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The Australian outfit [Imprint] has announced four new 4K + Blu-ray discs, two of which are tagged on CineSavant’s disc radar. I reviewed Richard Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far twenty years ago but only remember its enormous scale; a deluxe edition might be really special. Wolfgang Petersen’s The Neverending Story should look sensational in 4K Ultra HD … it was one of my most successful ‘parenting’ outings with my 5 year-old daughter.
A Bridge Too Far is newly scanned 4K disc + two Blu-ray set of the all-star epic war movie.
The Never Ending Story is a 40th Anniversary Limited Edition four-disc set in leatherette book packaging … in addition to other extras, it carries the original German Extended Cut, also on 4K and Blu-ray — it’s a full ten minutes longer.
Both discs are due on November 11. Being offered at the same time are 4K / Blu-ray sets of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy. Imprint’s website has full details.
And good Halloween news just arrived from The Warner Archive Collection:
The label’s October Blu-ray releases start with the musical Sweethearts with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, the 1965 TV series A Man Called Shenandoah with Robert Horton; and Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration with Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer and Parker Posey.
What with the Val Lewton double bill coming from Criterion, their new Halloween-themed releases all but clean out the bag of WAC horror titles from the 1940s: the classic Michael Curtiz / Boris Karloff zombie picture The Walking Dead (1936); the odd Humphrey Bogart mad doctor picture The Return of Dr. X, and Robert Florey’s The Beast with Five Fingers, with Peter Lorre.
It actually might be a belated Halloween treat — street date isn’t until October 29.
Gary Teetzel wonders if next year the WAC will move on to chillers from the ’50s and ’60s, like Macabre, The Disembodied, Black Zoo, The Frozen Dead, etcetera.
Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson