Audrey Hepburn on Blu-ray

[spanky87]

Breakdown of availability by country:

[Show spoiler]
1953


1954

Also available in UK, Italy, Japan, Germany, Finland, Spain, Sweden, France, Brazil, Denmark, Australia

1956

Also available in China, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, South Korea


1957




Also available in Spain, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, UK, Australia, Denmark

1960


1961

Also available in Italy, Spain


Also available in Mexico, Hong Kong, Denmark, Portugal, Finland, Brazil, Sweden, Russia, Australia, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, UK

1963

Also available in Spain, Japan, UK, Italy, Germany

1964

Also available in Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Spain, France, Germany

1966

Also available in Czech Republic

1967



Also availale in UK

1976


1989

Also available in UK, France, China, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Finland

BOX SETS:

USA/Canada (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Funny Face, Sabrina)


Spain (Sabrina, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)


UK (Sabrina, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's)


Australia (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, Funny Face)


Brazil (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, My Fair Lady)


Japan (Sabrina, Funny Face)


Japan (Breakfast at Tiffany's 50th Anniversary Box)


Germany (Breakfast at Tiffany's 50th Anniversary Box)

[ravenus]

If you're putting in non-American releases, do you also want to include alternate releases to titles available in the US, like Charade, which also has a UK release?
Also, it might be more useful to people if the images linked to the pages for those blu-rays.

[spanky87]

Originally Posted by ravenus

If you're putting in non-American releases, do you also want to include alternate releases to titles available in the US, like Charade, which also has a UK release?
Also, it might be more useful to people if the images linked to the pages for those blu-rays.

Done.

[avex]

Thanks for the list and great thread!

I love the packaging design for the Spain box set (even sweeter that it includes Sabrina and Funny Face). Awfully tempted, even if it means double dipping on the other two that came out in NA. Now if only Roman Holiday could get some love T_T

[Musicguy]

Both "How to Steal a Million" and "Two For the Road" were included in the FOX poll this year and rated just under the John Wayne films being released. FOX will mostly likely release these two films pretty soon.

[BrianS]

Hopefully "Wait Until Dark" will be released soon. It's the only other film of hers that I'm interested in, besides the already released "Charade" and "Sabrina".

[Scottie]

As a tribute to her 85th birthday today, Google made Audrey Hepburn the star of Google.com today. I think it's pretty cool.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by spanky87

1963

Which version is better?
The Universal Studios release doesn't have any user reviews.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

Which version is better?
The Universal Studios release doesn't have a user review.

I own both, as it's my favorite movie of all time. I couldn't see a difference between the two transfers of the film, but of course the Criterion, while much more expensive, does have some great extras.

The audio commentary is one of the best I've ever heard. All commentaries should be recorded many years after the film is made, or new commentaries should be recorded to go with the old one, as Atom Egoyan did for The Sweet Hereafter. Director Stanley Donen and writer Peter Stone are entertaining and filled with cool anecdotes about the making of the movie, unlike so many audio commentaries, which seem to be just audio descriptions of the events onscreen for the visually impaired.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I own both, as it's my favorite movie of all time. I couldn't see a difference between the two transfers of the film, but of course the Criterion, while much more expensive, does have some great extras.

The audio commentary is one of the best I've ever heard. All commentaries should be recorded many years after the film is made, or new commentaries should be recorded to go with the old one, as Atom Egoyan did for The Sweet Hereafter. Director Stanley Donen and writer Peter Stone are entertaining and filled with cool anecdotes about the making of the movie, unlike so many audio commentaries, which seem to be just audio descriptions of the events onscreen for the visually impaired.

Rounded off they are $10 and $25. I hate that Criterion is always so expensive, but I'd rather have a great audio commentary than a bad one (or none). Thanks for your help

[dsman71]

We really need Wait Until Dark on blu ray - come on WB !!

Originally Posted by dsman71

We really need Wait Until Dark on blu ray - come on WB !!

Agreed so darn much. It's ridiculous, man! The Audrey collection that comes out Sept 30 shouldn't just be 3 films, it should be 5 or 6 and should include films we haven't had on BD yet like

Wait Until Dark
Two for the Road
Roman Holiday

It's so strange that these have never been on Blu Ray!

Anybody hear rumblings of info as to future possibilities?

[Arkadin]

one of the most iconic American films still not out is certainly Roman Holiday.
when will it appear??
who knows.
definitely tired of waiting on it that's for sure.

[Ray_Rogers]

Maybe Roman Holiday would be released in Summer by Criterion? Regarding Two for the Road I'd rather buy the Eureka release. Still waiting for a decent price on the CC Charade and don't know why I keep putting off buying other titles.

[ElectricPeterTork]

Originally Posted by Ray_Rogers

Maybe Roman Holiday would be released in Summer by Criterion? Regarding Two for the Road I'd rather buy the Eureka release. Still waiting for a decent price on the CC Charade and don't know why I keep putting off buying other titles.

Extras aside, there's really not much of a difference between the Uni and Criterion releases of Charade as far as PQ goes, is there?

[Ray_Rogers]

Originally Posted by ElectricPeterTork

Extras aside, there's really not much of a difference between the Uni and Criterion releases of Charade as far as PQ goes, is there?

I wouldn't exactly know unless if I looked at Caps-a-Holic comparisons. But I'm guessing the CC ought to be better. CC is AVC with LPCM 1.0 and Uni is VC-1 with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono. Some people might want both or one or the other. I'm preferring the CC release.

[rollinwith26s]

Just finished watching Twilight Time's Two for the Road. That flick is way funnier than I remember.

[The Great Owl]

This morning, while I was visiting my mother, we watched A Nun's Story on Turner Classic Movies.

People who dismiss Audrey Hepburn as just a fashion model type of actress would do well to check out this film, which features her as a young Belgian woman who joins a convent, is eventually stationed at a missionary in the Congo, and finally finds herself back in Belgian in the shadow of the Nazi threat in World War II. Peter Finch has a great role as a missionary doctor whose interactions with Hepburn's nun have just a hint of sexual tension.

My mother is going through chemotherapy now, so it's become my Sunday routine to go out for a morning run and then drive 20 minutes north to spend a few hours with her while my father is at church, since we don't like for her to be by herself while she is weak from the chemo. We usually just sit and watch movies on TCM while we talk, since it's a break from the Fox News stuff that she normally watches. My mother is not thinking quite as clearly these days, but her memories of certain actors and certain movies are still quite impressive, and it's fun to hear her reminisces during the films. Last Sunday, we were watching High Society, and my mother talked about how one of her older sisters modeled her own wedding dress after the one that Grace Kelly had in that film.

At any rate, we really need A Nun's Story on Blu-ray soon. It's a fantastic film with an emotional gut punch at the end.

[ElectricPeterTork]

A Nun's Story is owned by WB, and the Archives have released two Audrey movies already this year, so it wouldn't shock me to see this one eventually.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by ElectricPeterTork

A Nun's Story is owned by WB, and the Archives have released two Audrey movies already this year, so it wouldn't shock me to see this one eventually.

Took seven years, but that still counts as eventually.