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Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is coming to 4K, plus a Se7en Ultra HD update, Panic Room, South Park, Team America, Civil War, and more!
Morning, folks!
All right, Tim is going to have a couple of new disc reviews posted here at the site shortly, and I’ll be back tomorrow with more release news, plus my own in-depth review of Andor: The Complete First Season in 4K Ultra HD.
I’ve actually been working on that over the weekend, but my father-in-law has also been visiting with us here for the past week or so, and he’s headed off to the airport this evening for his return flight home. So, real life calls.
In the meantime, we do have a few pieces of release news that are kind of important to share with you all this morning. So let’s get right to them...
The first comes to us by way of the Warner Bros. Shop in the UK, which has now revealed that Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959) is finally coming to 4K Ultra HD later this year in honor of the film’s 65th anniversary! We don’t yet have a street date, but you can see the expanded packaging mock-up below the break. [Read on here...]
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Paramount
- Orson Welles
- Le samourai 4K
- Jean Pierre Melville
- Sam Peckinpah
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4K
- Lionsgate
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- 4K Ultra HD Release List update
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Tim Salmons
- Criterion July 4K slate
- Alfred Hitchcock
- North by Northwest 4K
- Andor: The Complete First Season 4K
- WB Shop UK
- Ultimate Collector's Edition
- David Fincher
- Seven 4K
- Se7en 4K
- What's in the Box
- Panic Room 4K restoration
- Turbulence 4K
- Diary of a Chambermaid BD
- Music Box BD
- Luis Bunuel
- Costa Gavras
- The North Star
- Armored Attack
- Lewis Milestone
- Guy Ritchie
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 4K
- Civil War (2024) 4K
- Alex Garland
- Trey Parker
- Matt Stone
- Team America: World Police
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Chinatown 4K
Criterion’s July slate includes Peckinpah, Wenders & Melville in 4K, plus Macbeth (1948), The Persuaders, Aliens Expanded & more!
To kick off a new week today, we have some interesting release news and a new disc review to share as well. Let’s get to the latter first...
Tim has offered his thoughts on Michele Soavi’s The Church (1989) in 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Severin Films.
More reviews are forthcoming this week, so be sure to stay tuned for them.
Also today here at The Bits, we’ve expanded our Patreon poll about Lionsgate 4K catalog Steelbooks to our Twitter/X page with just a day and a half left. The question is: Lionsgate Home Entertainment is developing a new line of 4K Ultra HD catalog Steelbooks, including many titles released previously as Best Buy exclusives, and they’d like your opinion: Would you prefer the covers to 1) feature newly-created custom artwork, or 2) the film’s original poster artwork? You can vote right now here on Patreon or here on Twitter/X and please take a moment to do so before the polls end on Wednesday. Thank you!
Now then, the big release news today is that Criterion has just announced its July 2024 slate of Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD titles, and this batch has some real gems as well as a couple of surprises. [Read on here...]
- Tim Salmons
- Lionsgate 4K Steelbook poll
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- 4K Ultra HD Release List update
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Lionsgate
- The Church 4K review
- Severin Films
- Criterion July 2024 slate
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4K
- Sam Peckinpah
- Jean Pierre Melville
- Le samourai 4K
- Wim Wenders
- Perfect Days 4K
- Black God White Devil BD
- Farewell my Concubine 4K
- Chen Kaige
- Glauber Rocha
- Paul Brickman
- Risky Business 4K
- Imprint Television
- The Persuaders: The Complete Series BD
- Macbeth (1948) BD
- Orson Welles
- Origin
- Sting
- Superman & Lois: The Complete Third Season
- DC
- Typhoon Club 4K
- The Cinema Guild
- Imaginary
- Arthur the King
- The Tiger's Apprentice
- Paramount
- Snake Eyes 4K
- Repossessed BD
- Kaleidescape
- Minority Report 4K
- Steven Spielberg
- Aliens Expanded documentary
- Ian Nathan
- Crunchy Roll
- Lukas Kendall
- Film Score Monthly
- American Gigolo
- The Karate Kid 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Criterion’s February slate includes McCabe & Mrs. Miller in 4K, plus Columbia Pictures’ 100th, Christopher Nolan, The Raid: Redemption & more
Whew! Yesterday was a big day, was it not? I was up all night prior to the announcement, formatting the post for 7 AM Pacific release, and man was it ever good to finally share that! I’ve been sitting on some of that information for months, so I’m very glad to finally be able to speak about it openly. And after thirteen years, it’s damn good to finally confirm that those James Cameron titles are indeed coming to 4K and Blu-ray at long last.
We have more new disc reviews to share today here at The Bits, and there’s more release news today as well. But first, I wanted to let you all know that I’ve just done a new blog post over on Patreon: My Two Cents on the New Abyss Trailer, and the Subject of DNR and Film Grain. It’s based on an impromptu Q&A thread I was involved in over on Twitter/X this morning, but with some added detail that will definitely be of interest to fans of these James Cameron films in remastered 4K. So if you’re a backer of The Bits’ new Patreon—and if you’re not, you should be, as we really need and appreciate the support!—I think you’ll certainly enjoy that. But for the rest of you, rest assured: Much of the substance of that post will be shared here on The Bits website when we review The Abyss, True Lies, Aliens, and Titanic in 4K, first on Digital in a few weeks and then in a few months on actual 4K UHD disc.
Now then, speaking of reviews... Stephen has posted his thoughts on Roger Spottiswoode’s The Best of Times (1986) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Dennis has reviewed Éric Gravel’s Full Time (2021) on Blu-ray from Music Box Films and Vinegar Syndrome, as well as Jared Moshe’s Aporia (2023) on Blu-ray from Well Go USA.
Stuart has weighed in with his take on Roy Del Ruth’s Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection, along with Jules Dassin’s Uptight (1968) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films.
And for you Peckinpah fans, Tim has shared his in-depth look at Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), also on Blu-ray from Imprint Films.
As always, more new disc reviews are on the way for tomorrow and all next week, so be sure to watch for them. [Read on here...]
- James Cameron
- Titanic 4K preorders in the UK
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Criterion's February 2024 slate
- The Abyss 4K
- Titanic 4K
- Aliens 4K
- True Lies 4K
- Stephen Bjork
- Dennis Seuling
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Tim Salmons
- The Best of Times BD review
- Aporia BD review
- Full Time BD review
- Du Barry Was a Lady BD review
- Warner Archive Collection
- Uptight BD review
- Imprint Films
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia BD review
- Sam Peckinpah
- McCabe & Mrs Miller 4K
- Tales of the Four Seasons BD
- The Heroic Trio 4K
- Executioners 4K
- Nothing but a Man BD
- The Roaring Twenties 4K
- Columbia Pictures 100th anniversary
- Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection
- Christopher Nolan
- Oppenheimer 4K
- Varsity Blues 4K
- Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie
- The Raid: Redemption 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Arrow’s March includes American Werewolf & RoboCop in 4K, plus Imprint’s March slate has Osterman Weekend, and The Digital Bits 3.0 in 2022!
A funny thing happened on the way to yesterday’s My Two Cents post! For some reason, I lost track of a day this week, so I thought yesterday was Friday. Then I wake up and here’s Friday again, much to my surprise. LOL. So anyway, while a bit of yesterday’s post still applies this afternoon, we’ve got some great breaking release news to share with you all today...
First up, the fine Imprint Films (down in Australia) has just announced their March 2022 Blu-ray slate, which is due to street on 3/30/22. It will include Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend (1983 – mastered from new 2K scans of the director’s cut negative and the theatrical cut, so it will include both versions), Buzz Kulik’s The Hunter (1980 – starring Steve McQueen), Samuel Fuller’s China Gate (1957), Byron Haskin’s Conquest of Space (1955 – produced by George Pal), John Sturges’ Marooned (1969), Robert Wise’s Audrey Rose (1977), and Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (1971). Not bad at all!
As usual, all of these Blu-rays should be region free. You’ll find them available here on the Imprint website.
But here’s the whopper today... Arrow Video has just announced its March 2022 slate as well, which includes no less than three new 4K UHD catalog titles! [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Tim Salmons
- Denis Villeneuve
- James Cameron
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Arrow Video March 2022 slate
- Imprint Films March 2022 slate
- RoboCop 4K
- An American Werewolf in London 4K
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 4K
- Come Drink with Me BD
- To Sleep So As to Dream BD
- Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf
- Daniel Griffith
- Sam Peckinpah
- The Osterman Weekend BD
- China Gate BD
- The Hunter BD
- Conquest of Space BD
- George Pal
- Marooned BD
- Robert Wise
- Audrey Rose BD
- Johnny Got His Gun BD
- Dalton Trumbo
- Samuel Fuller
- Steve McQueen
- John Sturges
- The Digital Bits site upgrade
- Back the Bits via PayPal
- The Digital Bits 25th Anniversary in 2022
- Paul Verhoeven
- Kenneth Branagh
- John Landis
Criterion’s June slate has The Lodger & Straw Dogs, plus Space Between Us, stream Ken Russell’s Devils & more
We’ve got a bunch of good stuff for you today here at The Bits so let’s get right to it...
First up, Tim has just posted his review of Tibor Takacs’ The Gate from Lionsgate, part of their new Vestron Video Collector’s Series. The disc is now available in stores.
Meanwhile, Michael Coate has chimed in with a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column, celebrating today’s 40th anniversary of the hit ABC sitcom Three’s Company. It features an interview with author and series authority Chris Mann. Do give it a look. [Read on here…]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- Criterion June Slate
- Ugetsu
- They Live By Night
- The Lodger
- Marseille Trilogy
- Straw Dogs
- Downhill
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Sam Peckinpah
- Marcel Pagnol
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Nicholas Ray
- The Space Between Us
- Orson Welles
- Ken Russell
- The Devils
- Tim Salmons
- The Gate BD review
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Three's Company 40th anniversary
- Russell Hammond
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- The Young Pope
- The Other Side of the Wind completion
- nuclear weapons test film restoration
- Lawrence Livermore