Rupert's 2012 Holiday Buying Guide for Film Geeks

This is my 3rd year doing a Movie Geek Gift Guide(see 2010 & 2011 also) and the lists just keep getting beefier and beefier. This year saw the rise of great releases from Shout Factory's Scream Factory arm as well as continued greatness from Olive Films, Warner Archive and other studio MODs. Plenty to recommend here outside of your big boxset releases(Indiana Jones etc) and banner catalog titles. Below are a whole bunch of my favorite catalog releases from 2012. Hopefully there's something here for film nerds of all kinds. Enjoy!

 ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (Blu-ray)(Universal)

 AIRBORNE (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

 ALTERED STATES (Blu-ray)(Warner)

 THE AMAZING CHAN AND THE CHAN CLAN (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

THE APARTMENT (Blu-ray)(MGM)

 ARACHNOPHOBIA (Blu-ray)(Disney)

BAND OF THE HAND (MOD)(Sony)

BARFLY (Blu-ray)(Import)

THE BIG HEAT (Blu-ray)(Twilight Time)

BIG SHOTS (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

BOEING BOEING (Blu-ray)(Olive Films) 

 

THE CHARLIE BROWN & SNOOPY SHOW (MOD)(Warner Archive)

 CLUE (Blu-ray)(Paramount)

COMA (Blu-ray)(Warners)

CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

COONSKIN (DVD)(Xenon)

DEATHTRAP (Blu-ray)(Warner Archive) 

DEATH VALLEY (Blu-ray)(Scream Factory)

 

DEATH WISH 3 (Blu-ray)(MGM)

DEMONS 1 & 2 (Blu-ray)(Arrow)(Import)

 DIAL M FOR MURDER (Blu-ray)(Warner)

DICK TRACY (Blu-ray)(Disney)

DRIVE-IN (MOD)(Sony) 

 

ED WOOD (Blu-ray)(Disney)

 

ERASERHEAD (Blu-ray)(import)

FIRSTBORN (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD VOLs 4 & 5 (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

FORCE OF EVIL (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

FRANKENSTEIN JR. AND THE IMPOSSIBLES (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

THE FUNHOUSE (Blu-ray)(Scream Factory)

THE GAME (Blu-ray)(Criterion)

THE GEISHA BOY (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

GOING HOME (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Blu-ray)(Warners)

HALLOWEEN III (Blu-ray)(Scream Factory)

THE HALLOWEEN TREE (MOD)(Warner Archive)

HAROLD & MAUDE (Blu-ray)(Criterion)

 HEAVEN'S GATE (Blu-ray)(Criterion)

THE HITCHCOCK MASTERPIECE COLLECTION (Blu-ray)(Universal)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

THE ISLAND (Blu-ray)(Scream Factory) 

JOHNNY GUITAR (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

JOYSTICKS (Widescreen) (DVD)(Scorpion Releasing)

LADY FOR A DAY (Blu-ray) 

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Blu-ray)(Olive Films) 

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Blu-ray)(Import)

LISZTOMANIA (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

THE LOST WEEKEND (Blu-ray)(Masters of Cinema)(Import)

MANHATTAN (Blu-ray)(MGM)

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (Blu-ray)(Warners)

MIAMI CONNECTION (Blu-ray)(Image)

MY DEMON LOVER (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

MYSTERY MEN (Blu-ray)(Universal) 

A NEW LEAF (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

NEW YEAR'S EVIL (MOD)(MGM)

NO HOLDS BARRED (DVD)





 

NOTORIOUS (Blu-ray)(MGM)

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (Blu-ray)(MGM) 

THE OTTO PREMINGER COLLECTION (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

PARK ROW (DVD)(Masters of Cinema)(Import) 

THE PHYNX (MOD)(Warner Archive)

QUARTERBACK PRINCESS (MOD)(CBS)

REBECCA (Blu-ray)(MGM)

RED DUST (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

 

REPO MAN (Blu-ray)(Masters of Cinema)(Import) 

ROCK-A-BYE BABY (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

ROBERT DOWNEY SR.  - UP ALL NIGHT WITH (DVD)(ECLIPSE)

RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Blu-ray)(Masters of Cinema)(Import)

RUMBLEFISH (Blu-ray)(Masters of Cinema)(Import)

SITTING TARGET (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (Blu-ray)(Universal) 

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Blu-ray)(Warners)

THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

 SUNSET BOULEVARD (Blu-ray)(Paramount)

TERROR TRAIN (Blu-ray)(Scream Factory) 

THEY LIVE (Blu-ray)(Scream Factory) 

TOO LATE BLUES (Blu-ray)(Olive Films)

THE UNINVITED(DVD)(Import)

UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS COLLECTION (Blu-ray)(Universal)

UP THE CREEK (MOD)(MGM) 

VISION QUEST (Widescreen) (MOD)(Warner Archive) 

WARGAMES (Blu-ray)(MGM) 

 

WEEKEND (Blu-ray)(Criterion)

WHO'S MINDING THE MINT? (MOD)(Sony) 

THE WRATH OF GOD (MOD)(Warner Archive)