1980 Best Picture Ordinary People Blu-ray

[CouncilSpectre]

Pretty in Pink, or rather the absence of, is still mind-boggling to me....

[Member-425016]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

Pretty in Pink, or rather the absence of, is still mind-boggling to me....

Odd considering they did such a stellar job on the special edition DVD(and Some Kind Of Wonderful).

Honestly it ranks as one of my favorite special editions to date-I especially liked How Molly Ringwald was so open about how she was deeply in love with Andrew McCarthy during filming. Great stuff.

Universal's John Hughes movies though---Ugh, serious train wreck in the special features department. what a difference a studio makes.

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by Filmfan73

Odd considering they did such a stellar job on the special edition DVD(and Some Kind Of Wonderful).

Honestly it ranks as one of my favorite special editions to date-I especially liked How Molly Ringwald was so open about how she was deeply in love with Andrew McCarthy during filming. Great stuff.

Universal's John Hughes movies though---Ugh, serious train wreck in the special features department. what a difference a studio makes.

Universal's JH blu releases aren't exactly stellar.

PiP is, or was on Netflix - even that HDTV version looked sweet.

PiP and SKoW are both extremely high on my blu ray wishlist.

[WaverBoy]

Still no ORDINARY PEOPLE on Blu...

[Tommy0807]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Still no ORDINARY PEOPLE on Blu...

I know. I pulled out my old DVD to watch it a couple of weeks ago. Better than nothing, but still.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Still no ORDINARY PEOPLE on Blu...

It's taking way too long.
There must be a market for an Oscar-winning family drama.

[cinemacrash]

I’m not even a fan of Criterion but this movie deserves a Criterion release.

[bennyb98]

Originally Posted by cinemacrash

I’m not even a fan of Criterion but this movie deserves a Criterion release.

Bumping this when doing some shopping I was too surprised to learn that no Blu-Ray but would love Criterion to pick this up. I know Timothy Hutton would probably provide hours of commentary.

[Mgg957]

It is so incredibly disappointing that this film still hasn't received a Blu-ray release. I hold out hope we might someday see something better than the subpar HD iTunes release. Who knows maybe we will skip Blu-ray and go straight to 4k.... A man can dream

[rafaelsalguero]

I cant believe Mariah Carey's "GLITTER" gets a BluRay release, and this Classic never gets a release

[blurayGeo]

STILL waiting for SOMEONE to release Ordinary People!

I am a budget guy- I never preorder and I always buy what I want that is also a good deal or on sale; that being said; I would happily pay $30 right now to get a bare-bones Blu or 4K release of this film; I'd pay $50 for a stacked Criterion release.

Someone...anyone...please...Twilight Time?

[thetrixrabbit]

Originally Posted by blurayGeo

STILL waiting for SOMEONE to release Ordinary People!

I am a budget guy- I never preorder and I always buy what I want that is also a good deal or on sale; that being said; I would happily pay $30 right now to get a bare-bones Blu or 4K release of this film; I'd pay $50 for a stacked Criterion release.

Someone...anyone...please...Twilight Time?

Same!

[anthonyls]

This seems like a perfect release for Criterion. Is Criterion not interested in this release? Are the film elements in bad shape? Why is no one interested in releasing this? Does it need a new restoration or something?

[Jlouisbarrett]

It’s with Paramount, which is and has been notorious for holding most of their films hostage.

[mdoyl44]

I think Shout! is the go to for Paramount releases?

[Aunt Peg]

To be released on Blu Ray in Australia on 6 May 2020.

It's from Shock so it's probably on par with the Blu Ray of The Tenant.

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/blu-ray/Ord...ple/dp/6221638

[larrys]

I checked out sanity.com.au. ORDINARY PEOPLE is listed there. It is listed as a Region B release, so obviously you need a region free player. Total cost w/ shipping included: $23.58. It is listed at $14.99, but Sanity dropped the cost to $13.63 as I neared checkout. It is not yet listed at fishpond.com.au. I think I will wait to officially preorder until closer to street date. I want to see if Deep Discount or Amazon end up carrying this title. Although, I'm not sure if either one of them would have it cheaper than $23.58.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by larrys

I checked out sanity.com.au. ORDINARY PEOPLE is listed there. It is listed as a Region B release, so obviously you need a region free player. Total cost w/ shipping included: $23.58. It is listed at $14.99, but Sanity dropped the cost to $13.63 as I neared checkout. It is not yet listed at fishpond.com.au. I think I will wait to officially preorder until closer to street date. I want to see if Deep Discount or Amazon end up carrying this title. Although, I'm not sure if either one of them would have it cheaper than $23.58.

I just went ahead and preordered it (I have a region free player). Here's a direct link to it on Sanity: https://www.sanity.com.au/products/2...rdinary-People Edit: I also was charged AU$23.58 including shipping to the U.S., or US$13.61 without markup per XE; of course that can change before it ships.

Of the nine Best Picture winners not yet on U.S. BD, this is now the third one to receive a foreign release after The Lost Weekend (1945, UK by MoC) & Hamlet (1948, UK by ITV, other countries by ITV & others). (Kino Lorber is supposed to release The Lost Weekend here, but they haven't announced a date.) And it is by far the newest of the group; the next previous Best Picture still not on BD is Around the World in 80 Days (1956). And it's not for lack of HD masters; when adding streaming versions to the mix, the only Best Picture winner without an HD release is The Life of Emile Zola (1937).

[blurayGeo]

What's crazy is that, compared to those pictures (which many collectors weren't even alive for when they were released) Ordinary People is so extraordinarily not as OLD compared to those other films- it's literally an absolute disgrace that Paramount hasn't given this title the works- I though for sure they'd put together a package after Mary Tyler Moore died...and now, we're at the 40th anniversary, and still no word on a US Blu? Disgraceful- probably too busy re-issuing / repackaging RAGING BULL for the 20th time- hey, I'd get it if Raging Bull lost to ANOTHER STUDIO'S Best Picture that year, but geez- it's like Paramount forgot that THEY PRODUCED THE ACTUAL BEST PICTURE WINNER.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by blurayGeo

What's crazy is that, compared to those pictures (which many collectors weren't even alive for when they were released) Ordinary People is so extraordinarily not as OLD compared to those other films- it's literally an absolute disgrace that Paramount hasn't given this title the works- I though for sure they'd put together a package after Mary Tyler Moore died...and now, we're at the 40th anniversary, and still no word on a US Blu? Disgraceful- probably too busy re-issuing / repackaging RAGING BULL for the 20th time- hey, I'd get it if Raging Bull lost to ANOTHER STUDIO'S Best Picture that year, but geez- it's like Paramount forgot that THEY PRODUCED THE ACTUAL BEST PICTURE WINNER.

Raging Bull is MGM (originally a UA release), not Paramount. Still, it's disgraceful that this is the only Best Picture in over six decades not to appear on even regular BD in the U.S. -- especially since the Best Pictures two years either side of it (The Deer Hunter & Gandhi) are now both out on 4K BD, *and* Paramount has released some of its newer Best Pictures on 4K BD (Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Gladiator).

After receiving the Australian BD, I compared a couple of scenes pointed out by others and confirmed it came from the same poor transfer as Vudu's HDX streaming copy. (Comments in the AU/NZ forum.) Still, it can't be harder to restore properly than Terms of Endearment (won three years later) or even the Godfather trilogy (I & II won the previous decade), all from Paramount. And they certainly don't have the excuses WB has for the next-oldest non-BD Best Picture, Around the World in 80 Days -- first Best Picture shot in Eastmancolor, one negative in extremely rare 30-fps Todd-AO, was owned by Elizabeth Taylor personally prior to WB -- that make it almost inarguably the hardest one of all to restore for BD. (Tom Jones was in much the same boat till Criterion & BFI got hold of it.) But then Paramount is also sitting on The Greatest Show on Earth, perhaps not the easiest 1950's movie to sell but much easier to restore from three-strip Technicolor than later Best Pictures in Eastmancolor.