Fans of DVD special features should be very familiar with Mr. Bouzereau. He's made tons and tons of documentaries on dvds and blu-rays ranging from Hitchcock to Spielberg to De Palma and beyond. He gave me a list of 1st time views last year was kind enough to give me his favs from 2011 too. His list is always one that inspires a purchase or two from me. In this case I am considering the Twilight Time Blu-Ray of THE EGYPTIAN. Read!----------
THE EGYPTIANDirected by Michael Curtiz. All-new guilty pleasure featuring an amazing score by Bernard Herrmann & Alfred Newman.
DARK OF THE SUNEdgy action film based on Wilbur Smith's first novel and directed by Jack Cardiff!!
THE WHITE BUFFALOI heard the score (by John Barry) before I saw it! Our friend Charles Bronson is still good despite really bad Buffalo-effects. Directed by J. Lee Thompson.
METEORGround-breaking score by Laurence Rosenthal, directed by Ronald Neame and not as bad as I thought it was going to be!
PROPHECYFantastic score by Leonard Rosenman, directed by John Frankenheimer. Interesting ecological monster flick!
ASHANTIOk -- I'm cheating here... I saw this in the theatres when I was a kid but I've been waiting for the DVD for years! Michael Caine, directed by Richard Fleisher.
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Intrigued especially by ASHANTI. Also, want to see THE WHITE BUFFALO and THE EGYPTIAN. Love me some DARK OF THE SUN (aka THE MERCENARIES), one of the best I saw for first time in 2010. Great score by Jacques Loussier, released several years back by FSM.
DARK OF THE SUN was a first for me this year as well, love the poster and the film wasn't bad either.
i must say i am now really intrigued by The Egyptian but i may see if i can see it before shelling out for the bluray , it's a bit dear for a blind buy.
I am also intrigued by ASHANTI. Wish the DVD that's out wasn't 4x3. Hope it'll get MOD treatment at some point, though i missed which studio put it out. I have THE WHITE BUFFALO MGM Mod in my to watch pile from last year! I went ahead and ordered THE EGYPTIAN. Been on a real Michael Curtiz kick the past couple years.
I really wanted to order The Egyptian, but I don't have $45 bucks to blow on one blu-ray. I'm a big Gene Tierney fan and I enjoy these kind of bloated epics, but, alas.
I recorded DARK OF THE SUN off of TCM this past year but haven't watched it yet. I do that a lot.
Ashanti looks tantalizing. Must see it!
Sadly, ASHANTI is owned by the same European bank that owns ZULU DAWN and THE WILD GEESE; the defunct label Tango made a deal for them years ago and put out a widescreen non-anamorphic DVD of GEESE but issued the others in old pan-scan transfers. Now that they're gone, don't know who will want to relicense them or spend the money to do new transfers.
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