Blu is a wee bit sharper, which actually make it look worse, as it shows up the grain more:
