Seconded.
Ice Station Zebra. Great late 60’s cold war saga feature standout performances by Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, and Patrick McGoohan. I’ve been waiting for it to come out on DVD for years.
Grand Prix, John Frankenheimer’s F1 movie. Best racing sequences ever filmed.
To Be Or Not To Be, the Ernst Lubitsch version with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.
Waterloo, a movie about the battle with a huge cast. Good roles and good actors (albeit a bit of a hammy Rod Steiger as Napolean). This was released briefly on VHS, but is now well out of print.
I vote for Vital Signs, a 1990 flick about 3rd-year med students that features Jimmie Smits, Adrian Pasdar, Diane Lane, Laura San Giacomo, William Devane, and a pre-West Wing Bradley Whitford. It’s a little cheesy, and no one I know has even heard of it, let alone seen it, but I love this movie: I bought it on VHS, and every now and then I look it up on Amazon.com just in case it’s available on DVD.
Ok, “vote” isn’t right, but you know what I mean.
These are not available in Region 1 DVD:
La Roue (1923), The Wedding March (1928), Pandora’s Box (1928), Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Zero for Conduct (1933), Peter Ibbetson (1935), The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), A Day in the Country (1936), Angel (1937), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Olympia (1938), Hellzapoppin (1941), Tobacco Road (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Palm Beach Story (1942), A Canterbury Tale (1944), Laura (1944), Forever Amber (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Fountainhead (1949), Jour de fête (1949), Not Wanted (1949), The Reckless Moment (1949), King Solomon’s Mines (1950), Night and the City (1950), Los Olvidados (1950), La Ronde (1950), Wagon Master (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Miracle in Milan (1951), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Le Plaisir (1952), The Life of Oharu (1952), El: This Strange Passion (1953), A Geisha (1953), Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), Madame de… (1953), Summer with Monika (1953), Ugestu (1953), Voyage in Italy (1953), Anatahan (1954), Human Desire (1954), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), The Naked Dawn (1955), Bigger Than Life (1956), There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1956), While the City Sleeps (1956), General della Rovere (1959), Pickpocket (1959), The Nun’s Story (1959), Whistle Down the Wind (1961), My Name Is Ivan (1962), Eclipse (1962), Ride the High Country (1962), America, America (1963), Brainstorm (1965), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), The Hill (1965), Repulsion (1965), The Round Up (1965), The War Game (1965), Au hasard Balthazar (1966), Cul-de-sac (1966), Titicut Follies (1967), If… (1968), Rachel, Rachel (1968), The Conformist (1970), The Spider’s Stratagem (1970), The Devils (1971), King Lear (1971), Ludwig (1972), O Lucky Man! (1973).
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
Formerly a staple of the late, great and loudly lamented Night Flight on USA. I got a copy on VHS from eBay a while back but sadly no DVD.
And I see there was a “making of” special this year. Perhaps that bodes well for a DVD release?
The original version of King Kong. I would have figured that it would have been released last year on the 70th aniversary, but it wasn’t.
I’m still waiting for The Frisco Kid with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford to come out on DVD.
Zev Steinhardt
I’m in the same boat. A year or so ago I looked for this on DVD and found out it wasn’t out, which of course enraged me. Then Tuesday I was at Best Buy buying some horror movies to go with the release of the Dawn of the Dead remake (in the spirit of Halloween and all, of course) and there was Ed Wood in all its glory. Woohoo! I don’t know WHY I liked that movie so much when I saw it on TV, but for some reason I really loved the Ed Wood in that film, and the whole part about Bela Lugosi really got to me.
So anyway … I’m happy that it’s out.
And I was going to kvetch that Jesus of Montreal is only available on DVD in French (Canadien) with no English subtitles, but they just released a new version with English subtitles. Hellacool.
Another movie I’d always wanted to see was the Spanish version of Dracula, filmed on the same sets and with the same equipment as the Lugosi version when the Lugosi/Browning cast and crew went home (the studio was attempting to recapture some of the foreign market they’d lost when talkies came). It’s considered by many to be the far superior version. It’s included as an extra on the newly released Dracula DVD (except in Spanish countries, where the Lugosi version is considered an extra, not that it matters since the DVD won’t play on their machines).
BRINGING UP BABY (with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn) is on every list in the top ten comedies of all time… and not available on DVD. On VHS, yes, but not DVD.
Can you name a few of those lists?
The Silent Partner
1978, with Elliot Gould and Christopher Plummer. Cat and mouse caper movie.
Plummer robs a bank, and teller Gould takes the money.
I am surprised that Kenneth Brannagh’s Hamlet is not on DVD.
I’m not at home, so I don’t have access, but the American Film Institute puts it way up there, for one.
The prosecution rests.