The Alamo ('60, d: John Wayne -- restored version, when and if it happens)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, d: Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, et. al.); "I've heard that Warner Bros. is giving The Adventures of Robin Hood a million dollar restoration and will re lease it in 2003 for its 65th anniversary." -- Paula Vitaris
Advise and Consent (1962, d: Otto Preminger, w/ Murray, Laughton, Pidgeon, Ayers);
Anna Karenina (1997, d: Bernard Rose, w/ Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, James Fox);
Around the World in 80 Days (not taken from 35mm elements, but original 70mm, 30 frame-per-second, Todd-AO roadshow version);
The Awful Truth ('37, d: Leo McCarey, w/ Grant, Dunne, Bellamy);
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer ('47, d: Garson Kanin, w/ Grant Loy, Temple, Vallee, Collins);
John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday ('76,
Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue ('70, w/ Robards, Stevens).
"How about Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1967). As far as I know, this classic title is a hassle to find even on VHS. (There's a copy for sale on Amazon.com, but it's used and the seller is asking asking $100!).
Peter Glenville's Becket ('64 w/ O'Toole, Burton, Gielgud, Wolfit);
Betrayal('83, d: David Jones, w/ Irons, Kingsley, Hodges -- best Pinter ever put on screen);
Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ('70)
Blow Up ('66, d: Michelangelo Antonioni, w/ Hemmings, Redgrave, Miles); >;
Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse ('58 -- ditto);
Joseph Losey's Boom!('68 - only on VHS, but desperately needs to be letterboxed);
Borsalino ('70, d: Jacques Deray, w/ Belmondo, Delon);
Bringing Up Baby ('38, d: Howard Hawks, w/ Grant, Hepburn, Ruggles);
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974, d: Sam Peckinpah, w/ Oates, Vega, Young,
Webber).
Les Blank's Burden of Dreams ('82, about making of Fitzcarraldo);
Robert Altman's California Split ('73, w/ Gould, Segal);
Captain Blood ('35, d: Michael Curtiz, w/ Errol Flynn),
Castle Keep ('69, d: Sydney Pollack, w/ Lancaster, O'Neal, Dern -- trippy, bordering-on-surreal antiwar film).
Charley Varrick ('73, d: Don Siegel, w/ Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker);
Croupier (d: Mike Hodges -- Some kind of British/Canadian DVD has reportedly been available for over a year, but what about a U.S. special edition with commentary, etc.?);
Arthur Penn's The Chase ('66), written by Lillian Hellman from a book by Horton Foote , w/ Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford (a.k.a., "Bubber"), Angie Dickinson, Robert Du vall, E. G. Marshall, and Martha Hyer, among others. I'm envisioning a two-disc set, containing both the theatrical release and Penn's original cut, restoring scenes and putting the rest in Penn's preferred order. I believe that Columbia still owns the film.
Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight;
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist ('71, w/ Trintingant, Sanda);
Luchino Visconti's The Damned ('69); Darling (d: John Schlesinger, w/ Christie, Bogarde, Harvey);
Day for Night ('73, d: Francois Truffaut, w/ Bisset, Leaud, Aumont);
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round ('66, d: Bernard Girard, w/ Coburn - cool little caper film featuring Harrison Ford making screen debut as bellboy);
Dial M for Murder (1954, d: Alfred Hitchcock, w/ Milland, Kelly, Cummings, Williams);
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970, d: Frank Perry, w/ Snodgress, Benjamin, Langella);
Double Indemnity ('45, d: Billy Wilder, w/ MacMurray, Stanwyck, Robinson - UCLA and Robert Gitt's restored version needs to be transferred to DVD);
Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique ('9_);
Elia Kazan's East of Eden ('55, w/ Dean, Massey, Van Fleet -- 2.55 to 1 widescreen version, w/ overture);
El Cid (1961, d: Anthony Mann, w/ Heston, Loren, Vallone, Lom)
Electra Guide In Blue ('73; dir: James William Guercio, w/ Blake, Bush, Ryan, Riley)
Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Ange ('62);
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964, d: Anthony Mann, w/ Boyd, Loren, Plummer, Mason, Guinness);
The Far Country(1954, d: Anthony Mann, w/ James Stewart);
Far From the Madding Crowd ('67, d: John Schlesinger, w/ Christie, Stamp, Finch, Bates).
Foreign Correspondent ('40, d: Alfred Hitchcock, w/ McCrea, Day, Sanders, Benchley, Gwenn);
Greetings ('68, d: Brian De Palma, w/ De Niro);
Grand Prix
Gunga Din (1939, d: George Stevens, w/ McLachlan, Grant, Fairbanks, Jaffe);
Hamlet (1996, d: Kenneth Branagh, w/ Branagh, Winslet, Heston, Jacobi);
A Hatful of Rain (1957, d: Fred Zinneman, w/ Murray, Saint, Franciosa, Nolan);
The High and the Mighty ('54, d: William Wellman, w/ Wayne, Stack, Trevor - 2.55 to 1 Scope version -- needs restoration);
Hobson's Choice ('53, d: David Lean, w/ Laughton, Mills, Brenda de Banzie);
The Hospital ('71, d: Arthur Hiller, w/ Scott, Rigg, Hughes).
I Confess ('53, d: Hitchcock, w/ Clift, Baxter, Aherne, Malden);
If... (1968, d: Lindsay Anderson, w/ McDowell, Wood, Noonan, Warwick. Revolution comes to a British boarding school. McDowell's "Travis" was easily his most charismatic);
Ikiru (1952, dir. Akira Kurosawa, with Takashi Shimura);
Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place ('51, w/ Bogart, Grahame)
In Cold Blood (1967, d: Richard Brooks, w/ Blake, Wilson, Forsythe);
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ('63, d: Stanley Kramer --restored, full-length version taken from 70mm elements, w/ overture, entr'acte music & effects);
Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life ('59);
Richard Lester's Juggernaut ('74, w/ Harris, Sharif, Hemmings, Jones);
King Kong ('33 d: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, w/ Armstrong, Wray, Cabot). Supposedly getting the restoration treatment
King of Kings ('61, d: Nicholas Ray, w/ Hun.ter, Hatfield, Ryan - preferably mastered off roadshow 70mm version);
Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita ('60);
The Landlord (1970; d: Hal Ashby, w/ Bridges, Grant, Sands, Anspach);
The Last Movie (1971, d: Dennis Hopper, w/ Hopper, Adams, Fonda, Kristofferson);
Laura ('44, d: Otto Preminger, w/ Andrews, Tierney, Webb, Price);
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard ('63, w/ Lancaster, Delon, Cardinale -- needs restoration).
Letter From an Unknown Woman ('48, d: Max Ophuls, w/ Fontaine, Jourdan, Christians);
Lifeboat ('44, d: Alfred Hitchcock, w/ Bankhead, Hodiak, Slezak, et. al. -- has never had necessary work done);
Lilith (1964, d: Robert Rossen, w/ Beatty, Seberg, Fonda, Hackman);
"A big, beautiful, special edition DVD of Arthur Penn's Little Big Man. Let's get a commentary track from Penn, for sure! And Dustin would be swell too." -- Drew Kerr.
Little Caesar (1930, d: Mervyn LeRoy, w/ Robinson, Blackmer -- "Is this the end of Little Rico?);
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1963, d: Tony Richardson, w/ Courtney, Finlay, Redgrave -- my favorite kitchen-sink drama, a slight notch ahead of This Sporting Life)
Loving (1970, d: Irvin Kershner, w/ Segal, Saint, Hayden, Wynn);
Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons ('42 -- among the most irritating and overrated "great" films ever made);
Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession ('54, w/ Hudson, Wyman);
Man of the West (1958, d: Anthony Mann, w/ Cary Cooper);
Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis ('44 -- glorious color).
Metropolitan ('90, d: Whit Stillman)
Arthur Penn's Mickey One ('65, w/ Beatty, Tone);
Murder My Sweet ('44, d: Edward Dmytryk, w/ Powell, Trevor, Kruger);
Lewis Milestone's Mutiny on the Bounty ('62, w/ Brando, Howard, Harris -- DVD should ideally be based upon digital reconstitution of 70mm Ultra Panavision version with 2.76 to 1 aspect ratio);
The Naked Spur (1953, d: Anthony Mann, w/ James Stewart);
Abel Gance's Napoleon ('27);
Jules Dassin's Never on Sunday ('60);
Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 ('76 -- the 255-minute version will suffice);
New York, New York (1977, d: Martin Scorsese, w/ De Niro, Minelli);
Ninotchka ('39, d: Ernst Lubitsch, w/ Garbo, Douglas);
Objective: Burma ('45, d: Raoul Walsh, w/ Errol Flynn);
Francis Coppola's One From the Heart ('82, w/ Forrest, Garr, Kinski);
Sergio Leone's Once upon a Time in America ('84, w/ De Niro, Woods, McGovern -- the 225-minute version, of course);
One, Two, Three (1961, d: Billy Wilder, w/ Cagney, Buccholz, Tiffin - b&w Scope laser disc out a few years back, but no DVD)
Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past ('47, w/ Mitchum, Greer, Douglas -- mid '90s Image laser disc is the standard to match).
The Outfit ('74, d: John Flynn - hard-boiled, underseen noir crime pic w/ Duvall, Baker, Ryan);
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), d: William Wellman, w/Fonda, Andrews, Quinn, Morgan,
Darwlell).
Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story ('42),
Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger ('75, w/ Nicholson, Scheider, Hendry);
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, (1973/ d: Sam Peckinpah, w/ Coburn, Kristofferson, Jurado, Dylan - director's cut, of course).
The Pawnbroker (1965, d: Sidney Lumet, w/ Steiger, Peters, Fitzgerald, Sanchez).
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ('69 or '70> d: Billy Wilder). MGM may be planning a disc of it at some point, but what I'd like is for the company to truly restore the film by finding the deleted footage and releasing it as Wilder planned, as a longish roadshow picture."
Persona ('66, d: Ingmar Bergman, w/ Ullman, Andersson)
Richard Lester's Petulia ('68 w/ Scott, Christie, Knight, Chamberlain -- brilliant, underseen & underappreciated);
Frank Perry's Play It as It Lays ('72, w/ Weld, Perkins, Grimes -- "It's not artificial, it's reconstituted");
John Boorman's Point Blank ('67, w/ Marvin, Dickinson, Vernon, Wynn);
The Quiller Memorandum (1966, d: Michael Anderson, w/ Segal, Guinness, von Sydow, plus a Harold Pinter script.
Warren Beatty's Reds ('81).
Ride the High Country ('61, d: Sam Peckinpah, w/ McCrea, Scott);
Ryan's Daughter ('70, d: David Lean -- taken from 70mm roadshow elements, if possible);
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987, d: Stephen Frears);
Scarecrow ('73, d: Jerry Schatzberg, w/ Pacino and Hackman);
The Sea Hawk ('40 d: Michael Curtiz, w/ Flynn and what costars?);
Secret Honor (1984, d: Robert Altman, w/ Philip Baker Hall);
Shall We Dance ? (1996, dir. Masayuki Suo).
Shampoo (1974, d:Hal Ashby, w/ Beatty, Christie, Hawn, Warden);
A Shock to the System ('90, d: Jan Egleson, w/ Caine, Reigert, McGovern). "I have a friend who works for a DVD manufacturer on the east coast and he informed me that A Shock To The Syst em is coming out as soon as they get the licensing for the score. I think it even has commentary." -- Anonymous.
"I've been waiting and waiting for a DVD of Robert Altman's masterpiece Short Cuts. I would love to hear a full-length commentary from Altman about the process of taking Raymond Carver's fantastic stories and adapting them to film. I need this DVD...now!" -- Joe Brogan
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ('66, d: Martin Ritt, w/ Burton, Bloom, Werner -- Paramount Home Video laser disc & VHS versions are barely watchable);
Surviving Picasso (1996, d : James Ivory, w/ Hopkins, McElhone);
Swing Time ('36, d: George Stevens w/ Astaire, Rogers);
The Thing (1951 Christian Nyby / Howard Hawks version w/ Tobey, Arness);
They Died With Their Boots On ('41, d: Raoul Walsh, w/ Flynn, De Havilland);
To Catch a Thief ('55, d: Hitchcock. Properly done this time, using 8-perf VistaVision elements);
To Live and Die in LA (1985, d: William Friedkin, w/ Petersen, Dafoe, Pankow);
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, d: John Huston, w/ Bogart, Holt,Huston - the laser disc that came out in the early '90s looked sharp and clean; DVD could be even better);
The Trojan Women (1971, d: Michael Cacoyannis, w/ Hepburn, Redgrave);
Two for the Road ('67, d: Stanley Donen, w/ Finney, Hepburn);
Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory ('60 w/ Guiness, Mills)
Mark Robson's Valley of the Dolls ('67);
Jean Luc Godard's Weekend ('68, w/ what cast?...Michel Piccoli?);
What's New Pussycat? ('65, d: Clive Donner...a mess, but also curiously amusing in a spirited, anarchic sort of way);
The White Dawn (1975, d: Philip Kaufman, w/ Oates, Bottoms, Gossett, Jr.);
The Wrong Man (1957; d: Alfred Hitchcock, w/ Fonda, Miles, Quayle).
Yankee Doodle Dandy ('42, d: Michael Curtiz, w/ Cagney, Huston, Leslie);
Year Of The Dragon ('85, dir: Michael Cimino; written by Oliver Stone).
Zulu (1964, d: Cy Rendfield, w/ Caine, Hawkins, Baker, Green);
