Displaying items by tag: Alfred Hitchcock
Furiosa: Black & Chrome & The Bikeriders announced, plus new KLSC titles, Umbrella’s November slate, major updates on To Catch a Thief & The Hitcher in 4K, and True Noir at Comic-Con!
We’ve got two more new disc reviews for you to check out today, just as Comic-Con officially gets underway down in San Diego...
Stephen has taken a look at Michael Tuchner’s Fear Is the Key (1972) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video.
And Dennis has offered his thoughts on Étienne Périer’s When Eight Bells Toll (1971) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
We’ve also got several good new title announcements to report this afternoon here at The Bits...
First, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has revealed that a Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Black & Chrome Edition will be available Digitally on 8/13. The color version is already set to debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on 9/24. And you will be able to get the Black & Chrome Editions of both Furiosa and Mad Max: Fury Road in the forthcoming Mad Max 5-Film 4K Collector’s Edition, which is also due on 9/24 (pre-order here). This new Black & Chrome Edition was created by George Miller, who feels that it distills the essence of the film into something more pure and classical (per comments on social media).
Universal will release Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders (2024) on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on 8/13, with the Digital release set for 8/9. The film stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Michael Faist, and Norman Reedus. The Blu-ray editions will feature Dolby Atmos audio, and the 4K will boast HDR10 high dynamic range. Extras will include feature commentary with Nichols and 3 featurettes (Johnny, Benny & Kathy, The Era of The Bikeriders, and The Filmmaker’s Eye: Jeff Nichols). You can see the cover artwork below the break. [Read on here...]
- Hitcher 4K
- To Catch a Thief 4K
- The Ring (2002) 4K
- Paramount
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- Fear Is the Key BD review
- Arrow Video
- When Eight Bells Toll BD review
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- George Miller
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Black & Chrome Edition
- The Bikeriders 4K
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Jeff Nichols
- Umbrella Entertainment November slate
- Eyes Without a Face 4K
- House of the Devil
- Truecrimes
- Full Moon Fright Box: Volume 1
- Dollman
- Demonic Toys
- Dollman vs Demonic Toys
- Demonic Toys 2: Personal Demons
- Ozploitatuion Rarities: Volume 2
- Desolation Angels
- Fair Game
- Coda
- The Thirnteeth Floor
- Burn Witch Burn
- Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXI
- Max Allen Collins
- True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak immersive audio drama
- Robert Meyer Burnett
- Mike Bawden
- San Diego Comic Con
- Cloak and Dagger
- Shack Out on 101
- Short Cut to Hell
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Second Sight UK
- The Hitcher 4K
OTOY’s 2001: Creating Kubrick’s Space Odyssey documentary is here at last, plus Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief is finally coming to 4K Ultra HD! [UPDATED]
Afternoon, Bits readers! We’ve got something very special to share with you today here at the site, but first we also have some more new disc reviews...
Our very own Tim Salmons has delivered his thoughts on Roy William Neill’s Black Moon (1934) on Blu-ray from Columbia Pictures and Via Vision’s Imprint Films label. Tim has also taken a look at Jay Levey’s UHF (1989) in 4K Ultra HD from Shout! Studios in honor of the film’s 35th anniversary!
And Stuart has offered his take on another classic film, Arthur Ripley’s The Chase (1946) on Blu-ray from the good people at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Enjoy!
Now then, some of you may remember that way back in 2010, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull proposed an elaborate documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Unfortunately, he was never able to get Warner Bros. to fund the project, which was known as Beyond the Infinite, and the man sadly passed away in 2022 (you can read our salute to him here).
You may also remember that back in 2016, I published an in-depth look at the various behind-the-scenes books on the making of the film, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: The Ultimate Trip in Print, here at The Bits website.
Well... back in September I was honored to be contacted by my friends Michael and Denise Okuda (of Star Trek fame) to participate in a new documentary they were producing on 2001 with the team at OTOY. So I spent a lovely evening up in Burbank with Mike, Denise, and my old friend Roger Lay, Jr. (who created many of the excellent documentaries on Paramount’s Star Trek Blu-rays in recent years) shooting an interview about the film and its place in cinema history. Today, I am very pleased to say that the result of their work is finally available for all of you to see for yourselves! [Read on here...]
- To Catch a Thief 4K
- Paramount
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Tim Salmons
- OTOY
- Michael Okuda
- Denise Okuda
- Roger Lay Jr
- Black Moon BD review
- UHF 4K review
- Shout! Factory
- Shout! Studios
- The Chase BD review
- Stanley Kubrick
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Beyond the Infinite
- Douglas Trumbull
- Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: The Ultimate Trip in Print
- 2001: Creating Kubrick’s Space Odyssey documentary
- Brian Johnson
- Michael Benson
- Daren R Dochterman
- Keir Dullea
- Dan Richter
- Jeffrey Morris
- Alfred Hitchcock
- To Catch a Thief new 4K restoration
Seven Samurai in 4K, plus Warner Archive’s July slate, Stop Making Sense on CD + BD-A, and Warner’s working on The Terminator, Nightmare on Elm Street & more in Ultra HD!
We start today with more new disc reviews, including...
Stephen’s look at John Flynn’s Rolling Thunder (1977) and Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie (2013) in 4K Ultra HD, as well as Jonathan Kaplan’s Over the Edge (1979) on Blu-ray, all from Shout! Factory.
Stuart’s take on Ken Loach’s documentary The Spirit of ‘45 (2013) on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome and Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans l’île (1962) on Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
And Dennis’ thoughts on Kino Classics’ Vitagraph Comedies Blu-ray, featuring 40 classic shorts on three discs.
Now then, in terms of actual announcement news, we’ve got a couple of items for you and they’re pretty great. But there’s even more unofficial news, that’s no less exciting! Let’s get to the actual announcement news first...
It starts today with word that Janus Films will be debuting a brand new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s legendary epic Seven Samurai (1954) next month in New York and Los Angeles! You’ll be able to see it on 7/5 at the Film Forum in NYC and on 7/7 at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. This is only my favorite film of all time. I will absolutely be at that Egyptian Theatre screening, and the fact that this restoration is now complete surely means that a physical 4K Ultra HD is coming later this year from Criterion as well. You can see the poster for this release at left, and the trailer is available for reviewing below the break. [Read on here...]
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Via Vision Entertainment
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- David Fincher
- Zodiac (2007) 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Stephen Bjork
- Dennis Seuling
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Rolling Thunder 4K review
- Carrie (2013) 4K review
- Over the Edge BD review
- The Spirit of 45 BD review
- Le Combat dans l'ile BD review
- Vitagraph Comedies BD review
- Seven Samurai 4K restoration
- Janus Films
- Akira Kurosawa
- The Criterion Collection
- Warner Archive's July 2024 slate
- Idiot's Delight
- Northwest Passage
- Harum Scarum
- Elvis Presley
- War of the Buttons
- The Stars Fell on Henrietta
- Marie: A True Story
- Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost
- Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders
- Via Vision
- Dredd
- Smokey and the Bandit Collection
- Substitute Collection
- The Lords of Salem
- Pandorum
- American Psycho Collection
- Talking Heads
- Stop Making Sense BDA with Dolby Atmos
- Rhino
- Warner Records
- Blazing Saddles 4K
- The Terminator 4K
- James Cameron
- Mel Brooks
- Alfred Hitchcock
- North by Northwest 4K
- Wes Carven
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4K
- Amadeus 4K
- The Searchers 4K
- Se7en 4K
- Addams Family Values 4K
- Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 4K
- Drafthouse Films
Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is coming to 4K, plus a Se7en Ultra HD update, Panic Room, South Park, Team America, Civil War, and more!
Morning, folks!
All right, Tim is going to have a couple of new disc reviews posted here at the site shortly, and I’ll be back tomorrow with more release news, plus my own in-depth review of Andor: The Complete First Season in 4K Ultra HD.
I’ve actually been working on that over the weekend, but my father-in-law has also been visiting with us here for the past week or so, and he’s headed off to the airport this evening for his return flight home. So, real life calls.
In the meantime, we do have a few pieces of release news that are kind of important to share with you all this morning. So let’s get right to them...
The first comes to us by way of the Warner Bros. Shop in the UK, which has now revealed that Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959) is finally coming to 4K Ultra HD later this year in honor of the film’s 65th anniversary! We don’t yet have a street date, but you can see the expanded packaging mock-up below the break. [Read on here...]
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Paramount
- Orson Welles
- Le samourai 4K
- Jean Pierre Melville
- Sam Peckinpah
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4K
- Lionsgate
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- 4K Ultra HD Release List update
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Tim Salmons
- Criterion July 4K slate
- Alfred Hitchcock
- North by Northwest 4K
- Andor: The Complete First Season 4K
- WB Shop UK
- Ultimate Collector's Edition
- David Fincher
- Seven 4K
- Se7en 4K
- What's in the Box
- Panic Room 4K restoration
- Turbulence 4K
- Diary of a Chambermaid BD
- Music Box BD
- Luis Bunuel
- Costa Gavras
- The North Star
- Armored Attack
- Lewis Milestone
- Guy Ritchie
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 4K
- Civil War (2024) 4K
- Alex Garland
- Trey Parker
- Matt Stone
- Team America: World Police
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Chinatown 4K
The Matrix Resurrections and The King’s Man are official for BD & 4K, plus new Star Wars Trilogy Ultra HD sets in France only & more
We’ve got a couple more new disc reviews to start the week with here at The Bits...
He’s also offered his thoughts today on John Duigan’s Sirens (1994) on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, recently released as part of their Sunburnt Screens label.
And we’ve got another new History, Legacy & Showmanship piece for you this afternoon from our own Michael Coate. Michael’s film retrospectives take a great deal of time and effort to produce, and as such they occasionally become bonus content. So here’s a fun “leftover” from 2021 in which Michael and film historian Gary Gerani celebrate the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Duel. Enjoy!
Now then... the big announcement news today is that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially set Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections for release on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on 3/8 (SRP $29.99, $24.99, and $19.99), with the Digital release available on 1/25. [Read on here...]
- Disney
- 20th Century Entertainment
- The Matrix Resurrections 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Al Reinert
- Round Midnight BD
- This Is My Desire BD
- Eyimofe BD
- The Girl Can't Help It BD
- Miracle in Milan BD
- Walker BD
- For All Mankind 4K
- Criterion April 2022 slate
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Stephen Bjork
- Rich and Strange BD review
- Sirens BD review
- Alfred Hitchcock
- The King's Man 4K
- Star Wars Trilogy 4K sets only in France
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Steven Spielberg
- Duel 50th anniversary
- Gary Gerani
- The Matrix 4Film Déjà Vu Collection
- The Kingsman Collection
- Settlers
- Life in Space 4K
- A Hard Day’s Night 4K
Spaceballs is coming 4K, plus Mad Max 4K extras, Universal’s Psycho 4K audio fix, Arrow’s Gamera BD set reviewed & more
Good afternoon, friends. Hope you all had a lovely weekend.
We’ve got a couple things for you today, starting with a new Blu-ray review. Our own Tim Salmons has done yeoman’s work sinking his teeth into/reviewing Arrow Video’s mammoth and outstanding Gamera: The Complete Collection box set on the format.
The good news: If you’re a fan of kaiju films—and this specific giant turtle in particular—it’s an amazing box set. The bad news: It sold fast and now seems to be out virtually everywhere online. There are a few retailers getting limited stock in now and again, but they go quickly. So unfortunately, unless Arrow is able to reprint it (which I’m told is unlikely at least for now), you might be out of luck. But we couldn’t let their good work go unacknowledged.
And though the set came out on 8/18, it’s literally taken Tim this long to go through it all. Here’s his epic review and we hope you enjoy it.
Also, I posted my thoughts on Lionsgate’s new Ghost in the Shell (1995) 4K release on Friday (click here in the event you missed it). And Dennis has reviewed George Marshall’s The Ghost Breakers (1940), starring Bob Hope, on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics. [Read on here...]
- Alfred Hitchcock
- The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K Ultra HD
- Psycho 4K audio issue
- Zavvi
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Home Alone 4K Steelbook
- Mad Max 4K extras
- Spaceballs 4K
- Universal Psycho BD & 4K audio fix and replacement program
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Gamera: The Complete Collection BD review
- The Ghost Breakers BD review
- Vigilante 4K
- Possessor 4K
- Creem documentary
- To Your Last Death BD
- Train to Busan presents Peninsula BD & 4K
- Bustin’ Loose BD
Chernobyl and V for Vendetta official for 4K, plus new Zavvi Ultra HD Steelbooks, a possible Psycho 4K audio problem & more
HBO has just officially announced the 4K Ultra HD release of their Chernobyl miniseries on 12/1. The 5-episode series was finished natively in 4K and will include the Blu-ray and Digital copies as well (SRP $44.98). High Dynamic Range will presumably be HDR10.
Extras will include 5 featurettes (Meet the Key Players, Inside the Episode, Behind the Curtain: Director Johan Renck, Script to Screen: The Divers, and Pivotal Moment: The Trial).
Best Buy will also have an exclusive Steelbook version of the set. You can see the wide-release cover artwork pictured at left and also below.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has finally announced V for Vendetta for release on 4K Ultra HD on 11/3.
This should be no surprise to Bits readers, as we’ve been talking about this disc for weeks now. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Chernobyl 4K
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Back the Bits
- V for Vendetta 4K
- HBO
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Back to the Future Trilogy 4K Steelbook
- Zavvi
- Second Sight Films
- Dog Soldiers: Limited Edition Bluray
- Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Season One
- The Pale Door
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K Steelbook
- American Gangster 4K Steelbook
- Psycho 4K audio issue
- The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K Ultra HD
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 2
Hitchcock, 300, V for Vendetta and more in our latest 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray update
Heads-up, folks!
This is just a quick news update (and a rare Saturday post) to let you all know that we’ve added or updated a number of titles in our 4K Ultra HD Release List here at The Digital Bits based on new information from our industry and retail sources.
Specifically...
Universal is apparently working on an Alfred Hitchcock 4K Collection that’s set to include Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, and Rear Window. We’ve mentioned these titles before on The Bits, but European retail sources are now suggesting that they’ll arrive around September (and Psycho has just been listed on the Best Buy website). Also coming in September or October is the long awaited Back to the Future Trilogy: 35th Anniversary Edition Collection. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Alfred Hitchcock
- V for Vendetta 4K
- 300 4K
- Psycho 4K
- The Birds 4K
- Vertigo 4K
- Rear Window 4K
- The Lord of the Rings 4K
- The Hobbit 4K
- The Chronicles of Riddick 4K
- Dune 4K
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World: 10th Anniversary 4K
- The Guns of Navarone 4K
- Elysium 4K
- Looper 4K
- 21 Jump Street 4K
- District 9 4K
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- The Indiana Jones Collection 4K
- Raiders of the Lost Ark 4K
- Back to the Future Trilogy 4K
- Edgar Wright
When the Master of Suspense Became the Master of Horror: Remembering “Psycho” on its 60th Anniversary
“Psycho should be remembered as the gold standard of psychological horror thrillers because it respects the audience by paying as much attention to delivering memorable, relatable characters, smart dialogue, a gripping plot, and emotional punch as well as jump scares.” — Stephen Rebello, author of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 60th anniversary of the release of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s popular psychological horror film starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, owner-manager of the Bates Motel.
Psycho, which also starred Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, and Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, was released sixty years ago this month. For the occasion The Bits features a package of statistics and box-office data that places the movie’s performance in context, along with passages from vintage film reviews, a reference/historical listing of the movie’s major-market first-run presentations, and, finally, an interview segment with a film historian who reflects on the film six decades after its debut. [Read on here...]
Midsommar, House of Hitchcock, Haunting of Hill House, Disney+/D23 news, D.A. Pennebaker RIP & more
We’ve got some interesting announcement news for you today...
First up, Lionsgate has just announced the 10/8 Blu-ray and DVD release of Ari Aster’s horror film Midsommar, with the Digital version coming on 9/24 from A24. Extras will include the Let the Festivities Begin: Manifesting Midsommar featurette and the “Bear in a Cage” promo.
Speaking of horror, Paramount has set Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 10/15, including all 10 episodes plus extended director’s cut versions of 3 episodes (Steven Sees a Ghost, The Bent-Neck Lady, and Silence Lay Steadily) and audio commentary by director Mike Flanagan on 4 episodes (the three extended episodes plus Two Storms). [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Midsommar
- The House of Hitchcock BD
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Disney+
- D23 Expo 2019
- DA Pennebaker RIP
- Yellowstone: Season Two
- Fuller at Fox: Five Films (19511957)
- Eureka Entertainment
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Shaft 4K
- Luc Besson
- Anna
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Powerhouse Films
- Indicator
- Birdy
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- The Mandalorian
- Daybreak Express (1953)
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