A number of solid Paramount/Sony catalog titles among these that haven't been on Blu-Ray before, including NOBODY'S FOOL, THE BEAST (1988), and others.

Nothing to see there from my vantage point.

AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:08 pm Nice array of titles for May.

BARABBAS is interesting if it's a newish master, the one that was released in France was dreadful, so is the one that's streaming. So who knows what we might get there...

Nice to see the Theatrical cut included. I can live without the Director's cut, although it might make a nice drink's coaster.

Australian label Via Vision Entertainment has provided us with a promotional video and final details for its upcoming Blu-ray release of Walter Hill's The Warriors (1979), starring Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Marcelino Sánchez, and David Harris. The two-disc set will be available for purchase on May 25.

Label description: A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they're after the Warriors – a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death.

This 1979 cult classic is now available in this all new limited edition release featuring together for the first time in high-definition the original 1979 Theatrical cut in addition with the 2005 Directors cut.

This new Limited edition set also delivers a host of new bonus features including commentaries, interviews and video essays examining the cult phenomenon of The Warriors! Limited Edition 2 Disc Hard box edition with unique artwork. 2000 copies.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

BLU-RAY DISC ONE - DIRECTOR'S CUT
High-definition presentation by Paramount Pictures
NEW Audio commentary by author/historian Chris Poggiali and former editor of Fangoria/author Michael Gingold (2022)
Introduction to the New Edition by director/co-writer Walter Hill
The Warriors: The Beginning – featurette
The Warriors: Battleground – featurette
The Warriors: The Way Home – featurette
The Warriors: The Phenomenon – featurette
Audio/Subtitles:
English LPCM 2.0
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature

BLU-RAY DISC TWO - ORIGINAL THEATRICAL CUT
High-definition presentation by Paramount Pictures
NEW The Warriors from the Cutting Room Floor – Deleted/Extended Scenes from the television version
NEW Audio commentary by film critic/author Walter Chaw (2022)
NEW Sound and Fury: Scoring The Warriors – interview with composer Barry De Vorzon (2022)
NEW Last Train to Coney Island – interview with actor David Patrick Kelly (2022)
NEW We Got The Streets – interview with actor James Remar (2022)
NEW Nowhere to Run – interview with actor Dorsey Wright (2022)
NEW Literally Classic: The Ancient Greek Roots of The Warriors – featurette (2022)
NEW Magic… Whole Lot of Magic – video essay by Chris O'Neill (2022)
The Warriors' Scrapbook – Photo Gallery
Theatrical Trailer and TV Spot
Audio/Subtitles:
English LPCM 2.0
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=30552

Very excited Imprint is sending me some review copies, even if they take weeks to get here.

I watched THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND...what a godawful film. The funniest thing is the older Blu-Ray group commentary from Nick Redman and the Peckinpah "authors" -- listening to them excuse away the movie's abundant problems in the form of a stuffy academic commentary makes for outright comedy gold.

The Warriors: Last Subway Ride Home

Lots of 50s in the new batch.

The deluxe version of "On The Beach" that I have to get. Kino's extra-free version was rather disappointing and seemed out of synch in spots. This ports over the 2015 extras from the European Blu-Ray and has some new ones including some newly discovered outtakes of deleted scenes no less! (a couple are hinted at in the final cut so this will be interesting).

Having gone through the less than stellar early 80s nuclear war flicks for the first time in decades this past week ("Testament" and "The Day After") it'll be nice to see a better version of one that gave us the best version of this kind of tale.

EDIT-I didn't look closely enough at the other releases. "Naked Jungle" too! That's the last of my 50s Heston Grail titles. The only tricky thing pre-ordering is I may be at a new address by the time they're released.

Secret Of The Incas is a nice bit of history, as Charlton Heston's look in that film was cribbed almost directly by Indiana Jones...

TIMELINE plays better in the 1.78 aspect ratio...same fuzzy transfer as all the other versions, but there are a number of times there's information on the bottom of the screen being matted out in 2.35. Like the guy getting run over at the start of the film -- he's matted out in the widescreen version when the driver gets out to check on him. Why wouldn't you want to see that part of the frame?

The interviews are audio only -- it's interesting Brian Tyler didn't hear Goldsmith's rejected score yet wrote a score INTENTIONALLY PLAYING HOMAGE to Goldsmith. Then after he heard it later, he "loved it". One of those instances the score never should've been tossed in the first place, as Tyler's score -- while not awful -- is like hearing a weaker version of what Goldsmith scored minus Jerry's much stronger thematic components. If that's the case why bother having it tossed, outside of "our movie's testing poorly WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING"

Tasty looking set...

Some Cannon cult faves in this batch:

Well I got my copy of "Barabbas." The image quality upgrade is very minimal. Imprint then duplicates something I've seen happen with previous releases too. A good 25 minute talking head overview of the film, but then an AWFUL commentary track. In this case I have to listen to two sniggering voices by admitted skeptics and as always, I have to listen to eventual condescending remarks about those who are religiously faithful. I held out for close to an hour but as was the case with "Marooned" there was an eventual breaking point for me where I'd had enough and shut the damn thing off and that was when one of them wanted to start making the case for a gay subtext in the film (and this coming a minute after I was hearing talk about "Life Of Brian" was really pushing me to the brink).

I get the fact that "Barabbas" is not a typical Biblical epic and has a more darker approach then we see in films like "Ben Hur" that end on the note of total spiritual uplift. To me, as a believer it does show how we can be so close to Christ as Barabbas is and yet not be capable of seeing Him. But these clowns have a total inability to grasp the fact that a believer can appreciate that perspective and be challenged on that point. It's really getting annoying to me how we can't just ONCE see a commentary on a film like this or something that deals with a specifically Christian topic done by someone who is an actual Christian. These people just don't get that such people ARE out there and have something to say, or is this just the usual perspective that only snarky atheists end up being film buffs?

I'm glad I finally have a Blu-Ray version of this film even if it is a weak transfer that doesn't upgrade too much, and the 25 minute lecture by the other talking head is good and evenhanded. But someone stuff a gag in the mouths of these commentators and tell them to show a little more tolerance for the people who enjoy these kind of films BECAUSE they touch on the spiritual..

Watched A REFLECTION OF FEAR last night, which I picked up from the $10 DDD bargain bin.

What a messed up movie that one is -- the kind that thinks a girl "talking to her dolls" is creepy by itself. And admittedly, it kind of is. You wonder what went through the minds of writers Edward Hume and Lewis John Carlino as they concocted this story (an adaptation of a book by Stanton Forbes) about a VERY troubled young girl (Sondra Locke) in a secluded New England coastal home, raised by two off the rocker women, with a father (Robert Shaw) who returns with his new love (Sally Kellerman) in tow. Something is very wrong with Sondra's character -- and as the film unfolds, it becomes abundantly clear what that is.

Dreamily shot and directed by William A. Fraker -- veteran cinematographer making one of his few features as a director -- "A Reflection of Fear" is just a wacked-out, "offbeat" psychological horror movie from its era. The performances are sufficient but there's not a lot of a tension in the film, which relies almost completely on its ending for shock value. As Locke herself notes in a 2014 interview with Lee Gambin that's included here as a commentary, that ending was more horrifyingly executed but tossed aside by the studio in favor of hilarious ADR-ed dialogue that you can't help but laugh at. In all, this one didn't work for me, but it carries a heavy atmosphere that those who like these kinds of "meandering" '70s mood pieces might appreciate despite its flaws.

I'm glad I finally have a Blu-Ray version of this film even if it is a weak transfer that doesn't upgrade too much, and the 25 minute lecture by the other talking head is good and evenhanded. But someone stuff a gag in the mouths of these commentators and tell them to show a little more tolerance for the people who enjoy these kind of films BECAUSE they touch on the spiritual..

I enjoy Kim Newman's commentaries on horror/sci-fi films -- actually he's one of my favorites for genre pictures -- but I've only listened to a few minutes and it sounds like he was "miscast" for this commentary. Something more reverent/historical like you said Eric would've been appreciated on this film.

The transfer is the same as the French Blu-Ray I had imported a couple of years ago. It's not good, but I do think Imprint's bit-rate compression here was better. At least the sound is stereo also. Clearly they don't have access to the original negative -- maybe it's locked away in DeLaurentiis' library in Europe somewhere, who knows -- so this transfer is all Sony has available. Explains why Twilight Time and other labels probably stayed away from it in the U.S. I remember Nick telling me Sony wouldn't even license the Heston MOUNTAIN MEN to them because the master wasn't "good enough", and TT had asked for it. Sony typically takes as good a care of their library as any studio -- BARABBAS has to be an unfortunate situation where it can't be remastered easily, or is going to be too cost prohibitive to do so.

The irony is that I recall, I liked Newman's "Talking head" supplement on "Marooned" while hating the commentary track by someone else on that one, who felt the need to go off and rant about the blacklist simply because of Lee Grant's minimal presence in the film. But he and his partner were indeed absolutely wrong for this kind of film.