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Post by Eddie Love on May 1, 2010 22:45:56 GMT -5
It looks like Amazon and the studios have come up with an ingenious effort to bypass Netflix, by having burn-for-purchase offerings of lost movies. I see they offer titles like GAMBIT, THE WHITE BUFFALO, and THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER. Not sure if you'll ever be able to add them to you queue or if you have to purchase them. I haven't seen a picture offered yet that's so tempting that I's actually buy it.
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Post by grubl on May 2, 2010 3:47:55 GMT -5
What I've been looking forward to seeing on DVD, or YouTube, or anywhere, is the 1988 short award winning film that Steven Wright made for HBO, THE APPOINTMENTS OF DENNIS JENNINGS. It co-starred Rowan Atkanson. Fucking hillarious.
Also, I know that if you two degenerates grew up watching channels 9 and 11 (actually, it could have been channel 17 during that short time when we lived outside of Philly), at some point you saw the full length feature cartoon, ALAKAZAM (original japanese title - Saiyu-ki) (1960). Jonathan Winters is a voice in the english dub. I've been searching for that one for many years, as well.
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Post by Derrick on May 2, 2010 15:10:36 GMT -5
grubl,
I've heard of ALAKAZAM for years but never seen it. I vaguely remember it being one of those movies Channels 9 and 11 would always run during the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season.
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Post by james on May 3, 2010 10:14:41 GMT -5
It looks like Amazon and the studios have come up with an ingenious effort to bypass Netflix, by having burn-for-purchase offerings of lost movies. I see they offer titles like GAMBIT, THE WHITE BUFFALO, and THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER. Not sure if you'll ever be able to add them to you queue or if you have to purchase them. I haven't seen a picture offered yet that's so tempting that I's actually buy it. One of the studios (I think MGM, but I don't remember) finally offered Dreamchild through a burn-for-purchase program with Amazon. This is the 1985 film about the adult Alice Hargreaves (the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice) visiting New York for an anniversary celebration of the books. The movie includes scenes from the Alice books created by Jim Henson Studios. I saw this years ago on cable and have wanted to see it again, enough that I'll buy it. So I finally have a reason to buy one of these burn-on-demand DVDs. There are a few Warner on-demand DVDs I've considered buying, but I've hesitated because, if WB owns it, there's a good chance it will turn up on TCM a some point. James
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Post by Eddie Love on May 3, 2010 18:08:41 GMT -5
. So I finally have a reason to buy one of these burn-on-demand DVDs. I'd be interested to know how this works out and what the quality of the disc is.
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Post by Eddie Love on May 10, 2010 18:50:20 GMT -5
Below is a link to the Warners' site where they'll burn DVDs for purchase (thus thwarting us from getting these on Netflix. Damn!) One of the pictures that I mentioned -- Monty Clift's last film THE DEFECTOR -- is on here, as well as some titles that've been mentioned on BitD -- namely, BAD RONALD and DOC SAVAGE. I'm tempted to get the latter, but these things are so bare-bones I can't really justify it. www.wbshop.com/Warner-Archive/ARCHIVE,default,sc.html
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Post by grubl on May 10, 2010 19:08:04 GMT -5
I just watched BAD RONALD on Youtube the other day. I still dug it. I know taht the guys on teh show mentioned some of those great made for TV movies from the '70s. A few favorites of mine were GARGOYLES and HAUNTS OF THE VERY RICH.
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Post by Derrick on May 10, 2010 21:54:55 GMT -5
I just watched BAD RONALD on Youtube the other day. I still dug it. I know that the guys on the show mentioned some of those great made for TV movies from the '70s. A few favorites of mine were GARGOYLES and HAUNTS OF THE VERY RICH. Some of my other favorites: THE LOVE WAR, THE SCREAMING WOMAN, THE LEGEND OF LIZZIE BORDEN and THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO... There's another movie whose name I can't recall right now but it starred James Brolin as a man who accidentally gets locked in a department store after it closes and has to survive the attacks of the the guard dogs while desperately trying to find a way out.
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Post by grubl on May 10, 2010 22:03:47 GMT -5
LIZZIE BORDEN was goddamned creepy! I remember THE DEADLY DREAM scared me, but I was 8 or 9. Don't know the Brolin flick.
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Post by james on May 11, 2010 13:21:30 GMT -5
The film with James Brolin is Trapped. Shock Cinema magazine reviewed that one (probably from a copy offered by a gray market company). I really liked Bad Ronald the last time I watched it, which was probably a decade ago. I'm sure I've mentioned this ad-nauseum here, but TBS in the early 90's ran many of these 70's genre television movies on weekend overnights, usually around 2 in the morning. They put Bad Ronald in heavy rotation. The movie was adapted from a novel written by, of all people, science fiction author Jack Vance. I've looked for the book but have never found a copy; I think I read somewhere that he wrote it under a pen name, which would make looking for it more difficult. Along with some of the others you mentioned, I also really liked Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, which is the made-for-TV movie where a young couple movie into a house where tiny creatures live behind the walls. Warner's Archive program offers that one as well. There was a long discussion about The Legend of Lizzie Borden on the Classic Horror Film Board recently. According to some of the contributors, the film is being kept off-market for a reason: monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/28035On the cheesier side of things, I have fond memories of watching (yeah, on TBS) The Horror at 37,000 Feet. This was the film with William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, and a cast of dozens on an airplane that's carrying a mysterious artifact in the cargo hold. And strange things start to happen during the flight...
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Post by james on May 11, 2010 13:24:46 GMT -5
I'm tempted to get the latter, but these things are so bare-bones I can't really justify it. There's at least one film Warner's Archive has that I've been considering buying despite the lack of extras - Jacques Tourner's western Wichita. They have it, I've read that the quality of their print is good, and it's very hard to see otherwise (TCM hasn't run it in the two years I've been a subscriber).
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 29, 2010 21:23:59 GMT -5
Another studio is putting their library up for burn-on-demand DVD. Includes some interesting names I'd love to check out like DUFFY with James Coburn and Susannah York and OTLEY with Tom Courteney and -- still the best Sherlock Holmes movie ever made -- A STUDY IN TERROR. Wish they'd get these up on Netflix as I'm not sure I'd drop twenty bucks on no-frills titles: www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/columbiaclassics/the-films/?filter=mod
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