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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Bring Welles, Magnificent Ambersons, to DVD please.
This important Orson Welles film should be available on DVD immediately. It is shocking that such an important film should not have been transferred digitally. This film is second in importance only to Welles's Citizen Kane. It is a very moving and superbly made film with a wonderful cast--especially Joseph Cotton. The novel by Booth Tarkington is one of the great classic pieces of American fiction, and Welles's rendering of it on the screen is therefore of double importance as a way of making the novel available in visual form. The modern remake, done fairly recently, does not come anywhere near the original Welles version in quality.
Kings Row (1942)
DVD urgently needed
This is a wonderful film with one of the greatest musical scores Hollywood ever produced. Eric Wolfgang Korngold is a splendid composer, and this may be his best film score. And the star cast makes the film historically very important. All the major parts are beautifully done. I especially admire Claude Rains and Charles Coburn as the psychiatrist and the sadistic surgeon. The scenes at the beginning with the characters as children is also wonderfully nostalgic and evokes small-town life at the turn of the 20th century effectively. This is Ronald Reagan's best film. It is a disgrace that this film is not yet available on DVD. It would be a good candidate for inclusion in the Criterion series. When can we purchase this film on DVD?
Fanny och Alexander (1982)
A superb and very important film. It is a scandal that it has not yet been released on a proper, wide screen DVD, preferably with the subsequent film, The Making of Fanny and Alexander also included. The f
Fanny and Alexander is a wonderfully moving and important film, one of the greatest Bergman ever made. It is also visually gorgeous and important historically. It is a scandal that this film, together with the subsequent "Making of Fanny and Alexander" has not been released in a proper wide-screen and restored version on DVD. Film lovers have been waiting a long time for it. The film has great importance for costume, decor, and other details.