20th Century Fox Studio Classics

[Akijama]

[Show spoiler]According to Mr.Lumenick:

Starting sometime in 2013, Fox will revive its venerable Studio Classics line (which started in the VHS days and spanned the early years of DVD) with monthly releases. Probably these will mostly Blu-ray upgrades of titles previously released on DVD, but it may include "Cavalcade'' (1933) which has only been available on DVD as part of a pricey 75th anniversary gift set.

20th Century Fox Studio Classics refers to a collection of films ranging from the late 1920s to the late 1960s released on DVD by 20th Century Fox

Fox Studio Classics series (US DVD Releases):

[Show spoiler]
Sunrise
All About Eve
Gentleman's Agreement
How Green Was My Valley
An Affair to Remember
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
The Song of Bernadette
Anastasia
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Titanic
The Mark of Zorro
The Ox-Bow Incident
My Darling Clementine
The Diary of Anne Frank
Peyton Place
The Grapes of Wrath
Desk Set
The Snake Pit
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Zorba the Greek
Alexander's Ragtime Band
The Three Faces of Eve
Three Coins in the Fountain
How to Steal a Million
Leave Her to Heaven
A Letter to Three Wives
Return to Peyton Place
Anna and the King of Siam
The Razor's Edge
The Best of Everything
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
In Old Chicago
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Orchestra Wives
The Rains Came
Two for the Road
The Keys of the Kingdom
The Black Swan
The River's Edge

[NoirFan]

So none of the titles in their 24-film noir series will be getting upgraded?

[octagon]

I could see Laura as part of an Otto Preminger set.

Though I wonder how much general name recognition OP has these days.

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

So none of the titles in their 24-film noir series will be getting upgraded?

Dunno I'm a huge noir fan myself.

Originally Posted by octagon

I could see Laura as part of an Otto Preminger set.

Though I wonder how much general name recognition OP has these days.

Preminger's set would be awesome.

Laura
Fallen Angel
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Exodus

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Preminger's set would be awesome.

Laura
Fallen Idol
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Exodus

Drop Exodus and replace it with Daisy Kenyon and Whirlpool, and I'm in! Also, it's Fallen Angel, Fallen Idol is the Reed film.

[ShellOilJunior]

A Letter to Three Wives is quite excellent. I'd love to see a blu-ray for it.

[Cinemach]

Originally Posted by octagon

I could see Laura as part of an Otto Preminger set.

Though I wonder how much general name recognition OP has these days.

Originally Posted by Akijama

Preminger's set would be awesome.

Laura
Fallen Angel
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Exodus

Whilst a set with those titles would be awesome I don't see it coming and I think Laura's more valuable as a standalone title, anyway. Methinks it's going to be on the license elsewhere though.

Now re: My Darling Clementine - FOX, if you would upgrade my favorite western post-haste, I'd be much obliged!

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Drop Exodus and replace it with Daisy Kenyon and Whirlpool, and I'm in! Also, it's Fallen Angel, Fallen Idol is the Reed film.

Lol,yeah Fallen Angel!That's what i meant.Thx for the correction
I agree Daisy Kenyon and Whirlpool are better choices,but Exodus were released in Europe this year,and apparently look very good.Color movie,Paul Newman,war subject...dunno,sounds like a bigger cash cow than those two aforementioned titles.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Akijama

That's interesting. I thought the only classic Titanic movie was A Night to Remember. I'll have to look into picking this up.

Anyone that has seen the two, how does it compare to Remember?

[Oblivion138]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

That's interesting. I thought the only classic Titanic movie was A Night to Remember. I'll have to look into picking this up.

Anyone that has seen the two, how does it compare to Remember?

It's good, but not as painstakingly researched and accurate as A Night to Remember...which is still, and probably always will be, the definitive Titanic film. Titanic is more dramatized...though not to the extent of the 1997 film.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Oblivion138

It's good, but not as painstakingly researched and accurate as A Night to Remember...which is still, and probably always will be, the definitive Titanic film. Titanic is more dramatized...though not to the extent of the 1997 film.

Thanks

[Oblivion138]

No problem. Think of it this way...A Night to Remember is straight docudrama, where relating the story as truthfully as possible is the number one concern. Titanic was more of a Hollywood version of the story, with big name actors like Barbara Stanwyck as the main selling point. A little less docudrama, a bit more melodrama. Still, a good film, and worth a look.

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by Oblivion138

No problem. Think of it this way...A Night to Remember is straight docudrama, where relating the story as truthfully as possible is the number one concern. Titanic was more of a Hollywood version of the story, with big name actors like Barbara Stanwyck as the main selling point. A little less docudrama, a bit more melodrama. Still, a good film, and worth a look.

Agree. Both A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and the 1953 TITANIC are very good, each in different ways. Both obviously influenced Cameron's version and both also owe a certain amount to the very interesting 1943 German film TITANIC, which is on DVD from Kino but really deserves a good restoration and Blu-ray release.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Oblivion138

It's good, but not as painstakingly researched and accurate as A Night to Remember...which is still, and probably always will be, the definitive Titanic film. Titanic is more dramatized...though not to the extent of the 1997 film.

The 1953 film is far more fictionalized than Cameron's film.

The love story in the 1997 film is fictional, but everything else is scrupulously accurate. Probably 1/3 to half of the 1997 film is concerned not with the fictional lovers but the historical figures, who are rendered as accurately as possible. In addition, the gargantuan sets and stunning props were all reproduced from the original designs.

The 1953 film is just a big sudsy romantic 50s melodrama that happens to take place on the Titanic, in which the true story plays a miniscule role. It's worth watching, but almost nothing, from the way the historical incidents and characters are portrayed, to the sets, is very accurate at all.

[jetthead]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

The 1953 film is far more fictionalized than Cameron's film.

The love story in the 1997 film is fictional, but everything else is scrupulously accurate. Probably 1/3 to half of the 1997 film is concerned not with the fictional lovers but the historical figures, who are rendered as accurately as possible. In addition, the gargantuan sets and stunning props were all reproduced from the original designs.

The 1953 film is just a big sudsy romantic 50s melodrama that happens to take place on the Titanic, in which the true story plays a miniscule role. It's worth watching, but almost nothing, from the way the historical incidents and characters are portrayed, to the sets, is very accurate at all.

Well said!

I like all 3 of these Titanic films. I do not own the '53 movie but as a big Barbara Stanwyck fan I will eventually add it to my collection.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by jetthead

Well said!

I like all 3 of these Titanic films. I do not own the '53 movie but as a big Barbara Stanwyck fan I will eventually add it to my collection.

It's worth adding, however, that the 1953 film can't really be blamed for being wildly inaccurate. Until the 1955 book "A Night to Remember" came out and was a monstrous critical and commercial hit, the Titanic wasn't the pop culture phenomenon it is now, and there wasn't the vast library of books that screenwriters could turn to. Walter Lord did groundbreaking work interviewing all the survivors he could find and reading all the contemporary accounts to piece together a gripping, minute-by-minute dramatic narrative of the sinking. In 1953, when the Stanwyck film was made, it would have been enormously difficult to make an accurate film about the disaster, the material wasn't out there yet.

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

That's interesting. I thought the only classic Titanic movie was A Night to Remember. I'll have to look into picking this up.

Anyone that has seen the two, how does it compare to Remember?

Titanic has Clifton Webb, who is always entertaining.

[Wonderless11]

Are there any more titles coming out soon?

[Arkadin]

yes, one title just got announced--the Razor's Edge.
January release.

[Race Bannon]

Just watched my copy of Laura -- what's up with Fox Studio Classics? They are some good choices, and some good blu-rays. Is this series dead?