I've been looking for Reckless on DVD and new on Amazon it's been $24 even used it was alot.I just realized this month Warner Bro's is having a 30% off sale on their Archive collection of 1960-1989. There are 60 DVD's from the 80's just thought i'd clue you guys in on a good deal
web page Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Thanks Muffy!! I see a few gems on there...might have to get:
Lace-Made for tv mini series w Phoebe Cates
American Anthem-Never saw it but there's a great Stevie Nicks song in it!
FEDS
Urgh A Music War
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Warner Archive Collection concept, I think that it's a fanstatic idea. For movies that Warner has decided would not sell something like 10,000 DVDs and would not ordinarily get a release, Warner will make them available on an on-demand, "we'll-burn-you-a-copy-if-you-want-it" approach through a website. Now I have not actually seen one of these discs, but I know someone who has, and they apparently don't look like grey-market DVDs. While obviously DVD-R burns, they are legitimate, professionally packaged, and many are uncut, remastered versions of the films. Within a few years, Warner hopes to have its entire library available. Who-hoo! I understand that Sony is soon going to be doing the same thing with its Columbia stuff. Again, great idea! MGM and whoever owns the Vestron library are you paying attention? :-)
One unfortunate, final note on the concept, the last time I looked, international copyright laws being what they are, Warner would only take U.S. orders for archive collection films. Bummer!
As for those films mentioned: Reckless: I've always thought that this one was underrated--excellent cast--filmed in some interesting rural locales in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, as I recall.
Lace: hilarious, guilty pleasure with the importal line uttered by Phobe Cates: "Which one of you b*****s is my mother?" ROFL I have fond memories of watching this to take my mind off the bar exam I was taking at the time.
American Anthem: pretty people--Janet Jones and Olympian Mitch Gaylord--in a pretty silly, though well-filmed, flick chock full o'cliches. (But, of course, 80's completists will want to check it out anyway.)
Feds: good cast, but dull as dishwater, and, for me at least, as forgettable as "Casual Sex?"
Urgh! A Music War: excellent documentary!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash:
One unfortunate, final note on the concept, the last time I looked, international copyright laws being what they are, Warner would only take U.S. orders for archive collection films. Bummer!
Yeah, this sucks big time! I still hope that they will sell the rights to european distribution companies.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I will hold out hope for you, my friend! I don't even pretend to understand the complexities of the Berne Convention and international copyright law. There is one longstanding mail order firm in the U.S. that has some tricky language in its catalogue about copyrights, to the effect that "if a foreign movie is never distributed in the U.S. or distributed in a different form from what we are selling, it is in the public domain under the Berne Convention" and may be copied and sold freely without copyright infringement. I've never been able to confirm that assertion and quite frankly think that it is probably an oversimplification because while something has to "published" in a country that is a signatory to the treaty, I'm not sure that a 90-minute foreign film, cut by two minutes for an official U.S. release loses its copyright protection forever. While this is off-topic, I've seen some weird stuff over the years in this country by folks trying to "revive" a lapsed copyright, the best example being the addition of some really hideous footage to "Night of the Living Dead" decades after its original release and the obtaining of a "new" copyright!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds pretty wild, Crash.
More off-topic stuff, i have heard that 8 Million Ways to Die has been released on dvd in Spain and just found out that some scandinavian company also bought the rights.
So there´s hope that these more obscure flicks will get a dvd/blu-ray/whatever release after all.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
Crash thanks for the info!!
I was wondering?? I would love this idea.....my local video store that so cool didn't even have Reckless......even on Ebay the same copy DVD was going for $20 at the lowest.......so I feel I got a good price.....Releasing the catalog movies this way would be an awesome thing I hope!
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
Guys it took all of two days to get here........I'll let you know when I watch it
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