Alfred Hitchcock on Blu-ray

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

I'd love to know when the next restored silent is coming out on bd, and which one it is.
anyone know?

I keep hoping for a "Hitchcock 9" boxset from the UK, but I suspect they're forbidden to release them until they've finished their runs in theaters around the world.

[Arkadin]

well are other restored silents now playing? I haven't been keeping up with the progress of this program.

[Seamus McFly]

I'm still missing The Lodger, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Lifeboat, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, and To Catch a Thief. 20/26 ain't too bad I guess.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

well are other restored silents now playing? I haven't been keeping up with the progress of this program.

LACMA is showing "The Hitchcock 9" right now, the 9 silents that were restored and shown in the UK last year. They're touring the US.

I presume that once they finish their run through repertory theaters across the world, they'll hit Blu-Ray.

[RyanPom]

Any idea when Vertigo will be a single disc? It's about time.

[majorkonig41]

Is that song in The Lodger a joke? That is ridiculous.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by majorkonig41

Is that song in The Lodger a joke? That is ridiculous.

I wish it were. In thousands of films I have probably watched, it's the most incomprehensible artistic choice I've ever seen.

[Arkadin]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

LACMA is showing "The Hitchcock 9" right now, the 9 silents that were restored and shown in the UK last year. They're touring the US.

I presume that once they finish their run through repertory theaters across the world, they'll hit Blu-Ray.

sounds good!
thanks for the info.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

sounds good!
thanks for the info.

Seems like it would logically following the same basic model as Janus, where restored films tour theaters and then appear in the Criterion Collection a year or so later.

Not saying these will end up with Criterion obviously, but it would be nice

[majorkonig41]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I wish it were. In thousands of films I have probably watched, it's the most incomprehensible artistic choice I've ever seen.

There is a special place in hell for the one who made that choice. A hell where Norman Bates and Bruno Anthony are waiting for that person.

[Infernal King]

I still need an individual release for Rear Window and Vertigo, plus Psycho to come back into print.

[RyanPom]

Originally Posted by Gate

I still need an individual release for Rear Window and Vertigo, plus Psycho to come back into print.

I'm glad I found Psycho when I did. The print is stellar.

[Scottie]

Torn Curtain = October 1

http://www.amazon.com/Torn-Curtain-B...006336&sr=1-80

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Torn Curtain = October 1

http://www.amazon.com/Torn-Curtain-B...006336&sr=1-80

I'm REALLY loving the coverart for these Universal single-disc issues. All draw from the original posters/artwork/fonts, but have it refashioned into a coherent theme.

If only they had A) offered the single discs at the same time as the set and B) not made them so much more expensive, I'd have preferred the single-discs.

This is EASILY the most gorgeous artwork these titles have ever had on home video:

[Show spoiler]

I do wonder, though, if The Birds, Vertigo and Rear Window will get covers to match. Somehow I think they won't. And a shame that Psycho's existing cover doesn't match either.

[100pr00f]

got the collection on blu for $75

great price

[MikeyHitchFan]

Half of Hitchcock's 53 feature films have NOT been released on blu-ray. Listed in RED below.

The Pleasure Garden (1925)
The Mountain Eagle (1926) (Lost Film)
The Lodger (1927)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1928)
The Ring (1927)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Champagne (1928)
The Manxman (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Murder! (1930)
The Skin Game (1931)
Rich and Strange (1931)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)

[RiFiFi1955]

Originally Posted by MikeyHitchFan

Half of Hitchcock's 53 feature films have NOT been released on blu-ray. Listed in RED below.

[Show spoiler]
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
The Mountain Eagle (1926) (Lost Film)

[Show spoiler]
The Lodger (1927)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1928)
The Ring (1927)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Champagne (1928)
The Manxman (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Murder! (1930)
The Skin Game (1931)
Rich and Strange (1931)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)

[Show spoiler]

Tis a cryin' shame too. I am hoping Warner throws us The Wrong Man and Suspicion next.

[KCota15]

Flicker Alley might release the Hitchcock 9, and Criterion might release Sabotage, Secret Agent, Young and Innocent and Foreign Correspondent. I'm really hoping though, that Warner releases their own Hitchcock boxset with Suspicion, Mr and Mrs Smith, I Confess, Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, the Wrong Man and To Catch a Thief.

[Cinemach]

Some speculations on the unreleased of Hitch's output:

*The Silents: we all know the BFI restorations have been completed and are touring theatrically (I'll be checking a few out in the next couple weeks). These are practically guaranteed to get European and North American releases, with The Lodger already landing in the UK via Network. Criterion is an easy target to release these stateside.

*The rest of the British thriller sextet - Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young & Innocent: the first two are on Criterion's Hulu+ page. There's some minor speculation that these three can be released via an Eclipse sort of set, as Criterion has mainline-released the other half of the sextet.

*Foreign Correspondent is also on Hulu+, and is long-rumored as a release in the mainline.

* The rest of the American-period pictures - from Mr. & Mrs. Smith to The Wrong Man: were released in the DVD-days in a Warner's 'Alfred Hitchock Signature' collection. The 'bigger' titles from this set have already been released on their own on blu, but I can imagine these being packaged up as some sort of 'Hitchcock Signature' 2.0 kind of set.

The handful of British-period pictures left over are anyone's guess, really.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by Cinemach

* The rest of the American-period pictures - from Mr. & Mrs. Smith to The Wrong Man: were released in the DVD-days in a Warner's 'Alfred Hitchock Signature' collection. The 'bigger' titles from this set have already been released on their own on blu, but I can imagine these being packaged up as some sort of 'Hitchcock Signature' 2.0 kind of set.

I wish I were that optimistic about the other American films, but I just don't see them ever getting a BD release here. With classic films more popular overseas on disc (witness the more extensive lists available in the UK, France, Germany) I think the films will be released first there, if anywhere. It wouldn't be unheard of, Paramount has released Sabrina and Funny Face, for example, in many foreign markets but not here.